Looe Offshore Fishing 1972

Looe is the ancestral home of UK Shark fishing. It also had excellent bottom fishing out over the Eddystone Reef. This short film is a taster of both these aspects of offshore boat fishing from the early 1970's digitally extracted from old Super 8 cine film.

[@williamavery9185]

Fished there with skipper Ernie Tom in the early 70's. Caught a 95lb blue, but the old fella that run the BSA refused to believe that at 12 years old I had landed it on my own. So he wouldn't register it. Ernie was a great fisherman.

[@johnbarrott9857]

great film pal,fished with bonzo out of looe yonks ago now,his opening line to me was #YE BASTARDS GETTIN ON OR WAT?".great skipper.

[@alexcoombs3219]

it good