Sydney Harbour kayaker hooked by fisherman and capsizes
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Wild moment Kayaker launches foul-mouthed tirade at fishermen after they ‘hooked’ his boat and plunged it into the middle of Sydney Harbor
- Two fishermen taunted an angry kayaker who got caught in their line
- Adam Bailey said he was the third kayaker to cross the pair’s fishing lines that day.
- Bailey urged kayakers paddling in the harbor to be more cautious.
A pair of fishermen went on a shocking and foul-mouthed tirade when one of their lines got caught around a kayak in Sydney Harbour, causing it to capsize.
Adam Bailey, 30, and a friend were standing on the edge of the harbor with their fishing lines tossed into the water.
One of the fishing lines got caught on the back of a man’s kayak, causing it to capsize.
Adam Bailey, 30, and a friend were standing on the edge of the harbor with their fishing lines tossed into the water.
Mr Bailey, who works on a fishing charter, said similar incidents happen “quite regularly” in the harbor due to kayakers getting too close to where people are fishing (pictured, Mr Bailey’s fishing partner .bailey)
As the kayaker was dragged toward the water’s edge by the fishing line, he would yell obscenities at the fishermen as they watched, occasionally laughing.
‘I told you it was coming into range,’ the kayaker yelled. ‘I can `t get it [the line] switched off. You will have to cut it!
The friend cut the rope to free the kayak and the paddler was able to escape.
Bailey, who works on a fishing boat, told Daily Mail Australia that the kayaker was the third to cross the couple’s lines that day.
‘We have our lines very close to us with a float in the water. These kayakers are getting very close to us. We don’t do it intentionally,” he said.
Bailey said similar incidents occur “quite regularly” in the harbor because kayakers got too close to areas where people fish, and urged them to be more careful as fishermen “can’t get out of the way.”
“They have a lot more room to avoid our lines,” he said.
Mr Bailey (pictured) has urged kayakers in the harbor to be more careful as fishermen “can’t get out of the way for them”.
A license is not required to paddle a kayak in New South Wales, but a government website warns that Sydney Harbor “is an extremely busy waterway.”
NSW Maritime advises kayakers to “use [their] eyes and ears to keep a good watch’ as they paddle down Sydney’s popular canals.
Commercial fishing in the port was banned in 2006 due to high levels of toxins in the fish and crustaceans, but recreational fishing remains legal.