Strange catches....

bigboy · June 13, 2008, 23:38:39 CET

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ramio · June 14, 2008, 12:58:50 CET

meta tispara fuq xi chifa Bigboy, ghamilli pjecir u nitfilla ftit rix sabih min fuq sidira. Imbad nigi ghalih. Jogobni hafna biex torbod ir rix. Filkas norbotlok xi tnejn ghalik. Xi Darba nigi wahda makoghm ghint ul Fire.

boneshaker · June 14, 2008, 13:31:32 CET

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skip · June 23, 2008, 13:23:07 CET

Guys, kindly modify your own posts to REMOVE ANY REFERENCES TO CATCHING Cief which are protected species in Malta, shooting them or by catches of fishing. All posts are indexed on google and I'd rather what was written here isn't taken out of context by some birdlife watcher and the forum then gets a bad name, however much it may have been written in jest.

Will give it 24hours for ppl to modify their own posts before deleting those making reference to the above.

Thanks.

maxxat75 · October 03, 2008, 17:47:24 CET

With Swordfish lines we sometimes catch a cifa lol
This summer while trolling for alungi on the way back form swordfish i caught a Cifa ...lol... it was not hooked it was just (ingassata)from it's foot... Managed to get it abord and as i got it aboard an other one came as welllll and landed on the bote!!!!!
I know that a lot of you say i see too much cartoons.. LoL.. but it is true
Any one knows the reason why the other 1 came as well???!!!
Do you think maybe they mated or something!?

boneshaker · October 04, 2008, 18:48:25 CET

it is like a decoy.beware of the police if they find it on your boat!!!!!!!!!!

Kaptan Jr · October 04, 2008, 18:53:05 CET

When you unhook it beware of your eyes because they are very dangerous. Once we lost a ll the line because we couldn't manage with a cifa and tried to attack us!!!!!

Jonathan · October 05, 2008, 07:37:32 CET

If you accidentally catch a ciefa whilst trolling, the safest and kindest thing to do would be to pull it in towards the boat, throw a towel or a piece of cloth over its head, so that you will cover its eyes, and this way it will calm down and stop trying to peck you until you remove the hook / the entanglements and set it free again.

mike.d. · October 05, 2008, 10:29:12 CET

sorry to be a pain, but what is a cifa,

Aab131 · October 05, 2008, 10:33:32 CET

a "cifa" is a type of bird.

placebo · October 05, 2008, 16:03:31 CET

it's kind of a seagull mike

rob1974 · October 06, 2008, 09:15:25 CET

The name is Cory's Shearwater.

Rob

mike.d. · October 06, 2008, 13:46:48 CET

i am having a job catching fish, so i stand no chance with birds, mind you i used to pull a few in the 60s. lol

Strange catches....

bigboy