Your SAI story?

Lads, a lot of us have been here for whats damn near approaching a decade, there's bound to be some crazy/funny/interesting stories arising from our memberships of SAI? Whats your favourite SAI related story? I'm just trying to think of mine...

I cant think of 'a favourite story' but i met some of my best mates on here(and some headers) lol
so its defo been good to me in the past!!

I met many prople through SAI and and fished and casted with them up and down the country, some have become great friends outside fishing too, but I also met my Girl friend Donna indirectly through SAI as she's the sister of a Forum member called Tonyfella. We have a little boy Tadhg who has SAI to thank for him being here

aww, that's so sweet Shane, and your timing is just perfect
I haven't had a lot of experience in sea angling as Austria is landlocked and have found SAI an invaluable source of information since I joined. I have met like minded people and was lucky to fish in locations I never would have dreamed beforehand.
One negative point has to be mentioned as well - I bought far too much fishing gear over the years but that's a different story...

Unfortunately I haven't met any of you in person but have spent many pleasant hours reading about your exploits , got some great tips and had more than a few laughs !
Particularly over the size of some of the fish you have claimed to have caught
ATB

There's a lad from Tipperary trying to tell Dommo his Thornies are Painteds

That's the current story of SAI!!!

There's a lad from Tipperary trying to tell Dommo his Thornies are Painteds

That's the current story of SAI!!!

and he is not even from Tipperary -

My favourite has to be this one from seaniebo:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=37448&p=293964&hilit=Mersey+fishing#p293964

I always like the panic that ensues from the mods as soon as the aul racism rears its head, its actually more entertaining to see the mods grovelling at times with apologies to all and sunder as well as handing out site holidays and clambering to lock posts.........im joking of course;)

there was one topic on here a few years ago that still sticks in my head and makes me laugh when i think about it,
i think the members name was Bass virgin, and as far as i can remember he got banned from the site.
he kept posting about that "he cant wait to catch his first Bass", then he put a report up saying he had broke his duck, and that he had got his first every Bass, and even put up a photo of it
it turned out that he downloaded the photo of the bass that someone else had got a few years before, and put it in his report as his
JD coped on to it and put a link up to the photo witch gave the date it was got on.
that guy got some abuse

there was one topic on here a few years ago that still sticks in my head and makes me laugh when i think about it,
i think the members name was Bass virgin, and as far as i can remember he got banned from the site.
he kept posting about that "he cant wait to catch his first Bass", then he put a report up saying he had broke his duck, and that he had got his first every Bass, and even put up a photo of it
it turned out that he downloaded the photo of the Bass that someone else had got a few years before, and put it in his report as his
JD coped on to it and put a link up to the photo witch gave the date it was got on.
that guy got some abuse

I remember this! Bloke claimed to be fishing around the Castlerock area??

there was one topic on here a few years ago that still sticks in my head and makes me laugh when i think about it,
i think the members name was Bass virgin, and as far as i can remember he got banned from the site.
he kept posting about that "he cant wait to catch his first Bass", then he put a report up saying he had broke his duck, and that he had got his first every Bass, and even put up a photo of it
it turned out that he downloaded the photo of the Bass that someone else had got a few years before, and put it in his report as his
JD coped on to it and put a link up to the photo witch gave the date it was got on.
that guy got some abuse

I remember this! Bloke claimed to be fishing around the Castlerock area??

I remember that. The pic was from the dodgers profile i think. What a numpty:-)

I remember a North Vs South on Benone strand, SAI Members as far as the eye could see, I also remember drinking with Crow the night before, eating a dodgy chinese and throwing up into Portstewart harbour.

I remember a North Vs South on Benone strand, SAI Members as far as the eye could see, I also remember drinking with Crow the night before, eating a dodgy chinese and throwing up into Portstewart harbour.

Ah, the oul' "dodgy chinese" excuse!

(nothing to do with copious quantities of alcoholic beverages... )

The funniest story has to be Pete kd's exploits dropping his car keys into the water at buncranna slip, and managing to hook them from the sea bed with 3 treble hooks attached to a spreader bar!

meeting a few great mates out of which we started ecr

meeting a few great mates out of which we started ecr

Thats class! I didn't know the ECR were started cos of SAI!

Chasing the hound with Tightlines for 2/3 weeks on a mark in north county Dublin and blanking all the time and coming around the bend to the mark to see that it was empty of anglers and happy days it was ours for the taking

Quickly unloading the boot and kit up to rush down to the mark waiting for the rise with bait out and being striped by the bloodsucker crabs... ONLY to see both our rods double over and FISH ON we finely had hit the bull eyes after 2/3 of blanking 5/6 days a week and crab after crab beein stripped and we were finally onto the hound,s...

My PB was taken from there and Alan lost a hugh fish on the retive at the rocks... Hook straighten on him... So roll on our next houndfeist....( check the post out by the same name dont know how to retive the post to link onto this comment ) As soon as the pics went viral we had to rush to the mark as we were all looking for them and the mark got full very fast. Mark fish 2/3 anglers snugly others had to fish of the rocks tackle graveyard..

On a mark during last summer that gkelly put us on fishing and camping for night for the ray and we all had great fish landed as I was about to take a pic of Alan's ray until I saw my rod bounce and bounce in the stand and take of like a rocket need least to say the camera was chucked aside and rocked hopped to find everything gone but jammed down in a ravine and wedged in between the rocks still bouncing like crazy, a very quick scramble down by Alan and Co... and rod and rest was revived and again FISH ON and another PB thornie was landed but alas was a few ounces lighted that Alan's...

My 1st Bass of last year... Ah the memories to many to write down...


And all the member I/we have met on different mark all around the country

Hope to see r meet you all again

Ger thanks for the orange juice you had in the car when we got up to the top of the cliff with all the fish, rods, etc and camping gear

That,s my happy memories of meeting and making some great friends thanks to SAI site

Tightlines

Dave