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So pissed off. Just on dark tonight I was fishing off the south break wall towards the end of the tide (good time for jew, tailor) and had a massive fish on but he bit the trace in half. It seriously would have been 300mm into his belly and he bit me off :X :X


I'm going to have to get some good traces.
 
I love the inclusive speech used in the title of this thread, how very PC :D


In other news, I was chatting to my mate who is getting married in Fiji in 2 weeks and he's keen to do some marlin fishing while we're over there. I've always been against marlin fishing as I'd been led to believe that survival rates were quite low after release and it just seems cruel to being putting such a big fish through such a traumatic experience just for sport.

This probably seems like a double standard as I love catching all sorts of other pelagics but in my defense that is usually for human consumption.

I have had a look through some journal articles this morning at studies where they've tagged marlin and tracked them after release and their survival rate seems to be better than I expected to read, the worst survival rate I could find was 75% (not great obviously) but all others were higher than that.

What are my fellow BLers opinions on marlin fishing? For or against? Do you think the survival rate from catch and release would differ all that much from any other species of fish?

I really can't decide if I want to boycott the marlin fishing over in Fiji or not :\
 
I will also register a vote for Snapper as the best eating fish. I loved Barramundi but you can't tell where it comes from these days. The FNQ snappers were always my preferred choice.

Snapper though is killer. One whole baby snapper cooked up n soy, chilli and coriander etc is a killer dish.

Klue - Yackers are yellow tail; don't eat those though!
 
Wooooot! The tides are huge at the moment so there is lots of stuff in the estuaries that usually wouldn't be there. I tried off the wall tonight, with traces this time! But, it was quiet. But then went upstream a bit and got this nice 950gram, 500mm Tailor.



50 cent piece for reference ;)


I was really quite lucky, because I had just gone back to the 10 pound mono-filament traces and usually a Tailor would bite through that easy. Lucky I hooked him in the mouth! Crikey he fought like a ripper! I thought it was a good bream to start with but then he got a look at the rocks and started fighting like anything!

Pretty happy about that :D
 
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How's this for a wee nibble?
 

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I once watched Steve Starling drop his $100,000 ABT fishing boat on the concrete about 10m from the water at the Glenelg river in Nelson :)

Caught some nice red fin perch in the Crawford River yesterday (SW Vic) on soft plastics. They go nuts when there is an atmospheric pressure change!
 
I can't wait to finally go fishing in Victoria. I'm not hugely into it for sport or anything, but i really love the idea of heading out to a lovely spot for the weekend and dropping in a line or 2 with a group of friends. (oh, and preferably finding a couple of sweet spots to drop a couple of crab pots in!) :D
 
NickyJ said:
Sliiiiiiiightly off topic but, best eating fish in my fellow BLers opinions?


I absolutely adore coral trout, best eating fish ever! :D But I must say Fingermark are very very close if not better. Just much more hard to come by :\ I've only ever caught 1 coral trout in my life, disgraceful. My old man is much more of a mackerel fisherman so that is what I've learned to do as well. Can't wait to figure out how to catch coral trout on a regular basis :D
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coral trout and barramundi, rainbow trout too, not too fishy lol (I hate fish but can eat those types)

strangely enough I grew up near the beaches in bundy, but I really don't like seafood
 
Samadhi said:
I can't wait to finally go fishing in Victoria. I'm not hugely into it for sport or anything, but i really love the idea of heading out to a lovely spot for the weekend and dropping in a line or 2 with a group of friends. (oh, and preferably finding a couple of sweet spots to drop a couple of crab pots in!) :D
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Go fishing for fresh water crayfish (prickely backs) some time.

You can throw a line in for all sorts of fresh water species while you wait for the crays to get into the drop nets.

Redfin, yellow belly, trout

Personally, I pick mushrooms while I wait ;)

Check local laws as some rivers (such a tributaries to the Glenelg) have banned taking of fresh water crays due to over fishing. Damn poachers :!

If you want really tasty crabs, try putting in some drop nets off of jetty's in salt water. Velvet back crabs are sooooooooooo tasty and you get the odd southern rock lobster too =D

While you wait for the velvet backs you can catch silver trevally, Aus salmon, snapper, mullet, haddock, king george whiting, bream, gummy sharks, school sharks, squid... The list goes on and on. I caught an elephant fish and a nice yellow tail king fish in 5m of water last time I was waiting for the velvet back crabs :D

Bluelight fishing trip anyone?
 
When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school,
His mind would turn unto the waters.
Always the focus of adolescent ridicule,
He has no time for farmer's daughters.
Alienated from the clique society,
A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.
His mother says "John this is not the way life's supposed to be."
"Don't you see the life that you are missing?"
And he says...

When I grow up I want to be,
One of the harvesters of the sea.
I think before my days are done,
I want to be a fisherman.

Now years gone by we find man that rules the sea.
He sets out on a dark May morning .
To bring his catch back to this small community.
He doesn't see the danger dawning.
Four hours up, oh the ocean swelled and swelled,
The fog rolled in it started raining.
"The starboard bow." "Oh my God we're going down!"
They do not hear his frantic mayday.
And he says...

When I grow up I want to be,
one of the harvesters of the sea.
I think before my days are done,
I want to be a fisherman.
"I'll live and die a fisherman."
Calling John the Fisherman.

Primus - John The Fisherman
 
it's been perfect salmon weather round my way lately, with reports of 1.5kg babies being landed!

i might have to bite the bullet and go setup and overnight spot on the riverside at my spot. definitely be loading some firewood in the boot and an esky full o' beer.
 
Salmon? In an estuary? Wow! I get bored with catching Bream all the time, I'd love to land a Salmon for a bit of variety. Out at sea they would be common, I can't say I've heard them being caught in river systems :)
 
yeah they're quite common through some of the estuaries here. namely the Calliope river and up through the Swains which is the shortest route to the beautiful Yellow Patch on Curtis Island.

there's some great fishing around Yellow Patch and it's a great crabbing place - after all it's where i fucked sandi and caught crabs. it's close enough to decent spear fishing spots at the Bluff on Curtis Island as well and really not that far from the reef.

bream do get boring to catch, especially the lazy ass blubbermouth' that feel like a snag or rock. there's fingermark, estuarie cod and flathead to be caught along with barra. there's quite an array of species to be caught in the Calliope, just it's getting overfished unfortunately...:(
 
Klue: Are you referring to Atlantic Salmon? I'm pretty sure leftwing would be talking about either blue or king salmon.


I landed a 1.1 metre spanish Mackerel yesterday :D Was a kunt of a day, raining and pretty lumpy but it was good to finally get out there again. I've got so much mackerel in my freezer again now, it'll be dinner every night for the foreseeable future. But hey, I'm not complaining ;) :D
 
^yeah king salmon, definitely no atlantic salmon up here;)

and nice score with the mackeral, nicky!. the biggest i've landed was only about a 750mm. though i was a young flogger flicking lures and it was an epic catch.
 
Fucking oath i am a fishing person, i was fishing just today, in south-western Australia, got a few secret spots, i wish i could say more@!
 
^ You can say more, like what you caught! :D Or do these secrets spots not actually have any fish? ;)
 
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