Is that the fly rod in the background Tony ??

Nice looking fish champ !

Ranger wrote:
I'm heading out Monday with Fush Lups!

Well I spose thats better than having lipstick on them

pescados wrote:
Tyke wrote:

They were a pain in the arse as most were swallowing the hooks very deep - boy were they hungry!


Watched Neil Tedesco on adventure bound ( Replay) a couple weeks ago fishing for KG'S at Port Philip bay and he mentioned he always uses Circle hooks, get them in the corner of the mouth but more importantly no swallowing the hooks.

Might be worth a try ??

Cheers - might try that in areas prone to baby snaps.Must admit that some did not survive the dehooking - I feel awful when that happens

Hmmmmm...

Went out around the bay yesterday with a mate who know's the local waters like the back of his hand,in the dark, with mittens on .
Looking forward to pulling in a good feed of King George.

How wrong could we be??
Not one KG pulled in

4 of the spots we called at were absolutely alive with baby Snaps - double headers every cast. They were a pain in the arse as most were swallowing the hooks very deep - boy were they hungry!

On the spots where there were no pesky snaps there were no pesky Leatherjackets either??

Must have done a dozen spots so we worked for it!

The environment in the bay has changed?
Temporary I hope?
We guess it's the huge amounts of baby snaps that have come in and chased everything else off.
Let's hope it comes back soon.
At least the snaps will grow to be caught eventually?

Oh - BTW - the F@@@***g crab pots were out for miles near West Beach. What a Nav hazard!!!

theres a pool under the bridge on sudholz rd which seems to have no annoying small ones man

Joe's running a Fly tuition session as well, weather permitting

7 spare Fly Rods, some Clubs and some his

Bream fishing is from 1 pm and a few prizes are on the go too

High tide is in the arvo to increase our chances

Only a narrow window of opportunity this arvo as a late finish at work

left me with only an hour or so to get my weekly reddy fix

I took this opportunity to try one of my new Damiki blades out and it

didn't disappoint Second cast had the best fish of the

evening and ten of his peers joined him/her before it got too dark to

see where the blade was landing and also, the mossies decided they

didn't mind a bit of a nibble at an old poms skin

This blade was a bit heavy for really good tactics as the lure sank

quickly and had to be retreived too quickly, to avoid snagging the

weedy bottom all the time

Reddys like it slow

scorpion wrote:
.Bob's fish went 122cm long and had a girth of 46cm.

Looking at the photo in the paper i think the length was a bit

stretched at 1.2m! Must have had huge hands if so.



That length quoted there has got to be a typo Graham

A 1.5 kg fish is around 45 to 46 cms from all my personal records!

I can't see how adding one kilo of weight to a fish would make it

THREE times longer

Rick wrote:


I thought public accessible waters were allowed for club trophies ???

(totness for example)

Finger on the pulse again Rick

PS might be some hungry/thirsty boys and girls at the next outing for

Bream in the "Pat" mate

ahk awesome, definantly gonna try maswon lakes one day ive heard from a few other people that its good there, mum wanted to watch the sky show so i thought id go fishing then we can both be happy

Thought that would be the answer

Good luck with your trip down there station49, hope they are around for you

sambo

hey guys just wondering if the tiny carp have moved on from the torrens? or does anyone know a spot without all these annoying buggers? and is it illegal to catch a carp and put it in my pond?

Booma wrote:
Somebody should catch a biggish one....put it in a dam on its own and supply it with gambusia or Yabbies or whatever, look after it, nuture it (LOL) and protect it and see how big it gets....

Only 1 problem Booma.... totally illegal !! Although I'm sure most people have heard of re-locating going on , it's not the sort of thing we want to be prmoting on the site.
Totally see where you're going though mate !!

Archerfish, I'm pretty sure that reference is what's got Tony going about the sizes in the first place. Me thinks the museums got it aaaalll wrong this time !! That is unless they have a 10kg specimen on show somewhere ???

Ranger wrote:
afishyfish wrote:

Good are they size Ranger ?
Only littlies mate, but just big enough to bung in the smoker.

Thanks, might give them a crack this weekend if I have half a chance

Smart man,beats trying to get the oven on the coals of a dirty big fire and getting your eyebrows singed off in the process,everyone wants to put more wood on when your cooking as well.
cheers brenton

thats perfect mate, all we did was cut em into chunks and mashed it up with a hammer so that the skin is holding the flesh together and the waves do the rest

Ozzy wrote:


He's been at the Viagra again

Cheers
Ozzy

I dint know he ever stopped