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What an exciting time , the OzFish Onk Habitat group have been making great headway in the restoration of habitat in the Onkaparinga river . We have finished stage one which was to deploy Limestone blocks into the Onk to place some substrate for small critters to attach to and hide around . These living critters such as oysters , barnacles and small crustaceans will in turn encourage bigger critters to congregate in the area . The placement of these blocks also should help the tides that flow over them to scour more of the sediment from the bottom of the river in an aid to make a deeper hole in the area for even bigger critters to hide and congregate .  As you can see in the scans the placement of the blocks are near a natural limestone outcropping for them to compliment and as there was 2 deployments , the first deployment has already encouraged some sediment displacement right after the outcropping . A big and massive thanks to all the volunteers that have been taking time out from there lives to come to meetings and the organising make this achievement . We have some more projects in the pipeline and if you care to be a volunteer , we are always grateful for more helping hands . 

Casting, I've had just as much success on Zman Grubs as I have the nice hard bodies. But trolling, IMO, you want something you can work slowly. The metals are good when they are on, but you'll snag plenty if you're fishing shallow and trolling slowly, not to mention lack of action on many. 
 
Shallow divers often run pretty straight, as long as they are half decent. Get something from Atomic or rapala, storm, even halco tbh. The little scorpions are meant to dive to 1.2m and run well behind a boat. A 60mm version would do well.

I only use the bleeding ayu colour, partly because I like it, mainly because while I have one, there is no way I am forking out for more! Haha

Picked up a 7ft 1-3kg Trion Sunday. Should be a bit softer than the current rod and help out casting small hard bodies in open water for trout in particular.
 
Keen to give it a run soon

Just received some new Atomic Hardz shad 40 & 50 hard body lures that I ordered last week that I picked up for $11-95 ea (normally $17-95)..  haven't tried this design out on the trout yet so I'm hoping they'll suck in a trout or two.. I do have them in the Ghost gill brown (shad 40 & 50) & Muddy prawn (shad 40) models and they have worked okay.. so here's hoping these will too..
cheers
Adrian


5 new Atomic Shadz 40 & 50 mid diving hard body lures..

Shad 50 Muddy Prawn (top lure) and the Shad 50 Tristos Eagles (bottom lure)

Shad 40 mid diver Tristos Eagles..

Shellfish kilpatrick

Also...Clip an unweighted squid jig to the swivel when whiting fishing. Good fun when you get one of each.

Soak the leather sheath in oil.

Sorry mate,  in memory now it was up at Warrawong. 

I love the Tassie crays. Australia has a ridiculous freshwater crayfish diversity, and the king of them all would have to be the Giant Tasmanian IMO.
 
@Del care to mention or PM me any of the hills rivers/creeks you've seen platypus? I've not seen one in my travels thus far, would love to.

Yesterday while heading up to Liena (Mersey River) for a spin session I came across a fresh water Lobster in the middle of the road. It had climbed up a steep bank so it could reach the on the other side of the road. This was because the poor thing couldn't reach a concrete pipe that ran under the road that the creek water flowed through.. It is now in the creek that it was trying to reach.. I was a little worried it may have been run over by a quarry truck that wasn't all that far behind me when I spotted it, lucky for it the truck missed it.. Then today as I was heading back to the car I spotted a Platypus next to the river bank so took a photo of that too.. here's a couple of pic's of some of Tasmania's wild life..  
 
cheers
Adrian

Fresh water lobster, a protected species that comes with a $10,000 fine for each one that is found in a persons possession..

And here we have the little Tasmanian Platypus that is quite common in most rivers around the state.. always nice to see them in the rivers..

Probably carbon steel, not stainless. Never store a knife in its sheath. Not much you can do about the rust, if it is a decent quality, you should be ok. Give it a good sharpen and try it out. Have an old KBar style knife i have had for about 35yrs. Blade is wearing away from use and sharpening,  but still holds a razor edge.

Use a weak acid solution and give it a soak. Vinegar works well

Take your blade and sand to get rid of any surface rust  wire brush etc, heat blade over an oven burner will do , only till it is warm ,type hot, but just till steel darkens , as to much temperature will  take the temper out of the steel, then dip in linseed oil .........commonly  used  for preserving old blacksmithing tools ....no rust .

Pickling is done with vinegar, lemons or limes.
It's also a personal thing in that there are no hard and fast rules for what amount of vinegar to spices.
Personally I wouldn't do so a fine seafood as Scallops, nor any other seafood as I am not a fan of vinegar.
But if I were I would use cider vinegar say roughly 60%, white wine roughly 30% and the rest in lemon juice.
Then it's up to your own taste buds. Like it hot? Slice a chilli or two and throw into the mix with seeds and all, the longer you leave it the more kick you get.
Other ingredients include some or all of the following. Bay leaves, whole peppercorns, coriander root, lemon grass, ginger, palm sugar, ETC... and again, up to your taste buds, no set amount I can give you. This is where some chefs can't give you a written recipe as it's all about tasting as you go and adjusting.
You can put your raw scallops straight into the mix and leave till it's pickled (possibly overnight, possibly longer, size dependant.
You can kick start the whole process by warming the liquid to just below boil point then throw the scallops in.
As we spoke te other day Lindsay my fav was whilst out on the boat dice up fresh snapper or other firm flesh fish like queen fish, throw in lime juice with ground pepper and a few hot chillies. An hour later delicious, next day delicious with a bigger heat kick.
One thing I have never understood is why people like taking something as delicate and sweet as blue swimmer crab and subject it to pickling? All that vinegar destroys that delicate wonderful flavour

This is probably not the biggest squid seen or caught, but I reckons it's close to one of the biggest I've seen for quite some time.. It was caught off the East Coast here in Tassie..
 
cheers
Adrian
 

You guys have some good stuff
 
Mine are just basic lures, 2 reels and bag, but recent
 

Yuuuum. I need to go fishing with you blokes

No fish today just an old guy in a great looking beanie kept the wind off my fractures

I sent strike and hook a message 
Today was a no fish day two meetings one morning one afternoon
Thanks Bjorn the beanie and neck warmer arrived postie scared the day lights out of me .
Weather wise tomorrow means i can have a quick flick in the morning be warned beanie boy will be out and about for a quick flick
Thanks everyone 

Landbased mate, imagine it'd be different on the water. I'm just stirring, hence the

Had a flick in the Port last weekend for a few small bream and the one whiting. Then hit up waitpinga and Parson's yesterday for the 1 ST. Saw 1 good salmon landed on  bait at parson's, but the 6+ other people I spoke to had not had a sniff. 
 
Slow going couple of weeks.

Ah Ok, cheers. I would smash my top eyelet eventually if I were running a swivel anymore than a foot from the lure itself.

Good little videos Adrian. You could always use no background music..? Personally have it silent when I watch them.
 
Do you have a swivel in your line there in the "Browns on rapala" vid?

Hey guys, I am rarely on strike hook but if anyone is interested in fish in dams/private fisheries, then I have a facebook group called Private Fisheries Australia group where we talk about all things private fisheries and fishing. cheers Trav.