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Arrrrgh !....the Crabs we just ate were not very nice ?....very mushy and the meat in the bigger one was quite brown and shitty tasting, especially the claws, wonder why ?

Ah yes...Cholesterol is not a dirty word

Cant believe this thread is still going and yet the goose has gone.....why do I feel like a monkey undergoing scientific research ?

Lets hope the powers that be dont ruin that for us

Tonights entree with the neighbours tonight....gotta love this country

Cripes mate, you eat like a King, I'd ask you to marry me if you weren't so dam ugly

hahaha.....nah, dont panic....lofty has the perfect use for it.... home made Laksa

I haven't a huge amount of experience with freshwater berley, but so long as there is some current it should be effective. Whenever I have fished for Carp and use my pudding bait I throw out numerous tiny balls of the mix in the area I wish to cast...has given me some great results. { My favorite food for carp is simply flour/water and curry powder mixed into a stiff paste that stays on the hook well.

I am volunteering my services as Crab Cake tester

Aren't the Tuna schools seasonal though, as in only a Summer species here ?

Good question, I've never heard them referred to as feral, might be a good title though, but the term feral generally refers to creatures that were introduced by humans and have gone wild. The NZ Fur Seal has always been around and are not restricted to just NZ, but they usually prefer remote rocky shorelines as opposed to sheltered gulf regions.. The occurrence of large numbers in the Coorong in the time of our record keeping is rather unusual, especially way upstream into the freshwater regions like Milang and Murray Bridge. { I actually found a dead bull at Point Sturt in the reeds 2 weeks

Agree the crackers seem like a silly idea, I'm sure any fish will also move on with that much disturbance as well. Harvesting them....it'll never happen not while the eyes of the world are watching. Australia is strong on the anti Whaling scene, it sure as hell wouldn't want to be seen as being hypocritical

The Seal Skin in the link from Goolwa all those years ago does not look to be the troublesome Long-nosed Fur Seal { aka NZ Fur Seal....Arctocephalus forsteri } but more likely the endangered Australian Sealion { Neophoca cinerea } of which there is only 1 mainland colony at Point Labbat, Sth Aust, but generally associated with Kangaroo Island, plus offshore colonies. Vagrants of the endangered Australian Sealion can be encountered around much of our shoreline, but not in the huge numbers as is the case of the Long-nosed Fur Seal. Records generally indicate the Long-nosed Fur Seal has bee

I think they get their info from the same source....but I use this link generally...... http://www.marineweather.net.au/marine/sa/adelaide-local-waters?d=2....and this one for tide info..... http://www.tides4fishing.com/au/south-australia/port-noarlunga

I no stranger to a mild fish Korma....delicious !

Rather defeats the purpose of a sanctuary zone eh......lets hope the idea gets canned

OK, next time I get some Squid I'm gonna try this out

Quote..........." And if that fish goes upstream or downstream to another property who owns it then ".....not so much a matter of who owns it then, but who owns the land to gain access to the fish wherever they are. If nobody owns the land where the fish travel to then it's open season. But I feel a little for farmers who own property and dont wish to allow just anybody trudging across their land, no more so than I like people entering my property without prior arrangement.

I don't think you could keep that one on the shelves. It would be in every emergency/first aid kit on every boat. You name it. Yeah, dead right, imagine the billions of dollars you would make if you were to invent such a thing

I think if I was paying membership to cover costs of restocking streams etc I'd be hesitant to allow just anybody to have a free lunch so to speak. Problem being with allowing just anybody and everybody fish these selective areas it would get crowded and overfished very quickly, and likely destroyed. Imagine what it would be like if you paid yearly membership and rolled up to find a crowd of people all splashing around in one spot , raping the stream/dam, leaving litter behind, leaving farm gates open, disturbing grazing stock, vandalism etc etc etc because there were no restrictions or secur

Now if only they could come up with a cost effective one to use on seawater, that would be a great seller

Bet she has a lot of boyfriends ??????????????????????????

That's the way it reads to me as well, I have 3 shop bought nets ...2 are large mesh size, about 3inches, and 1 is about 1inch size mesh, so yeah maybe it doesn't matter The rules are often by no means clear is my finding...the Fisheries/PIRSA need to simplify/streamline some of the bulldust they Cheers mate, going to reline the nets I bought with some HD cargo net of 1inch mesh to make it even simpler. Yes generally the crabs will let go when inverted in the net, but just as often the buggas twist and turn and completely enmesh themselves in the bigger mesh size such as I bought.

Seem them on Telly a week or so ago, looks like a clever idea for an emergency device in any safety kit

Did OK, but no great haul, posted in Metropolitan fishing section