Meppstas

Be great to get rid of the Carp, certainly hope it doesn't effect the native fishery that's my main concern.. I would think they've fully tested it to see if there was any effect to native fish.??

dmck, feral cats. bring in a bounty on them..

That's one massive fish, great way to go out, I may like to go as trout bait too.     I'll see what the wife reckons..   

Try this out on Google.. there may be some thing here that will help..

https://www.google.com.au/#q=fly+fishing+for+trout+in+deep+water

cheers

Adrian

Well done and great video clip, really enjoyed it JJ..  beautiful conditions, just got to love the Murray River..

Great footage and massive fish,, can see why the landing net is so large.. they're very much like what we call Brook Trout.

Great photo, well done..

Took this photo tonight from the back deck here in Sheffield.. it's a typical Autumn sunset after a wet day..

cheers

Adrian

Can see that she didn't read the instructions as you're supposed to immerse the filter end in the water for around 10-20 seconds before sucking on it, and in that video clip with the amount of cow dung that went in it, well it only natural that it will clog up the filter and make it that much harder to suck water through it. If i came across a river that was as polluted as thick as that one there's no way I'd be in fishing it any way, though if I was in a predicament where that was the only way of getting fluid into the body i would use the life straw in it.  

Yes it works in all types of water, this is the same one that's been sent to Africa & several other countries that struggle with polluted water....

Check this out it may give you some idea of it's usefulness.  

I'm not one for carrying backpacks or drink bottles when river fishing as I like to fish as light as possible. This small item is an essential part of my river fishing.. it's called the Life Straw.

Here's what I carry with me at all times when trout fishing the rivers since suffering a severe stomach & bowel infection from drinking the water direct from the rivers here in Tassie..I finished up being on a special Government authorised script for two weeks. It's called a Life Straw and it's used in many countries around the world where the drinking water is polluted. It filters 99.99999% of bacteria etc out of the water as you suck the water up through it.. I've always drank the water straight out of the rivers when trout fishing until the day I became very ill. It hit me around 5 hours after getting home from the Leven River after a fishing session I had. I did as I normally did and that was to drink the water straight from the river not realising ( or even thinking) about the run off from the paddocks that had cattle in them. We had quite a bit of rain several days earlier and I didn't even give it a thought.. I do now and that's why I spent $28.00 on the Life Straw which I have used for nearly two trout seasons now. It can filter 1000 litres of water so it's will last me quite a few seasons yet..

cheers

Adrian

This may be a bit of an unusual topic for many of you, however, it's still something worth discussing -- and falls under the spectrum of "general fishing". 

 

If someone were to ask you "how would you morally justify fishing?", how would you respond to such a question?

You put this question up as your first post, so what are your thoughts on the question.. I'm sure we'd all like to see what you have to say...

That's a beautiful Red, well done cracker of a fish..

Yes it hasn't been that good at all, it's the driest we've seen it in the 16 years that we've been living here... Hopefully we'll get some rain soon to put a few of them out.. better still put them all out..

I took these photos last week from my back door at sunset, the air and sky was full of very heavy smoke from the 80+ bush fires that were burning away down here, we've now only got around 50 still going..

These were take over two nights.

cheers

Adrian