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That's not a bad hint there Brenton That area is supposedly made up of 1000's of wooden palletts, I know of 21 "lumps" in that area alone that hold fish...... any wonder the Govt wanted to turn the area into a spoil ground and dump all of the Port River dredged mud out there and cover everything upIt's not much of a secret these days and luckily most people only know the one lump and not the better ones ..... trouble is, as soon as someone sees you out in the middle they head straight for you to try and ping you cos if you're out in the middle somewhere then you're not exactly fishing for

coight wrote: Did you try to pull the cable on the reset button next to the lock gates coight? sometimes that can fix the problem. Any wonder I happily keep my boat at home now... after my family being in there since the original lock gates were installed in the mid 1950's sadly I pulled my boat out of there last year. Seeing I launch from the ramp around 2 or 3 am and get back about 10 am I find the ramp no problem.. much better than fuelling and loading up my boat only to get to the gates and they don't workSend me a PM anyway... I'll sort you out with a lump in the middle out off Nth Have

Over summer and autumn I'm always pulling in fish in roe.. I think they spawn over a fair length of time.. I always feel guilty and sad when I gut a snapper and it is in roe so I asked fisheries what gives regarding the closure at the wrong time and they said November is good a month as any for the closure.. hence the month long break. 2 weeks wasn't enough at the time of each break

how far out in the gulf are you heading? send me a pm

Thanks spectrum, I've never thought of the different positions between the Transom and my gps antenna location when heading N,S,E & W... it's something I'll have to take into account from now on. That explains sometimes when I go .000 and can't see the structure.. it's because I've come from a different direction. It was even worse with plots given to me that were plotted in the early days of GPS when the Yanks had selective availability turned on as that can be out an extra 100 metres or so

Good idea Peter, I'm slowly getting my head around all of the different formats etc and how they are each set out.I get given a lot of plots around the coastline to various wrecks, lumps, rocks, shipping containers, carbodies, aircraft, wooden palletts, scallop/sponge beds etc from old pros' and Prawn Trawlers and when travelling long distances to locate "a needle in a haystack" I wish to be given as much accurate information as I can to be able to find these spots. There's nothing worse going to a lot of bother to get to the plots only to not find it by being 10 metres off what I'm looking

SandyWhiting wrote: The new owner of the Harbour Kiosk at O'Sullies checks all of the vehicles to make sure they have a ticket and he keeps a list of those that flaunt the fee. I left the ramp the other morning before they opened and got back after they had closed for the day and went straight down the next morning to pay my fee (luckily I did, as he had me on his "bad boys" list for not paying )

Fisheries were at O'Sullies Ramp the other week checking boats and did manage to bust someone for over the limit and undersize fish..... Inspectors do get out and about but not often enough as unfortunately they can't be everywhere at once

"Offence with respect to possession of King George whiting• Pursuant to section 44(4) of the Fisheries Act 1982, if a person has sold, purchased or has possession or control of more that 75 King George whiting then that person may be guilty of an offence. The person must prove that the fish were not taken in contravention of the Act. In other words, the person has complied with size, bag and boat limits in obtaining the fish or has proof of purchase from a registered fish processor."The way I interpret the above is that as long as you can prove that you caught your 12 fish each day legal

Those plots are about 1.5 km away from the real spot that the pros' fish anyway... so I guess it doesn't really matter where you put the decimal place (that's providing I used the correct datum)...just look for the crowd of boats

"Now what are your thoughts when it was your family or individual that got taken that day?."I've had the misfortune to lose a family member and his mate in the mid 1960's out on Clarries... the boat was found 3 days later by the police boat still at anchor but turned upside with a great split down the middle of the boat and snapper lines still tied to the gunwales. The police said it was a shark attack but because the bodies were never found they didn't become shark attack statistics.Having said that..... I completely agree with snapperhead's comments. You are in their domain, so accept the

Howdy Adri, as usual a nice haul of fish. I was still running my old Lowrance Mach 1 paper chart on the snapper up until a few years ago till I went digital... the old units were pretty good in their day. I've just setup the Northstar units on my boat complete with AIS to keep track of the local shipping on my plotter when travelling in the dark. I saw Trev's unit and was swayed to get the same unit due to it's functionality.Andrew

I'm not homogenous! ...... will there still be maps available to "Non Homogonous" blokes?

If you have a Magellan GPS download the Vantage Point software from the Magellan website and this will convert them over to magellan bluenavVP can then export them to CSV,Oziexplorer, KML, magellan meridian .wpt, magellan explorist .upt, and .gpx gps exchange.It's a great proggy even if you don't have magellan but want to convert waypoints from 1 format into another

What Datum are they?

hullbilly wrote: Try Goatherders Bait & Tackle out at Glenside it's next to the ANZ Bank there

Brenton, I know a lot of the metro whiting plots are way off the mark but some of those Gulf St Vincent snapper plots are spot on. Some of those plots are old pro spots where there are such things as old shark boats, fishing boats, reefs, carbodies etc that hold some big fish. I think the author was given the plots but didn't know what was really there on the bottom. If you want to catch snapper still use the plots out of the book I had a mate call me up on the phone from way out off Pt Hughes asking me where he should head to and I gave him a spot out of the book in the Channel and he we

"there is no copy Right Mark on the book at all".....How do you get copyright protection?Material is automatically protected by copyright in Australia, under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), if:• it is in one of the categories of things that are protected by copyright;• it is in “material form” (for example, on paper, as a digital file, a film or an audioNo registration of copyrightAlthough it seems surprising, there is no registration of copyright in Australia or in most other countries. Youdo not register copyright, or go through any formal process, before your material

I've seen it in the shop down at the Bay also and my old man bought it a couple of months ago

Watersnake, I apologise if you misunderstood me... I wasn't refering to you that posted them on another site etc or asked for them to be taken down. I was meaning another website that put them up on their site... please accept my apology as I had no intention of causing you grief

Nice effort VG.... great footage..... now I'm depressed! I haven't been out snapper fishing for 49 days due to crap weather

gardy wrote: it still does have copyright.... someone breached the rules to start with (even the bloke that put them on his website put a copyright on the marks on his site after he copied them from the book) (and he told another site to take them off )A better way would be to pass them on thru a PM (privately)just the same as everyone copies DVD's, music etc (no one knows you do it)

Nothing against you personally Watersnake but I've written and published several book/booklets which I market worldwide and after contemplating publishing a third edition of one book it was futile as the work ended up being plaguerised on the net... it doesn't give authors much incentive to publish stuff for that reason...... where would a lot of fisho's be if the bloke that put all of those plots in one booklet didn't do it.... there'd be a hell of a lot of fisho's heading out to sea with nowhere to fish

Buy the book and support the author who has gone to a lot of trouble and expense to publish the marks. It's available in most tackle stores. Books are always copyrighted and forbid any reproduction electronically without the authors permission

Hmmm! maybe I should wait till it comes on the radio then