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I have to agree with that... urban sprawl now extends as far as Yankalilla/normanville. Boaties are now flogging the coastline from Cape Jervis to O'Sullies. It doesn't give our local migrating fish like the king george whiting a chance to make the distance to their breeding grounds as they get picked off along the entire coastlineMaybe this is why we've seen a major decline in numbers along the coast... THIS IS ANOTHER ISSUE THAT PIRSA NEED TO ADDRESS!

Wouldn't you say that the fuel station platform would've been in the middle of the concrete blocks as wahoo is suggesting about the fixings/mooringsThere definitely was a platform structure there as I used to go past there and wish you could fish it

I'm not sure how far they migrate once they leave our waters. From memory I read a report that some enter Port Phillip Bay but I could be wrong.. Also heard that the two Gulfs have different gene pools

Out into deeper waters on the other side of Backstairs Passage whilst the other schools that travel down the west coastline of the Gulf will move out through Investigator Strait... some will also hang around in the deeper waters in schools out from Troubridge Point throughout winter

Are the small snapper of the same gene pool as the big snapper that migrate up into the shallows to breed. What happens to the eggs once they've developed... do they wash out of the Gulf and into the deep waters south of us or do they cluster in the mangroves as fingerlings and then migrate throughout the Gulf as 6 inch fish before schooling up with the big schools of snapper once they become ruggers. To tell the difference between deep water fish and shallow water fish you look at their skin colours. The snapper that don't see sunlight are close to being a whitish silver colour whereas the f

Umm! It is pipes on the bottom that are secured by "blocks"

Jaffa, I've been saying from personal experience for the past two to three years that not as many good sized snapper in the huge schools have been exiting and entering the Gulf. First off a couple of years ago it was business as usual locating the big schools of snapper as they entered the Gulf... it was different in the last half of the season as the fish were definitely in limited stocks as they exited. It would be about two and a half years ago that I first started posting on Strikehook that the numbers were down in that last part of the season

Prior to the refinery being at Port Stanvac the area was known as Curlew Point and consisted of a nice inshore reef. My father used to tell me stories of how when he was a lad, he'd row around the reef with a drift line trailing behind and catch massive sized Kingies.The 3 barges were sunk in the early fifties off Curlew Point. The refinery was built in around 1960 by the Standard Vacuum Company or something similar and was then renamed Port Stanvac being the first 3 letters of the companies nameThe Blocks was made up of a series of pipes and a platform above the water where the ships would

[quote name="afishyfish" post=199111Maybe it's simply that the KG'sm numbers are down' date=' allowing a more than usual number of Juvenile Snapper to invade their groundsThese "excess" fish might normally succumb to natures other poulation controllers, such as starvation/ predation etc [/quote] I think it is the other way around AFF... the piranha's are denuding the bottom everywhere of feed that was otherwise there for KGW and the KGW have been keeping on moving instead of stopping and feeding over their normal haunts.. Last year a lot of KG schools were moving along the Metro coast in as

It sounds as if some of the Fisheries Officers are still using old information regarding snapper stocks. Otherwise, why have Fisheries introduced restrictions on daily take limits etc. They surely wouldn't take this approach if we had healthy stocks

Jaffa, it's only in the past two years that the Gulf St Vincent snapper stocks have dwindled.. prior to that, they were building. Maybe it will take another year or so to tell how many juvenile snapper have spawned in the past couple of years and then base it on a comparison of todays juvenile stocks

I'm pretty sure they have to be in attendance.... if the pro isn't there, then his nets surely wouldn't be

Take care when fishing the Grange Tyre Reef as the Pros are starting to set their longlines there :angry:My mate was fishing there yesterday and couldn't believe it

I need to get back out fishing

Click on the link below for what's happening this week in fishing the Metro Best run in fullscreenhttp://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13034215/fm-dia-eng2

These two blokes had to be winched to safety by a chopper last Thursday at Wedgehttp://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/boat-strikes-rocks-helicopter-to-winch-men-to-safety/story-e6frea73-1226254117695

A good example of a big fluffy Sea Kitten :whistle: :whistle: Maybe she should've tied some of that cord to her leg and gone for a swim to test her theory :whistle: She is certainly deluded. Most of us would have grown up enthralled by Ben and Eva Cropp also Ron and Valerie Taylors underwater adventures

OS.. it's the whole slimies that will get you those bigger fish when you are plagued by those fish to 60cm.. it's enough to slow the piranhas down and give the big snaps a chance to scoff your baits.... this goes for anywhere in the Gulf where you're only hooking smaller fish

no.. I've salted pillies with pool salt (As very cheap from the supermarket).. for some reason when the snaps haven't been interested in normal baits in August, they seem to only take salted pillies

In all seriousness, I'm quite impartial to the whole slimies that I've vac packed with my new vac machine.. once I get them home they are vac packed straight away and frozen... they are just like freshly caught slimies when taken out of the pack and used

"Gut Hook" .... okay! This is telling you that they really enjoyed your bait! ... maybe try something less satisfying to a snapper like half a pilly and they won't scoff it down! :ohmy: :dry: :sick: :woohoo: :whistle:

The catch hanging down will catch on the braid due to gravity when the line is slack... if the catch is up on the top side it will face away when hanging down and will have less chance of fouling

They breed in an area way out deep off Port Noarlunga

Umm! Mick it's not a cray... Remember when Ripley blew that Alien outta the spaceship and it drifted off into Space... I think it landed in Robe... be very very careful!!!!!!

"Caught", "Bought" and "Got" all sound very similar I used to crayfish out of Robe years ago and the Fish Processors down that way keep the crays in holding tanks for the live cray market.... Knowing Mick well and the favours he does for his mates.. His other mate would have well and truly "bought" it as a return favour... we all do it in one way or another with good mates