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ohno, dobbed in..all worms were extracted digitally today i tried the pliers but straight away you could see they were just no good,for me it was all about feeling what the worm was doing so i knew when to grab him which made the pliers useless

SUCCESS!the worm warriors showing fine form today, almost master baiter status but not quite..off to a bit of a slow start then a cheer as brent manages to snag a worm, not long after i manage my first, blue was determined but unfortunately didnt make the scoreboard.however, blue did get a bit of head to make it worth the effort!Savagelip was also down there getting into em and i think he outdid all of us put togetheranother great day,cheers guys :cheer: SCOREBOARD:Brent61southoz: 1Vapor: 3Bluegoose: 0.1

sounds like you need the tandem version for that brent :dry:

lol i was waiting for you to start digging at that one today blueindustrial wet n dry vacuum mabee? :whistle:

great fun,after looking at the photos its no wonder you get people asking what the hell your doing down therewhat a laugh :)looking forward to next time

i like my swibo boning knife

it wont happen, the fishery is too fragile.we target the prawns in the late stages of their life cycle, the ones amatuers would catch are the spat that feeds the gulfsprawns have a life cycle of around 4 years.

ah just messing around :)on another note..we start survey for the may trip on saturday night to start fishing on tuesday.

theres just too many prawns in that gulf at the moment nev, thats why people arent catching any.dont worry tho us guys that catch the prawns get the blame for the snapper going missing

ahh i see, i thought you meant 'im starting to wonder if the bumper ammount of prawns about is because of the lack of snapper around' more literally. but yeah everythings in a frenzy after the prawns, you should see some of the flounder we get.. they have the perfect outline of a large prawn in their stomach lol

unloading is the easy bit :Pnot sure nev, as far as i know a lot of snapper follow the prawns around.one of the pro's here is always asking us what the surveys were like in certain areas so he can work out if its worth the fuel going out there or notDel is right, prawn fishing in these 2 gulfs are 2 of the most intense fisheries in the world

haha you wish AFF, think ill be out fishing when thats on anyway.coight: im on the Candice Ki should mention there are no large weights dragging on the bottom, if you look in that diagram in my last post the boards are set to a certain angle so that water flow spreads them and therefore the net too, there isnt really anything being dragged directly along the bottom or stirring anything up.the prawns rise up out of the mud on the dark of the moon and thats when we target them.

fishnfreak wrote: theres a lot of bull spread by people that have no idea what they are talking about, if you think about it we want to catch just prawns..the more crap in the net the less efficient the net is and the more the prawns get damaged and the less we catch.the amatuers always point the finger at professionals and because we trawl using nets people make a lot of assumptions that they push on to other people, they see nets hanging up with big chains on them and assume the worst.we actually have a lower bycatch ratio than nearly all other fisheries including amatuers with hooks and sin

we did have a pretty big trip for this gulf, spencer gulf stepped it up another notch though.at 11:30pm on the first night we were told that the guys in the spencer gulf had already caught 3.5 tonne and were calling the night off at 2:30am. usually we trawl from sunset to sunrise.the price we get will probably drop but weather or not thats passed on at the local shop would be anyones guess. they may be a few $/kg cheaper than this time last year i guess we just have to wait and see.keep in mind though when you go to buy seafood buy local!!i dont just say this because i catch them but the prawn

cheers guys,they had already unloaded 2 cranes in perth!i think that ship was specially constructed to transport them

hey guys,i was going to take a heap of photos this trip but we were just way too busy.i did manage to get the skipper to take a few so i thought id share.prawns ready to be packedanother day at the officelast shot of the seasonsunrise over adelaidehuge rainbowdestroyer being tied up in the portship transporting cranes

its a bit of a pain but best way is to empty the spool then fill it with the braid first then you'll see how much backing you needthe backing should be around the same diameter as the braid so it lays on there nicely.make sure you fill it right up to the lip too, it will help a lot with casting distanceyou have to put braid on really firm too, keep plenty of weight on it!!

heres a photo of everything all set up -> clicky

thanks for the comments guys,Noob - my scopes sit on top of a motorised mount that tracks the sky, i control that via laptop and can point it at whatever fairly easily by clicking on my lappy :)if you were trying to find them manually it can take a bit of effort, some are too faint for your eyes to even see through an average telescope.ill add a photo of my setup later if ya like?

heres one from lastnight.3 hours 40mins of data (22x 10min)NGC6523 - The Lagoon Nebula50% version (1.3mb)http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1886/lagoon.jpg100% full frame (3.1mb)http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4250/lagoonbig.jpg

thanks mate,i've actually gone back over 2 of the images that i took tuesday night to fix em up a bit so heres the updatesThe Southern Pinwheel GalaxyOmega Centaurienjoy

hey guys,i've been taking photos through my telescope on and off for a few years and thought id share a few.before the photos though ill explain the setup a bit to save a million questionsfor those in the know my setup is as followsTakahashi FS-102 Refractor + QHY8 Cooled 8mp CCD cameraSkywatcher ED80 Refractor + QHY5 CMOS guiderSynta HEQ5-pro mount controlled by EQMODthe Takahashi is the main imaging scope and is a japanese 820mm f/8 fluorite apochromatic refractorthe QHY8 is my main imaging camera and is an 8mp CCD with dual stage peltier cooling which cools to 45c below ambient.now for the

ahh ok, i think weve talked about that before now that ya mention it haha

your not sorting quick enough if your not getting done by happy moments hahai built up an immunity to them after a while, bullrouts are worse but gurnards take the cakewhich boat were you on del? i worked in spencer gulf for 5 years

we get them a lot on the prawn boats, just to make sure you all know they can cause SERIOUS pain for up to 8 hours you could be vomiting or even pass out..not a good fish to play with at all :)if you do get spiked by one get it straight under the hottest water you can handle and put a pressure bandage on above it