Reputation from archerfish - Page 5

archerfish got a reaction from bjorn2fish in OnkaStompa 11 2016 November 6, 2016

A timely reminder of why this is so important:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-05/michael-buble-says-3yo-son-noah-diagnosed-with-cancer/7997860

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archerfish got a reaction from SaltyFlyer in Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook October 3, 2016

Review from "The Weekend Australian" of September 24-25, 2016, by John Lethlean:

SOUNDS FISHY

I discovered early in my now 20-year career as a typist on matters of food that fish was a slippery subject. "There's no such thing as cod in Australia," would come the voice down the line. (People still called each other in those days.) "Was it jewfish or dhufish? How can you be sure?" I might have mentioned fishing for blackback in Tassie as a kid. "You mean Australian salmon, right?"

The Britpack of chefs had invaded our kitchens, and with them and their pasty complexions had come nostalgia for the kitchens of Blighty, along with an almost criminal disregard for the importance of facts. "You know there's no such thing as monkfish in Australia, don't you?" It was similar to the invasion of Australia by the British in the first place; they found fish that looked familiar, named them accordingly, and most of those names stuck.

He knows who he is, the man at the other end of the line I privately called the Fish Police. I owe him a lot. And soon enough, I worked out with his help several things that had left your humble scribe floundering, so to speak. Certain fish had different names in different states.

Often, the names were entirely wrong, but tradition had taken hold.

What was a coral cod in Victoria was a coral perch in SA and a red perch in WA. But in fact it was an ocean perch, with the scientific name Helicolenus barathri, in all three. Sounds like a fish from Game of Thrones. The fisherman would sell it to the co-op as one thing; the co-op would sell it to the market as another; the wholesaler would give it another name and the chef would put it on the menu as something altogether sexier, and therefore easier to flog. Some of it was innocent. Some less so.

In that 20 years, there's been a shift as the cultural cringe regarding native species with unmarketable names has evaporated and the price of premium wild fish has steered us to cheaper species.Which in turn has meant formerly working class critters, like the rock flathead (Platycephalus laevigatus) have gone all Pygmalion on us and taken on airs and graces.

But by and large, there's less wool over eyes now, which can be credited in part to the Australian Seafood Handbook - a mammoth achievement of sorting the factual hay from the folklorish chaff, and one that gives seafood people, from fisherman to waiter, little excuse for deception.

Now, another altogether sexier manual is set to continue the Handbook's great work. I don't think it is any exaggeration to say that the Australian Fish & Seafood Cookbook - a poor title because it's so much more than recipes - could be the Cook's Companion of fish.

The driving force behind the book is Sydney seafood marketing consultant John Susman. A wiser, more informed individual would be hard to find. That Susman is also delightfully articulate doesn't hurt.

His book is crammed with wisdom (did you know that if you're lucky enough to be eating "skate" it is almost certainly shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata), put together with the food ideas of Stephen Hodges (our guest chef, p44), one of the nation's best seafood chefs.

At 1.254kg, the book is possibly the best $63.80 a kilo you'll spend on seafood this year and almost certainly cheaper than Jasus edwardsii (Southern rock lobster).

archerfish got a reaction from BarneyB in Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook October 2, 2016

Review from "The Weekend Australian" of September 24-25, 2016, by John Lethlean:

SOUNDS FISHY

I discovered early in my now 20-year career as a typist on matters of food that fish was a slippery subject. "There's no such thing as cod in Australia," would come the voice down the line. (People still called each other in those days.) "Was it jewfish or dhufish? How can you be sure?" I might have mentioned fishing for blackback in Tassie as a kid. "You mean Australian salmon, right?"

The Britpack of chefs had invaded our kitchens, and with them and their pasty complexions had come nostalgia for the kitchens of Blighty, along with an almost criminal disregard for the importance of facts. "You know there's no such thing as monkfish in Australia, don't you?" It was similar to the invasion of Australia by the British in the first place; they found fish that looked familiar, named them accordingly, and most of those names stuck.

He knows who he is, the man at the other end of the line I privately called the Fish Police. I owe him a lot. And soon enough, I worked out with his help several things that had left your humble scribe floundering, so to speak. Certain fish had different names in different states.

Often, the names were entirely wrong, but tradition had taken hold.

What was a coral cod in Victoria was a coral perch in SA and a red perch in WA. But in fact it was an ocean perch, with the scientific name Helicolenus barathri, in all three. Sounds like a fish from Game of Thrones. The fisherman would sell it to the co-op as one thing; the co-op would sell it to the market as another; the wholesaler would give it another name and the chef would put it on the menu as something altogether sexier, and therefore easier to flog. Some of it was innocent. Some less so.

In that 20 years, there's been a shift as the cultural cringe regarding native species with unmarketable names has evaporated and the price of premium wild fish has steered us to cheaper species.Which in turn has meant formerly working class critters, like the rock flathead (Platycephalus laevigatus) have gone all Pygmalion on us and taken on airs and graces.

But by and large, there's less wool over eyes now, which can be credited in part to the Australian Seafood Handbook - a mammoth achievement of sorting the factual hay from the folklorish chaff, and one that gives seafood people, from fisherman to waiter, little excuse for deception.

Now, another altogether sexier manual is set to continue the Handbook's great work. I don't think it is any exaggeration to say that the Australian Fish & Seafood Cookbook - a poor title because it's so much more than recipes - could be the Cook's Companion of fish.

The driving force behind the book is Sydney seafood marketing consultant John Susman. A wiser, more informed individual would be hard to find. That Susman is also delightfully articulate doesn't hurt.

His book is crammed with wisdom (did you know that if you're lucky enough to be eating "skate" it is almost certainly shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata), put together with the food ideas of Stephen Hodges (our guest chef, p44), one of the nation's best seafood chefs.

At 1.254kg, the book is possibly the best $63.80 a kilo you'll spend on seafood this year and almost certainly cheaper than Jasus edwardsii (Southern rock lobster).

archerfish got a reaction from Perthsworst in Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook November 3, 2017

OK, I admit it... I'm a sucker for Seafood Cookbooks. This is one is a doozie, though - just released in the last couple of days:

https://www.murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/cooking-food-drink/ingredients/Australian-Fish-and-Seafood-Cookbook-John-Susman-Anthony-Huckstep-Sarah-Swan-and-Stephen-Hodges-9781743362952

Not just recipes, though...lots of good information on identification, sources, sustainability, substitutes, preparation etc., etc...

Picked up my copy last Friday from Dymocks, and although it's not cheap, I can recommend it.

Cheers
af

archerfish reacted to Meppstas in Before & After the flood photos.. October 2, 2016

Here's a few before & after photos that I've put together since the June floods....

Cheers
Adrian

This was Dynan's Bridge at Weegena, Mersey River.

The Mersey River at Kimberley some 20 kms downstream from Weegena.

The Mersey River on private property that I fish at Weegena..

The Mersey River at Weegena where I cross over..

Mersey River at Merseylea 500 meters from where the bridge was.

Massive change to the Mersey River above where Dynan's Bridge once was at Weegena.

Most of the foliage has been washed away on this corner of the Mersey River.

archerfish reacted to ShoreJigger in Knots September 20, 2016

Redreeler, I probably wouldn't use that combo for lures under 10g. A leftys loop knot or rapala loop would be the go for bream lures etc.
Most of my fishing is larger lures off rocks, breakwaters and beaches.

Dmck, the tool I use is called the daichi seiko knot assist. It's a fair bit smaller than those Ez Knotters. Easier to chuck in the back pack as it is nice and compact.

archerfish reacted to Cal in Gulp SPs currently $5 at Big W September 1, 2016

Nice one UP,made me laugh , only a fellow fisho could understand another of his kin whipping out the mobile in big w and taking pics of plastic worms soaked in scent

archerfish reacted to doobie in Parsons produced some nice Salmon. August 30, 2016

Yesterday (Monday), the weather forecast was for moderate North Easterly winds along the coast, and a reasonably chance of rain. So I decided to head for Waitpinga and Parsons to lure for Salmon, a bit of warm clothing and wet gear. Even though the area hadnâ€™t produced for me in a while, neither had metro southern beaches, apart for a few STâ€™s â€“ so I had nothing to lose.

So the car was already parked - from the day befores outing for a couple of flicks around Maslins (for a donut) â€“ and I headed off at 8.45am with intentions to have the line wet before 10am. A cloudy day both here and all the way to Waits.

A high tide of 1.08mts at 12noon would have me there in time for the incoming tide and allowing some good distance of walking the beach until its peak.

A quick stop for a photo of Victor area. It does look so much better when the sun is out.

Almost there.

A view over a water catchment towards Waits. According to a local, this catchment lost a lot bream recently from heavy rains and apparently the outlet along the beach had dozens of dead bream.

The Waits viewing platform has not changed since the storms (no steps) and the way down is still to walk left onto the dunes. Whilst I was there some workman just about to put some posts along the dune and had dismantled the remaining 3 steps from the damage.

Conditions looked great, no wind (so much for the weather forecast), but it started to rain quite steady.

I decided to park at the bottom car park for an easier approach to the beach.

Once on the beach I headed to the right where some nice looking gutters were and headed right to the end without any Salmon touching my lure. I used a 40g Halco chrome lure at first then changed to a $4 cheapie from K-Mart for the walk back.

Once back at the platform area, and with the high tide about half an hour away, I could see the waves hitting hard against the sand dunes. There was no way I could get past without being swamped and I wanted to get up by the reef that has produced well in the past.

So decided to get up on to the sand dunes and climb over the top of them until I got past these breaking waves. Mind you I had second thoughts of doing this as a couple of the dunes did look kind of steep â€“ but nothing ventured, nothing gained, so off I headed.

Just repeating this photo as it shows the area of concern just left of the 2 fisherman. You might think that first sand dune doesnâ€™t look too bad, and it wasnâ€™t, but the next one behind the first was worse, but I soldiered on.

Well effort to get on to the beach from the â€˜hazardâ€™ proved to be a waste of time as again there were not hits on my lure. Itâ€™s about 1pm now and from the reef I couldnâ€™t tell if the waves were still smashing the sand dune, so decided to walk right to the end, knowing there was not too many opportunities to flick due to rocks etc. But thought this will waste a little more time allowing the water to drop a little. That paid off as the waves had subsided slightly and saving me another dune climb.

Now off to Parsons Beach and I wasnâ€™t holding much hope of catching anything.

On my arrival, I took a quick photo of the beach and noticed one fisherman near the exposed rocks. Mind you, those rocks (once I was done there) were absolutely fantastic in their worn formation. Parsons doesnâ€™t have too many gutters, but what is there are reasonably good, and I have have generally caught more fish here than Waits.

As I got back to the car to collect mygear, a couple of guys came up from the walkway with a nice 2kg and a couple of 1kg Salmon. They had been at Waits during the morning with no result, but the mentioned they got these just on the otherside of the rocks.

Second before the rocks and watched an ST following the lure in shallows and grabbed it â€“ yah, not a donut day. He was over legal but released him as wanted bigger (not greedy or anything). Another couple of casts and another ST and released.

Walked further to try past the rocks (having a quick chat the other fisherman â€“ he had a couple of STâ€™s only) and now hits were the previous guys got theirs. So now for the usual walk to the end and about 150mts before the end rocks I get a hit in smallish gutter â€“ which I was not expecting.

It felt big, the rod well bent and he started to spool me slightly, so a quick extra tightness on the drag, but he was fighting very well. Next, out the water he flies â€“ I just love that sight.
Once beached, he was fat and approximately 2.5kg and estimated close to 60cm. Quickly bled and lure thrown back in.

On again, and this one seemed to be fighting harder and flew into the air a couple times and even though I just tightened the drag, this one spooled me for good 10mts â€“ he wasnâ€™t giving up â€“ so tightened the drag even more and slowly got him to the shallows and dragged him with the waves.
This was a big Salmon for me and on first appearance was would a PB. You can tell in the below photo a cut underneath the tail and I am gathering he cut himself on my line whilst fighting.

Again, quickly bled and ready for more. Another 3 were landed around 2.5â€“ 2.8kg and about 56 â€“ 60cm and kept and all the fish looked healthy and were all plumpish.
For extra fun, another 4 were landed and released and 3 threw the lure.

The time was about 3.30 now, so left them on the bite and the long and very heavy walk back to the car. If the walk didnâ€™t kill me the hill nearly did. I was stuffed and stopped a few times on the hill to stop from having a heart attack !!

But what seemed could be a donut day ended up being some thrilling excitement.

archerfish got a reaction from Cal in Spinning reel discombobulation in Australia August 30, 2016

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...

Cheers
af

archerfish got a reaction from Rod in Spinning reel discombobulation in Australia August 29, 2016

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...

Cheers
af

archerfish got a reaction from Brankim in Nice 'hoo... August 27, 2016

This one was speared - would have been an interesting proposition on rod and line:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11700495

Cheers
af

archerfish reacted to SurfcaztR in How much does it cost to start fishing? August 23, 2016

I remember many years ago when talking to a ex retired pro fisherman,he said the two most important pieces of equipment in fishing was the hook and line.
These two things attach you to the fish and they need to be good quality products,and it will always depend on how good your knot is.

The next part is the rod and that will be used to cast and to give you some control in guiding the fish back into the net,plus it acts as a spring relief for the line when under strain.

The last and most least important in all this is the reel,all that does is hold the line and gives you a drag to play the fish.
So as you can see it doesn't cost much in getting started in buying basic gear
If you ask here on this forum who's got what laying around not being used anymore i'm sure you'll buy something usable and affordable within a low starting budget.