Timbo45

As said, processors can hold live lobsters well after the closure of the season, we haveheld stock well into July in our tanks, and the public are welcome to buy them live, as long as the purchaser has the appropriate paper work for transporting live crays,which is given to them by the processor !Tim.....Enjoy you lobby Mick.....

G'day mate, fresh grated ginger, finely chopped red chilli, fresh corriander,garlic,fresh lemon thyme, lemon zest, a little bit of extra virgin olive oil,lime juice all go great with fish, you could make a dresing and put it on afterits steamed or rub it on the raw fish, wrap it alfoil and cook quickly in the oven. Dont forget cracked black pepper also....Have fun...Tim....

I think the SA fishery is very well looked after as far as size and boatlimits are concerned, the best in Australia i think ! Victoria is hopeless ,there min size on whiting , snapper and flathead are a joke , not to mentionthere boat limits !Tim....

Well at least all the windows I cleaned this week have had a good rinsing off

my back yard.I now have waterfront property!

Same in my backyard too CK' date=' but try asking the council to stop the water coming from the property they claim to NOT own when I know they DO I certainly feel for the guys on the land trying to get their best crops in years harvested before they get ruined :ohmy:[/quote']Yes .....well said ! The poor buggers cant win can they !Tim.....

If you know what O'brian ( fisheries minister ) did to the prolobster fishery this year, ( reduced quota, and closed october) withno scientific evidense, you land based shark fishos have no chance !The pro lobster fishery has a lot of pull, and they could'nt changea thing ! Good luck..... the blokes a cowboy !!!!Tim.....

SA, the best snapper fishing ( size wise ) the best whiting fishing , also numbers andsize wise, no wonder the Vics come over here! Great for our local towns. I go to Vic for Dusky Flathead...... and bream !Tim.....

Good on ya mate, looks like a good sound boat. I hope you get years of great fishing outof it . Did the electric motor come with it ?Tim...

What are you using at the moment for light spinning/bream fishing Spog ?Tim..

No I don't mate, just boil it until its cooked , and smoke it while its still hot and juicy.Ive only just seen those harks in the wild coast mag, and my local "spot on" has one sittingout the front, looks great ! $310 bucks I think. I really like the idea of the gas, so muchless mucking round. Would you smoke fish, ham/pork, and cheese at the same time , or seperatly ? Also, do you wash it out after each use or just leave it to "season" it , so tospeak ? ( sorry for all the questions !)Tim....

I love fresh salmon on the barbie. Very underated fish imho.

Ranger, re the smoked chicken, I always boil mine first and then smoke it. Can never be toocareful when it comes to chicken I think ! I'm about to get one of those Hark smokers, I have the smaller box type ones, a slightlylarger stainless steel one ( which is great) but that's nearly had it and a larger one I madeyears ago that my brother has claimed ! Cant wait to get the new one.....Tim.......

Like Brenton said , OK to eat fresh, its great bait too ! I like to smoke them !Tim....

I don't know mate....probably nothing ! Its horrible to see isn't it !A few years back, me and 2 friends stayed at the Edithburgh caravan park for a week, I didn'thave my boat, so we just fished from the jetty with good results. Every morning I wouldwatch this fellow and his wife who lived in the caravan park get the boat ready, launch it,head out to the Island ( watched them with binoculars) and return 2 hours later with there24 whiting, clean them and fillet them, and have a hours rest or so and then head out againfor another 24 whiting, clean and fillet again, all done by 4pm in the arvo !This happenedfor 5 days straight....48 whiting a day( I counted them as they cleaned them ) 96 filletsa day , for 5 days straight......480 fillets for the 5 days !I took some old bait down tothem, coz I wanted to get in their faces and let them know I was watching, and he had to gethis wife to say thank you, coz he couldn't speak English !!!!!!!!!I don't care how much you enjoy eating fish.....you could never eat that much !!!Tim...

Sounds great...... Wheres Almonta ?Tim...

Somthing I heard, but hav'nt done yet is Don skinless franks, or footy franks in a thermosof boiling water, packet of hot dog rolls and some sauce or mustad. Hot dogs when ever youwant them on those cold nights sitting in the boat or on the jetty !Great idea I reakon !!!Tim...

My earliest memories are from the Port River, but I cant really remember my fist fish !Probably a trumpeter on a hand line. I was lucky, Dad fished every weekend either locallyor away, I can remember being washed in at Parsons Beach and saved by my older brother,washed in at Second Vally and being smashed up against the rocks and saved by a off dutypoliceman ! ( Dad must of hated taking me fishing ! Ha Ha !)I have a photo of myself fishingon the jetty at Port Elliot, and I would've been 7 or 8 I guess !( I'm 49 now )I can alwaysremember going to Edithburgh as a young fellow with Dad and I bought a metal slice ( Halco type) lure from the general store, first cast off of the jetty, casting towards Wool Bay,I hooked a big Garfish, I think that was the moment that shaped my fishing for years tocome, I still prefer fishing with lures than bait ! AS a youngster and a teenager I fishedall over the state, thanks to my Dad.I wished I was half the fisherman that he was !Tim...

Firstly , Bar B Q shapes, a must on every fishing trip ! Meatwurst, cabana, bung fritz,fresh white bread, eggs, bacon, snags, onions, sauce, and lots of beer !I like those Le-snackthings too , beer nuts , chicken chips , did I say beer ? Cornish pasties from Pt Wakefieldbakery ( not sure if you can still get them ! ) Take away hamburgers with the lot, countermeals from country pubs, beer, scotch, tomato juice for brekky and beer !Have I missed anything ?Tim.....

Great fish mate, thumper KG, nice red too ! How do you eat the salmon ? I knock the the fillets off mine and smoke them...... Yum...Tim...

I agree Carps, the wasted by catch from netters/deep sea trawlers is dreadful, but its acatch 22, humans like to eat fish, and not everyone wants to fish for them.Long lines....yes, but keep them way off shore !It's a tricky one , that's for sure !Tim....

I work in the commercial fishing industry ( I'm not a fisherman !) I was in a fishing portin the south east for work ( we have a live lobster holding facility there )and was talking to a shark fisherman who I know very well who just got into port. He was tellingme that on that trip, net fishing for sharks, he hit a patch of mulloway. Pro sharkers arealoud to keep a certain amount of scale fish by catch,not exactly sure how much he said but its not much, maybe 40kg. Anyway,the mulloway kept coming into the boat and he said that the deck was covered in them. Not wanting to throw them back he rang fisheries and askedwhat the best thing to do was owing to the fact he had so many. He was told to remove themfrom the boat ( he was still out fishing in the middle of the night).After a heateddiscussion with them, he offered to process and freeze the fish fillets free of chargeand donate them to an old folks home, a hospital or the RSL. He was willing to do all thisunder fisheries supervision and let fisheries take the fish to distribute. He was flatlytold no, and had to dump 100's of kilos of mulloway into the sea. He told me that inthe moonlight all he could see was the silverfish floating dead on the surface.Is'nt that incredible......Tim..

G'day Southie,Can you get bran and pollard at Woolies ?Tim...

Bran and pollard , white bread torn into small pieces, mix together with warm water tomake a nice stoggy mix and then add some tune oil. I only use small amounts , just enoughto get the fish interested, dont over feed them ! You get bran and pollard from stock feedsuppliers.Tim...

G'day mate,Like Ranger said, 3.5k is a tight budget, but what ever you do, if you do find a f/glasshalf cab for that sort of money make sure it has'nt got a soft transom or soft/rottenfloor. What sort of outboard do you have ?Good luck, I hope you find what your looking for, theres nothing better than getting yourfirst boat.Tim.....

To catch a kingy at Portland on soft plastics or bait ! ( not S.A , but closest place to geta king from Mt.Gambier .)Ive tried plenty of times, but no luck so far !Tim.....