BarneyB

A quick update,
 
Had a call stating that the bows are ready for pick up so a quick trip and soon had them home.
 

 
Slowly acclimatising.
 

 
Rough average size
 

 
Slowly being released
 


 
Was great to sit down with a few tins watching the occasional 'rise' as the end of another day came to a end.
 
A big thanks to habitat4fish for all your help and advise mate.
 
If anyone is thinking of setting up a dam for fish/ fishing get in contact with Trav he really knows his stuff
 
 
Cheers

Hi all, I've recently been adding to my YouTube channel.  Here's one from an old Video8 tape.  I apologise in advance for the quality as the old player has some issues (in fact it has now stopped working).
 
Feel free to check out the other videos if you are so inclined.  Meggs
 

 

This view is from our back yard, took it tonight as the sun had set and the mist started to appear in the paddocks at 5:13pm... looks like we're in for another frost tonight..
 
cheers
Adrian
 

 5:13 pm...
 

5:14 pm...

I'm sure it will run a little deeper too, the bib angle is close to the Rapala F-3 lure.. how it goes, well only time will tell I suppose.. it may just want to go around in circles..
 
I have tried it out in the bird bath and the kitchen sink by hand and it did have some action to it, they weren't large enough though,  really need to give it a crack in a river, but that will have to wait until the season opens..
 
I'm pretty confident it will work..
 
cheers
Adrian

Adrian , that is a cracking good looking repair...
 
If anything, I would hazard a guess, that, the repaired lure might run a little deeper, due to the extra angle on the new bib.
 
Well done, for finding all the little bits to do such a repair.
 
SF

Good on you Adrian on trying to repair it and now hope it stands up to those fierce trout you catch.
 
I'm sure it will have different effect in the water with the slightly different angle - who knows, it might prove to be the best lure you have

Some time back during the brown trout season I had three new Daiwa Gekkabijin Yoguri 4F hard body lures of which two were lost to fish taking then into snags under water and the last one 
finished up with a broken bib thanks to me... It was during a session while fishing low water that had a lot of cotton like algae in it and it kept fouling the lure. After some forty minutes of fishing and 
cleaning the algae from the lure on every retrieve I belted the lure on the water surface to clean it the quick & easy way. Trouble is, by doing that it broke the small bib off the lure  making it useless.
So today I thought I'd have a go at repairing it  myself by making a bib and gluing it in place. Using a hacksaw blade I made a small cut where the bib had broken off flush just in front off the eye and then found a small thin piece of clear plastic which I hand filed to a shape that I thought may work. Didn't think to get one of the new replacement lures out to see  what they looked like which was dumb.. any way made on and glue it into place and it came up reasonably well.. I think it did as I'm yet to test it out and I will do that once the season reopens on 5th August.. here's a photo of the original lure and the one that's been repaired.
The repaired lure has a little more angle to it than the new lure..
 
cheers
Adrian
 

Got any of these down there Adrian?
 

Just came across this write up of a Great White that leaped into a fisherman's boat...  pretty hairy that's for sure..
 
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/great-white-shark-jumps-into-fishermans-boat-off-evans-head-20170528-gwf55m.html
 
cheers
Adrian

Fascinating subject and always enjoy seeing your pics of them, some of them even taste good.

It is a Bridal Veil Stinkhorn         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_indusiatus

No BB, that's one's a beauty...

Got any of these down there Adrian?
 

Got any of these down there Adrian?
 

It would have been nice just sitting there without a care in the world - quiet and just listening to nature and you can't beat that  

Seeing it was a cool sunny day and I was feeling a little bored I two my two cameras to Gowrie Park in the hope if may find some fungi to photograph..
 
Well I did manage to find a few fungi here and there as I wandered through the rain forest in what was very cool, damp conditions just below Mt. Roland. I just love going there as the air always smells fresh as ever..
 
O'Neils Creek which flows through it had a nice flow to it as well and It was great to sit on a log next ti the fern lined creek for some 15 minutes and take it all in.. very refreshing for the mine, body & sole..
 
So here's a few of some 50+ photos taken this afternoon... There wasn't a real lot of fungi around today which was a shame.. still got a few good photos I think..
 
cheers
Adrian
 



O'Neils Creek at Gowrie Park..
 











All the fungi I found today, not a lot but enough for some photos..
 


A couple of moss pic's
 

Took all the colour out of this and filtered out the red which made them pure white..

Well I got that totally wrong! Seems they are expanding the factory and need more staff (no mass exodus as suspicious me thought). The post on Boatsales states that Haines Hunter are building a different line of boats which will be offered as "hull only" for the DIY brigade. 

Wow, and to think we get this in Aust too...very cool. Looks like some stills out of an Atten-bro documentary.
 
 
Certainly is an ugly fellow. The smaller ones are beautiful fish, especially when properly photographed    !
 
Agree. I could sit down with a bottle of red. Beat the TV any day.

That is one big brown, almost looks abnormal
 
Good photos of the trout run and would be great sitting there watching them try to jump the obstacles.

Here's a photo of Dave with one of the many large wild browns he catches in the Tyenna River.... makes me green with envy, may have to go South for a weeks fishing I reckon..
 

Here's a few pic's of wild brown trout on the spawning run at the weir on the Tyenna River in the South of Tasmania.. Photos are by Tyenna Dave and I thank him for allowing me to share them with you all on the site.. Dave is one of the great trout fisho's in the South whether it be on the fly or lure fishing..
 
cheers
Adrian
 
 

Excuse me for butting in on your thread but I am hoping to have my first real go at this soft plastic malarkey soon.
I was thinking of using similar to the picture below as I already have them, thoughts? Also being fairly new to braid (and lazy) I generally have a swivel tied to the main line then clip a length of mono paternoster rigged. I thought a length of mono to the clip below and on to the SP would work???
Please don't try and teach me one of those ridiculous knots where you need 3 hands, wrap it round your big toes and need the dexterity of a  contortionist to tie it 
 
thinking about wandering around West Lakes or Snowdens Saturday??

I heard the Daiwa were not producing the Gekkabijin Yoguri lure any more, well the small ones that I use any way which are the 4F models (42mm/ 2gm) floating hard body lures. So I rang Daiwa Australia to confirm it and they said "That's correct, they're being discontinued and they have 15 left in stock. If want them I'd have to be quick and get hold of a Daiwa seller and get them to get them in for me. Well I was quickly on the phone and was lucky enough to get twelve of the Ghost Brown ones that I use from Daiwa.. so i do have some nice trout lures to see me out for a while proving I don't get busted off too often like I did towards the end of the trout season when I lost two in two trips, then broke the bib of the only surviving ghost brown one. Now what's left of them are probably in tackle shops around the country..These were selling from $17-95 to $22-95 each and I picked them up for $11-95 ea which I was very happy with.. also came with free postage too.. 
cheers
Adrian
 


The last 12 available from Daiwa..

more fungi from a trip to Loongana and a very small cluster of them inside of a hollow  retaining wall block at home.. note the slug in there with them. I didn't notice it until I trimmed the photo..
cheers
Adrian
 


One lonely fungi at Loongana..
 



Small fungi at home..

Origin of the Platypus???