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Excellent Adrian!

Do you still play marbles..???? I am getting on in years but occasionally still play with my marbles.

What a lovely place you live in, we visited Tassie a couple of years back and thought Sheffield was a beautiful place. Loved the marble shop ........

Got a couple over 6lbs over the years, this one was 6.5lb from memory, around 87cm long and fat, had to gaff it as it was on light line with a small lure!

Had a quick read LL, and will definitely come back for a more in depth read of your adventures when I get a moment.

I am curious as to whether or not these models have been proven in similar situations in the past? Like water dripping on a stone will eventually wear a mark on the stone I wonder how the rope will stand up to constant movement with the wind effect? Let's hope they work and bring in some smaller fish which in turn will feed those big lakes mulloway.

Very interesting site SaltyFlyer, I find it interesting to see the perspective of a person standing next to the shark and the actual measured length of that shark documented. Just recently there was a "6 metre" white shark fimed swiming around a boat and it was apparently bigger than the boat, but I am sure some of these 12 foot pointers look as big or even larger than that one. It is so easy to over estimate the size of these things in the heat of the moment.

Not sure if that is the same fish, the one in your photo has a weird growth on its chin.

Back in the 80s my mate had a good day on the bream in the lake. On his way home he stopped by my mum's to show me the fish. All good size with two horses in there. I did not measure them but I did weigh them on the kitchen scales. Just recently I found an old photo of the 5 fish laying on my mum's kitchen lino with the weights of the two biggest written on the back of the photo, the biggest went 4lb 7oz and the next one went 3lb 10oz. Don't know how long they would have been but they were the biggest bream I have ever seen caught. Pity we didn't put a ruler or some reference next to the fish

It's a Moonlighter, very common on reefy grounds.

WOW!!!

Hmm not too sure about that one jaffa, I would have thought that if there was one that size officially measured and on record it would be very well documented. It seems to be difficult to find any indisputable measurement much over 6 metres. Although I did have a plumber come to my house one day and when he saw my boat he started talking fishing, he told me about the shark they saw one day of the coast locally. They were in a 25 foot boat and this shark was over a metre longer than the boat at each end. I think by the time he left that shark was up around nearly 10 metres long. I am sure t

There is a "thread" on this forum titled KGW PIRSA's MISLEADING COMMERCIAL CATCH GRAPH http://www.strikehook.com/index.php/topic/27328-kgw-pirsas-misleading-commercial-catch-graph/ It includes a graph and some catch data, but unfortunately it is in a section of the forum where no replies can be added. This new thread is related to the information in that first thread. I was at the meeting at Glenelg and saw the graphs relating to to the decline in the commercial catch, what was mentioned was that there had been a significant reduction in the number of licenses attributed t

You are not chucking out a bait here yourself, are you? How does one morally justify eating a piece of chicken, a steak or any other meat for that matter. I believe most people eat their catch and can justify fishing because of that. However I do see that in the future it will be frowned upon to be seen posing for a photograph holding a large dead fish as a trophy. Look in the past, at one stage it was a champion effort to shoot a lion or elephant and stand next to it for a photo, and what about sharks, some years back to catch a large shark and hold its jaws open made for a good newsp

I put mine in the freezer, not real good the next time otherwise...........

If you have health cover, even general extras, you can claim for optical. If you have not had an eye examination within the last two years you can organise one and it will not cost you a cent. If the examination determines that you require corrective lenses then you will be able to get prescription sunglasses made and the out of pocket cost to you will be not too much, depending on the frame you choose. I have 4 or 5 sets of polarised sunnies lying around that I use in the boat, driving etc . Most Health Cover policies allow for a certain amount to be claimed each calender year. I get sunnies

Ahh.... never a truer word has been spoken !

Not sure what you are saying here JAYMAN? You believe there are shipping containers or not? But I definitely agree with the statement "plenty of other wrecks" at Ardrossan. I reckon if Noah came back and parted the water you could hop, skip and jump across the drops out there. Oh, and if you believe that crap about Noah.... you ARE being fooled!

There are so many drops out there, and a lot of assumptions are made as to what the drop may consist of. Remember the Pallets, supposed to be 100s of wooden pallets all weighed down. What a load of rubbish! Imagine the logistics of transporting that many pallets and the weight necessary to keep them on the bottom. If a shipping container was to fall off a ship it would be well documented. And for an individual or a group of recreational fishers to take a container out and sink it, well that is a good one and if you believe that ....... well what can one say. Not all, but most drops out lo

Yes I have caught gummies in very shallow on that beach. We even got one once and we reckon it swam in with a wave and took a bait that was in very very close.

Not convinced on this one ?????????Sure burley up and in the short term you will get some fish feeding. If it is a heap of fish scraps then it will not take long before the crabs, fish and lice clean the scraps up.As for a bag of wheat, well I can not see the benefit of doing that. If the bag is sealed then there is nothing for the fish to feed on, once the bag splits the wheat would surely disperse quickly, especially in rough weather.Just recently a mate of mine filmed a large rock up around the Goannas, someone obviously has tried the weighted bag of stuff on that drop and as for bringing t

One of my friends speared one under the Henley Jetty back in Dec 1973 (the day we finished our year 12 exams) As was said here, some big ones can be caught off the NH breakwater. One day I took my sons out there chasing salmon trout, there was a pile scales, the largest was a little bigger than a 20 cent piece, up on the rocks near the small beacon. Definitely mulloway scales!!

Used to get bream all the time under the Grange and Henley Jetties when I was younger (back in the 60s and 70s). You could see them swimming around the pylons pretty much any day in the warmer weather. One day I went down to Henley in the late afternoon when I was young and a school of bream came through that I can only describe as a sea of bream. I kid you not they were so thick and the school was that large the water was black with them as far as you could see, I can still picture it in my mind, the school was moving slowly south and every one on the jetty was trying to catch them with only

Glad that was clarified, I did not think that they were using space age long lines constructed utilizing the latest advances in nano technology, just suggested that they are using their longlines with greater efficiency through advances in technology, you know better electronics etc.

Well from my understanding the amount of snapper that make up the biomass in our gulfs is not a constant number, it is highly dependent on successful breeding years and as such the fishing pressure needs to be constantly monitored and adjusted accordingly. Commercial fishers have over the years ( since netting snapper was banned) been able to become much more efficient with their long lines and advances in technology. I think the last couple of years were up there with the highest catch rates on record. Now if we all sat back and said well there ya go, shit loads of snapper in the gulf, lets j