O2Catch1

Ban netting and long lines in the gulf full stop ................................PIRSA is doing nothing ...............HOW HARD IS IT TO GET A FISH THESE DAYS ...........................................................if you are lucky .............sad times ......for SA FISHOS .........its not all about the salmon getting dumped ......its the control ...........and NONE ........for the locals ,who would like to take the family ,and catch some fish ,The SA ........fishing gurus .....money hungry .......END.
 
Think of the FUTURE PIRSA .............................?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Excellent Adrian!

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

I am getting on in years but occasionally still play with my 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 ........

Took this photo this morning, didn't come out all that good as I only used my small Canon camera that I use for trout fishing..
 
Didn't have time to grab my good camera  and set it up as the moon was setting too fast at the time.. May get up early tomorrow and see what it's like.
 
Cheers
Adrian

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!
 

 

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!
 

 

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!
 

 

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!
 

 

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!
 

 

Great video.
 
Union officials and OHS reps would have a fit now watching what went on at constructions sites in those days.
 
Love the flares and shirts too.  Funny how rolled curbs were such an innovation back in those days....

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. 

If you are really interested, I follow this site from the USA every week....., they tag and track Great Whites... even some here in AUS.. !!!!!!
 
They all have names, sizes and sex...
 
Some of the travels will blow you away....
 
Great White Tracking
 
Enjoy that...
 
SaltyFlyer

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

Not a growth. Other fishes had been snacking on the gills and they were pulled out.

So thats where tennis balls come from ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
That be his Red Goatee
 
 
Gills hangin out.,... its dead

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 when the photo was taken. We also used to snorkel in the lake in the early days and on the SW corner of Delfin Island (no houses there at the time) we would see some massive bream resting in clumps or balls of weed. Occasionally we could grab their tails but they always broke free easily. These fish were huge bream. So I have no doubt at all that there are very large bream in the lake at the current time, they do not get that size by being stupid either, I suspect they are very timid and cautious.

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

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

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

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

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

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