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Mr Keen

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  1. Love all of it, with the exception of shellfish, but return 95% of fish landed. I dont target 'food' species very often though but take a feed only of salmon trout when having a session on them (sometimes a few for Nan too) and will gladly accept whiting and the like from a mate who has a boat. Until now my main focus has been bream and mully fishing and they all go back! I am also looking forward to reddies when I start fresh water fishing. I have only eaten them once and I think they were improperly prepared and cook as well as being on the same plate as callop but from what I have read can
  2. Nope, couldn't have done it!I thought long and hard about it (the oven was hot!!) and erred on the side of caution.I'll just have to go get more tomorrow won't I? And I finally get to use the Anglers Choice gift card my Nanna gave me for my birthday, have to replace the lures I lost today. Brand new one second cast too! Is it possible that the gallbladder was punctured previously? Than green flesh was there already and deep too.K
  3. Too late, already in the ground where the corn will go later in the year.must admit I was so looking forward to having it for lunch I thought long and hard about it!!!! :unsure: :sick:
  4. I'm not even keen on keeping it for bait!It is green so fertilizer it is.still hungry too
  5. After a quick flick at South Port beach I returned home happily with lunch and a few returned to the briney to fight on. Cranked up the oven, scaled lunch but when I gutted lunch it no longer seemed appealing to the stomach. Never seen it before but not sure it's worth putting in the oven just to eat the other side.There is what appears to be an old war wound 1/2 way down the side which also seems to have healed well, but the flesh is stained green, this ain't something that scrapes off the gut cavity wall!!!I was really looking forward to chowing down on it right nowDo I, Don't I? Keen but n
  6. Lifes too short to feel seedy fellas, good quality Vodka keeps ya cockles and everything else toasty warm!!!K
  7. I have been using them for way too long with excellent result to even think of using anything else when breaming or mully fishin. My goal now is to apply the same principles to callop fishing, catch them with minimal harm, maybe even eat the odd legal one mmmmmmmm....I'm thinking I might be best off keeping the baits big, good sized shrimp or yabbie on a 4/0 or 5/0 circlie to try to fend off the little ones but could that ultimately cost hook-ups on the old mud monsters?Love the idea of making little dents in the carp population at the same time as aiming for callop.I think I have the action
  8. Just got back from doing some research and the results are as follows.5/0 Gamm Octo Circle hooks with pilchard chunks and rod held9 Bream around 25 cm, all lip or corner of mouth hooked and splashed me as they left2 Bream at 34cm and 1 at 36cm, 1 of the 34s was hard to get out of the lip but all swam off nicely1 40cm Schoolie hooked just inside mouth but easy extraction and good releaseFed a lot of the pickers but didn't hook them so happy with that.About 3 hours work and a nice welcome back after nearly 5 months absence from the river.Gammakatsu Octopus Circle hooks work, they are very effect
  9. Iv'e used circles on shrimp in the Onk but cant imagine keeping them alive very long in the fresh using them. I am gonna think long and hard about this but right now I'm going fishin. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: keen
  10. This topic made me think. I am swapping the bulk of my beach fishing for fresh water fishing and for weeks I have been contemplating Callop and the hooks needed. Will it be best for me just to downsize the same hooks, Gamma Octopus circle, to suit the different bait i will be using or do i need to use a different hook pattern. Avoiding gut hooked undersize is my number one priority when I embark on my next obsession, fun and comfort come after that. Would I be best off startin a new thread for this?keen
  11. The last time I killed a bream (knowingly) was the last time I didn't use a Gama Octo, and that about two years ago now, two years of at least one session a week in the Onk.I struggle with the concept that a fish released with a hook in it's throat or gut has much chance of surviving so I was put onto them and haven't looked back.Some top comments too about using them, they took a lot of getting used to and my bro still hasn't got them sussed yet! The difference between us though is that I use yellow braid and he uses a dark fireline I think it is. I can see the action, even at night with a go
  12. i agree with all mentioned before especially regarding the fact that the rubbish is much lighter than when brought to the spot and that our environment is way to awesome to ruin.if i may put in my two cents it is the supposedly insignificant cigarette butt that really gets on my goat and being a smoker i am qualified to bitch about it.i have seen boaties just throw them over the side, mainly in the port where i am landbased, seen them tossed off the jetty, into the onk or just discarded on the ground. i have even been known to throw ciggy butts back into cars at traffic lights, much to the sur
  13. yes it is only a gold coin to enter but surely it don't hurt too much to throw in some of the folding variety for a cause such as this. Ya have a good chance to win some great stuff and failing that it is a fantastic day.keen
  14. if ya wanna have fun with the st's I recommend using soft plastics as the poor buggers are unable to resist something like a 4inch minnow or a squidgey flickbait. you can also mix up the retrieve more with soft plastics from fast to bottom bouncing.yesterday i beached a 58cm goolwa sambo using my 7ft bream flick stick with a blue squidgey fish, a truely awesome fight indeed!! screaming runs, aerobatics and they never say die!!still smilin'
  15. cheers guysYou may have heard a sobbing noise on sunday morning, that was me, coming to the realization that the trip was a no go.Two reasons:1. The missus wrote her car off on the weekend. She and the kid are shaken but thankfully unharmed, her beloved first car is not though.Towing fees alone chewed up my diesel money.2. Having not owned the fourbie very long it is what I consider reasonably under-prepared. No towing points, UHF, good jerry can and several other items that help make a stint like salt creek hassle free.I will get there and when I do I will be able to relax and enjoy myself kn
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