Prawn Star

Fair enough. After re reading my post I didn't word it very well.But there are plenty of us on here who have seen posts like this go very sour on many other fishing sites through out Australia.It is generally the sort of topic that gets some people to jump on tall horses they would not normally ride.We only catch what we are prepared to eat and although we love our fishing if the freezer has enough fish we tend to target harder to catch species or try and find new areas on the sounder.Problem is I'm a crap fisherman so having too many fish is rarely an issue.. :icon_lol:So catch and release is only something I would consider doing with bigger stronger species like snapper. Tend to think doing it with Whiting is a waste of fish as they can be a bit hit and miss with survival when released so we dont target them any more once we have enough.Each to their own but if the wrong posters are around you are playing with fire :-\

This was a trojan post right from the word go.Was designed to cause troubles and nothing else.

Careful Ian or you will put half the site sponsors out of business

I caught one almost identical off of horseshoe reef about 5 years ago.Had one look at it in the net, cut the line and threw it back.They are not a pretty fish and look quite intimidating in the flesh.My wife and I spent a bit of time looking it up in our books and online but we had no success at all. As has been suggested we came up with some close comparisons but thats all they were close.

Great link fishumThanks for that {SMILIES_PATH}/cool.gif

I was speaking to a mate this morning who does a few dives and apparantly the hobart is holding some big snapper at the moment, so maybe wirrina will be best if snaps is your target.. {SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif

I'll be heading out Saturday afternoon after the kids soccer. Don't get much spare fishing time so we don't have the luxury of "fishing the best tide" all of the time, usually we get out when ever we get time, which results in a lot of useless fuel burning on occasion {SMILIES_PATH}/rolleyes.gif {SMILIES_PATH}/tongue.gif {SMILIES_PATH}/rolleyes.gifNot sure if it will be Wirrina BR or Sullies BR yet.Taking my brother out on our boat for the first time. We've had it for a couple of years now, just been a bit slack and when I could take him he couldn't make it.

Thanks spog,I like that balloon trick. {SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif

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Hey Ranger I think you need a name change to Babelfish....... {SMILIES_PATH}/rolleyes.gif {SMILIES_PATH}/tongue.gif {SMILIES_PATH}/rolleyes.gif

Thats one flashy reel BuffWhat are you going to target with it? It is hard to tell just how big it is with no other items around it.What mere mortal type reel would it compare to in size and fishing category?Cheers

I see the official name of Goolwa Cockle has been changed to Pipi.I guess I will not be going cockling anymore but pipiing..... {SMILIES_PATH}/embarrassed.gifSounds like I have had too many cups of tea.....