Fishing tips
Cracking knobby FR especially land based in oz!
Cracking knobby FR especially land based in oz!
Well done Steve that is a crazy Snapper - and land based is next level
The consistent Westerlies meant the Beaches have turned on the tailor
I discovered the joy of converting op shop cutlery into metal slugs.
They cast further than Halcos and Knights , are stainless steel so will last and cost me about $1.50 each to make - including rings and hooks
And best of all catch heaps
Just got back from a week on K’gari. The place was alive! Had some memorable sessions on tailor using surface lures and bait. Here’s a few pics from one night session when we got 20+ fish from 45-64cm in an hour and kept 10. Great fishing!
That middle pic made me instantly hungry.
Winning all round AP.
agree, @zen, I detect cornflake crumbs in them thar morsels. what's the deal with kids not being allowed on K'gari/Fraser because of dingoes into the future.. is that a thing??
I saw something on the news about the mayor of Hervey Bay suggesting it. Haven’t been there since 2019 and the wongari (dingos) were far more visible and bold than I remember. Like any wild place it’s the parents’ responsibility to educate and supervise their children on the island. Most people do the right thing.
That's pretty hectic, AP, we are a nation of sea-monsters and stingy-little-bitey-shits..
to have a sth hemisphere cougar-alert, or bear-scare equivalent, puts a new mammal spin on things.
The wongari are very bold these days.
Suggestion is that families with kids should be made to camp in fenced camp zones.
A lot of time is spent away from camp when on Kgari.
Awesome haul Andy P.
Those fish are in pretty good condition by the look of it.
Re the kids on K'gari thing..
I heard something about anyone camping with kids may be required to stay in a campground with dingo proof fencing soon. Don't know if it'll get through though.
Edit, what seeds said. ;)
Went and a had a throw in the river after I got my Wardell pie the other day.
Is this a bass or an estuary perch?
I'd call EP Steve. Kinda longer body profile and slight dip in the front of the head. Could well be wrong though.
Perch.
My guess is Estuary Perch.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/fish-species/species-list/estuary-per....
Cheers gents, I thought EP.
I showed it to local tackle shop proprietor and he reckoned bass.
It was a little chunk that pulled hard.
I'm with the tackle shop dude. Despite the slightly concave forehead I reckon it's a bass. EP foreheads are really scooped out. Your fish has a stubby mouth too. EPs mouth noticeably longer. Also EPs actually don't fight real hard!!
Maybe Steve’s hand is hiding the deciding evidence.
I think it’s visible. Opercular spine?
Just reading that’s a distinguishing feature of a bass over a EP.
ps. And no I had never heard of a fish’s opercular before now.
And yes I’m bored
OK, had a really sharp and distinct opercular spine, actually spiked me pretty good with it. Cut me open.
Are we done here?
I’d say Bass FR. EPs aren’t typically found as far north as where you caught it, thus on likelihood it has far more chance of being a bass. Caveat - if it is a stocked fish it could be either, or both (hybrid)! (Fish hatcheries and stocking are certainly full of cowboys and cowgirls stuck in a Wild West landscape)
Bass have razor sharp opercular spines too so your blood spilling does not distinguish an EP from a bass. An EP would have a noticeably concave scope to the head too.
Yes it's hard to be definitive Andrew P. That zone has always been an outlier for EP as far as northern populations go.
OK, so I want to try my hand at fishing. I have a couple of rods and reels, and an assortment of stuff in a shiny tackle box (Chrissy present from a few years back). I've got salt water and fresh water options close at hand (Narrabeen). But, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Can anyone offer me some pointers? I'd really like to impress the missus.