ASI Groin today

Got down there and set up by 5:45 am, was a beautiful morning, nice and warm, the easterly was up a bit but it wasnt blowing a gale or anything like that. Three and a half hours later and not one bite. I was running mulies(under float with 1.5m leader, on the bottom, and un weighted during different points during the morning, and also had the maggots and burley cage cranked up for the herring and gars on a different rod). Not a bit for te whole morning. Fella who was leaving when I was packing up stopped off and he caught nothing but said there hadnt been anything there for the last 3 weekends he had been there.

I tell ya what though... there's a bloody big hornet/wasp nest somewhere near where I fish from coz they were everywhere flying up and down the rock wall around me. They didnt fuss over me being there and I wasnt too worried about them either.. but god damn, some of them were big. I'll have to take a photo next time, they were bright orange on the legs, head, tip of the tail and wings looked orange/brown, the rest of the body was black... any idea what species they are?


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Hornets

Sat, 2009-10-17 13:40

They sound like european wasps,to make sure ,give the Dept Of Agriculture a ring and describe them to them ,giving the location.If they are european wasps they can be quite nasty little suckers.

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Certainly not a european

Sat, 2009-10-17 13:44

I lived in melbourne from 2000 before coming back to perth a few months ago... definately not a european wasp. We had a nest of them in a house I was renting in Oakleigh (S.E melb suburb). Bloody things took over the driveway from a hole they dug in the ground. Exterminator said it was the biggest nest he'd seen in years, took something like 15 litres of wasp killing juice to fill up the nest.

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Exterminator said it was the

Sat, 2009-10-17 18:50

Exterminator said it was the biggest nest he'd seen in years, took something like 15 litres of wasp killing juice to fill up the nest.

 

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Match

Sat, 2009-10-17 20:35

I'm not going to be anywhere close when someone lights the match!!!