Carnarfin
Submitted by Carewza on Wed, 2015-06-03 20:35
Hi everyone,
So, as you probably know, last week the 'Carnarfin' was on. I'm just wondering if you think it would have affected the fish in the area (fished out, I guess) as we've always had luck when out fishing however since the competition they seem to have completely disappeared? Does this actually happen or are we imagining it?!!!
fishin mad
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Imagining it
Imagining it
black gen
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A ridiculous amount of fish
A ridiculous amount of fish get caught during the comp
could have something to do with the low catch rates
Deleted
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I reckon the big white blob
I reckon the big white blob in the night sky is the reason your having a slow week
carnarvonite
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Fish kill
The competition is just one big week long fish kill.
Every year one gets to hear of people upsizing fish in an attempt to get their name on the winners board at the nightly weigh ins. The only real winners are the sharks who get plenty of boats to follow from spot to spot knowing sooner or later they are going to get an easy meal. Spending hours on radio duty at sea rescue makes interesting listening as the chatter about getting sharked and shifting spots gets discussed.
Admittedly it brings some dollars to the town but most of this is from locals anyway, with only 8-10 boats I didn't recognise as regulars.
Son works on one of the local wetliners and they commented that all their inshore spots on the west side of the islands have bugger all left on them so they had to fish well south and in deeper water to get a decent load to bring in, which was about half of what they would normally expect at this time of the year with snapper starting to gather and spawn.
dodgy
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How many boats fished
How many boats fished Carnarfin?
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
carnarvonite
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Well down
Numbers were well down on recent years, think the most we logged in was about 45-50 compared to over a hundred 2 years back
Weather wasn't too kind to them either with only 3 days that I would have said made comfortable fishing and the only boats to venture out on those days were visitors, who IMO have the tenet, I am here to fish and I WILL fish.
redfin
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personally I would say the
personally I would say the moon over the carnarfin week had more to do with quite fishing than any thing else. boats fishing carnarfin would have little impact on the commercial boats not catching, maybe the tonne after tonne that they bring in does. The pinks haven't really schooled up on the inside as yet, cant be far off though.
carnarvonite
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Moon
The moon doesn't affect pinks when they are gathering to spawn.
Most of the recreational boats don't anchor on a school preferring to drift, as they go over the school they break it up when they hook a fish and drag it away from the reef, this pulls additional with it following the hooked fish, where as the pros anchor over the patch and keep the school in one bunch, not splitting it up.
trepangdua
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Weather
The weather (wind) was up all week. Travelling to and from the islands and just fishn was hard work. Take two hours out of your fishing day for travel and you catch less. BTW the only wet liner I saw was at the top of Cox Islands. He managed to reduce the catch on several of the lumps up there in three days. The area seems to recover each year.
walloped
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Local numbers were down this
Local numbers were down this year, Carnarvonite. There were more visitors.
It is a good money spinner for the town and gets Carnarvon in a favourable light for a change.
The wind would have been the biggest issue this year and remembering we are only months past a cyclone and several big rivers that dirtied the water over 55ks offshore.
Those participating appeared to enjoy themselves.
Most of the boats I spoke to anchored on schools rather than drifting.
I think that overall numbers were up.
walloped
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Date Joined: 08/04/12
Local numbers were down this
Local numbers were down this year, Carnarvonite. There were more visitors.
It is a good money spinner for the town and gets Carnarvon in a favourable light for a change.
The wind would have been the biggest issue this year and remembering we are only months past a cyclone and several big rivers that dirtied the water over 55ks offshore.
Those participating appeared to enjoy themselves.
Most of the boats I spoke to anchored on schools rather than drifting.
I think that overall numbers were up.
Quobbarockhopper
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Was a sh*t year weather
Was a sh*t year weather wise... and the weigh masters at the comp were pretty dodgy as well
carnarvonite
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Weigh ins
Didn't have a chance to get to one weigh in or the presentation dinner, was either on radio duty or tied up doing other stuff.
Was a huge effort from the blokes and Di for the weeks radio rosters, usually have three 4 hour shifts each day and we get to do one or two each during the week, however this year it was down to 4 blokes on two 6 hour watches each day with the other two blokes not on watch standing by to operate the rescue boats if needed and Di helped out by doing 2 six hour shifts one on Saturday and another Sunday
So if anyone is interested in joining and getting a Marine radio ops license and doing radio and rescue boat duty please come down and put your name down