i know you wont believe this blowies
Submitted by petermac on Mon, 2021-12-13 14:52
about 1974 , yes about 1974 me and my uncle jumped in the water of the south mole spearfishing and then jumped out agin a massive school of blowies were heading out to sea and i mean millions of the buggers , after that the swan was clear of them dont believe me ask any 1 that fished the swan in years the blowies were gone , i hope they piss of aagain
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sea-kem
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You are back in fine form
You are back in fine form Peter
But agree they are a farrrrken pest.
Love the West!
TorquenFish
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wtf did I just read?
wtf did I just read?
Faulkner Family
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Fished the swan and can ing
Fished the swan and can ing growing up. You did get the blowies but the bream usually beat them to the bait. Now days you can't get a bait past them to catch a bream
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Swompa
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In the mid 90's I remember
In the mid 90's I remember brown shoals of blowies cruising around shoalwater bay. There were thousands of them.
carnarvonite
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Turd eyes
Remember seeing much the same thing at the Old Cut in Bunbury but instead of blowies there was huge school after school of turd eyes [trumpeters] heading out of the estuary to sea. Would have been around the same years Pete saw his blowies
quadfisher
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mmmmmmm
1974 was peak drinking and casual drug use in Australian history .............. good to see the memory survives pete hahaha.....
But your right , as reported in The Great Ross Cusacks writings , blowies dissappeared in vast numbers around that time....
quadfisher
Jackfrost80
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You obviously didn't attend
You obviously didn't attend many Drum n Bass raves in the 90's
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
little johnny
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Would have been ac-d
. Come on peter resent story’s big fella.
Silver Fox
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Hear hear!
My left eye is still twitching..........
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
sea-kem
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Ha ha
Ha ha
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Da pirate
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Out of control.
Chemical brothers .
dodgy
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Every generation reckons
Every generation reckons their drugs are better than the last.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
scotto
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Blue diamonds and red Mitsubishis
I rest my case.
tot
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microdot
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Silver Fox
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Green Mitsi’s white 007’s
The names Munted, totally Munted....:D
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
Gadsy
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I used to fish at Canning Bridge as a teen in the 70's
Faulkner Family
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Had to make sure they puffed
Had to make sure they puffed up first. They went off with a nice pop and the tail meat would shoot out .
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Gadsy
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Yeah Russ
The road was a total mess at times and probably a bit hazardous with the slime from the blowies. I think quite a few went through some open car and bus windows too, which resulted in the no fishing from the bridge signs (which mysteriously went missing a few Times lol).
Narced2Max
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I seem to remember
That there was huge numbers of blowies with no tails,I mean from their anus the tail had rotted or dropped off,but what ever the cause there were far to many to of been done with a fishermans knife
little johnny
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One thing I have noticed
Not many blowies . No bonito . Haven’t caught a sea chicken for 15 years .( at least) where have they gone?
tot
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caught by all
the Italians off the rock groynes haha
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dodgy
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How good were the evenings
How good were the evenings on palm beach jetty shoulder to shoulder.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
davewillo
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We caught a few behind the
We caught a few behind the three-mile out of Hillarys last year LJ. Mixed up with southern blues
PGFC member and lure tragic
Pete F
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Heaps off Lano this
Heaps off Lano this November, was schools the size of foot ball field feeding. Also an area they were about 5m down on the sounder, seemed everyware. Was a lot of decent yellowfin around them too, caught one that ate the bonnie off the lure. Lasted for about a month, there was quite a tight temp gradient in close to shore. Last year a number of anglers landed them in 80m off the bottom!
Cheers
Jim
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I get bonnies pretty often
I get bonnies pretty often around the FFB. They are defintely out there maybe just not in the numbers they have been in the past.
I dont really see the same number of blue macks in rocko compared to 10 years ago but then again its been about that long since ive fished for them properly.
As for blowies, i get them all the time
Bend over
sea-kem
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I remember fishing for
I remember fishing for Bonito of the North Mole 20 odd years ago, all the Asian fellas had rods with short pieces of PVC they stuck their hands into for a reel, very clever.
Love the West!
Pete F
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Similar about two years back,
Similar about two years back, was brown swarm after another migrating north along the coast. I saw them passing Lano where I fish but had reports from south of perth too. Fisheries doco say they leave the river to spawn, each year. Seems more like a big migration north periodically I have not witnessed it yearly. http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/documents/recreational_fishing/fact_sheets/fact_sheet_blowfish.pdf
Cheers
uncle
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There are thousands of big blowies
Breeding in the sand off our northern beach's, there'll be heaps more soon, big schools of them as well!
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Rod Stroker
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Blowies
Blowies only bother me when I'm fishin, otherwise I welcome them with open legs arhahaha.
Nah but seriously what about tha places ya never see blowies, mostly clean water not overfished.
Maybe if someone did a YouTube catch'n'cook with blowie fishcakes they'd get thinned out a bit?
Only way I found ta get away from blowies was to use burley with a bit of motor oil in it. Don't know why but it works.
Salty old Seadog that needs putting down.
Da pirate
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Snapper..
You weren't fishing out of a dingy
years back in the first few storms
of the year stroker ? Could be all
grown up now ? You still take all
the prechorshins champion ?
cheers mate . Pirate .
Rod Stroker
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Mate...
Don't waste ya breath Primate or Pirate or whateve nickname ya gave yourself...you'll have better luck trolling for those trophy stingrays than trolling old Rod Stroker pal.
Back to the topic. Is Mindarie still full of blowies and smell like Craigie on a hot, still day?
Salty old Seadog that needs putting down.
Da pirate
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Ha ha ha .
Worth a shot buddy .. haven't had
a fish in a week or so .. cheers primate !
Da pirate
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No rays .
No rays ?? Got myself a good sized
stroker though .. lol ! Cheers mate
Rod Stroker
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Rainbow Pirate?
I don't want to hear about your stroker mate, not interested, happlily married for 35yrs. Sorry.
Salty old Seadog that needs putting down.
Da pirate
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Damn it ..
Got my hopes up . All clogged up
need a man ! Ain't man til ya had
man . Cheers primate .
uncle
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Report on channel eagle
That blowies are biting people. I can't believe how many there are of hillarys beach atm
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davewillo
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We had them biting us bad on
We had them biting us bad on the sandbar opposite Swan Yacht Club a few years back. Drove us all out of the water as they would bite your toes and they fuckin hurt!
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scotto
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blowy apocalypse
we need another salmon run like 2016, where the salmon infiltrated the river and smashed all the blowy population to smithereens.
rob90
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True, I remember as a little
True, I remember as a little kid when we had a massive bonito run they cleaned all the blowies up also
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