Mixed bag sunday 19/8/2012
Gday left sunday morn 6am from rocky arrived at first spot with plenty of fish showing on the sounder,first drift got a nice dhuie on a jig also a nice kgw.For the next hour or so caught another size dhuie few undersize snapper,dhus,skippy and blackarses then close to high tide deckie hooked up onto a good fish and up comes a blue groper never seen or caught one on boat before cool anyway back to jigging no hits so started pulling it up and a couple metres from the boat hooked up took off like a rocket thinking maybe spanish mackeral the way it run got it boatside think its a shark mackeral correct me if im wrong.Was a good days fishing for metro also seen small school of tuna busting up on the way in 35m trolled for bit but no hits.Cheers Nick
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wadetolley
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what
What a day on the water...going to be hard to top that for a while!
tot
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shark mackie
= great bait . fat black arse , great mixed bag!
what sort of ground did the groper come up from?
Reverse cycle a/c supply and install - Ducted and wall splits
Justo82
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Shit weather hey.
Shit weather hey.
Leemo
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blue groper and a sharkie in
blue groper and a sharkie in the same area? geez.
bludgin' since 94'
fishfinger
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Petition to STOP new fishing laws
G'day to all
I would just like to bring to everyone's attention a petition that is going to hopefully be at most tackles shops about the fishing management paper 252, in particular to the
* Proposed Changes in State-wide Possession Limit Reductions and the Splitting of the Possession Limit.
* Reducing the Recreational Bag Limits.
We are trying to keep them as they currently are. If you see one in the store please sign it as we need hard copy signatures for a petition and it will effect everyone.
If you would like to help and your local tackle shop does not have one put a post on here with a contact and I will arrange something. This is being driven through the C.P.B.C. sports fishing group.
The changes that they are proposing have no data to back the reason for changes up. Now we are asking the Legislative Assembly
* To vote down/amend the proposed changes and guidelines proposed by the fisheries minister Hon Norman Moore MLC, in line with the above points of contention.
We all need to voice our opinion or the very very loud lobby groups who want all fishing band will change the rules under our noses.
Thank you
Leemo
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mate, not the place for
mate, not the place for this.
bludgin' since 94'
nick82
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Hey tot came from 41mtres
Hey tot came from 41mtres with a slow rise to 35mtres on a fresh fillet of skippy.
Justo yeah its been a good winter for fishing, weather most wkends lately have been good for a fish.
bitten
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+1 shark mack for baitused to
+1 shark mack for bait
used to use them all the time when pro snapper fishing awesome bait for reds especialy but everything in general
would knock the fillets off and heavily salt them no need to keep them cold they last for ages in the sun just drain the juice and top the salt up once a day
Brock O
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Nice catch
Nic,haven't Seen a blue grouper in a long time, I remember spearing a massive one in the head t close rang to see it swim off and leave a bent spear.
Ive had better fishing days this winter than summer for sure, don't mind the cool weather.
Walfootrot
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That is 1 fat BB! great mixed
That is 1 fat BB! great mixed bag, water look great too.
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
sunshine
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Like the East - we should protect blue grouper
I regularly see one that would top 60lb - have it on video and have hand fed it pencil urchins so the size estimate is from less than arms distance away. It sports many scars from hook ups including a trace clearly visible on the video
Whilst there are plenty of them around the south coast it wouldn't hurt to protect them in metro waters and let their stocks recover as shooting them would be easier than ducks in a barrel - JIMO
kmo
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Protected at Rotto already
No take of blues in the Rotto marine park already (line or spear). Outside of Rotto, the one fish limit in a bag of two demersals is pretty good protection already imo, as well as a few months a year with a demersal closure.
Completely protecting a species from spearos because they are curious makes about as much sense as protecting a species from line fishing because they will take a bait.
MetroMako
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can you post the video.
sunshine
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It's in VHS unfortunately
Otherwise I would as it is speccy