parrot fish
Submitted by fishinguy on Thu, 2015-12-24 19:16
eery time i go snorkling at rottnest i see heaps if parrot fish in the 2 to 3kg mark, i was just wondering what is the best way to catch them? thanks
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sea-kem
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Maybe check your grammar and
Maybe check your grammar and your fish. Parrot fish at Rotto methinks not.
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petervb
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Parrot fish are definitely
Parrot fish are definitely there & in reasonable numbers on the shallow reefs. I think they are hard to catch though as in don't really take bait & eat coral / weed. Very easy to spear but you won't be doing any of that there as it's banned.
Tarpon
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Use crushed cray heads for
Use crushed cray heads for burley and a segment of cray leg on an unweighted hook. Beautiful eating fish
fishinguy
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what type of hook?
what type of hook?
Dream fish to catch:
Giant herring.
Cobia.
Notorious
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You can shoot them -
You can shoot them - provided you are far enough from shore to allow spearing, check the regs. We shoot fish at rotto often,
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fishinguy
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thanks everyone
thanks everyone
Dream fish to catch:
Giant herring.
Cobia.
Auslobster
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Crays for bait/berley...
...unless they've changed things, don't think you can "process" crays until cooking/consumption. Which means any crays in your possession (while you're fishing) must be whole, meet all the legal criteria, and you need a cray licence. Or, to put it another way, it is very likely illegal to smash their heads for berley and/or use their legs for bait.
Rob H
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???
Is there a law that says once you have eaten your crays its illegal to possess the offal?
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meglodon
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Nup, at least not that I can find
I haven't been able to find any restrictions on what you can do with the offal. The only thing that I can find about cray heads and guts is that you can't put it in cray pots.
I use cooked mashed cray heads and legs for burly for skippy on the FFB and it works great.
Auslobster
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So what stops someone...
...from catching a kakka and tearing it to pieces so fisheries can't measure it? And, as said above, the crays aren't to be PROCESSED until just before cooking/consumption...after that, probably CAN bring the offal back out for berley. Don't know for sure, can't be bothered to check, only putting it out there as a "heads up".
Sam_Wood
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Where do would you go to
Where do would you go to catch the parrot fish?
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Tarpon
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I always save cray heads
I always save cray heads after eating/"processing" for fish burley nothing in the regulations stating that this is illegal. Pretty sure that fisheries are smart enough to know that a cooked cray head on board a boat was not some kaka just brought up and processed on board for burley
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Nailed it
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Doggie
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Unweighted squid did the
Unweighted squid did the trick up north, let it float past them and sometimes they take it.
Other times they run away from it.