RFBS..
$80 on Bait
$60 on Fuel
Finally get kids and everything sorted by 10am
Fishing licence? I had one, better check...
Do I have DOT Direct? Fark knows... I just need a licence to take the wife and kids out for a half arsed dangle of their new xmas gifts for the first time in ???
Search on previous number, Computer says:
Please contact the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development on (08) 6551 4444 Monday to Friday between 8am and 4:30pm.
Just get a new one, Computer says:
Please contact the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development on (08) 6551 4444 Monday to Friday between 8am and 4:30pm.
Check wife and kids ones, Computer says:
Please contact the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development on (08) 6551 4444 Monday to Friday between 8am and 4:30pm.
AAAAARRRGH!!!
At least that saved me another $120
FFS!!! $260 and I haven't left the driveway just go out and dangle a farkin line with the kids!
This is EXACTLY why I stopped renewing it every year, like I used to, for everything, just in case I felt the urge to take the kids out for the day.
z00m
Posts: 1086
Date Joined: 10/05/14
$80 for bait? You are
$80 for bait? You are supposed to bring the dhu's and crays home mate, not start with them for bait! I just went and bought 3 different kinds of bait and 2 blocks of berley for $42 so not sure what you're using.
$120 for licenses amortised across the year means it is only $0.35 cents for today. If strapped for cash and only 'dangling' then using 1 RFBL and not exceeding it's bag limit covers all the fishers in your boat. You only need 1 RFBL licence if you are taking no more than the bag limit of that RFBL.
D_d_001
Posts: 1522
Date Joined: 09/03/13
0.35c that's great going no
0.35c that's great going no one I know gets out every single day of the year
rod_bunny
Posts: 16
Date Joined: 11/01/17
Amortised...
So just for giggles, today I calculate the $ I spent in licences since 2008, against days fishing, against actual taken home fish...
$492 in Lic & Tags
33 Days where I needed them.
$14.91 per day.
For:
40 odd Abs
40 odd Crabs
1 Shark Bay Snapper in 2013 (4 Tags in Lottery)
3kg Fish 2015
13kg Fish 2016
In 2008 I paid $81 for everything, just in case I felt the need or the opportunity arose, I just renewed it all in 2009.
In 2010 I didn't pay $230 for everything.
I didn't renew a licence until I did a shark bay trip in 2013, 2015, 2016.
In 2019 it's $290 for everything...
If I'd just kept renewing it - a mere $2500 in licences.
ABS has inflation at <2.5% 2010-2017
$81 at 2.5% compounded over 10 years is $106.28
$106-$290... yeah that seems reasonable.
quadfisher
Posts: 1146
Date Joined: 28/09/10
Get it.
Old mates saying before you could log in on a friday night or sat morn early and buy alic , like you should be able to, then use the reciept as your lic proof for weekend.
I had heard something about the site been screwed up , If it was me Id prob go fishing anyway and in the unlikely chance you get caught I would explain the situation , and then cop the fine if thats the end result.
But thats a personel choice that you shouldnt have to make in the first place if the site was working as it should.
quadfisher
rod_bunny
Posts: 16
Date Joined: 11/01/17
Yep, Shoulda just bought a
Yep, Shoulda just bought a Dhui and cray and been done with it ;)
"Bait" was also berley, oil, pollard... at BCF...
I've still got crab legs in the freezer for the "shark bay trip" from 2 years ago... when I caught them.
z00m, last time I went to Shark Bay I figured out the cost per KG of the snapper I bought home was about $1000 a kilo, fuel, accom, licences, tags in the lottery, fish we could keep (everything we caught was too big)... 4 tags = 1 fish.
6Ps and all that... got home from work at 23:50 and just not prepared for first awesome day that coincides with the first day off since FKW?
Ended up with a small Wrasse to the boy within a minute of dropping anchor (smile = priceless), a 4ft stingray and then an hour session on the blowies (kids favourite).
All catch and release.
Printed out the "Computer Says No" page for Justin ;)
Honestly... it just pi$$ed me off that it was so much work (and risk - cause sure as eggs I'll be the guy losing his boat for the 1 day in 2 years I've managed to get th eplanets to align and get out) just to take the kids out for a fish on a whim...
It shouldn't be this hard or expensive just to catch a friggen fish from a boat!
Da pirate
Posts: 1567
Date Joined: 03/05/15
Pink $1000 a kilo ??
Geez buddy ! $1000 a kilo of pink??
not last trip but the one before we
packed a 40l engel of pink off the
cliffs. Think it was September..
definitely expensive trips up
there for sure though .... cheers pirate
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18051
Date Joined: 11/03/08
cant be too muh of a prob to
cant be too muh of a prob to get it done Sandy just done one in 5 minuits . didnt seem to be any probs
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
rod_bunny
Posts: 16
Date Joined: 11/01/17
According to the guy I just
According to the guy I just spoke to at DPIRD, the website was crashing due to 2500 people trying to renew on sat morning...
pelagicyachts
Posts: 1322
Date Joined: 23/02/11
60 bucks on fuel... I'll swap
60 bucks on fuel............ I'll swap you!