crazywalrus

Bloody hell, they must be epic sized mackerel to use PE 6-8

A good effort, especially from shore

Hahahaha yeah that was an experience. Got to be careful when using a castnet in these waters gathering bait. They look just like a leaf in the net.

Great stuff and report Sasha and welcome to the site. A great contribution. Looking forward to seeing some of your drone footage targeting lizards.

Good stuff Hamish

Hahaha if only this wind would stop blowing

This came up on my phone and thought I would share https://youtube.com/shorts/U6iAV2HJiTg?feature=shared

Can you believe it, the weather is mint offshore, it is the weekend, the almanac is good, and I have decided to give it a miss? I could not justify going out and catching more fish when I already have a full freezer. I must be sick or something.

I was going to say the same thing. Looks like a large mouth to me. Great report Wazza. Some quality jewfish. It is funny, when they increased the size limit to 75 everyone complained and said they would never catch a legal fish. Many years on and there are quality fish being caught. that spottie is a ripper for the bay.

Hi. I have fished Amity from the shore many times. You rarely catch something legal, but there are plenty of fish there to keep you interested. That said I know @straddiebrad picked up a ripper snapper off the end of one of the rock groins at the camp grounds in section A. Amity offers a range of fishing and has pretty deep water accessible from the shore. I have broken the area into 3 sections. Section A has a few sections as well. The rock groins can offer some good small reef species, like snapper and Moses perch. You can also successfully work a squid jig over the sand and grass sections in between. On a good day you can pick up some small flathead and bream working a plastic over the sand and grass Lots of people fish from the jetty but I do not rate it since the sand has reduced the depth it is good, late dusk and night to chase squid on the right tide For kids though you can put a small hook on and fish under the lights and catch endless butter bream They are ok on the chew cooked whole. The last section to fish here is the end of the old boat ramp and to a lesser extent the rock wall at the park You can fish bait here or plastics. I have caught some nice pan sized snapper here On it’s day you can stand on the end of the ramp with a slug on, cast out let it sink and the spin it back quickly and pick up endless bonito. Section B The rock wall section. There are several streets that end at the rock wall giving access Beware the neighbours think they own the shoreline and get pretty cranky if you try and rock hop down the wall. It can be fun to fish this area but stick to the slack tide times. It can be frustrating with the snags here but it offers a lot of reef species. The channel comes in close here and offers depths of 15m I have caught legal snapper, grassy sweet lip and tusk fish here. On a northerly wind the bait gets pushed into the wall and can have long tailed tuna within casting distance I personally have not caught one, but boy it is exciting trying to, with bust ups metres from the shore Section C This is where the rock wall meets the beach. It offers the reef species casting back along the wall and where the sand meets the rocks. It can be very productive there. There can also be some very nice bream and tarwhine here on bait and plastics The beach offers some fun with a tiny whiting hook, with many whiting and bream available to catch On its day if you are lucky, you can spin up schoolies and spotty mackerels, so make sure you always have a few slugs in the tackle box I have caught them on two occasions there. I hope that helps. Tackle on the island is expensive and there is not a huge choice, so make sure you have sufficient before you catch the ferry across I love Straddie and Amity if you have a car there are some awesome fishing opportunities over at Pt lookout Good luck and have fun

Are you taking about using artificial frogs or live or dead frogs. I would check the regs if you are planning to use them live. At least in Queensland they are not allowed as bait. They used to be the gun bait for Barra before they banned their use.

Yeah reading the discussion paper I can understand the need for changes. When I first got up here I could not believe the possession limits for Nannygai. That said I was not catching fish under 60cm and most were in the 70s. So a few fish is plenty. These changes will impact the guys with the smaller boats that fish closer in the nursery. that said I do not agree with their statement that it is just a 10% change. (9 to 4 possession) That assumes that fisherman are catching or targeting 50% small mouth and large mouth. Not my experience in the north here. 9 is a ridiculous possession limit in my opinion, to me does not represent good stewardship. You can say the same with Trout as well at 7 however for someone that only gets a couple of trips a year I can understand it but for people that can pop out all the time and catch 7 per person is incredibly high.

The fisheries are requesting feedback from fishos in QLD regarding a few proposed changes. Banning opera house pots, changing crab pot requirements, splitting the combined in possession limits of crimson and saddletail snapper (small and large mouth Nannaygai), and management around black jewfish. Not many factors effect me apart from the changes Nannygai. I originally did the survey and was a bit harsh because they did not include the proposed size change in the survey. Ready online I was not the only one unable to work it out. It has since been pointed out to me that it was available here but they forget we are not all public servants and not familiar with their structure and nomenclature. For me if they where not going to include details in the survey the document should have come before the survey button and a lot more obvious That said I can understand the need to change the management of Saddletail Snapper I personally do not take crimson snapper as I think they are an inferior eating species. one problem with Nannygai and Lutjanidae fish is they suffer from extreme baratrauma . Studies on fingermark by the NT fisheries found that there was a very poor survival rate of fingermark caught deeper then 5m deep. This means when fishing in the deep water, like plus 50m, fish released would not survive That said when fishing these areas I catch very few under 55cm The other issue is the Taxman’s possession limits, and these losses of fish are often more significant then what is harvested anyway have your say https://daf.engagementhub.com.au/?fbclid=IwAR34wtRSx42WcaQdio84Cu5-rwJiGDpfREfu14mYBr5hZzDTlY4tlg3c-Fk_aem_AXRHuzl2-pC7RbkvYOtlq8qq8KfWfl4wm1SVbkr000LexGQLjWFYDLjzczuVvxDPtoY

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