Binder

none of those, "topics I have not read and posted since my last visit" is what i have bookmarked and its pretty much all i use.

I wonder if fresh water shrimp are classed as prawns.

The only fault in this saga is the gutless politicians whom forced the importation of prawns, then did not fund proper governance over what was going on. Which means, you and I, as taxpaxers will be footing the bill. You can bet the costs wont be coming out of politicians pay checks or super troughs.

only half?

What I am wanting to know is where is all this cheap seafood they cant move out of the control area? Prawns crabs etc are still the same price in local shops!

So I wonder how much "contaminated" spoil from those ponds has now washed in to the bay.........they were only part way through cleaning it all up.

It will be the full length of the east coast within a year, particularly if we get a late rain influence from that cyclone up north - push all the prawns out in to the ocean where they will mix before heading back up stream to breed...

I have just realised Somerset, Wivanhoe and Lake Baroon are all just outside the zone, and I live in the zone. That means if I fish any of these dams I cant bring any live shrimp home to keep for the next trip, as I wont be able to take them back out of the zone.. Less than impressed with their new containment zone.

Honestly, I dont think they have a chance of eradicating it from the ponds. You can imagine the cesspit these farmers must be putting up with with 1000's of kilo's of prawns rotting in the ponds and no way to clean them or the water at this point. Must be heart breaking for them.

good old Baaahrnaby, locking the gate after the horse has bolted as usual......

The secret is out - he is worried if someone else baits up with a banana in his boat they will catch a bigger unicorn!

Son Alex and a few of the other BFO kids of the day at the North Pine River cleanup with their haul.

dang it, just went to put it in my calendar and realised it is the same weekend they have moved the bluefin fishing comp to, so Ray and I will be at Moogerah dam! Sorry Danielle, cant make it after all.

Wish my wife was an ATM..... I'm coming, I will also PM you my email address Danielle.

Just the public being screwed over by lying politicians again.... nothing new....... We were promised access in 2011, SEQ Water and government have been making excuses as to why that is "delayed" ever since.

Just so you think there is something different about them so you buy more packets.......

See some good fish caught in that stretch of the creek. (I work just the other side of where you were fishing). Often see good bream and flatties caught off the bridge at Downey park, and the mouth of the drain a little further upstream.

Been getting a few.

About a dollars worth Only $1 for 200 at the local cheapie shop

Ok, I have retro fitted funnels to a couple I had made with soft drink bottle tops, with funnels. First photo is a funnel sitting on top of a trap Ray gave me, his favoured smaller size ones. be brilliant for those I reckon. First step, make the hole bigger. Dont have a fancy oversize hole saw like ray, so the old hacksaw blade and gaffa tape did the job. tried one pot with the frisbee pointing in, but it didn't result in a very big gap between the funnel ends. So did the other one old school. When the funnel is cut off, the depth is comparable to the soft drink bottle top. The two traps ready for duty. Got two netting ones in the dam that are about to give up the ghost, these will go in as soon as they do.

Made a few of my own using this idea, work well. But I dont drink soft drink and the kids dont need it either , so I dont have access to free empty 2l soft drink bottles. So I am going to try something different for the funnels. Got these on fleabay, about $19 for 10 delivered from hong kong. Comparable to the price of buying elcheapo 2l softdrink bottles and they are a bit wider at 150mm across, also a bit more robust.

Probably legal to use in the current drought. Remember cast net rules have changed, the divisor is no longer "tidal waters", its fresh / salt. In the current drought the salt will have gone a long way upstream, in February 2011 it would have been technically illegal to use a cast net in most of moreton bay! (An interesting sidebar - at Bribie the other day, they told us they had add salt to the sea water until only a few months ago after the 2011 floods, the sea water of Bribie's salt levels have been to low to support breeding the salt water fish they are studying)

Looks like tagging day is off for a week, AGM still on tomorrow night though.