ellicat
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Good ol' fresh bait beliefs thrown out the window.
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Nice work. Beaut session for sure. Pillies ?
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Beaut part of the world for some family fun.
Did you get a snap of the camper set up ?
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I'm out.
Good luck, Beau.
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1 hour ago, Poddymullet said:
Hey guys ... silly question but where do you camp on Moreton? You have to camp in one of the designated camp areas right?
Yes. There are camps in behind the dunes south of Middle Road or you can camp up North at the camping area near the lighthouse...Northpoint or something like that. Has cold showers and toilets.
- Poddymullet, Drop Bear and kmcrosby78
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Have seen plenty of reports elsewhere of snapper going off.
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I could be keen, but I'm a smoker so might not be welcome for health reasons ?
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Good to know the hooks are sharp. Haha
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15 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:
..... and seems to have caught the smallest fish too ...........
Like I said, "Some things don't change" :P
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Welcome to the forum.
We have a couple of gun lake fishermen online regularly, so that could be handy if you have questions. Check the freshwater forum for NPD (North Pine Dam) reports by @rayke1938 and @Dinodadog.
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37 minutes ago, MSB said:
Hi ellicat looks like it would work on the same principal as the old tackle back does for retrieving lures?
The hooks go over the fish and when you pull upwards they pull to the centre and (hopefully) hook into the fish. You can see one in action on this video.
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I also found this picture of Cliff Richard
- fishingnut, Old Scaley and Drop Bear
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Thought I'd share this pic of one of my grandfathers (on the left) at Texas a few years ago when it was more fashionable to eat cod.
He lived in and had a business in Warwick but used to like getting away with the boys for a fish and a few ales.
Some things don't change.
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GRANT'S FISHY TAILS - #214 - DISGRUNTLED ANGLERS
In the 1870s (Yes, I said EIGHTEEN-seventies) an authoritative book came out: Fishing in Moreton Bay. It set out a situation beyond argument: angling in Moreton Bay (Sth Qld.) was buggerupfinish.
Reason? – those “tinkers-dam netfishermen”.
Hold hard a minute. Their nets were tarred cotton; bulky, inefficient, and targeted mainly on Mullet. How do I know of these shortcomings? In around 1940 I used a tarred net – to the well-expressed disgust of fellow-anglers.
But the book gave me a couple of specks of gold. Reproving his fellow-anglers, the author tells us: "Your Bream average just under a pound (500g), and your Whiting run five-to-the-pound." (about 100g each!)
Well, wonders will never quit ceasing. That comes awful close to our catches, made after 145 years!
Anglers have always needed to find excuses for poor catches.
When the French were exploding atomic bombs at Muraroa Atoll, way out in the Pacific, my desk was protesting under the weight of bottles of seawater, to be tested by the Gummint Analyst for radio-activity that fouled-up fishing. Radioactivity? - not a chance.In the southern Bay and the Broadwater - a favoured resort for the well-off - anglers' success rates were so poor that, annually, fiery protests and complaints came to my Minister and myself. And these people, too, blamed netfishermen. So in the 1960s, my Senior Biologist tried placating them by cancelling ALL net-fishing in the whole of the region.
Did catches improve? - not a chance. And about the only adverse influence? - rampaging speedboats.
Its cure is ever-present: practice, practice, practice. How the devil do you think I've been able to write and illustrate a book of 880 pages on fish unless I'd caught most of them for myself? - Go thou and do likewise.
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Yes, early 50's. Unsure on car.