fishingnut

Excellent session that’s a lot fish for one bloke ! Bet your arms are a little longer after that session well done.

I had a little help from a mate who gave me a spot to try, thanks mate.

Excellent session that’s a lot fish for one bloke ! Bet your arms are a little longer after that session well done.

Excellent session that’s a lot fish for one bloke ! Bet your arms are a little longer after that session well done.

Excellent session that’s a lot fish for one bloke ! Bet your arms are a little longer after that session well done.

When I saw this topic, my first instinct was to jump onboard and sign the petition. Then I thought that I should have some evidence to back up that decision. So I went trawling (pardon the pun) through reports and other information online to see what I could find. These were mostly state government reports examining beam trawling, some specific to the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay. The consensus seems to be that they have insignificant impact on the environment and on recreational fishing, although there is not a lot of solid data on rec fishing to base this on. Having fished the mouth of the river for many years now, I haven’t noticed a decline in fish stocks - I used to catch not much and I still catch not much, but can’t say that there seem to be less fish around and there is no evidence to say that is the case. I have fished when the trawlers have been working the area and never seen piles of bycatch floating in their wake, but obviously there is a level of mortality among the bycatch.  There is some evidence of damage to the benthos (sea or river bottom) but this is deemed to be insignificant compared to natural and other man-made factors that have an impact.
I totally respect your opinion and your right to run a petition @fishingnut, and anyone else who wants to support the petition. After all, it can’t be a bad thing to reduce any pressure on the environment and the fishery, but I always like to know what I am signing and why I am signing it. 

http://chng.it/hWLVsbjYqT  
 
please sign and share far and wide  please 

No Hamish there is no deer native to Australia, they are delicious to eat tho !

No Hamish there is no deer native to Australia, they are delicious to eat tho !

No Hamish there is no deer native to Australia, they are delicious to eat tho !

Seen a few deer when I was near you in the straight, I headed upstream to the old bridge to get out of the wind and ended up sitting on the floor of the boat, found a school up there that kept me entertained, beautiful day once the wind dropped off.

Seen a few deer when I was near you in the straight, I headed upstream to the old bridge to get out of the wind and ended up sitting on the floor of the boat, found a school up there that kept me entertained, beautiful day once the wind dropped off.

Its a good read this month. 
Now it is all online and free.
https://www.bnbfishing.com.au/digipubs/0620/BNB0620digi.html#p=68
 

currently 6 at Redland Bay going to be hard leaving the roaring fire at 4.30
 

That’s the reason I didn’t go today , meant to be colder tomorrow but less wind I’ll see if I can get into a few.  

Good work fellas and good to see ted alive and well, still got the boat mate ?

Got the old fella Ted @crazywalrus out for a session this morning. Put in at Manly and we were on the water at 5.30am.


Followed the last GPS track to spot X where we deployed our pilchards on 3 x 4/0 gang hooks about 5 feet under a float. Straight up a nice schoolie. Things were looking promising. Nothing much happened for awhile except for Ted catching some baby squire that were too young to have teeth.
Now Ted, being the sporting type, likes to play with the silly string and fished two rods with 4 or 6 pound line. What could possibly go wrong ? Well everything did go wrong but I've ribbed him enough already, but let me just say I had a lot of tag ends on the boat floor when I cleaned it. There were a few missed hits and snip offs happening then the unweighted floating pillie went off on my Ugly Stick with 30lb braid. I jumped at the chance and it felt big and went on a little run. Then it didn't run but I couldn't get it up. I stuck at the game for about 15 minutes before giving Ted a go. Then I took it back until finally/thankfully the leader broke. My arm is now aching.
Not too long after the bonito showed up. As my arm was too sore to keep casting I decided to catch two at a time to be more efficient.

There were a few boats around but no one was catching much other than small squire. The tide turned us around and eventually Ted hooked a nice schoolie and actually got it into the boat.

Then I got another and then it was time to beat the wind back to the ramp where we divvied up the fish. Ted getting a few feeds while I opted to just keep the 2 bonito for bait..

I'll throw up some video later.
 

2 score and 2 plus 3.

Chilly morning to start, that gave some fish lockjaw. Lucky there was still a few around, with a nice yella first up and then when the sun showed up the bass were on. Managed 61,trolling,jigging, casting and baiting, with 3 bass right on the 50cm mark and all nice and fat.
Dino

There were some thumb busters amongst em. Even the small 38cm fish are packing a punch. 

Went out fishing in the bay yesterday after the Mackie reports got me itching to nail a few. Robbie said he was heading out to but I got out there early and did my own sounding around. I found some fish and anchored up setting the baits it wasn't long before the school mackerel come on the chew.
It was mad fishing at times we had trouble keeping baits in the water. We lost more fish than we landed with the fish snipping us off. We saw the other 2 boats roll up and we chatted amongst ourselves. I found when we burleyed hard we got more fish and the fun followed.
The weather couldn't be better but the fishing slowed as the tide slowed. Once the tide started running again the fish come back on. We caught a couple of Bonito and all up 10 schoolies.

There were some thumb busters amongst em. Even the small 38cm fish are packing a punch. 

There were some thumb busters amongst em. Even the small 38cm fish are packing a punch. 

Mine took a week, that place looks like it does good work but it’s in Victoria, big far to take to boat lol 

Mine took a week, that place looks like it does good work but it’s in Victoria, big far to take to boat lol