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Hey Musty....Looks like a Blufer to me ..and a nice one as well!! What say you?? CHEERS Tom the Yank

RAIDERS, Red tides occur naturally usually during warmer months and according to water temp changes....(higher temps). The micro-organisms that occur eat oxygen like crazy and therefore kill fish like crazy. Shellfish are turned extremely dangerous to human consumption and will absolutely kill you if eaten! IE .....Mussels, Oysters,Clams,Ect...Filter feeders in general. Do not eat any fish ,anywhere, anytime if you do not know what killed it !!!!! Use common sence guys! CHEERS, Tom the Yank

Wow!!!!!! Penguin!!!!!!! What a toad Bluefin!!!!Your're killin me!!!!! Congrats from an old tuna killin' fool...I've been after a Southern Bluefin like that for years.....OUTSTANDING! Cheers Mate! Tom the Yank

Priceless!!!! Keep him at it ....sportfishings future starts with the young ones getting involved and "hooked".....CHEERS Mate!! Tom the Yank

Well done mate! Wheather off the beach or the bricks or the boat or the yak....Bloody good job! CHEERS, Tom the Yank.

Raiders, I don't know who this guy is but I'm sure I've seen him from our boat before in the Juno Pt. area , also Flint and Steel........Cheers .......Tom the Yank.

G'Day...Thailand ....You bet!!! My wife is Thai and besides being a great place to party and eat dynamite food it's also a great place to wet a line. There are plenty of good operations out of Phuket very easy to find and "hook up" with...However, (as a little Thai girl said to me a long, long time ago....."if you lookin' fo a goot goot time") head up north of Phuket to the Cheow Lan lake ,east of Takua Pa and have blast on the Giant Snakehead fish and Jungle Barb. Just use standard Ozzie or American Bass type gear and you'll thought you'd died and gone to heaven!! Check out WWW. Asian-Angling-Adventures.com and see if that doesn't fit the bill! You should be in the right time of the season as well for good action. Also' these guys also handle trips up north around Chiang Mai for Masheer and snakeheads as well. I know of some Kiwi trout guys that go up every time they get a chance and really get into the fish in wild rivers and lakes. Let me know how you did..... Cheers Tom the Yank

Good job.... Considering the weather you blokes took a chance ..WOW! it really paid off! CHEERS, Tom theYank

OOHHH MY GAWD!!!!! I know someone who's stoked!!! CHEERS MATE!! Tom the Yank

Gaffer, I'm afraid that Trapper and Musty have it spot-on. Try getting rid of gill nets, trawl guys and other destructive commercial fishing methods and just see the fantastic results! Global bull-o- ney be damned! Nature',especially the oceans ,have an uncanny ability to re-generate themselves if left to they're own devices. However, if certain waters are pounded by the commercial boy's it gets ugly real soon. I've been on both sides of the "net", if you will, (commercial "pounder" and sport guy) and have seen it go from dream fabulous to a desert and back again in my native Southern California offshore waters. California Giant Black Seabass (Queensland Grouper), California White Seabass (Mulloway), Albacore (Southern Bluefin tuna),,,,on and on and on These fish have very similar habitat, baitfish requirements and are fished very much the same ways, both commercially and sport. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND WITH COMMERCIAL FISHING INTERESTS!! (I"ve also known this to be true when I fished and worked in Alaska, where sport guys are now getting screwed by commercial interests...and guess what? The fishing up there is not what it used to be !......Far from it.). Even with overbearing monitoring and regulation by the State and Federal govts. .......I love Australia and my Aussie Raider mates! Take warning! You don't have to buy into all of the GREEN kooks Bravo Sierra, however, IN THE NAME OF sportfishING, Australians must get moving foreward to looking at banding together and working toward dealing with pollution issues, wastewater treatment and halting crazy commercial fishing methods, or else face destruction of our beloved pastime of sport angling! "The good old day's" in the Hawksbury system that my Ozzy fishing mate tells me about, I can only imagine...He laments the current situation all around Australia's fishing areas. He's seen a decline ever since he arrived in Oz in 1944. As I've said, I've seen what can be done to get things back to a somewhat Good old days situation if we work at it! Groups like Fishraiders and this forum are great places to start...........CHEERS, Tom the Yank

Klainz, Call down to the fish market early ... If they don't have em they can get them or tell you where you can score some...CHEERS..Tom the Yank

Trapper .... Looks like a good time was had by all! The pic's look O.K. to me...CHEERS! ...Tom the Yank

WOW!!! SLINKY!!! You're killin' me. The whole thing just looked super! What a trip! I love that kind of stuff as I'm sure fellow Raiders do as well....Good on Ya"ll. CHEERS....Tom the Yank P.S. I hope you got Mrs. Slinky a new Stick!... What time of year was it?

Good job on the Kingy's mate........Lesson learned on the knot RIGHT? Always......ALWAYS..check your terminal end i.e. line, knot, hook, ect. after every fish and to be sure every time you pull it in to re-set or whatever...Take it from one ol" Yank who's faced every type of self inflicted disaster that one can imagine, a quick check is better than dumping OLD FATSO......Cheers, Tom the Yank

Cheers! Looks like a sweet time was had by one and all......Tom the Yank

Ray..Good job boys!!! Where I'm from that Bloody beautiful octopus would be cooked up Mexican style in a dish called "Pulpo"....Out'aa sight!!..Maybe you could find a spot-on Mexican cooking website for the recipe....if so,and you do it right , you'll never use it for "fish food" again....(Even if snapper are involved.)...Trust me....CHEERS MATES! Tom the Yank

Well done Amanda!!! ......Now that you"ve had a taste of fishing and seem to like it ..Get into it girl! We need more "Chicks that fish"! Wishing you a long angling career...CHEERS, Tom the Yank!

WOW! , You guys are killing me! Fantanstic job on the wahoo( I love to pound huge Skinny's). The GT's were awesome...... Outstanding guys! Cheers, Tom the Yank

WoW! , What a hog Bream ....Was it an "oyster lease" area fish? Thats where I usually score my big ones....Cheers Mate... Tom the Yank

OHHHHHHHHHH Yeah!!! THAI style mud crab, I can taste it now! Good on ya Mate...Tom the Yank

Lovely snapper mate ,but that Shovelnose was a real TOAD!!!! Cheers, Tom the Yank

Looks good, especially in shaky weather conditions Ross ...Cheers,Tom the Yank

Cheers Mate ...Good score for 15 mins of time invested!!! Tom the Yank.

Super Snapper mate....But better yet to share the moment with your Dad...I miss my Dad every time we head out, now that he's gone....... savor these times mate! I know that my Pop waits for me at the big Marlin Boat in the sky where the bites' always on and the bar tab just keeps a'runnin........ Cheers to all....Tom the Yank

Wow! Congrats to you! Looks like one of ours that escaped from south of San Diego..... .....I can hardly wait to get to Hurricane Bank and do some damage on the YFT's, big Kingies and Hoos after our local Albacore season here out of So Cal...(Be back in Sydney soon) ... Always on the look-out for fellow Raiders, wherever you are .....Cheers, Tom the Yank