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Boy, 6, killed by mystery sea beast A six-year-old boy has died after being stung by an unidentified creature in the sea off the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin. Witnesses told police the boy ran from the water near the Milikapiti barge landing, saying he had been stung. He was taken to the local clinic but staff were unable to resuscitate him. An autopsy would be conducted to confirm the cause of death and a file prepared for the coroner, police said.

Take a look at the article on garfishing Here Might be some ideas in there. Great bait if you can get 'em. Cheers, Pete.

'Hot Spots' The Key To Controlling European Carp In Australia ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2007) — The on-going drought is having at least one positive spin-off - fewer carp are being distributed through our inland waterways. Known as the vermin of inland waterways, carp became a major pest in Australia in the 1970’s and now make up 80 to 90% of the fish in inland NSW. The reduced numbers of carp is great news for native fish, fishers and for the inland waterways of NSW. DPI researchers at Narrandera, in conjunction with the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), are identifying what are believed to be a relatively small number of locations where huge numbers of carp breed. Their research indicates that carp like to breed in the inland waterways that are most precious to us - our wetlands. The concentration of carp in these hot-spots is astounding; at one site there are around 30,000 carp larvae per mega litre of water. Ten hot-spots have been identified, and four of these are internationally recognised wetlands - the Gwydir wetlands, Namoi wetlands, Barmah-Millewa forest and the Macquarie Marshes. In total, it is estimated there are around 20 major carp breeding hot-spots within the Murray Darling Basin. Researchers have found that carp like to breed in shallow, swampy areas that are regularly inundated by water - heavy rain and floods enable the carp to disperse into adjoining river channels. These results support the larval drift theory, indicating the carp’s need for high water flow events to disperse their larvae. The drought initially hindered this research, because the lack of water flow meant carp movements could not be tracked. However, researchers were able to access NSW DPI’s records of freshwater fish to map the distribution of baby carp over the last 13 years. Researchers from NSW DPI and the CRC expect that targeted carp control at these major breeding locations will have a huge impact on massively reducing carp numbers throughout regional waterways.

Raiders. Have a great day Cheers, Pete.

Try this one Domza. http://www.minwax.com/projects/storage/pdf...g_Pole_Rack.pdf Cheers, Pete.

Narrow escape for three after boat smash Three men have escaped serious injury after a boat slammed into another vessel that was moored in Port Phillip Bay south-east of Melbourne. The accident happened when a five metre aluminium boat slammed into a larger boat, which was moored off Ansetts Beach at Mt Eliza, about 4.25am (AEDT) on Saturday, Victoria Police said. "The moving boat went up and over the rear section of the other vessel, coming to rest on top of it, with the propeller section caught on the boat it collided with," Senior Constable Wayne Wilson said. A 67-year-old man, who was the sole occupant of the five metre boat, suffered cuts and bruises in the accident. "A rescue boat from the rescue group VMR Mornington launched from Mornington and went out to the crash site," Snr Const Wilson said. "They took the injured boat driver, a man aged, 67, and one man, 34, from the moored boat back to shore," he said. The older man was transported by ambulance to hospital, while the other man was treated for shock at the scene. A third man remained with the damaged boats, which will be towed back to the pier at Mornington on Saturday.

Pacific Ocean whipped into froth near Sydney Last August the Pacific Ocean foamed at a beach near Sydney, Australia. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away. It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents, which cause the water to form bubbles.

Mate..hope you have a great day. Cheers, Pete.

There were a few in the shallows of Pipeclay Point earlier in the week and also at the end of Lagoon St..off to the left by the sandbar. Cheers, Pete.

Beer cooler becomes a real life-saver after Aussie fishermen's boat sinks IN AUSTRALIA, where the lager served at the barbie must always be ice-cold, it is hardly surprising that the coolbox has become something of a cultural icon. But now three Aussies have more reason than most to celebrate the ubiquitous Esky beer cooler, after they used it as an impromptu liferaft when their boat sank off the Queensland coast during a fishing trip. The trio held on to the large box of the cooler and used the lid to act like a sail in order to reach the shore as currents threatened to drag them out into the Pacific Ocean. Garry Fleming, the skipper of the £30,000 boat, explained how it sank within seconds, taking with it the crew's flares, emergency positioning beacon and satellite navigation system. He and the two others on board then clung on to the Esky - the Australian market's leading brand, which has also become used to describe all coolers - and held up the lid to catch the wind, driving them towards the beach. The exhausted fishermen eventually reached dry land, where they were rescued by passers-by. Mr Fleming, from Townsville, Queensland, said: "For the past 30 years that I've gone out to sea, I've always had a big Esky in the boat. "My thought has always been, 'If anything goes wrong, there will be the box to hold on to'. And on Saturday night, it happened." In total, the three men spent 12 hours in the water - most of it in darkness - after their boat sank about two miles south-east of Rattlesnake Island, which lies off the coast of Queensland, near Townsville. However, they realised they were unlikely to reach the island and that trying to get there risked being carried out into the ocean, so they headed for a beach further away. Mr Fleming said: "Even though Rattlesnake Island was closer, I knew if we missed it due to the currents, we would be lost for ever at sea. We lined up the lights on Bushland Beach and that's where we were taken." When they made landfall in their unusual vessel, they were met by two local girls who raised the alarm. Mr Fleming said there would never be a better feeling than the moment he reached dry land. "That first touch of sand on my left foot, on my big toe, I will never ever forget," he said. "It's getting married, it's watching babies being born - that feeling under my big toe is there for ever." He had to be dragged up the beach by his two fisherman friends, named in local reports only as Grant and Brendan, after his legs gave out. "Brendan - tenacity of the bloke was unbelievable," he said. "Grant was the calm one. They're true heroes, those blokes, and without them, I don't think I'd be here because they gave me strength. "Brendan's wife has just had a baby girl a month ago and I had just met Grant's wife and his three young boys. "All I could think of was that these blokes needed to get back to their babies." Local forecasters said the men were fortunate as on the night they were at sea, there had been the smallest tide of the month, with perfect winds and currents to help them get to the shore of Bushland Beach. Attempts were being made to salvage Mr Fleming's boat but he said he was already thinking of a new vessel, which he said would be named Survivor. The Esky disappeared from the beach as they were being rescued and Mr Fleming is appealing for anyone who finds the life-saving coolbox to return it to him.

Great report as usual Roberta...It must have been tough fishing if you couldn't get more than the 2 blackies and the poddy. Boy..your hubby sure puts in the hard yards..I'd like to be 1/1000th of that fit. And a float rescue hero too. Keep frightening the local blackie population...they must quivver when they see you arrive now. Cheers, Pete.

--> QUOTE(Dave B @ Nov 7 2007, 09:49 AM) 204985[/snapback] If the foredeck's pretty flat the mount should go on fine Shan-best price I can find on a 44lb bowmount is $499 from that MailOrder Tackle place-PM me if you don't follow.That's for a Jarvis Walker Watersnake-I've been looking into getting one too but don't want to pay MinnKota prices given that the JW feedback has been mostly positive.Glad you managed to get the floor you really wanted. Cheers, Dave. Dave..give Huey a call about thr FR price on a MinnKota..you may be surprised. Good luck with the deck..should make a nice platform when you get it finished. Cheers, Pete.

Yeah..mine are one size too big for that very reason. The quick release clips on the braces is also good. The other trick I do is I wear an old belt around the outside of the waders where I hang my bait caddy...this also helps prevent water flooding in if I go in the drink. Pete. **Sorry to have hijacked the thread**

Beware if you are wading at Pipeclay Graham. The eastern end of the little beach where the boat ramps is mud like quicksand about 5 metres out from shore. I got stuck in my waders last week up to my thighs but managed to pole out with my long handled net. The western side of the ramps has a lot firmer bottom. Good luck if you go...it does look very fishy there. Cheers, Pete.

Congrats Dan on the nuptials. I hope your new bride likes fishing with you and you get into some serious fish. Report and pics on your return will be fabulous.. Hope the wedding tackle holds up too. Cheers, Pete.

To all Birthday Raiders. Hope you all have a great day. Chers, Pete.

Man clings to harbour buoy for seven hours A MAN has survived more than seven hours in Darwin harbour by clinging to the buoy that tipped him from his dinghy. Commanding officer of HMAS Coonawarra, Stuart Wheeler, said the man must have had "angels looking after him". The solo boater is believed to have left Darwin Harbour at about 9.30pm (CST) yesterday. About half an hour later he crashed into a buoy, used to mark an historic wreck outside the mouth of the harbour. "When he hit the buoy the impact of it threw him into the water and, unfortunately, he had missed one of the big rules, which is you don't go to sea by yourself," Commander Wheeler said. "He is on the water with no life jacket, no safety equipment and no flares and his boat has just kept on going." The man crawled out of the water and onto the buoy, which Commander Wheeler said was about two metres in diameter and two metres high. Meanwhile, his boat kept travelling for another four to five hours. "It managed, with the incoming tide and by sheer coincidence, to beach itself on a patch of the security control route at the naval base," Commander Wheeler said. "The thing that I find remarkable is that we have patrol officers going past there every two hours ... "There is six times as much water in Darwin harbour as there is in Sydney harbour, so he would not have been easy to find." When the patrol officer found the boat the motor was still running and there were keys inside, along with a wallet and mobile phone. Police were called, and used the boat's GPS to track it's path earlier in the night. "The GPS was still on ... we proceeded to that point and bingo there he was," Commander Wheeler said. "The guy must have angels looking after him last night." The man was found, suffering from exposure and dehydration, at about 5.30am (CST) about 21km from where his boat ran ashore. Commander Wheeler said he was lucky to be alive. "He should have had money on the races today ... this was a near death experience," he said.

G'day Mugen and to the site. First stop might be in the articles section of the site (see links at bottom of each page) This is a good start...there's more there and targetting different species. There are excellent articles on just about everything fishing in there and always a good quick reference. Cheers, Pete.

Nice trout Nofish and a warm to the site. Enter it into this month's FOTM comp. You are Nofish no longer. Cheers, Pete.

Good report JDY. There are some big toothy critters in that lake. Keep at 'em and I expect you will be posting some even better reports soon. It's going to be a good summer fishing in that lake. Cheers, Pete.

I found this doing some Googling: Have a look at the links in here for eaxample pics ...it sort of explains why you can't "see" it. The Oyster Garter Why there are no pictures of the North Pacific Trash Gyre A lot of folks over on Digg were very skeptical of the existence of the North Pacific Trash Gyre. They want to know: why are there no photos of floating heaps of trash? Why can’t you see the giant trash island the size of Texas on Google Earth? When I learned of the trash gyre, I was equally skeptical, due to common misconceptions that get perpetuated in mainstream media articles. The most common misconception is that the trash pile is like an island, or a dense pile like this one in San Diego Harbor. It’s not packed in as tight as that - it’s more like a dense collection of tiny floating pieces of plastic, most of which are not on the surface. A big container ship or naval vessel going through there would probably not notice much out of the ordinary - after all, there is some degree of plastic trash floating on the surface all over the world. To really get a sense of how much plastic is in there, you have to do a trawl, which entails dragging a net with a bucket on the end behind your boat. Here’s a photo of a bongo trawl taken off of southern California. (Thanks, Barbeau lab! SIO power!) And here’s a photo of what a normal bongo trawl should produce - lots of zooplankton, a few invertebrates, and the occasional small fish. Now, contrast this with the results of a trawl from the North Pacific Gyre. Here’s the bongo net being hauled up - see how the ocean looks normal? But the contents - plastic, plastic, and more plastic.* When all that plastic collects somewhere, you get beaches like this one in the NW Hawaiian Islands. For this reason, the trash gyre would be very, very hard to clean up. The plastic is so small, and so scattered, that it would take high-intensity trawling similar to that for shrimp. And shrimp trawling kills 10 pounds of non-targeted life (sharks, turtles, fish, you name it) for every pound of shrimp gathered. (Yes, Forrest Gump lied to you - for some reason they didn’t want drowned turtles next to Tom Hank’s angelic self.) The mortality caused by trying to remove all the trash in the gyre would probably be similar. We’re just going to have to live with it and try to prevent it from getting any bigger. Some of these results are from manta trawls intead of bongos - it’s just a differently shaped net. _______________________________________________________________ One link in that above article has the ORV Aguilta's voyage they just did, referred to in the original news article. Take a look at This Read the blog of the voyage. It also has pictures of what they dredged up. Cheers, Pete.

Well..it was filed by Kim Landers...The Australian ABC's North American correspondent, where I found it. You would hope she checked the story out thoroughly. Here is the original story. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/01/2079239.htm I notice the San Francisco Chronicle also did a story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...0/MNT5T1NER.DTL The condom one is a definite old Furphy...I believe this one though. Cheers, Pete.

to the site mate and a great first post. Nice feed of fish there. Keep those reports a coming. Cheers, Pete

"Harengs Rouges" All get out your Bebelfish. Pete. Or "Bar-King Mad"

Nice lake lizard Graham They should be coming thick and fast from now on. Cheers, Pete.