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Have a great Birthday Guys.
Chers,
Pete.
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Frying the flounder in butter is fine, but if you like mushrooms I have the recipe below for whole deep-fried flounder with a chinese mushroom sauce. Tried this recipe out with the flounder this time and it was fantastic.
To fry the flounder
> score the skin of the fish
> season fish with salt & pepper
> lightly coat flonder in flour
> put enough oil in a pan to just cover the flounder and allow oil to heat up (High temp)
> place fish into hot oil and cook on each side for 3-5 mins
To make chinese mushroom sauce
> soak 1 packet of dried shitake mushrooms with enough boiling water to cover (leave for 2 - 3 mins)
> crush 2 cloves of fresh garlic, 1 small piece of ginger grated and a teaspoon of chilli paste into a fry pan with a small amount of oil and cook for a minute.
> drain shitake mushrooms (saving the water) and add to pan stir for another minute
> add aprox half the water from the mushrooms and 3 tablespoons of oystersauce to pan and stir through
> add 2 teaspoons of cornflour to small amount of warm water mix till turns to paste
> add cornflour paste to sauce tir through to thicken
Pour sauce over fish and enjoy!
Cheers
G'day Rochelle...that recipe sounds great. I love my flounder.
Can you please copy/paste it into The Kitchen section for posterity?
I could do it but it would then have my name on the post and
it's your recipe and deserves credit.
Can't wait to land another flounder to give it as try.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Congratulations Grant. 1500 & all good mate!
Just done the figures on your fishing advice, 4500 fish per post and rising!
Pete's work out at 45 pairs of bi-focals per post, 70% improving and 30% falling!
Cheers
Great to have you two around and it's all good mates!!!
jewgaffer
Just call me Mr. Magoo
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On ya Grant...keep 'em coming.
Cheers,
Pete
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Hi Huey,
Having not been a boaty for long ... can you please expand on the battery/wingnut issues?
This setup seems to be quite common on many boat packages.
Regards,
Barry.
G'day Barry,
Here is the thread where wingnuts on batteries was discussed.
Pay particular attention to Huey's post on the subject.
They are particularly troublesome on boats.
Cheers,
Pete
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Lagoon accident warning
JETSKIS and fast boats could be banned from Narrabeen Lagoon altogether unless their owners observe the 8-knot speed limit.
Warringah and Pittwater councils are concerned about the behaviour of jetskiers who are placing other people on the lagoon at risk and scaring off swans and pelicans.
There are no restrictions on jetskis on the lagoon at the moment and enforcing speed limits is the responsibility of NSW Maritime.
The problem also includes boats with motors, some of which are driven well above the 8-knot speed limit.
A Narrabeen resident who frequently paddles on the lagoon said her party was forced to seek safety on Wimbledon Island on Saturday because a jetski was ferrying people from Wimbledon Ave to Robertson Rd for two hours. She said the jetskier was travelling close to 20 knots on each trip.
``My greatest concern was for a large party of young girls who had hired kayaks,'' she said.
``It's not just the jetskis but also the kids skurfing behind tinnies, especially when they go around the island.
``It's an accident waiting to happen.''
Pittwater Mayor David James said the reports he had received were serious.
``We received reports that several jetskis were travelling well in excess of the 8-knot limit and almost overturning other craft,'' he said. ``With the arrival of warmer weather there are a lot more people kayaking and canoeing.
``People in boats and jetskis on the lagoon need to ensure that they give way to slower craft and observe the 8-knot speed limit.''
Pro Kayaks manager Gavin James said young people skurfing behind tinnies were a major problem because of the speed the boat needed to reach before the rider could stand up.
``You need to be going about 15 knots to get someone up,'' he said.
``They can be a real problem if they get too close to people in kayaks and canoes.''
Warringah Council administrator Dick Persson said swans, including a breeding pair, and pelicans could be scared away from their habitat by speeding boats or jetskis.
Mr Persson and Cr James said a ban on jetskis might be introduced if the problem continued.
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Welcome to the forums guys.
I'm sure your presence is most welcome by our boatie members.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Conservationists launch battle of the Coral Sea
THE Great Barrier Reef marine park would triple in size to encompass the entire Coral Sea under a plan to protect one of Australia's last tropical ocean wildernesses.
The campaign to create the world's largest marine park, to be launched today by the conservation organisation WWF, aims to protect the abundant shark populations and marine diversity of the Coral Sea, which comprises 780,000 square kilometres bordering the Great Barrier Reef.
The area, a new global diving hot-spot now worth more than $11 million a year in tourism, is under threat due to pollution and illegal fishing to satisfy the market for shark fin.
The area has also been earmarked for potential oil and gas exploration.
WWF marine scientist Gilly Llewellyn said the area was unique for its coral atolls and diverse fish species.
The influential Forbes magazine last month declared the Coral Sea among the top 10 global diving destinations.
"The Coral Sea is the new jewel in global dive tourism because it's one of the few places you can still see large shark populations," Dr Llewellyn said.
"It's a different kind of system to the Great Barrier Reef because it's got these underwater mountains that come out of the surface from really deep water. It brings the deep ocean predators into the system."
A spokesman for Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said an advisory council to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility had been established to assess environmental priorities for the region.
While not overtly endorsing the plan, shadow environment minister Peter Garrett said the Coral Sea had great environmental importance.
"Like the Great Barrier Reef, our greatest natural treasure, it should be cherished, and serious attention needs to be given to consider better protecting its environmental values in future," he said.
The WWF campaign received a boost from the recent APEC summit, which endorsed the Coral Triangle Initiative to safeguard the depleted marine resources of the wider Indo-Pacific region in its Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development.
"The Coral Sea is one of the few places left that is virtually intact and pristine," Dr Llewellyn said. "It may be that in the larger system, helping to protect the Coral Sea could protect the Coral Triangle."
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Teen struck in head by boat propellor
A GOLD Coast teenager was struck in the face by a boat propellor when he fell out of a dinghy while baring his buttocks at people on the shore.
The 17-year-old boy from Kanimbla was one of three males travelling in a dinghy along a canal off Huon Street at Broadbeach Waters on the Gold Coast about 4pm (AEST) yesterday.
It is believed all three males stood up to bare their buttocks at a group of people at a waterfront residence, causing the vessel to become unstable, and all three fell overboard, police said.
The engine on the dinghy continued to run, and the teenager was struck in the face by the propeller as the empty vessel circled.
He was taken to Gold Coast Hospital with serious facial injuries.
Another occupant of the boat, a 20-year-old man from Rochedale South, in Brisbane's south, has been charged with drink driving.
He will appear in Southport Magistrates Court on October 1.
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Well done to the organisers and looks like everyone had a blast.
You couldn't have picked a more perfect day.
Congrats to all the winners and grinners. Our generous sponsors
came up with the wonderful prizes and thanks also to our mystery
prize donor...The true spirit of Fishraider.
These socials are becoming better and better each time they are held and with
the turnout today....soon Raiders will qualify for their own travelling postcode.
Sorry I couldn't make it to this one but the home front came first unfortunately.
So glad it all went off smoothly and special praise must go to our Flightmanager...
a truly giving human being, for his tireless efforts..
Cheers,
Pete.
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Is it the end of the line for the albatross?
THE ocean-roaming albatross, once believed to carry the souls of dead sailors, is sliding towards extinction.
The United Nations estimates 300,000 seabirds a year drown on the end of longline fishing hooks, with 16 species of albatross accounting for up to a third of the carnage.
But The Sunday Age has learnt that a secret Australian project — involving scientists and international fisheries — is poised to help save the most elegant of birds and its near relatives.
A former Queensland tuna fisherman, Hans Jusseit, has invented a "smart hook" that does not snare diving seabirds or critically endangered turtles.
He expects the smart hook will be in production by the middle of next year, but field-testing by local scientists, including a world-ranked seabird expert, Barry Baker, is needed first. "And we're already 10 years too late," says Mr Jusseit, who in his fishing days saw Mr Baker as an adversary.
There are a recorded 2 billion longline hooks being trawled around the globe. But because of illegal fishing, under-quoting by commercial fisheries and other factors, estimates of up 10 billion hooks "have real credibility", says Mr Jusseit.
In longline fishing, the baited hooks are set on lines up to 150 kilometres long.
Seabirds, notably albatrosses and their tube-nosed cousins, the petrels, mistake the bait for fish and squid, and become snagged on the hooks while on the hunt. If they don't drown, they may have their beaks torn off and starve to death.
The smart hook development is being kept under wraps, in part because previous technological innovations failed to deliver on their much-hyped promise. About seven years ago, when the matter first came to wider public attention, another Australian invention called "the chute" was prematurely hailed as the "save-a-tross".
While it has had success in saving birds in the Hawaiian swordfish industry, the chute was found to drown deep-diving birds such as petrels in the southern oceans, and became known, as one scientist described it, as the "cone of death".
The inventor of the chute, Dr Nigel Brothers — formerly with the Tasmanian Government and now working overseas — did pioneering work in the mid-1990s that showed seabirds were being killed in huge numbers by longline fishing.
Much of his research was carried out on Japanese ships still operating in Australian waters at that time. According to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, in waters below 30 degrees south, between January 1 and December 31, 1994, the Japanese tuna longline boats set 13,720,283 million hooks that killed an estimated 4645 birds. (The estimated total Japanese kill across the southern oceans was 44,000 birds, according to international observers.)
In the same patch of water, Australian domestic operators set 2,219,408 hooks that killed 2108 birds — based on calculations by the Tasmanian Department of Parks, Wildlife and Heritage.
The Japanese tuna boats left Australian waters in 1997. They now admit to killing 9000 seabirds a year in the southern oceans. But given the recent scandal that found they were under-quoting the tuna catch by two thirds, it is not unreasonable to suggest their annual bird kill could be as high as 27,000. The other big offenders are southern African nations — which are killing 34,000 birds a year, according to Birdlife International — and South American countries.
Since 1999, Australian fleets have been working under a threat abatement plan drawn up by the Australian Antarctic Division. The plan's measures include trailing a tori, or bird-scaring line of pretty streamers, setting hooks only at night and using fast-sinking lines that set below the surface before the birds can get to them.
The guidelines were most recently revised in 2006 under the direction of Mr Baker, who has since quit a long government career for consultancy work. Mr Baker prefers his scientific papers to do the talking for him, but told The Sunday Age that Australian fleets "have come a long way, but could still do better".
According to a paper published by Mr Baker and others last year, 1030 seabirds were killed across three fishing zones. Of those, Mr Baker says, no more than 100 were albatrosses. "Probably not even 100," he said. "It's been reduced to a trivial level."
The fisheries authority claims a more startling reduction. It says that .03 birds were killed for every 1000 hooks set. There were 8.8 million hooks set in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery, which extends in a thick band from Cape York down to Tasmania. If correct, this means 264 seabirds were killed.
The previous year, the kill rate was .02 per 1000 hooks, or 176 dead birds.
Under the threat abatement plan, the approved rate of kills is .05 birds per 1000 hooks.
As one academic described the conflicting numbers: "Australia is one of the good guys. It's just a matter of knowing how good we really are."
with LUCINDA ORMONDE
■Breeding pairs of albatross raise one slow-growing chick at a time. ■The chicks take up to 20 years to become sexually mature.
■The wandering albatross only breeds every two years.
■The albatross spends most of its life in the air and out at sea.
■The wandering albatross is known to live to 50 years.
■The United Nations Environment Program believes that up to 100,000 albatrosses are being killed annually by longline fishing. Australian scientists believe the figure is closer to 30,000.
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Just spoke to Stewy and they are having perfect conditions down at Botany Bay.
He said the water is like glass and no wind.
There have been some nice fish measured so far but most of the 100 members and guests are
still out fishing.
Ross (the birthday boy) has been churning out his signature dish of 70-80 Bacon & Egg Rolls and sausage sambos.
There will be a full report up tonight and pictures etc, so don't want to spoil the fun with this post.
Good luck Raiders.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Hey Pete - doesn't Flathead Fred come from down there??? I caught a nice flattie there when travelling to Melbourne a few years ago. Lovely spot. My brother Sails pigged out on prawns there when they were travelling Aussie. So much so their daughter said :"Not Prawns again" when served them up yet again!
I look forward to getting down there again one day!
Cheers
Roberta
Don't know Flathead Fred Roberta.
I haven't been down there in years as I was
living overseas for many years.
I was just a kid back when Flathead Charlie was about so he'd
be long departed.
My brother goes down there regularly and keeps in contact with
the locals who are all very much into their senior years now.
I have such fond memories of the place, hence my nic.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Hey Mallacoota Pete, you must be a pelican encyclopaedia!
Do you recognise where these pelicans are?
Roberta, your pictures are great. Thanks for that.
Cheers
Peter
My 'Coota!! Such a nice waterway.
The pelicans there breed at a place called Goodwin Sands.
It's a sandy bank up the back of the lake that sits out of the water by about 2 inches.
They have bred there for eons and also is a great place to pick up some big flatties
along the flats.
Thanks for that Peter.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Happy birthday guys.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Many happies Ross. I expect you are wielding a pair of tongs furiously at present
banging out those delicious B&E sangers.
Sorry I couldn't make it today but my wife is not too well and she who must be obeyed
comes first.
Happy birthday mate.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Ohhhwwweeee!! That's a nice lizard.
I have seen some absolute monsters landed down there over the years.
Back in the '60s, I saw a 17lb flattie taken off the main wharf by an old
couple that used to visit every year and fish with handlines off that wharf
and never did they fail to catch at least one monster flattie each day.
His name around town was Flathead Charlie and his wife...long since dead I expect.
Gotta get back there soon.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Man dies in NSW boat accident
A 58-year-old man has been killed and another seriously injured in boating accident near Taree on the NSW mid-north coast.
Three men were in the boat when the accident happened about 11.30am (AEST) today at Mitchells Island in the Manning River region, ambulance officers said.
One man died in the single boat accident while a second was flown to Manning River Base
Hospital by helicopter with serious chest, head and limb injuries.
A third man was treated for minor injuries and taken to the same hospital by road ambulance.
Taree police have confirmed the death and said investigations were continuing into the circumstances leading up to the accident.
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Fishing communities receive $40m compensation
The Federal Government has today announced another $40 million assistance for fishing communities and on-shore businesses affected by cutbacks in the fishing sector.
The announcement is part of a $220 million structural adjustment package to make Australia's fishing industry more sustainable and follows the buy-back of 550 fishing licences.
Fisheries Minister Eric Abetz says communities in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania have been affected the most.
"The impact has been for the benefit, albeit somewhat sweet, sour I must say," he said.
"Sweet in as much as I think we've got the industry on a good, viable footing but sour on the basis that some people that have spent a lifetime, some of them generations in the fishing industry, have bowed out."
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Some pelican facts for your reading pleasure.
Truly amazing birds.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Australian Pelican
The Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is found all around Australia and is the biggest of the 8 species of Pelicans found worldwide.
DESCRIPTION
Pelicans as a whole are big birds with a very large wingspan, large beaks and are very well known One of the reason such a big bird can fly is that its skeleton is very light (10% of their weight).
Australian Pelicans are white in colour with black wingtips and black markings on their tail. Behind their head and part way down their neck there is a "streak" of grey Their bill and very large bill pouch are pink and is the longest beak/bill of any, of all the types of Pelicans in the world , whilst their legs and feet are blue-grey in colour.
They are so buoyant they cannot sink under water, though unlike most water birds they do not have a lot of water proof oil on their feathers etc so they can get wet and cold
Vital Statistics
Wingspan 2.5 meters to 3.4 meters.
Length 1.6 to 1.9meters.
Weight 4 to 6.8 kg up to 8.2 kg.
Australian Pelicans eyes are brown and white.
The female is slightly smaller than the male.
Pouched bill 40 to 47cm and can hold 9 to 13 litres of water.
They have 4 webbed toes.
There vocalisation is a chesty rumbling or deep growling.
In the wild they can live between 10 and 25 years.
LOCATION & HABITAT
On a world scale The Australian Pelican is found throughout Australia, except in the very dry middle (desert region), Papua New Guinea and parts of Indonesia (eg Sulawesi) and sometimes in New Zealand and some Pacific Islands close to Australia
n Australia itself, wherever there is water you can possibly find Pelicans, ranging from wetlands to swamps, rivers, estuaries, lakes (fresh and salt), coastlines, mudflats, lagoons etc. They live in large flocks or colonies and will travel large distances to find suitable water, breeding grounds etc
FEEDING
Pelicans favourite food is fish.
They normally fish together "herding" the fish into a central position, and then plunge their bills into the water and capture a fish with a mouthful of water then "squeeze" the water out by pushing their bill against their chest region so they are left with just the fish in their bill pouch.
They will then turn the fish around in their bill pouch so it goes "longways" down their throat and then they swallow the fish whole with a "jerk" of their head.
There bills have a slight hook on the end and are serrated to help hold onto slippery fish.
They will feed from Humans, either stealing from fisherman or accepting handouts, and have been know to also eat small turtles, tadpoles, shrimp and other crustaceans
FLYING
It is fantastic to see a Pelican take off, running across the water to build up speed and flapping its huge wings. Once in the air this big bird relies on thermals and soars to great heights and for long distances. When it lands it is like an amphibious aeroplane landing on a watery runway, finally gilding to a stop with the help of its wings spread out acting like brakes It has been reported that Australian pelicans have soared to a height of 3,000 meters (3 Kms) and when flying in a flock often form a rough V formation
MATING, BREEDING & NESTS
Pelicans breed together in large colonies, at any time of the year depending on conditions like rainfall A complex courting dance by males competing for females occur, with the winning male and his female going off to their nest site. The nest usually a grass, twig and feather lined scrape in the ground is prepared by the female 1 to 3 eggs are then laid in the next week. Both parents help out sitting on the nest, with the eggs hatching after 32 to 37 days. The young are born naked and blind At first they are feed regurgitated food obtained by thrusting their bills down the parent's gullet. After a month or so the young chick can leave the nest and join a "creche" of other young pelicans where they are cared for the next couple of months, until they learn to fly and become independent
DANGERS
The biggest problems for Pelicans is man and his fishing hooks, and lines, as their pouches can be easily torn by sharp fishing hooks.
And More...............................
The Australian pelican - Pelecanus conspicillatus
The biggest of the pelicans
Size: 1.6 to 1.8 metres
Weight: up to 7 kg
Wingspan: up to 3.4 metres
Lifespan: 25 years
Habitat: Lakes, swamps, rivers, estuaries, seashore.
Found: Everywhere around Australia as well as Papua New Guinea,
western Indonesia and sometimes even as far as New Zealand and the Pacific Island.
Flight: Pelicans fly very high and very low. They can skim the surface
of the water with a long, controlled gliding motion and they can rise
to altitudes of 3000 metres. The can ride the thermals and reach a
speed of 56km/h. The can stay aloft for 24 hours.
Relatives: Black-faced cormorant, frigate birds
Food: Fish, crustaceans, shrimps, turtles, tadpoles and frogs. They
are known to poach food from other birds - chasing them until they drop their prey. In hard seasons they have been known to drown and eat seagulls. Pelicans do not have a crop. Their food goes down the gullet and into the stomach. Young pelicans must reach down the throat of their parents to feed.
Identification: white feathers, and black feathers, big beak, big
body. Males are bigger than females.
Pouched bill: 40 to 47cm and can hold 9 to 13 litres of water.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, they are the biggest beaks in the bird kingdom.
Sounds: Their vocalisation is a chesty rumbling or deep growling.
Skeletal structure: They have very light skeletons - only about 10 per cent of their body weight
Pelican miscellanea:
The birds have 4 webbed toes.
Pelicans are found on all continents except Antarctic.
Groups of pelicans are known as pods, scoops or squadrons.
Pelicans are ancient.
Pelican fossils have been dated at 40 million years.
Pelican chicks communicate with their mothers while still in the egg.
They can communicate as to whether they are too hot or cold.
They also listen to their parents from the egg - so when they emerge, they have no trouble identifying their parents.
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Don't forget to give the BBQ chef a warm reception.....A little bird
tells me it's a "special" day for him 48 times over.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Everyone
Info really helps.
I think i will get some yo-zuri. But another question; is it better to get them from a tckle shop or should i buy them on ebay???
thanks again
Mcfusher
G'day McFusher.
Check out red's post in swap & sell as he's selling some very nice
jigs.
Be quick though as they won't last I'm sure
Cheers,
Pete.
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And it's not just fish they like.
Take a look at this clip of a pelican snaffling and swallowing a pigeon in a London Park.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Happy Birthday
in The Bar
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A six pack of birthdays today.
A special Happy Birthday to Coollamon, our fellow Mod.
Good on ya mate.
Hope you all have a great day and get the presents you all wanted (fishing gear of course)
Cheers,
Pete