DaveBM

Pretty sure you can catch them in any manner that doesn't involve piercing the shell. Snorkeling with a pair of welding gloves on and just picking them up was my favourite as a kiddie.

Any pointers here? I usually fish the north side of the channel, seaward of the bridge. Either the jetties or the rockwall or the sand flats/channel further east. Yet to try in the lake itself.

Yeah, do you always take your hole saws fishing Scienceman?

No dramas here Omally - just sharing my philosophy of carnivore ethics - i.e. that being intelligent or beautiful shouldn't spare you from being eaten!

Octopus are pretty smart too. Not to mention pigs, sheep, goats. I don't reckon being dumb or ugly means you deserve to be eaten though. Getting caught and being delicious are the only criteria that matter!

Yeah, I only moved to the area recently, so not familiar with the history, but for such a promising looking body of water it's not very productive. I've got two keepers - a bream and a flattie - from about ten shore-based attempts. Shitloads of ullet aroud at the moment, so this weekend I'm just gonna take bread with me and target them.

Good stuff mate. I've broken that rule once only: when I was bringing in a little chopper tailor in the Swan river in Perth, and something attacked it right near the jetty. It wasn't going to live long anyway - huge wounds to the body/tail - so I put it on a single hook and tossed it back out. Immediately scored a nice 50cm cannibal tailor.

Zoran's correct - anything you use for bait needs to be a legal keeper.

Agreed. The place was thick with mullet too, but I didn't have any bread and they weren't taking prawns.

I feel for ya. Fished from one of the jetties just downstream from the bridge yesterday for doughnuts. Well, worse than that really - got 2 flatties and 3 bream, all between 1 and 2cm undersized. None of them had swallowed the hook, so at least they all went back healthy.

Prospect Creek?

I thought this was going to be about fully sick subwoofers.

Generally, some information is appreciated. General location, gear/bait used, etc. Nice pre-work rat though!

Gurnard are delicious BTW

"A three hour tour", eh? Next time, give my regards to Ginger and especially Mary-Ann.

I once caught a cobia on a whiting I was winding in - it engulfed the poor thing so thoroughly I gut-hooked the cobia. Then after about 20 mins wrangling in shallow water and a trip to the beach from the end of the jetty, it turned out to be 2cm under legal at 63cm. That was definitely the most adrenaline-packed disappointment of my life.

Went down last weekend for a stab at whatever was about. Caught 2 undersized flatties quickly enough (one comically so!), then noticed a veritable carpet of nice sized mullet swamp the place. Water was fairly shallow and clear, and they were just holding place against the runout tide, surrounding the jetty. There was no room for other fish. Couldn't see bottom anywhere. They wouldn't take the pillies or prawns I had, no matter how I presented them. I was about to pack up and go home, then saw some big flashes out where the bottom drops off into the channel. The mullet started going nuts, then one of the big boys came a bit closer and looked like a Jewie. So I tied on a sinker and a gang and optimistically cast out a whole pillie. Soon there were at least 3-4 nice sized jews (I'm 90% sure) carving up the mullet, but that's all they wanted to eat. And I couldn't catch one for bait as I had no bread or anything else they wanted. So, donuts. But I won't go there without bread/dough again, that's for sure. Don't mind a feed of mullet, even if the jews don't show.

Was that whale boat a red one - capacity for 20-30 odd? I was staying in a house in Coogee that had a telescope, and they followed a pod for ages, pretty much in their midst.

Biggest threat from a stoner would be getting your squid pinched for a midnight snack!

I thought so. If you're getting into barracuda, put on a wire trace and target them! Excellent eating.

'cuda or 'couta Recurve?

Nice one Rah! Swordie seems to have this body of water pretty much down pat. Certainly beats my first and to this day only Jewie - a whopping 17cm. 35-odd years ago. Probably my most enduring PB, when I think about it. Is that just lame, or a silver lining? No, it's just lame.

Very fetching eye makeup on those snapper!

Awesome session. I will however be sending you my chiropractor's invoice for the pic orientation.

I've caught one carp that looked a bit like these, and as a hater of waste I cooked it and it was really pretty good. I've only tried that once with the many golden brown ones I've caught though - a chunky 3kg model I naively thought might be my first keeper Murray cod. Big fight then a huge disappointment. It made me nauseous just smelling it on the barbie and my mate's notoriously garbage-guts dog wouldn't go near it after a sniff.