[Fish ID please! (Bluelined Shrimpgoby)]

Bluespotted watchman goby?

Its a bit lighter colour though but maybe just variation due to where its living.

[Salt Away]

14 hours ago, jeffb5.8 said:

My hose connect blows off the Saltaway attachment all the time, if I put the trigger nozzle on it.

Use less pressure, same as those feed and weed packs for your lawn, they aren't supposed to run at full noise.

[Fishing Laurieton]

Plenty of muddies and blue swimmers in the camden haven.

[Another traumatic loss of a rod]

With all this bad luck you'll be due for some good luck soon.

Keep fishing.

[Safety Meeting at Hill 60 Tomorrow]

4 hours ago, noelm said:

Read the other thread about the place, the ledge everyone fishes is great, low, flat and deep water at your feet, that's why everyone fishes there, but, as I pointed out, it's very shape makes it a death trap for the unwary.

Yeh I know that spot mate, just unsure if there is a less dicey spot to redirect people to when the sea is big.

[Safety Meeting at Hill 60 Tomorrow]

Is there a more sheltered rock ledge somewhere near hill 60?

Part of it must be the day trippers coming down from Sydney for the day and deciding to give it a go despite bad conditions because they have gone to so much effort.

[Surprised by metal lures]

Hard to beat fishing with metals off the beach or rocks and on the days the fish aren't there and you catch nothing you don't go home stinking like bait. The mrs likes that the most.

They are cost effective as well if you are able to fish without loosing them.

Throw a few metal vibes in the tackle box and give them a go as well, its amazing what will bite on them.

[Warm water, kings and Bonito in Sydney harbour]

Nice work fellas. It is nice to get a break in weather/swell, it's been a tough summer so far.

[Groper Fishing]

1 hour ago, Steve-o said:

There's a giant blue groper at least a metre long maybe a metre and a half or more, that lazily swims around Bass and Flinders point on occasion, right at the base of the rocks less than two metres out.

Best of luck. It's a monster. 

At that size it'd be pretty well uncatchable! The population there must be healthy as if the the big dog is that big.

[Groper Fishing]

1 hour ago, Chiefy said:

Just wondering if anyone has tried using large soldier crabs as groper bait?

Hard to beat urchins

[Offshore Oil Gas exploration Newcastle - Central Coast - Sydney]

12 hours ago, Steve-o said:

Is this a joke?

You're against oil and coal?

If you don't use any oil and coal in your life, such as a car, a recreational boat, electricity from the grid, and food from the store that uses oil and gas for logistics and storage, then I applaud you for doing something you believe in.

However, if you still take advantage of these things and just want them somewhere where they don't impact your leisure activities, or are looking to pat yourself on the back and feel warm and fuzzy, then you are really selfish and elitist and a stain on the human race. 

Hey Stevo-o,

I appreciate your view point there mate, I really do. Most who oppose fossil fuels consume more than their fair share.

I personally don't advocate flicking a switch and turning off all fossil fuels overnight, as I mentioned earlier our entire economy is built around mining and to a lesser extent agriculture. 

However, I believe we have to transition to renewable methods of energy production and more sustainable methods of agriculture and that we need to speed up the timeframe attached to this. There are lots of interesting developments here such as a seaweed based cattle feed product that neutralizes the methane they produce, continual improvements in PV solar panels cost and efficiency, solar/hydro projects to produce electricity at night.

We export the majoirty of our coal and gas, we do not need more new coal and gas projects. Especially ones that threaten the health of our oceans.

Its not something to be done over night but we cant throw our hands in the air, give up and continue digging up limited supplies of fossil fuel to power our lives.

Thanks mate!

[Offshore Oil Gas exploration Newcastle - Central Coast - Sydney]

14 minutes ago, motiondave said:

id say the NSW government would make more from this than tourism....

Short term yes, long term no. One mistake and the cost of the environmental damage will well and truly dwarf the mining royalties and destroy the potential for future tourism incomes.

Australia's economy is the definition of unsustainable. We dig up finite supplies of rocks and gasses and trade them for everything else.

[Offshore Oil Gas exploration Newcastle - Central Coast - Sydney]

1 minute ago, zmk1962 said:

Thanks for taking action! We had a dinner yesterday with 4 couples that are also into boating. They were all unaware this was going on under our noses. The mainstream media has been noticeably absent so it’s come done to folks that care to spread the awareness. 
cheers Zoran 

Not a problem, thanks for sharing. I've been spreading it round as much as I can.

[Bare feet or covered for fishing.]

1 minute ago, Fab1 said:

Nothing like bare tootsies on carpet though.I go bare feet,sneakers or imitation crocs depending on my mood/weather.Nothing like a middle aged man standing naked on his boat holding onto his rod wearing crocs.😊😂😂

But do you wear your crocs sports mode or leisure mode?

[Washed off rocks...again]

I personally do not support bans at all, our governments are power hungry enough these days using any excuse to squash our freedoms.

However this is nuts and these morons families are the ones who pay the price for their stupidity, the swell conditions today are so far beyond suitable for hill 60. Blind freddy could have watched the conditions for 2 minutes today and known not to fish there.

[Bare feet or covered for fishing.]

+1 for crocs.

[Offshore Oil Gas exploration Newcastle - Central Coast - Sydney]

53 minutes ago, kingie chaser said:

Petition email sent.

While they might be fads there would always be a pretty big exclusion zone so not sure what effect it would have?

 

Beside, they want to close down fishing & introduce marine parks all the way uop the coast but mining is ok because it wil line companies pockets 

 

 

Is there a online pertition we can sign? Or a way to jump on the one you have emailed.

EDIT: found the link and have emailed. Thanks for sharing.

[Thumping big salmon]

Go back out with 6lb line and have another go, awesome fun!

[Bird watching]

Not a bad spot this one, a Powerful Owl. These bad boys eat possums and gliders, biggest owl in Aus, up to 2.2kg and 1.5m wingspan.

 

[Members Boats.]

12 minutes ago, Flat Bottom Girl said:

Now that's a flash looking punt! Where did you get the bimini tent?

Also, can someone educate me on what the proper name is? Obviously not bimini tent haha.

[Shoals of fish in South Coast Lake (Port Jackson Glassfish)]

I'd be finding a metal lure around the same size and colour and have a blast catching the Tailor.

[Marlin inside the port hacking!! *With Video*]

Unreal...bit better than the usual baby bream in the river. Must be an abundance of bait around there!

[Businesses that request you review their products after purchase]

I know a fella who works for a company that sells information to charities and companies looking to do a mail out, produce call lists etc.

Australian law is very muddy around collecting and selling your personal information. It is required that they disclose that they will sell or give your information to third parties but that can be buried in pages of fine print, be in the hidden away in policy pages on their website and there is no requirement to make it clear what they are doing.

He always says give fake information if a company insists on having your details (where possible) and never take part in free giveaway competitions, raffles and simialr; they are "free" to enter as they are selling your information to people who will spam you relentlessly.

[Businesses that request you review their products after purchase]

Don't buy anything from Kogan then, they will email you several (up to 5) times every day.

It put me off shopping there again, I wonder if the marketing gurus consider that.

[Bird watching]

A couple snaps from work today.

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo. A pair of them were digging grubs out of the black wattles.

A few Botany Bay Diamond Weevils were crawling around. Good chance they were eating their grubs.