jimnicdusty

thanks for the trip ray it was a cracker. i went throught the pics i took and got the ones off dad i will get rods and todds pics to day and i will send them to you this week. the gopro footage turned out ok so when i have time to go through it all(6hrs)i will make up a dvd and send that to you as well might take a few weeks for the footage as i have to figure out how to do it. once again thakyou very much Ray for organising the trip much appreciated. just to tease everyone here is my species list for the week . queenfish, spanish mackerel, spotted mackerel, school mackerel, sailfish, GT, brassy trevally, big-eye trevally, cobia, longtail tuna, mack tuna, blue tuskfish, barracuda, stripey, remora, groper estimated 400lb, wolf herring, tawny shark, sharp-toothed shark, black-tip reef shark, whaler sharks and a few more fish that i forgot and the ones i dident know what they were. there were also some monumental bust offs, laps of the house boat, screaming drags, huge sharks, lost lures and i also hand fed a dolphin. what a trip cheers Ray

anyone have a pic

imagin the amount of garbage, oils, rubber,fuel and who knows what else ends up in sydney harbour and every one seems to eat the fish from there and not mind.

Hello All Fishers should beware of emails encouraging them to join the protest against the so called factory trawler in Tasmania via this website: http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/stop-giant-fishing-trawler-in-tasmania If you submit a protest through this site without reading the fine print and un ticking the box you will inadvertently become a member of Get Up!, a radical far left lobby group. This organisation campaigns for lockouts in marine and national parks. GetUp! recently bragged about it’s exponentially growing membership on the ABC’s The Drum program. The survey was the initiative Rebecca Hubbard who is an operative of Environment Tasmania (The Conservation Council). Check out the Councils agenda here: http://www.et.org.au/campaigns and Rebecca’s involvement here: http://www.et.org.au/search/node/hubbard Rather than giving green extremists a leg up, I suggest concerned fishers protest directly to the federal fisheries minister here: joe.ludwig@maff.gov.au Regards and good fishing Robert Smith BM President NSWFCA Inc

rules are rules you break them you get fined. you get fined for not having your licence on you while driving car, boat. why do you think it would be any different with fishing. if you have a licence you have to (know) the rules. these days with the amount of info available there is no excuse not to know them. your mate won't forget his licence again, its just sucks for him that it was a $75 lesson.

you can have more than the legal number of rods with you they just cant be rigged up. no line through the eyes no hooks, lures etc attached. the snapper rack rod holders are fine as long as there not full of rigged rods.

there is a place in coffs harbour, largest shop in the world, garanteed cheepest prices, cheep delivery. over a million lures. try there, thats where all my stuff comes from

i have seen carp in the upper turon for a few years. the only good thing about the drought was it killed most of them. but after all the rain we have had in the last 18 months its put a lot more water in the rivers making it easy for the carp to travel further up the river. there is also carp a long way up the winburndale rivulet, clear creek, campbells river, fish river thats just to name a few. i have seen them up tiny creeks in holes no bigger than a bath tub, these creeks only run after heavy rain and for only short periods but the carp still get up them. if there is a river that holds carp it doesent take them long to travel the system and any other system that joins into it.

get an all terain coupling for your trailer. i have one of these on my boat trailer you can un hook them on any angle

hi guys of to harrington/ crowdy head for an extra long long weekend and was wondering if any one has fished there lately. i have some mates that fish the area regularly for jew and bream so i know whats happening there. . taking the boat to give the close reefs and gravel patches a go on soft plastics for snapper for something different, never done it befor. what i was wanting to know has any one been doing any good on the snapper ? have there been many caught? and now for the big question does any one have any gps marks or areas that would be a good spot to try for a snapper off crowdy. cheers Jim if some one can get me onto some snapper in the salt off crowdy i can get you onto some murray cod in the fresh(must be catch and release and you have to like walking ) so if any one in the crowdy area wants to do a fishing trip trade let me know

i still dont understand why we have a closed season for an introduced fish where we cant fish in the rivers at all when there breeding, but you can still fish in the rivers when its murry cod closed breeding season. all trout should be throwen up the bank with carp,red fin and talapia and all other intrduced species. i love the bush and see what feral animals do to it i am also a shooter that takes out every feral that i can and trout are no differant. so if i am trout fishing i allways take my bag limit and dump them straight in the bin or if somone feels like eating them i will keep them a feed . other than that there is no rule saying that you cant throw them up the bank you just cant have a specific number of them in your position at any one time. so if you dont like trout as much as me thats the legal way to get rid of a feral fish that is goverend by rules. i would like to point out that i am talking about fishing in rivers and dams that are fed by rivers. i dont realy care what they do with non river fed dams like TCD the trout cant escape so they are not a thret to native animals. now i am sure my post will get up a few peoples nose but this is my opinion on trout. jim jim

nice fish the trevally on the left in the last pic is a bigeye trevally and its a bit hard to tell whether the other one is a GT or a brassy trevally.

good mate. yep i will be there i missed it last year was on fraser island. are you going ?

hi yarraone hows things all the info should come with the EPIRB. you can register them on line. once its registered you can log into your account befor going on a trip and put in where you are going, so if you have to activate your EPIRB rescue crews all ready have an idea where you are. its a bit like logging on and off on your VHF with marine rescue. just dont forget to change it if your going somewhere different, you dont want marine rescue looking at there computer thinking this EPIRB is logged in to be on Botany Bay but its signal is coming from Port Stephens.

i would be throwing a few big poppers around the rock and reef ledges to see if there are any GTs around. but you will need some fairly hefty gear to tangle with GTs off the rocks. jim

i have noticed that all of your admin have multiple multiple record buttons... why is that?? mrsswordfisherman you should give yourself a few record buttons, considering "all of your admin have multiple multiple record buttons" you dont want old mate getting upset that one of the admin hasent got multiple multiple records. i think there should be a sour grapes record button. you could give it to old mate that might keep him happy atleast he would have a record button. fishing should be fun not a major compitition

have a look at this link

still need a few guys if anyone is interested Jim

there has to be some keen fishos out there that want to catch some big fish, come on guys its going to be a good trip.

we just pack the fish on dry ice in large eskys

hi guys i am organising another trip this year out to the remote coral sea reefs. some of the reefs we are going to are Fredrick reef, saumarez reef, taiwan reef and we will also be fishing the calder bank a remote sea mount that rises from 2200 meters to within 40 meters of the surface, which is where we caught a lot of wahoo up to 37 kg last trip. the trip is for 2 weeks from the 1-15 november 2010. the boat departs from Gladstone in qld. The fishing will be done from the mother ship and 5, 4.4m dorys, what type of fishing you do is totaly up to you. There are 7 x 2 birth cabins and 2 x 4 birth cabins all air conditioned. All meals are cooked for you, you are fully catered for. The price for the trip is $4015.You need your own fishing gear, you will also have to bring your own alcohol. Bait will be an extra $50-$80 i am still working out how much we need. Any one interested will have to be easy going and be able to get along with other people. you will also need to bring, Hat & sunglasses, fishing gear, sunscreen lotion, towel for the tenders/beaches, snorkelling/diving gear, sand shoes for reef walking, Your favourite CDs & DVDs A $500 deposit will need to be payed to me or the charter company to book your spot. So if you or a few of mates are interested send me a pm. check out last years trip reports http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=41288&st=0&p=308547&hl=coral%20sea&fromsearch=1entry308547 http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=41289&st=0&p=308549&hl=coral%20sea&fromsearch=1entry308549 http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=41290&st=0&p=308550&hl=coral%20sea&fromsearch=1entry308550 http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=41310&st=0&p=308715&hl=coral%20sea&fromsearch=1entry308715 cheers Jim

eather of the bluewater spin rods are great i have them both , i mainley use th 10-15 kg one for spinning for tuna but i have caught plenty of reef fish on it and a few jew fish it would also make a good snapper rod if the length doesent bother you. for a 10-15 kg rod it has a lot of grunt. there is not to much differance between the two rods. go to a local tackle shop and check them out. jim

there are a few pics of the 18000sw and the gt special loaded up in this link http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.ph...sea+trip+report jim