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Hey what is the other fish?
There is a flathead and???
Thanks.
They also scored a nice bream,school jew,a nice tailor and a very respectable flathead as well,nice work.
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G'day Byron,
Might be looking at coming down in the next couple of months - just need to find someone to sit in my chair while I'm gone.
Very keen to wet a line anywhere!
I Will be visiting mum at Avoca Palms, Sister at Umina, Brother at Newcastle and some family in the St George area, so I will be doing a bit of running around, but nothing in particular really.
Cheers
Carl
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Got a new shimano eclipse 702 estuary graphite sp rod, a 2500FB hyperloop reel, a shimano tackle box with some sp's and jigheads and a squidy secrets dvd today for my birthday off Iwannajewy and our boy Cooper
Bring on the Excellent!!............Can't complain about that.
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Very nice memory indeed!!!
You could use it for a hat and coat hook also
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A very healthy addiction indeed.
I would embarrass myself if I posted what gear I have.
I think at last count it was 29 rods, 26 reels, 6 tackle bags and boxes.
Lures - -shit - - don't go there!
Who's complaining - only the
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Siamese twins walk into a pub in New York and park themselves on a bar stool.
One of them says to the bartender, "Don't mind us, we're joined at the hip. I'm John, he's Jim. Two Budweisser draft beers,please".
The bartender, feeling slightly awkward, tries to make polite conversation while pouring the beers. "Been on holiday lately guys?"
"Off to Britain next month," says John. "We go to Britain every year and hire a car and drive for miles, don't we, Jim?" Jim agrees.
"Ah, Britain !" says the barman. "Wonderful country . . . the history, the beer, the culture."
"Nah, we don't like that British crap," says John. "Hamburgers and American, that's us, eh Jim?"
"So why keep going to Britain ?" asks the bartender.
"It's the only chance Jim gets to drive."
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Those Ba$##rds need to be neutered!
That's all I've got to say!
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Totally agree.
It's called fishing - it's meant to be a sport.
Develop skills, techniques and know how that will enable you to have an edge on the next bloke.
Like any sports person - you must train at least once a week - you can't expect to roll up on match day and have a win without putting in that extra effort.
With the knowledge that many Raiders impart on this forum, it's not that difficult to put them into practice.
Look for the "drop-offs", the reefs, the varying depths and bottom structures, etc, etc. The baits and rigs have all been mentioned regularly also.
Too many people are not prepared to invest the time needed to become a good fisherperson - they want to get to spot X in a short as possible time, and more than likely have passed over several spot X's on their way to their present location.
If you are so lazy as to request exactly where spot X is, then you might as well just go down to the local fish shop and purchase your requirements
It's not shopping, where you know you can go and get exactly what you want.
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Where do you get one of those eskies?
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What were their names?
Do you still use that fishing whistle?
It's like Seaworld, Hodgey rewards each lizard with a tasty morsel before releasing them. They do their bit for the camera, listen for the whistle, then jump back on the line again to receive their reward again.
You guys should have borrowed the whistle for the social. It's the silver one with hair & slime all over it!!
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Gotta love those lips!
Striking resemblance to John Howard!
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Fantastic fish
Fantastic family
Fantastic conditions
Fantastic apparell
Fantastic result.
3 cheers, or should I say 5 cheers.
Well done and great to see that the entire family got amongst some fab fish. Pity no Jewie
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The electronic chargers have a float switch and are automatic.
i.e. They recognise when the battery requires charge, and also when it is full charged, and switch on and off accordingly. Obviously they are much more expensive than a regular charger, however the protection they afford is well worth the extra cash in my opinion.
I have boiled dry more than one battery in the past, hence the move to automatic chargers. I also changed all of my batteries from lead acid refillable, over to deep cycle lead jelly sealed batteries. I have not had to replace a battery for over two years now.
For the records, I have in excess of 30 batteries in my boats, cars and solar setup.
Hope this is of some info.
Cheers
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Hi,wondering how your repair's went on your boat which suffered the damage a while ago? any picture's of repair's? thank's,Mathew.
p:s just realised logged in under mr's name.
Hi Mathew,
The props, rudders, skegs and shafts should be completed by Porters next Wednesday.
New 32mm Stainless bow rail being fabricated in Melbourne at the moment.
New interior being manufactured in Brisbane this week.
New generator and water cooled air conditioner being purchased in Melbourne this week (Had to find the right size units) - the air conditioning unit will fit under the helmsmans seat in the flybridge. Am deciding on either an Onan or Seawasp genset - again the physical size is important.
Have purchased 2 Turbocharged aftercooled Volvos - 1 complete to exchange with the one engine that was seized, the other in parts. Replacing all external parts on the engines - water pump, alternator, starter motor, etc.
Nicholas Hubbard - AKA - BM Nic is co-ordinating the procurement of all other materials at the moment - paints, fibreglass, etc. The following photos are courtesy of Nic.
I am consolodating a 20' container in Brisbane with all the bits and pieces of the Mariner. Hopefully might be complete and ready to ship in around 2 to 3 weeks.
The flybridge has been removed and pictured here with it is the dead marlin board. Took a bit of a hammering on the underside on the rocks but we can repair it on site.
Pictured here with the flybridge already removed along with the cabin windows. The boat is stored at the Hastings Deering facility.
The interior is in a sad state and needs re-doing. Carpets, timber lining, ply's and electric.
Will keep you updated when all the materials arrive and re-assembly begins.
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Look at this bugger caught out of a boat on bait at Whangarei
WOW !!!!
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Ditto!!!!!
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Did anyone see the 10kg 1 in the news that is being auctioned off!
Some aquarium is trying to buy it, but there is also alot of comp from ppl that want to eat it.
I hate lobster i prefer mortean bay bugs, but i think you guys call them balmain bugs
Try this link!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/02/...ain677483.shtml
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Why..........
Scroll down to Easter Rock Lobsters http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recrea...sw-bag-and-size
and to measure http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recrea...nd-size/measure
But it sounds a bit suss. But the Lobbys oversize.
How good the first run be though
Legal Fish Sizes and Bag Limits - New South Wales
Lobster: eastern rock Min 10.4 - Max 18 - 2 in total
Lobster: southern male (male) 11
Lobster: southern female(female) 10.5
Lobster (painted, ornate) - 2 in total
Lobster (slipper, flat) - 2 in total
As I said, identify the species!!!!!!!!
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why is it illegal?
Yes I concur.
Give us a correct scientific name, size and method that it was caught with. Then let's get technical.
What, was the hook lodged in the crustaceans oral cavity, or another orifice?
I would presume that if a 1 hour fight was involved in the capture of this fine specimen, it must of lodged itself firmly in a cave, or someones self indulgences?
Have not heard too many reports highlighting the fighting capabilities of a crustacean though!
Wondering how many metres of line was stripped from the spool on the first run?One could only imagine that the cephalopd involved in the capture of this magnificent creature sucked so hard on the Lobsters head, he sucked out the brain cells of the angler at the same time.
Let's get fair dinkum on this catch - who's the bugger holding the terminal tackle????
That's who we want to hear from!!!!
12 people being satiated by one crustacean - I'd like to see that!! Who were they? Dwarfs??
Give me a break - I agree the moderators need to remove this thread due to the unfounded, unbelievable tale that has been told.
Do you think he used stand up gear, or was strapped to a fighting chair?
I hope his tentacles did not get tangled in the anglers te#ticles.
Come on guys - you know what is real / and / or custom story.
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we have a new new 5 week old boy his name is tyson
we are loving the new boy
Where on earth do you manage to aquire a 5 week old child???
Seriously, congratulations from someone who has enjoyed the experience of a few 5 week old children.
Post up some pictures so we can enjoy your experience as much as you are at the moment.
Plenty of memorable moments to come.
Enjoy.
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Hi Arked
It looks like they can make the camera vertical or horizontal - is there a screw on the other side (not shown on the photo) to allow for vertical photos/videoing? ie portrait or landscape?
I reckon I have yakking buddies that may be interested as well!!
We can film our catches!! Cheerio
Roberta
Good idea Roberta,
You can get a head mounted camera - not much bigger than a lipstic.
I bought one off a fellow fishraider, the main unit is stored in your back-pack and the small camera is mounted on your head. There is also a remote that comes with it so it is quite easy to "hit" the button when the fish is hooked. This will allow you to be totally hands free whilst recording the moment.
Cheers
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A young lady in the maternity ward just prior to labour is asked by the midwife if she would like her husband to be present at the birth.
"I'm afraid I don't have a husband" she replies
"O.K. do you have a boyfriend?" asks the Midwife "No, no boyfriend either."
"Do you have a partner then?"
"No, I'm unattached, I'll be having my baby on my own."
After the birth the midwife again speaks to the young woman. "You have a healthy bouncing baby girl, but I must warn you before you see her that the baby is coloured"
"Well," replies the girl. "I was very down on my luck, with no money and nowhere to live, and so I accepted a job in a Porno movie. The lead man was coloured."
"Oh, I'm very sorry," says the midwife, "that's really none of my business and I'm sorry that I have to ask you these awkward questions but I must also tell you that the baby has blonde hair."
"Well yes," the girl again replies, "you see I desperately needed the money and there was this European guy also involved in the movie, what else could I do?"
"Oh, I'm sorry," the midwife repeats, "that's really none of my business and I hate to pry further but your baby has different eyes."
"Well yes," continues the girl, "I was incredibly hard up and there was a little Asian man also in the movie, I really had no choice."
At this the midwife again apologises collects the baby and presents her to the girl, who immediately proceeds to give baby a slap on the bum. The baby starts crying and the mother exclaims,
"Well thank god for that !"
"What do you mean?" says the midwife, shocked.
"Well," says the girl extremely relieved, "I had this horrible feeling that the little bugger was going to bark!"
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You said you caught them off the beach?? Can you tell me where if possible...
Cheers sparky77
(don't let the photo on the beach fool you i was in the boat all day)
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Summary:
It's very difficult ot tell the age of a crab or lobster. But if we can't tell their age when they're caught, how do we manage the fisheries?
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Back to creatures, to crabs in fact. Giant ones. Caleb Gardner studies crabs in Tasmania, and they’re huge.
Caleb Gardner: They get up to at least 14 kilograms. The very biggest ones which we get are pretty much around the size of the neck of a trap so it’s possible that there’s one bigger out there which simply can’t fit in and of course there’s some fantastic fishermen stories about the big one that was hanging on the outside but we couldn’t just quite catch it.
Robyn Williams: When you’re looking at the legs how big do they span?
Caleb Gardner: Oh I guess, probably a metre I guess would be the longest legs that they have.
Robyn Williams: That’s huge and no doubt quite welcome in the kitchen.
Caleb Gardner: They are huge animals and yes, certainly welcomed in the kitchen, delicious to eat and highly valued.
Robyn Williams: To get to that size the question is how long it takes them and therefore how old they are.
Caleb Gardner: We have very little idea of how long it takes them to get from a tiny baby I guess. The size which they settle from the plankton is only a couple of millimetres and so from that small size up to the size when we begin to get them in our pots we really have no idea. But we have some idea of the growth rates of the animals around the size when the fishermen start to catch them before they become legal size and the growth rates of them at that stage is outrageously slow compared to any other crustacean that I’m aware of so certainly it’s going to be I would say surprising.
Robyn Williams: Give me a clue of the span that you can track, what does that come to?
Caleb Gardner: OK well, the way the crustacean grows is by moulting so they shed their shell and then expand and then have a period of time at least until they moult again. Now most crustaceans which are fished commercially and which we look at, say rock lobsters, that period is normally between each one of those moults is say six months or a year. In giant crabs the ones that are round the legal size it looks like at the moment it’s maybe up to 5 years for a male and possibly even double that for a female, maybe 8 years or so for a female crab between each one of those moults.
Robyn Williams: Yes I know, I get terribly cheery about eating a very old man or a very old woman. I remember when somebody tried to serve me an orange roughie and had a tantrum because the orange roughies exist from a very, very deep level, these of course are fish, and they can be up to 100, 120, 130 years old can’t they?
Caleb Gardner: That’s right, eating an animal that old, is emotional almost isn’t it, it certainly does make you worry. In terms of commercial species though where you do fish them and harvest them, fishing an animal, which lives for such a long period, isn’t so much a problem provided you know about it. And if you don’t know that they live for a long period, and they do, that’s when you really get into strife and so that’s what I guess my research is trying to avoid.
Robyn Williams: So if you’re cropping all of these very big animals because obviously there is more flesh you might find that they reproduce slowly and you simply could not replace the population?
Caleb Gardner: That’s right and it really comes down to what proportion of the population, which we take at any one time. In the end in fishery management you just try to balance the amount which you are taking against the rate at which it can be replaced.
Robyn Williams: Where do you find them around Tasmania at the moment, everywhere?
Caleb Gardner: Yeah, Tasmania is the most important region for the fishery of giant crabs. They’re found in deeper waters right around the edge of the continental shelf on the west and on the east, not very many of them on the south and there’s only the occasional one in Bass Strait, but very few.
Robyn Williams: What do they eat?
Caleb Gardner: A whole range of animals are eaten. Sea urchins, star fish, hermit crabs other giant crabs and I’ve also found some other odd bits and pieces in there things like penguin feathers and seal fur as well, so quite a broad range and clearly a scavenging animal.
Robyn Williams: You’re not telling me that they are catching penguins?
Caleb Gardner: I don’t think they’re catching penguins but I guess the odd sort of dead beast drifts down from the surface down to the depths where they live.
Robyn Williams: How are you managing to investigate the possible age of the giant crab, what techniques are you using?
Caleb Gardner: OK, because they are so long lived compared to well any other crustacean that I’m aware of, looking at how fast they grow moves onto a while new level of difficulty. You can imagine what with lobsters we measure age simply by tagging animals and you go back again a certain period of time later, catch them again and you measure the change in growth. Now if an animal’s only moulting every five, eight years whatever the period of your research then has to be extraordinarily long or else you have to tag a large number of animals and that’s unfortunately not possible with giant crabs. You typically catch very few animals and so there has been tagging work done with them that’s yielded some results in Victoria and South Australia but we’ve sort of struck difficulties in Tasmania so we’re trying some novel approaches here. First of all looking at the accumulation of a pigment in their brain, the idea being that this pigment accumulates in a linear fashion with the age of the animals and so that gives you a scale then to compare their age.
The other thing which we’re looking at is the composition of the shell. As I said earlier the animals grow by moulting and so a critical piece of information in determining how old they are to gain an estimate of the duration it’s been since the last time they moulted. Now when they moult they absorb elements out of the sea water around them, calcium mainly, but also other small amounts of some other materials and some of those are naturally radio active occurring compounds and they degrade in the shell and looking at that rate of decay gives us an idea of change. So specifically I’m looking at the thorium radium decay.
Robyn Williams: When do you think you’ll know the answer?
Caleb Gardner: Well we have a lot of results coming in already actually and some of these estimates for the moment are giving us estimates of say round five years or so of duration since moulting so it’s good in that it’s giving us similar results to that which we had from tagging and it’s certainly I guess supporting this previous work which is giving us this idea that they are just outrageously well, extremely long lived.
Robyn Williams: The biggest one that you mentioned right in the beginning. If it were going to be really old according to your latest estimates, what sort of figure would you come up with?
Caleb Gardner: Well the biggest ones are males, the oldest ones are likely to be the female crabs who are a bit slower growing and also a bit smaller. The biggest one of those who knows, I guess in the ballpark of orange roughie potentially. So perhaps maybe 100 years,
Robyn Williams: Well would you eat a 100 year old crab? Caleb Gardner might. He’s at the University of Tasmania where his colleague Stewart Frusher is the rock lobster man. And the odd thing about lobsters is their size is different according to geography.
Stewart Frusher: It really depends where you are. In Southern Tasmania we’ve had lobsters which were tagged 20 plus years ago and we still get recaptures from some of those. In the north of the state though, the growth rates are a lot faster and they reached the fishery in maybe 5 to 6 years. Down south those animals which we caught 20 years ago were still undersize so those lobsters could be well in excess of that well and truly in their 40 plus years old, we just simply don’t know. The problem you have with lobsters is you can’t age them.
Robyn Williams: And of course one of the problems is if they are that old then growing up, maintaining population of reasonable sized adults will take a long time.
Stewart Frusher: Only certain size lobsters can be taken and therefore you’ve got a new set of recruits coming into the fishery each year.
Robyn Williams: You said there’s a variation between north and south what’s the scale?
Stewart Frusher: It’s quite substantial. We believe that there’s more variation between north and southern Tasmania than there is in any other lobster fishery in the world. We see lobsters in southern Tasmania, the females in particular into slightly deeper water those animals actually die before they reach the legal size because they are growing so slow. In the north of the state those animals are growing up to 4 to 5 times as fast and indeed they are immature by the time they get to the legal size. We estimate that the males for instance are growing six times as fast in the north of the state, they’re averaging on a year at about the legal size limit, about 20 to 25mms of growth each year. Down south it’s less than 5mms.
Robyn Williams: Why is so low down south?
Stewart Frusher: We’re not 100% sure, certainly there’s a lot cooler water down south and the other aspect is that they’re very dense populations down south and it may be that there’s a density dependent affect. We can set a pot down south and it’s not uncommon to get between 50 and 80 lobsters in that pot. Virtually all of those lobsters are undersized lobsters. In the north of the state we may see an average between two and three lobsters per pot.
Robyn Williams: And as for their sex lives it’s difficult but then look what the youngsters go and do.
Stewart Frusher: After the female moults the male then comes and courts the female and then deposits a spermatophore. The female then releases the eggs quite shortly afterwards and as those eggs are extruded they are fertilised and then they’re placed on the tail where they’re incubated for up to three to four months before they hatch.
Robyn Williams: Then what happens?
Stewart Frusher: Then we have quite an extraordinary part of the life cycle of the lobster because they then hatch out as lava, they are a little bit more like miniature spiders than lobsters, and they then go via ocean currents out to sea and they’ve been found between 100 and a 1000 kms from the shore and it’s thought that for the southern rock lobster that they are out at sea anywhere between 12 to 24 months.
Robyn Williams: Doing what?
Stewart Frusher: Well a lot of people think they are just drifting around the ocean but we suspect that they have some sort of mobility and they manage to get themselves in the big oceanic currents which means that they do come back to our part of the world which is rather fortunate for us.
Bring on the 
, or to throw coits at 
We can film our catches!!
What Are All The Fishraiders Getting Up To This Weekend?
in Fishing Chat
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My new Diawa 50SHS Saltist arrived yesterday
, and the spare part for my outboard 
so:
Friday - GO FISHING
Saturday - My daughters 4th birthday party, so a few
will be in order
Sunday - not sure yet, but definately 1 or 2
Hope you guys have a good one
Cheers
Carl