Dreamtime

Have you thought about hiring a boat just to satisfy your desperation for the taste of 1 jew?

Sorry, deep bodied fusilier. (Caesio cuning) Thank you to Doug Segar This fish grows to 60 cm in length. It inhabits offshore reef slopes, commonly in large schools. It is usually seen hovering in midwater feeding on zooplankton. The Deep Bodied Fusilier is found at depths from 1 m to 60 m. It occurs in tropical marine waters of the Indo-West Pacific, from Sri Lanka, throughout South-east Asia and Micronesia, north to Japan, south to Australia and east to Vanuatu. In Australia it is known from the north-western coast of Western Australia, around the tropical north of the country, and south to central New South Wales. Doug and Elaine published a textbook "Introduction to Ocean Sciences". The book includes many of our images and provides a comprehensive introduction to our knowledge of the oceans that can serve as a reference or the basis for learning about what we understand about ocean processes that are the foundation upon which the marine life shown in our images is based. Click on the image of the book cover to learn more about this text and about the Introduction to the Marine environment course that Doug teaches online and in the classroom in Berkeley and Oakland, California using this text. (segars@reefimages.com)

Nice of you to regale your inner thoughts on your new found passion. Like any hobby - past time - sport, we all start out inexperienced, that's what it's all about. We watch other people, look, and learn their techniques, and strive to emmulate them - or go one better. If you didn't see the "parents" caught then maybe your passion may have diminished and you thought fishing was a fallasy. Great to see that, at your young age, you have adopted fishing into your lifestyle - good on ya! No doubt you will be posting stories and pictures of your achievements in the future. P.S. I'm interested to know how you have only just started fishing now - if that's not too personal.

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3406 6 cylinder turbocharged aftercooled - around 400 horses and the small one is a 13Kva Cat genset

yellowtailed fusilier?

Some kind of dart?

Yes, It looks like a tiger barb without the stripes?

A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his 5th grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whiskey, and two worms. "Now, class. Observe closely the worms," said the professor first putting a worm into the water. The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be. The second worm, he put into the whiskey. It writhed painfully, and it quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail. "Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?" the professor asked. Little Johnny raised his hand and wisely responded, "Drink whiskey and you won't get worms!"

That distance would require addittional fuel as well, one would think. Plan it well and enjoy.

Unfortunately my engines only ever come out of my boats for a service or when somethings broke. That is the only time they get a flush. I would imagine that is the same for all that have their boats permanently moored, whether outboards or legs. What's the general consensus about the condition of these "moored" engines. Do they have a shorter life owing to less TLC?

Crescent Banded Grunter, (Terapon jarbua) Plenty of them here too, not bad to eat as well.

What state are you going to?

Sharp ones. Seriously, I use Pakula Dojo 15mm -40mm depending on line kg, Here they are double rigged or Wasabi 7/0 to 11/0. But as mentioned, must be razor sharp.

If you want serious horses: re-power with a cat like I did.

"This is why some people cut cobes off thinking they're sharks!" I think he agrees with your quote. As I had to look harder myself. Definately resembles a shark whilst in the water. Anyway, great trip had despite the weather, great fish and great pics. Congrats.

Yes I agree, from what I've been told from some of my Captains. They tell me Jatz crackers or the like, something moresome with MSG in it, for you to keep eating. Maybe also pretzels. The idea is to have something in your belly so as you are not continually dry-reeching. With a small amount of fresh water to keep from dehydrating.

Thanks Roberta, The oysters need to be salted or they just fall off the hook. Collect them and put them in a jar with plenty of salt, put them in the fridge and they keep forever. I used to do this with fresh prawns that were left over from a days outing. Not the best bait but good to use when the pickers keep cleaning the hook. Cheers Carl

Great specimen, I can just about taste the pan fried fillets myself. Congrats

It looks loke a new installation to me. Use your imagination!

Hi Fishraiders, Thanks a million for your concerns, hard work and sympathy. It appears that I have had some luck now in finding the right person to come up and fix my damaged boat. I have had excellent assistance from Glenn Corfield of DH Porter & Co with regards to all the underwater gear. Would absolutely recommend them to anyone. Customer service is second to none. Trim tabs have also been sorted. Could not have achieved this result so soon (5 days) without your kind assistance. Special mention to Robbelties, Geoff, Brickman, Aussie Big Bob, Pelican, Roberta, CFD and of course Flightmanager and Swordfisherman. Big Thank you. Carl

Going to a farewell party tonight, a 50th birthday tomorrow and probably on Sunday

A teacher asks her class, "If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?" She calls on little Billy. He replies, "None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot." The teacher replies, "The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking." Then little Billy says, "I have a question for YOU. There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream: One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?" The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well, I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone." To which little Billy replied, "The correct answer is 'the one with the wedding ring on', but I like your thinking."

Hi Roberta, What lovely conditions to be out in, who cares if you catch a fish or not. How deep is the water under the floating leases. I used to tie up inside the oyster leases at night on the Georges River years ago, and used salted oyster for bait on an unweighted 6lb handline with a 1/0 suicide. By crikey the bream used to hammer that bait. You had to be quick before they wrapped you around the post that the leases were on. About 2 foot of water only. Does anyone use oyster for bait now, or is it just too expensive? They used to grow on our wharf so they were free for us. Yes we ate a hell of a lot of them - on the BBQ till shell opens, in goes some worshirstire sauce with tobasco - yummy.