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Ya gotta laugh, gozzer...In Western Australia, Lake Argyle, in the kimberley Region, has a fish farm where they breed and net barramundi (excellent) and catfish (yuck) In the Territory, catfish are, (in the angling fraternity), a minus fish, whereas barramundi are at the top of the list. Neither WA, nor the NT have the carp...Yet in the southern eastern states, carp are in plague proportions and totally reviled...And, oddly enough, redfin are considered a good fish.

Odd, innit? I fished most areas in West Yorkshire and a couple in Hampshire in thr late 40’s and all the right 50’s and never once caught a carp...Indeed, the only ones I ever saw, were in goldfish bowls and pretty ponds...Methinks the UKneeds a couple of gallons of the virus in a few pools.

Ponder on these imponderables for a minute: 1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? 2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? 3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? 4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? 5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? 7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? 8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist? 9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? 10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? 11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? 12. 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? 13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? 14. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered if Chinese mothers use toothpicks? 15. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the post? Korean 16. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. 17. No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning 18. Ever wonder about those people who spend two pound a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: 19. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? 20. If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhoea, does that mean that one enjoys it? 21. Why if you send something by road it is called a shipment, but when you send it by sea it is called cargo?

KHV is being used in Tasmania and, hopefully in the Murray/Darling System http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-16/fisheries-officers-push-for-carp-free-tasmania/7936798

British sailor Tony Bullimore, whose story of survival made international headlines, has died at the age of 79.

Real life one, I was fishing in Northern New England, NSW on a private property and this bloke came up to me and told me to get off his property. As I walked away, he shouted out to me if I could help him to round up his pedigree heifers. He had left a gate open and they started to move onto the paddock I had been fishing in. I carried on, pretending not to hear his shouts...

Black jewfish, or, according to some experts, the black croaker, is a very much sought after fish due to its fighting and eating qualities. It is not too common, not being targetted by the pro net fishos. I have only eaten jewies twice and really enjoyed the flesh, being fairly dry and flakey but one of its better points is that even 70 lb fish are good eating, whereas those at about 2-5 lbs, are called 'soapies'...A close cousin is called teraglin, or 'trag' to the average fisho and rarely grows to 12 lbs but is also high on the amateurs' list. Odd thing is the mouth is bright yellow, verging on orange.

At 109 cm (3' 7") my biggest jewie, aka northern mulloway. Far too heavy to carry home...

Btw...there is a Gulliver’s Tavern in Kununurra and the chairs. are huge, almost need a stepladder to sit on them. Hopefully, the wifi reception is the same...

Thanks, Phone, but I don’t need a phone at home, only Mum and me and $200+ Provider is too much for one month.

Found out from a good friend that the area I am going to, is well out of mobile reception, so, I will do your "Burger King" thingo in Kununurra Thanks for your input, Ches.

Tab Hunter, film star, aged 86.

Thanks for that, Phone. Might have to buy an iphone, but for 1 month? Also, The Darwin is some 600 km (round trip) out of my way. Someone suggested using a hotspot?? But, being non tech at all, it just went over my head when he tried to explain. Thanks for the input.

One last trip west into the remote Keep River and I want to use my brand new, super dooper iPad. What do I need to get the internet, please? I will be 100 km from any dwelling and will only need it for 1 month...I do not have any iphone, being a new chum, ipads etc. are a whole new idea.

One last trip west into the remote Keep River and I want to use my brand new, super dooper iPad. What do I need to get the internet, please? I will be 100 km from any dwelling and will only need it for 1 month...I do not have any iphone, being a new chum, ipads etc. are a whole new idea.

Australian golfer, Peter Thompson, aged 88, 5 times winner of the British Open.

Fishing, we don’t have opening day, nor soccer.Queensland has rugby league and AFL

Looks like last week's bait...

I applied for National Broadband Network, the fast one. The bloke came around to set up and test everything, but got nil reception...Odd, there is a new repeater tower 1.5 km from me...The reason? The mango trees block it!! Supposedly, at the beginning of next year, all Australia will be on it and ADSL will be shut down...

Just read in another forum that Australia is looking at the herpes virus to eradicate carp. Apparently, the USAhas used the virus, with spectacular results. Only drawback is. That the virus only works in a fairly narrow temperature band, and most Australian areas are either side of that band...

A British national daily newspaper asked readers: "What does it mean to be British?" Some replies were hilarious, but this one from a resident of Switzerland stood out: "Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then going home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American and Australian shows on a Japanese or Korean TV, which will soon be powered by a Chinese power station." And the most British thing of all? "Suspicion of anything foreign."

Had a smile about that; my brother visited me in NSW and, on returning to the UK, took seeds of white and blue agapanthus, seeds and cuttings of frangipani, cuttings of bougainvillea etc, etc. His reply to my query; they let in anything, these days...That was in 1997

Hope you can keep them during your next autumn...One of my mango seedlings karked it when the temperature fell to 12 C earlier this month.

Prince Harry had his Bachelor Party last week in London and here is his "Quote of the Day" from that memorable event: "It's really weird stuffing money into a stripper's G string when every bill has a photo of your grandmother printed on it."