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Ian (and all you other big fish anglers),
Picture the scene.....
After a trek of almost 10 yards from the van, I battled against the sunshine yesterday to set up my gear on an uncrowded beach, with concrete steps behind to make it even....err, easier.
Imagine my anticipation as the rod tip moved a millimetre or two.
Feel the apprehension as I struck and thought, "Could be a bit of weed."
Share my fear as I realised it was a fish and battled tirelessly with it.
And, please, join me in my elation as I landed a perfect 8oz dab.
Now, that's real fishing LOL
Mate, that was a great read, had a similar experience after having to trek through a National Park full of snakes and spiders, falling over rocks etc. to catch this mongrel of a fish....
It is below the pliers
A wire-netting cod
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kool bobj i will make my way to Oz at some point.. my Ma's a kiwi and we're gonna do New Zealand & Oz in a grand tour maybe next year
can't wait... especially for the fishing!Mate!!! Don't let that worry you
So is my missus 
Check out the wildflower season in WA. It is magnificent, with acres and acres of spring flowers all in bloom.
For the fishing; make out a list of target species because Australia is so big and one has to travel a couple of thousand miles to get certain fish. Take, for example, you are in Margaret River and you want to catch a barra, you need to be up at Derby, 1800 miles away....in the same state, WA.
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Due to running away from spiders and snakes I presume
Smar tarse
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Hi Blue Marlin,
Queensland is notorious for the darn ugly cane toad but that one looks like a harmless green tree frog to me. Bob might know better though. G'day Bob, good to see other Aussies in here.
South Oz is safe from the cane tur...er..toad, too dry. They prefer the moist, humid areas, hence their "invasion" of the Northern Territory.
The green frog is one of the good blokes, eating cockroaches and the like. And, it is a good climate forecaster; see green frogs and all is well in the district.
Good to see that chevin and I are not the only blokes from Australia....even if you are from SA.
Blue Marlin, mate get over to Margaret River, a piece of paradise.chevin will tell you
The bities and poisonous creatures are not all that bad, sure, we have 7 of the 10 most poisonous snakes and 2 of the most poisonous spiders but, all-in-all there are more people killed crossing streets in any given town/city.
Must say, Mike Oldfield has some great music.
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As Easter is only 2 weeks away, BE CAREFUL ON THE ROADS, NOT A STATISTIC
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A bit claustaphobic, living so close to each other like that.
My home town, Ball Bay (pop. 75)
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Took this last night on the porch:
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3 and 17 do it for me
Den
And 4 and 25.....Then there is......
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A friendly constrictor or nasty with big sharp fangs?
It was a rear fanged tree snake (dendelaphis punctulatus) We get a few a year come on to the porch.......Still, they are a bit scary.....Had a taipan in the back yard a month before chevin came over.
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PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND THIS HILARIOUS! IT COMES FROM A CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST. KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN.
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT.
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS .
8, THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA . THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY.
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Be very, very careful....How true, stepped on a snake in the back yard.........
Not the first, either.
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What in the name of god is that? Also what type of fish is that?
G'day mate, that happens to be a tail-fin batfish, or moony (Platax teira). They grow to 60 cm and about 9 lbs
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Well done to all.
It was particularly unsporting how the women's 1200 relay team were stripped of gold, though
You mean, breaking the rules????????
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Barramundi are certainly a good looking fish.I would love to fish for them.Any one know if it is only Australia that has them? Do I remember Ken L catching them else where? India?
They are caught in the Bay Of Bengal, mainly as a food fish. As far as I know, Australia is the only country where they are targeted as a sport fish. Have heard that there are some caught around Singapore, but not substantiated.
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That beastie would be fun on light tackle I betcha.
Nice fish. Do you normally fish for them at night?
G'day mate, Barra are usually targeted early mornings, evenings from 6pm-11pm Then it is off to bed and an early (0430 am) start again....if we go to Peter Faust dam.
The bait-balls usually come out to feed on dark and return to safety in the early mornings.
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Irish joke
paddy was having a drink at his local and his mate simon came up to him and said you look bloody terrible paddy what happen to you (paddy had a black eye). arrr I went to church last sunday and you know when you sit down kneel down and stand back up.. well I did that and when we stood up the lady in front of me her dress got caught up her bum so I leaned over and pulled it out and the bloke next to her hit me.
A week later paddy was back at his local and this time he had two black eyes a fat lip and a broken nose. his mate simon looked at him and said holy mother what happen paddy . I went to church on sunday again and when we all sat down kneel down and stood back up the same lady from last week was in front of me her dress got caught up her bum and the bloke next to her pulled it back out. BUT I remembered from last week that she did not like that so I leaned over and stuck it back in ...
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What do you concider good angling? I was discusing this with angling pals the other day. My perspective is that in order to have the quality of fishing to justlfy a sea angling lisence I would like to catch a fish of 5lb or above from the shore every other trip.
I dont think this is unreasnable and would be interested in others on this forums thoughts!
First off, how much of your license money actually goes back into your sport????
In Australia, we have a license to fish sea and fresh, depending on the state; Qld only has a freshwater license to fish any of 29 impoumdments in the state, of which, 75% goes directly to stocking the dam/dams of our choice and the other 25% is for admin purposes. We do not have a license to fish salt water, ergot, about 90% of the Qld fishos only go to the salt water....
Good angling is enjoying the environment AND your mates' company, as this pic indicates (3 inches of rain)
I'm the one in the red rain jacket. We had a great time in the rain......and NO grog.
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Just a bit more on Australian "coarse" fish
We prefer to call them freshwater fish and some, well, most freshies are in the 2lb-8lb bracket. Yellas=yellowbelly average 5lbs; goodoo=murray cod average 10-25lbs; bass average 2lbs
Then there are these beauties.....1.19 metres and 60+ lbs, the barramundi. They average 40lbs
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Feeding a few red-browed finches on the back porch, Mackay, Qld
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And here I was, thinking that ST KILDA was the capital of Melbourne, Australia.........Bugga.
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caught by my mate in kenya last week, don't know what it weighed, guesses on a postcard....lol
Caught quite a few of them in Australia, where they are called crocodile long toms, or stout long tom. (Tylosurus crocodilus)
They grow to 1.5 metres and 5.2 kg.
They have blue bones and are fairly good eating.
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My son has just come back from Aus (see here: http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?go=charles86 ) and recons a shovel works pretty well!
Tell you what hes looking after the house next year and I'm going!
Hows that for a beach, lucky s*ds!
Dan
Looks a lot like Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island, about 120 km from me, as the crow flies.
Several day trips out there from Shute Harbour and Airlie Beach.
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Appropriate really. Most Aussies agree that cane toads are a pain in the arse.
Seven iron for height, three iron for distance. Got a new "buffo belter", a wooden staff, 5 ft long which reaches most of the vermin in the bushes around the house.
Trouble with hitting them is that they have a virulent poison in glands on both shoulders and it can be sprayed into eyes.
Another way to kill them; dig a hole about 18" wide and deep. The tur....er toads drop in, then ordinary concentrated dishwashing liquid is sprayed on their backs. The liquid spreads over them and they die.
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Errr, didn't Tracy hit Darwin on Christmas Eve of that year?
Yup. Jo and I had to go to the Darwin a couple of months later and the devestation was complete, I vividly remember a car in a swimming pool at the motel we stayed at.......It was blown over a 3 ft high fence.
Complete streets were cleaned up.....no houses anywhere. There was a toilet bowl perched 12 feet up on a 4" pipe; nothing else in the street.
We had to give our names and address to the police and report as soon as we arrived, due to the looters, those lowest of low vermin.
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Sorry, girls, boys and anyone else.........but I hate moggies. They are killers of small creatures here in Australia and I have seen them (and shot them) in the Great Sandy Desert of WA, some 50 miles from any buildings. The bloke, Steve Irwin aka Crocodile man showed a doco a few years ago where a waterhole was devoid of native creatures. He netted 8 cats in one night...
This little creature is one of the small birds that feral cats go for: the sunbird, and no, I did not take the photo; however, we have them nesting in our garage.