It's what makes fishing Australia interesting

[Leon Roskilly]

see:

 

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-r...o-1225909812189

[Newt]

And yet most of us fish and still manage to live to a ripe old age.

[chesters1]

i know oz is big but was the boat 50 miles away or 50 meters? do they use meters or miles?

[Leon Roskilly]

And yet most of us fish and still manage to live to a ripe old age.

 

 

Funny thing is that when I was living there, I'd quite happily enjoy a lark about in the surf, but when I went fishing from the beach, and got to thinking about what might be swimming around, I'd not put a foot in the water!

 

 

 

I remember the novelty of returning to the UK and fishing thigh deep in the water, safe in the knowledge that there was nothing to worry about.

 

Then a bass splashed about a metre from me, and I was back on the shore, heart pounding and without remembering getting out!!

 

 

see: http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/at..._videoavi_0.flv

Edited August 25, 2010 by Leon Roskilly

[Ken L]

I remember my first sessions fishing estuary systems in India at might standing in the surf.

I'd previously fished in the top end of Australia and despite the fact that I was one of half a dozen anglers and all the rest were locals who fished there almost every night, I was still very, very worried about crocodiles.

[Clifftop]

I remember my first sessions fishing estuary systems in India at might standing in the surf.

I'd previously fished in the top end of Australia and despite the fact that I was one of half a dozen anglers and all the rest were locals who fished there almost every night, I was still very, very worried about crocodiles.

 

 

A couple of years back i was fishing with a mate and his wife out in the bay, he caught this ugly looking thing covered in spines and i asked him to chuck it back, no the're great to eat he said.

 

anyway we had a good day got back and were cleaning the fish, he was cleaning the boat down and me and his misses were filleting, last fish left was the spiky thing and as i reached for it she said something to me and i got spiked in the thumb.

 

% minutes later the pain was unbearable and i nearly passed out a couple of times.

They took me to hospital in the next town and a nurse shows me a book about fish and asked me to ID it. I showed her and she said you'll live, theres very little here that will kill you. ( South Australia )

 

The treatment was a bowl of very hot water and to stick my thumb into it. This apparently disperses the poison quickly instead of it being localised, it worked a treat.

Edited August 27, 2010 by Clifftop

[Ken L]

lots of fish have protein based venoms and sticking a spiked hand into water that's as hot as you can stand denatures the protiin by physically changing the shape of the molecules so that they don't work as venom anymore.

Works with weavers in the UK and lots of tropical species.

 

Another Aussie experience was catching strange fish on spinners in the boggy coastal creaks up by Cape Tribulation. I've no idea what they were but they were reddy brown and looked like a cross between a bowfin and a lungfish. Only afterwards did I discover that where I was fishing was god habitat for bullrout. Thats not what I was catching but if I'd hooked one it's ods on I would have swung it into my hand.

[Vagabond]

last fish left was the spiky thing and as i reached for it she said something to me and i got spiked in the thumb.

 

% minutes later the pain was unbearable.

 

 

Plenty of Aussie fish will do that.

 

The commonest is the Black Spinefoot

 

Just to show the Aussie sense of humour, thi particular fish is known to anglers as "Happy Moments"

[chevin]

Plenty of Aussie fish will do that.

 

The commonest is the Black Spinefoot

 

Just to show the Aussie sense of humour, thi particular fish is known to anglers as "Happy Moments"

 

 

Yeah, it's a strange one that. It seems that for just a few seconds after being spiked you have an incredible sense of euphoria, then the pain starts........

[JV44]

Danger comes in a lot a shapes out there ,We found the that the Ski/Wake boarders on the Murray were the most dangerous !! but only to themselves as we were in a great big house boat which they cintinually tried to impale themselves on zooming round a bend only to be confronted by what must of looked like the titanic in comparison ,.

Nearly ended up with a snake on the boat that was swimming the river as we motored upstream and didn't see it to the last minute .

Caught lots of brightly coloured things off the Rex Hunt stylee which i swung into had without giving it a thought until now Steve.