Hmmm Threadfin on the menu tonight and maybe again tomorrow night and we even released a few
Hmmm Threadfin on the menu tonight and maybe again tomorrow night and we even released a few
Yes mate,Originally Posted by mik01
I will be posting my last estuary report tonight on the pile of banana prawns caught last night by Frank the Fishing Machine. I will restrict future reports to the offshore section where there doesn't appear to be too many knockers.
I now understand why Reefking doesn't post anymore reports.
Cheers
Barry
Some of these knockers would be better off visiting Sea World and just sit and look. For those of us that like to take a feed, it is our fundamental right so long as it is within the law. This site is all about sharing, sharing experiences, photographs and our love of our chosen sport. It's not about knocking and bagging people for sharing their captures and keeping what the law says we can.
There are bloody millions of threadfin salmon, both the Cooktown Blue and the Burdekin King. As has been said, the Fitzroy is just one river that is full of them, even after 150 years of white settlement and all of the pro netters.
Good on the blokes who caught them and good on them for taking them a feed. I'd have taken them too, in fact if I caught 4 or 5 of them I'd have taken them.
If some of you don't like that or can't handle our right to fish legally and lawfully then may I suggest you seek out some form of counselling for the trauma it seems you suffer.
Dave
This is a CHAT BOARD. If you can't take both negative and positive feedback, harden up or don't post at all. Big loss.
1. threadies are dead set easy to catch if you know where and how. Ain't no big hero to catch one or several. They don't fight very hard and most people target them with heavy gear anyway. Big deal.
2. they seem to have poor survival after release from personal experience, talking to others and also talking to a biologist from the Southern Fisheries Research Centre, Deception Bay.
3. Anyone who thinks they can catch as many as they want annd not have an effect on the fishery is living on another planet. There are more and more people targetting the threadies. Next summer, you will have to book a spot. They are a fantastic sportfish to have on our doorstep and we should be doing as much as we can to ensure they remain in good numbers.
So Maybe the answer is to only target them if you want one for a feed?
Neil, you quoted 10-50% (?) of released fish survive. Where did you get these figures from? I took part in a flathead survival study in wihc about 160 flathead were caught on lures and bait, tagged and placed in a holding tank for 5 days and released. The overall surivial was 97%. Probably would have been higher for fish released straight back into the sea. Some fish might be more, some definitely less. I question your figures tho....
Jeremy
"The underlying spirit of angling is that the skill of the angler is pitted against the instinct and strength of the fish and the latter is entitled to an even chance for it's life."
(Quotation from the rules of the Tuna Club Avalon, Santa Catalina, U.S.A.)
Apathy is the enemy
Yep, a lot don't post anymore because of the fish huggers! A lot of information is now lost (as some of the more longer term members would have noticed). JEREMY, it's not about 'hardening up', people just get sick of the constants that it's actually an annoyance to even be bothered posting!
Also, just about your part in the survival study, i have no doubt that you know how to correctly handle a fish - which goes a long way to ensuring it survives? A lot out there don't know and hence the survival rate of those fish would in my opinion be less, as i think HORSE is alluding to.
You're right about one thing, they are a disappointment in the fighting stakes! And yes, they also struggle to survive post release - they're nearly dead at the side of the boat...
I'm with CUSTARO & DOGS, operate within the law - NO problem! You want to keep 1 or 10, that's each persons call! Personally, i'd keep whatever i wanted - it doesn't last long in my circle! We refuse to buy fish! Animals/fish were put on this planet in abundance for us humans to eat and grow - it is part of the necessary food cycle that is required to nurture us - every food type has benefits for the human body and its health. If God didn't want us to eat it, he wouldn't have created it! It's a system and it's there for an important reason... If all the fish taken is being consumed, then the system is operating effectively!
If people don't like the fact i and others keep all my/our 'legal' fish, then stiff! I stopped doing what i was told when i left high school - and as for opinions, just like b%mholes, everone's got one and as Tony Greig once said, 'I don't give a flying F%#K...'!
Take Care T
PS: I see this debate started with Jacks, then Flathead, then Bream, then Snapper and now Threadies... And gradually, you stop seeing reports about these fish being caught! Some people are saying there's NO Snapper in the Bay - how wrong are they? There's plenty around (upto 8Kg) - it's just we're not hearing about them on this forum! Soon, we'll be knocking people who take more than 6 whiting...
Last edited by T1; 22-04-2008 at 11:31 AM.
Don't let them put you off Dayoo! Thanks to your advice I'll be trying a big fat Herring on Wednesday night maybe it will get me the 1.2m+ I'm after.
Regards,
Richo1
Mate, they only did take 1! 1 each! In case my eyes are deceiving me, each man is holding onto their OWN fish.
Get off your high horse, find another site to preach your ways on mate, we have all read the pro's and con's of C&R and also love to enjoy the benefits of fillet and release.
We don't need anymore controversy among us as anglers, divided we are falling. The introduction of marine parks are made all the more easier to be implemented in the state we're in, disorganised and unbanded! If you want to make a real difference to fish stocks, study biology, major in marine science and then implement new rules on what you think should be in place. In fact, why stop there, instead of attacking a single fisher, get public and make a constructive workshop on the pro's and con's of releasing fish healthily and less stressfully.
Jeremy you are right when you say that this is a chat board. But that should not make law abiding anglers, taking legal fish, open to the continual bloody criticism that lurks around the boards. If the C & R guys have a genuine problem, then let them go to the authorities who set the rules and whinge and bitch to them.
Dave
Glad to see the debate going nowhere. Fellas if you want to make a real difference go and preach at a grass roots level. This is not the thread for it, or better yet start your own bloody thread.
As you can see it doesn't change a thing.
Bloody tasty. Group hug.
Keep an eye out for our next report.
Dave.
Nice fish boys and they go real good on the chew. well done.
This is pathetic,as a past member of ANSA 20 years ago I'm disgusted by the comments by some of these members. I quote from your own code of ethics RESPECT THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF OTHER ANGLERS AND COMMERCIAL FISHERS WHO ARE LEGALY PARTICIPATING IN OUR FISHERY. I feel a complaint should be lodged with Steve Slobodzian on this matter and stop individuals bringing their great organisation into such a poor manner of conduct .
So do i mate ,Fish responsibly ,always have, always will ,but never have the gaul to tell any one how they should fish . A very sad event for a fellow member to put up a post and have it turn to this. Personally i feel extremely sorry for the lads who posted and had this shit pushed down their throats and what a top effort of respect shown to a few older members. Yes things have changed but humility and respect should never change.
And there ye have it Chief.............no humility and very little respect for others. Perhaps it's because they hold themselves in such high esteem that they feel they can preach to others.
I really don't know what the answer is as everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and also entitled to voice it. It's just the manner in which they do it that is the question here. When some poor bugger takes ONLY two fish and are as proud as punch of their capture, do they really deserve to be questioned and admonished in public? No they do not. ................I've seen Sergeants busted down to Corporals for admonishing their men in front of a squad (despite what you see in the movies, it only happens in recruit training).
If you have a point to make, then you can make it by utilising the "flea in the ear" approach. It is likely to achieve more, gain you more respect, and not drag down the troops morale............quite easy and gentlemanly actually.............but then again, as I mooted in the first para, only those who have started and aggravated this debate, know their true motives.............hopefully they're just misguided 'cause for the life of me, I don't see how anyone can think that pushing their opinions publicy in such a manner can not be counter-productive.
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Bloody hell chief! Don't feel sorry for Dave and I. We been having a chuckle about it all day. We got a thick enough skin to let this roll over. Just silly to see a thread explode for a debate on what we all heard over and over again.
There seems to be some feeling that the now magic threadfin salmon should be protected against overfishing in the Brisbane River. Sunday afternoon was almost perfect conditions as far as catching a fish. Great moon and time of tide. All the local fishing mags have been expressing how well the fishing in the river is going. "Get in while it's hot" was one headline I recall off the top of my head. Yet, Dave and I were the only boat within sight of us wetting a line. I don't think there is any need for panic. Plenty more fish out there.
mat_anderson04 and gummybusta have been banned for a month as a result of their negative and inflaming comments on this post.
We cannot read every post as I have said many times before and need people to let us know about these things by hitting the report button
It's thisone
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