Reply With QuoteLOL Bigone, join the club. If they had a bag limit on Grinners we'd all be bagging out
Hi all.. I have heard many stories of a plentifull bay.. but I'm yet to see it.. Bag limits... can anyone tell me are they for the trawlers ?
LOL Bigone, join the club. If they had a bag limit on Grinners we'd all be bagging out
Yeah lol
I think the worst is yet to come guys
There's no shortage of vermin and they *do* fight, and they *are* edible. I can rustle up a fight and a feed any day
cheers
kev
The fish ARE there. They are just hiding. It is so true, those who have the ability to head to the far reefs need much less skill to catch a fish compared to those pulling a feed from the bay. My hats off to those catching quality from the bay
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Cheers, Jay
That excludes me then?Originally Posted by Fishinmishin
The fish ARE there. They are just hiding
Cheers, Jay
kev
Quality is like beauty Kev, it's all in the eye of the beholder ..... #
Yum Yum another Cattie ........
Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people seem Bright ...... untill they speak
Check out some of the stories from people like Thomas Welsby from around the turn of the last century. Snapper and Jew in huge numbers from areas inside the Bay caught on cord handlines. I have seen a gradual drop in desirable species in the 30 odd years I have fished the area. Nowdays I would be lost without my sounders, braided lines, flurocarbon leaders and chemically sharpened hooks. When I think back to the gear and techniques used back then I am sure you would catch very little now.
I think it is time to look at closing the Bay to inshore commercial fishing as the pressure is getting to be too much. Get rid of the beam trawlers ripping up the habitat and even close a few areas to give the fish a chance to breed.
Neil
It infuriates me to see the trawlers in the Pine River. It is such a limited environment and to think of what the nets are doing in such a small area beggars belief. What the hell is the gov't thinking of allowing trawling in such a limited resource?
kev
Yea Kev
I cross the Pine Bridge most days pretty early and for a large part of the year there are a couple of trawlers ripping the guts out if the river. Its a depressing way to start the day seeing that sort of pillage of a valuable resource in an area under so much pressure.
Neil
Spot on Neil. I couldn't agree more. Human greed is an amazing, ignorant and damaging tool. I don't like to feed into the politics as some are taking the greenie push too far but a happy medium needs to be reached soon.
My 2 bob.
Cheers, Jay
Yeah mate there isn't much left in bay as there used to be. There is still some spots though that can be productive at the right times, more u go out & the more u pay attention to tides, moon etc you'll get more productive!
When I was a kid it was relatively easy to catch a few fish off jetties and rockwalls. Now its a massive effort, boat, sounder, flurocarbon leader, and early mornings just to catch a feed.
We need to close the bay from commercial fishing.
Reading some of the old fishing books I have from the 80's, it seemed like it was really easy to catch fish in those days.
Does anyone else believe that it is not only commercial fishing that impacts upon fish stocks, but recreational fishing as well? You need only look at Pumicestone Passage on a Saturday morning to see that recreational fishing MUST have some impact.
Lefty
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