Reply With QuoteThat's a sight that you could never get tired of, Bob.
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SubscriberJust saw a pod of Indopacific Humpback Dolphins [ identified from my 'Wild guide to Moreton Bay'] cruising close in. When I first shifted here, an old Italian gentleman, Angelo Denaro, was regarded as the local fishing guru, what he didn't know about fishing the area wasn't worth knowing. One thing he told me was when you see the dolphins in close, this time of year, the whiting are running. Going to dust off the worming fork [ he told me where to dig wrigglers, too] and get amongst it. Angelo used to walk in the swimming enclosure at Shorncliffe at night and net as many prawns as he could carry. He also told me he could stand on the headland at Shorncliffe and watch thousands of sand crabs walking in the shallow water, the good old days, Bob
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
That's a sight that you could never get tired of, Bob.
ForumSage
SupporterWalking up the beach yesterday, I reckon I came very close to breaching the 300 metre exclusion zone around a whale with her calf.
I have never seen one so close to shore before. It looked like about 100 metres, so given how hard it is to judge distances across water, it was probably really about 300 or 400 metres.
I have been closer than that in a kayak, but I never expected to be that close standing on the beach.
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Wizard
SubscriberAll of the high tech water temperature satellites and current and tide monitors give good information about fish habits and migrations but good old fashioned observations by professional fisherman such as the one your mate gave you are more than usually a far more predicable and accurate tip of what is where and when.
My grandfather was a pro-fisho for a while and while others were launching their boats to go out for a fish he would wrinkle up his nose and say "They are not on today" A check at the ramp that afternoon usually confirmed he was right.
When he said lets go fishing, you knew we were going to get a feed.
As for the whales, while being magnificent creatures, they are not as smart as what some people say and have been known to bump into boats drifting along fishing. I have had a number of them come up very close under the boat and others that have breached right next to the boat so close that the splash wet us.
We were not looking for them or chasing them they just appeared. Caution around these huge creatures is well advised. The thought of 6 tonnes plus of whale landing on you is not one I want to contemplate
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Swaggie
I would love to be in WA to see this:
Hydroplaning Dolphins
OldBushie
Mmmmmm whiting, yummy (particularly king George)
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SubscriberOn the bucket list is the trip to Sth. Aus. to catch some of those, & to scoop up some sand crabs, & get on the wine, BobOriginally Posted by Vern
Mmmmmm whiting, yummy (particularly king George)
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
OldBushie
Oh yeah bob, the eastern side of the Eyre peninsula, blue swimmer crab and king George whiting territory. And a brilliant place for a holiday (whole Eyre peninsula that is).
But pack plenty of fishing gear
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SubscriberCan't wait!, BobOh yeah bob, the eastern side of the Eyre peninsula, blue swimmer crab and king George whiting territory. And a brilliant place for a holiday (whole Eyre peninsula that is).
But pack plenty of fishing gear
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
AT RESTThe King George are a southern species, further north they get sand whiting.Mmmmmm whiting, yummy (particularly king George)
I fished Morton bay when I visited a mate in Wynnum, the dolphin were at the mouth of the Brisbane river.
Fishing from a boat in the bay produced Grinners, ( sort of like a whiting but with big mouths and sharp teeth , Flounder with big TEETHand some funny looking caterpillar worm type thing that swallow the bait and their body was full of hair like spines all over
I don't know if there is illegal dumping of waste into the bay but these things were creepy
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