Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I fish, I hunt, I farm - worms only here My veggie patch is kicking goals as well.

I did know a Mexican gent who used TNT in a few dams. Oddly one dam he blew up resulted in zip fish. A Big drought later emptied it and thousands of redfin ( Perch) were taken out

Concussion fishing is not all its cracked up to be. Mark 46 torpedo going boom seldom found a floating fish for me either Not suggesting some didn't sink of course! Never checked as bangs in water did bring very BIG fish in to clean up as found too often after aircraft invaded my water.

I have seen some quite good success with "Dr Nobel's lures". I can think of two examples, one in the Leichardt River, and the other in the Sepik. On the other hand a trial in a waterhole at Haydon (near Normanton ) was a dud.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I have seen some quite good success with "Dr Nobel's lures". I can think of two examples, one in the Leichardt River, and the other in the Sepik. On the other hand a trial in a waterhole at Haydon (near Normanton ) was a dud.

You obviously weren't the cove who had a beer bottle in one hand and a "Lure" in the other, JD!

Call that fishing? This is fishing! A few fillets in that one.

Gold Coast man catches huge barramundi after shark chase

Eat ya heart out, Saitch.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Call that fishing? This is fishing! A few fillets in that one.

Gold Coast man catches huge barramundi after shark chase

Eat ya heart out, Saitch.

Well, as Mick Dundee said " A barramundi's a bloody big fish".

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Mark 46 torpedo going boom seldom found a floating fish for me either

I don't think I'd like to be diving anywhere near a Mk 46 detonation.

We used to stun small fish in creeks,using the rifle,or it could have been a shotgun,i can't remember,while one of us would be further downstream with a butterfly net, catching them.
They would then be used for bait.

Did this a lot in Woralie Ck,Fraser island,in the good old days, before all the tourists arrived,and wrecked the place.

Originally Posted by scarry

We used to stun small fish in creeks,using the rifle,or it could have been a shotgun,i can't remember,while one of us would be further downstream with a butterfly net, catching them.
They would then be used for bait.

Did this a lot in Woralie Ck,Fraser island,in the good old days, before all the tourists arrived,and wrecked the place.

My Uncle who learnt this technique whilst serving in PNG used this on properties he farmed in NSW. Climb up a suitable tree overhanging the river with a 303 or 22 rifle in hand. If using the 303 aim for the schooled fish tails, if using the 22 aim for the schooled fish heads. The stunned fish then had to be retrieved which made my Cousin bauk as one of the properties rivers was shark infested.

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