Fishing Victoria Forum

You make a good point Bugatti, re the inflatables putting you on your back. As part of the safety management on the PWCs for my work with Gippsland ports, we had to do three jumps and swims of 25 meters each year. This was done in clothes with an auto inflatable jacket. First jump was with a working...

Tyers is tough at this time of the year. Another month and the flatties will fire up. Pity you didn't post about kayak hire stuff ups. I could have washed the redbacks out of mine and lent it to you.

Having given the boat a service and checking all the gear I have been waiting for an opportunity to restock on bait for offshore. Salmon are the target. Launched today after my morning swim at the heated pool. My usual salmon haunt is the gutters next to the entrance. Quick run down there to find st...

Maybe once it reaches 1000 it should just say 1000+
Then you can see if they are a frequent contributor.

A small extract from the NSW snapper research paper. There are snapper spawning somewhere all year round. Snapper leave the bays and bass strait to find warmer water to spawn during winter. It is an unfortunate fact that Bass strait and the bays have the coldest water temp of all of mainland Austral...

Again from egg count research. You only need a small number of fish to repopulate a fishery. It is all about conditions for survival to adult fish. " a small snapper will produce a seemingly respectable 30,000 eggs in a season while a large female might spawn an incredible 75 million or more eggs ea...

Yes Vhf Portable clipped to your life jacket. Add a PLB if it fits your budget.

Yep better than work and if it makes you feel better. I did the same to a work ute a few years back

Well finally a reasonable day for offshore in the tinny. Skipped my morning swim and run and dropped the boat in just after daylight. Crossed the bar on the ebb tide after checking that the swell was down to less than a meter. The trawler on the beach had an occasional wave cracking over it, but not...

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