Some don't seem to learn....barotrauma

I see a video with Rex Hunt regarding barotrauma....great initiative...however......some don't seem to want to listen, or just don't care.  While we were away at Bynoe, heard different reports on the stupidity of the greedy fishermen who seem to want to keep EVERY fish they catch.

One story about barra was a group of  young blokes from down south going around campers handing out barra becasue they had too many.  The fish weren't legal but they still kept them all!

Another, a group of about 16 boats got onto a reef full of golden snapper and took 70-100 fish per boat, absolute madness !!

 HOW THE HELL DO WE GET THE MESSAGE THROUGH TO THEM ?????

Bynoe 22nd to 26th March

The Family? (Roger, Cathie and Sonny Jim)  had a four day fish at Bynoe over the good tides, great wind (barely any), but probably the wrong moon for some.

                                                                Family Photo?

The water on the flats was milky but right on the edges it was a bit clearer.  Saw heaps of barra but only a few landed.   Most were released a fair distance from the boat!  Water was like glass most of the days with a bit of wind in the storms on Sunday.

Did not see a lot of threadies, but if you got into the holes, like the one in the creek near Turtle Island, there were heaps of blue salmon on the low tide.  High tide in these holes had waves of tarpon, all rolling in different groups.  It was a fish a cast into the rolling group at times.  They were suicidal.  What was interesting was there were tarpon nearly everywhere we went, both up the top and down the bottom.

On the shallow rocks around little Turtle, Hutt Point and and shallow rocky outcrops that we went to there were schools of small (30cm to 40cm) queenies going crazy.  If you sunk a line under these schools there were some big fish running under them.  Hooked a tarpon that had to be 80cm near Turtle under one of these groups.  Lost it but over the four days the biggest Tarpon we landed was 75cm and the smallest 42cm with heaps around 50cm.

As well as tarpon under these schools, we pulled out trevally to 53cm (a goldie) plus a heap of reasonable GT's.

This was basically the same for each day, we started on the flats chasing the barra and then on the low and the rising tides fished around the rock bars.  Knife Island had some of the best just as the tide got over the rocks as it was coming in.

Jim got some early starts and covered some of the areas that we missed but we did a lot of miles checking everything out.  Just watch launching in the dark though.   Jim launched at 5am one morning then lost his bearing and went the wrong way from the boat ramp.  It may have had something to do with the fact that he probably was suffering from the night before.

Rain stayed away most of the time but I did get some shots on the little cam corder...but I'm afraid I am having trouble putting them onto this site.  I will try something else with them and use a you tube connection.

See if this worked (Cathie hates the wide angle lens!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYMYAI6wrA 

Petey fished the Kakadu Klash -where were the fish??

Petey O'Sullivan just reported in that he fished the Kakadu Klash last weekend with Michael and Michael's son who managed to get the biggest fish for the competion and the only fish over a metre.  A beaut 110cm, which they got around 7.30am on the second day.

The first day they were equal third in the comp of forty boats,   but 14 boast never landed a fish.
The second day they got the big one, but the third day their score was a big ZERO.

If they had managed a 58cm on the last day they would have won the bloody comp !!

13 boats caught no fish during the comp.

Well done Petey and the boys from Team Fusion !!