Oz Fishing trust

[xtosea]

On the weekend i was approached at Parsley Bay with Dylan and Hal by a guy who claimed he was witht he Australian Fishing Trust or some crap for that matter, anyway he wanted to know where we caught our fish and so on. I read on another site that they did this at Port Stephens and Batemans Bay before they zoned in the Marine Parks, we told him nothing, and i told him that he's witht he marine parks, and he aske dwhat i know about this, i said i know a bit and you are gathering information that will be used against us. A few colourful words were exchanged in the argument with others looking on. He told me to go and bugger off! The bloke is lucky i was so tired from fishing the whole night and day, or he would have been well aquainted with the sharp end of my knife!
Has anyone else ben approached, if so dont tell them nothing! Tell them where to go! I have heard they have ben around Sydney HArbour and the Hawkesbury. Im afriad its prolly gonna happen! What can we do! This is just becoming beyond a joke and is ridiculous its not funny! Im so pee'd off!
Kamil

[mulloway mayhem]

hey mate...wish i was there with ya....i know what i wouldve done....dead man cant talk...thats what i was always taught as a young bloke.....

alot of water out there.....he would never been seen again.....

can i get into trouble for writing that even tho we all know i would never do that :devil-smiley:

[James]

speak to the bloke all the time he is a brooklyn local and like most of us just doing his job.

he is not a bad fella actually an ex jew pro and knows his stuff.
he has been there for a few weeks now but i new him prior to his new employment and he definately doesn t want our beautiful river turned into a marine park he is actually part of the local fishing club with his kids which they take rather serious.

kamil i heard those rumours down the grape vine to, at this stage they seem to be rubbish.

very interesting though

[xtosea]

James i hope you are right! Thats all i can say!

[bam]

dunno lads but there in full force now @ the bay...:maad: ...I think we stuck with em but reckon a better approach would be to move the zones around a bit...give areas time to repopulate and stabilize then open again for say 12mths then move it again....Closing certain areas does let fish stocks repopulate[green zones proved that 2 me up north handling trout]& if moved around could possibly provide better fishin for us all....But if they wernt there i think things would still be ok....Just removing netting by pro's in lake macquarie has increased the fishing outa this world & offshore there have been a lot more juvinial species caught since the introduction of buy out....I know they did the same at botany bay...what has been the impact down there lads????Any ways oppose it before its there cause once in place its a whole lot harder tho i reckon with the right input/backers they could atleast consider moving the current mpz in force now around periodicly as to repopulate the whole inshore estuary system/inshore reef zones instead of single areas...more practible n makes sense to me...what do you guys think????

[leelee]

If anyone was listening to high tide this morning theya ctually expalined what these guys are doing with the surveys.

The guys that host the high tide show are actually getting an independant survey done on the hawkersbury. They are doing it because they know the inevidable will happen one day and thats a marine park.

What they are trying to achive is to fisnd out where anglers fish and what they catch prior to a marine park, so we have some grounds to stand on when they announce where the park will stand.

Hope this makes sense

Also in regards to Botany, I have hardly fished it but today i caught a heap of undersized reds and some realy good sizes, there where heaps of tailor including legal fish, some hige bustoffs and some very good sized trevs. Good half day on the water and I recon its always a good sign when you are catching juvenille species cause that means they are coming back in numbers and we just have to wait for them to mature.

Cheers

Lee