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General Category => Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Binder on April 07, 2012, 04:37:03 AM
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Remember when you were young and mum would tell you eat your beans, some starving kid in Africa would love to have such food?
Well apart from spending half my life sponsoring starving kids in Africa, I always feel exceedingly guilty and think about those starving kids when chucking 10 or 20 pounds of quality fish in the bin!
But I Reckon I'll get over it.
Took daughter out to Ray's secret NPD tilapia spot (cant miss it, just look for the water) and got in to a few of them. Had to give it away when daughter said her arms were to tired to catch anymore fish. I must admit these things are hardest fighting fish for their size I have come across.
We ended up boating 10 of them between 35 and 40cm. all went in to the Bin.
Daughter with her best one.
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It's odd that you allowed to keep and eat Redfin down south but not Tilapia up here. I would have thought that simply removing them from the water would be sufficient. Any that's 10 less of 'em to worry about. During the trip to the US recently Tilapia was on the menu in one of the eateries in the Bass Pro Shop we visited.
JD
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hey mate do you just use worms under a float for them up there? i normally get them on bread in the ponds around rochedale
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On the bottom, dead, but fresh peeled shrimp prawns or yabbies.
Got another dozen or so the same size today. Took 6kg rods so we could skull drag em in. Daughter did really well as hers was a glass one, and pretty soft. My carbon fibre one was to stiff in the tip, when they got close to the boat and spotted it, they take off like steam trains and their mouths are pretty soft. I pulled the hooks on as many as I caught today.
Was an old fella there who had been watching us pull them in - he nearly had a heart attack when I told him they were for the bin. He generously offered to oversee the binning of the fish for me whilst I was loading the boat. Never did hear the metal lid on the bin open......