G’day fishos. It’s just unbelievable to me that some people just can’t seem to help themselves and continue to do the wrong thing on the fishing scene.
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I recently received a press release from NSW fisheries, you may have already seen it somewhere, where it explains how a compliance operation took place in the first two weeks of June and about 100 offenders were put on the books.
The end result for those offenders was $24,000 in fines!
Not Quite
The bulk of offences revolved around taking illegal size crays which could mean the crays were either over the 12 centimetres carapace length maximum, or under the 10cm minimum.
A dozen or so were caught craying in closed waters.
This is the fifth year these rules have been in.
So it’s obviously hard to believe those caught didn’t know what the story was so it’s very hard to feel any sympathy for them.
The fisheries boys have been having a ball out there and it costs most offenders $500 a pop but you still see people doing it.
Crossing the line
It’s a similar story below the Lake Hume weir wall.
This is where some fishos continually flaunt the rules and fish above “the line” which is a large fence with a dirty big sign on it saying you can’t fish above this point!
The fisheries boys have been having a ball out there and it costs most offenders $500 a pop but you still see people doing it.
As an old mate of mine, Frank McDermott used to say, “there’s one born every day, the sad thing is nine out of ten of them live!”
Fish Findings
Dartmouth hasn’t really changed much in the last month or so, it’s still ticking along nicely.
Plenty of good reports of fishos catching decent numbers flatlining King Cobras, Tassies and the like, or using fenders or cowbells as an attractor with all sorts of things behind including scrubbies or those great little Yakamito “slim minnows”.
Lake Hume is a bit of a battle at the minute but there are some decent fish still being caught.
The trout are there but not in huge numbers although one lucky angler picked up four on the troll in the Bowna area a week or so ago.
Most are being picked up on either Cobra style lures or small divers such as the ever reliable McGrath’s.
The McGrath’s also give you the added advantage of maybe picking up the odd yella or reddie.
Graeme Wilson and his mate Tim picked up around 40 or so reddies and a small yella last Sunday in the Bethanga bridge area on blades.
The reddies were all pretty small though.
But the interesting thing is that they came out of about 20 metres of water, which is a lot deeper than most of us would normally fish for reddies.
Could be worth a shot next time you’re out!