Game fishing man gets caught

A 51 year old man who killed a protected and endangered grey nurse shark has been fined $2,000.

The department of Primary Industries and Fisheries officers found the 1.7m FEMALE shark in the man’s boat about 15km from Pinnacle Point of Forster, which is an important grey nurse shark site. Fishos are reminded they need to know the rules and regulations within each state or territory in Australia before going fishing.

Anyone who sees a person fishing illegally is asked to call ‘Fishers Watch’. (Modern Fishing Nov. 2008)
The fishing board game ‘Starlo Fishing Forever Australia’ has joined the fight in trying to educate anglers to follow the rules and regulations.

Marc Sibille

More manuals over the years have been written about keeping and breeding discus fish then any other exotic fish. This is because they are very popular with pet owners. Discus fish are very sensitive creatures, if you want to keep long lasting discus fish you need to be aware of there preferred living conditions and feeding and breeding habits.

Discus is a native of the calm and warm Amazon River Keeping discus fish requires the pet owner to have the right information about what to expect and what to offer them to make these exotic creatures happy. Discus fish keeps changing their behaviour according to the environmental factors.

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They are generally shy but if your planning to keep discus fish you will notice that they become quite aggressive to there own kind this is because of breeding territory protection. In this type of situation only the strong discus will survive and the week get attacked. Its best to keep to keep discus fish in groups of minimum six individuals is considered ideal. By keeping them in groups it will increase confidence in group members and lower the risk of misbehaviour. Keeping discus fish can bring lots of challenges and rewards at the same time too.

Here are some quick tips for you…

Pairing: Discus fish really don’t take well to arrange marriages, the best way to get a pair to gather is to buy a group of young unrelated fish of the same colour type and let them pair up themselves. This might happen from when the fish are half grown, spawning usually occurs when there ¾ of their adult size. The fish will usually remain a pair until the remainder of there lives.

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Spawning: Discus will choose a near vertical smooth site, which they clean and then the female will lay any ware from 80-400 eggs and then the male fertilises them. It can take between 50-60 hours for the eggs to hatch and another 36-48 hours until their swimming freely.

Breeding Tank: It’s best to keep the breeding tanks simple and to have a simple air powered filtration, spawning sites (terracotta cones, broad leafed plants or slate) and no substrate. The water needs to be very soft so the eggs can develop properly. The quality of the water needs to be excellent and have a temperature of about 84-88F. Also a suitable tank size is 24×18x18.

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Feeding and Conditioning: The parents will need a good and varied diet not just to condition them to spawn, but to provide nutrition when they are feeding their fry. Large water changes, a temperature rise and heavy feeding is often a good spawning trigger.

Fry Rearing: It’s a good idea to give the fry additional feedings of small foods such as (BBS) baby brine shrimp whilst with parents. You will notice after about 3-6 weeks the parents will be exhausted, also the fry will be growing fast it’s a good idea to remove them. This is where lots of tanks and water changes are needed to achieve a decent growth rate. I used to grow circa. 40 fry to just under 2" in a 55G tank, and this required heavy water changing. The discus market is saturated with fish, so it best to grow 20-50 excellent fry than 80 runts. Growth is reasonable, but not spectacular.

So if you’re thinking about breeding discus fish I hope these quick tips have been of some use to you.

Remember it pays to do your research. You can learn everything you need to know at discus fish secrets.

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Marc Sibille

What is the Physical Description For The Snapper?

Starlo Fishing Forever Australia is the fishing board game which offers you Starlo’s profound knowledge of Australian fish and how to catch these fish using this fun and educational fishing game.

Here is an example of Starlo’s fishing tips and extra fishing information.  This will allow you to correctly identify these fish in Australia.

This is for the SNAPPER.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

The snapper’s pink to red base colouration, covered in small, iridescent blue spots, is characteristic, although the intensity of both the base colour and the spots varies greatly from one area to another, and even between individuals from the same region.

Throughout much of their range, larger snapper (especially big males) often develop a distinct lump or bump atop their steep foreheads, as well as on their upper jaws.
These lumps can appear quite grotesque in extreme examples.
In certain areas (especially around New Zealand), even some very large snapper do not develop obvious humps and bumps, retaining the same general body shape as juveniles.

Eric Wagnon

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What’s the Maximum Size for the Snapper?

Starlo Fishing Forever Australia is the fishing board game which offers you Starlo’s profound knowledge of Australian fish and how to catch these fish using this fun and educational fishing game.

Here is an example of Starlo’s fishing tips and extra fishing information.

This will allow you to know what size you can expect when fishing for these fish in Australia.

This is for the SNAPPER.

MAXIMUM SIZE:
Up 1.2 m in length and weights of at least 20 kg, in very rare instances.
More commonly up to about 6 or 8 kg.
Juveniles (up to 1.5 kg) are common in many southern estuaries.

Eric Wagnon

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Common Names for the Snapper.

Starlo Fishing Forever Australia

is the fishing board game which offers you Starlo’s profound knowledge of Australian fish and how to catch these fish using this fun and educational fishing game.

Here is an example of Starlo’s fishing tips and extra fishing information.

This will allow you to know all the common names of these fish in Australia.

This is for the SNAPPER.
COMMON NAMES:

• Pink snapper

• pinkie

• reddie

• big red

• old man snapper

• squire

• rugger

• red bream

• cockney snapper (juvenile).

Eric Wagnon.

Steve Starling caught a Tailor

Here are two nice pictures.

Steve Starling showing the Tailor He just caught:

Tailor Picture:

You can read mor about the tailor in our yesterday posts.

Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling gives more interesting information about the Tailor,
how to catch it, how to prepare it, and so much more.

Just go to :

http://australianfishinggame.com/australian-fishing-game/tailor-care-of-your-catch-starlo/

http://australianfishinggame.com/australian-fishing-game/the-cyclic-abundance-of-tailor-steve-starling/

http://australianfishinggame.com/australian-fishing-game/how-to-catch-tailor-by-steve-starling/

http://australianfishinggame.com/australian-fishing-game/starlo-changes-his-mind-about-eating-tailor/

http://australianfishinggame.com/australian-fishing-game/steve_starling/its-tailor-time-from-steve-starling/

Marc Sibille

Steve Starling explains why you should take care of your catch of tailor.

As a born-again tailor eater, I can tell you that what you do with them
in the two or three minutes immediately after capture makes a big
difference to their culinary quality. Ideally, as they’re landed, cut
their throats, bend their heads back to snap the spine, bleed them out
thoroughly and then get them onto ice, or at least into a cool, shaded
spot. Try to fillet the catch within an hour or two of landing it,
chill the fillets in the fridge for a few hours and eat them within a
day — two at most. Otherwise, smoke them… or let them go! Sorry, but I
still can’t get my head around frozen tailor. Soap with bones would be
tastier, and soggy cardboard more visually appealing!

There’s a certain salty freshness about really fresh tailor, and I now
understand why some people love them as a ‘breakfast fish’. Caught at
first light and eaten two hours later, with the beach sand still on
your feet, they are pretty special, particularly when simply grilled,
dusted with salt and pepper and drizzled with lemon juice. In some
ways, it’s the morning equivalent of that midnight prawn and mayonnaise
sandwich when you get home from a long, late-night prawning session.
The fruits of a joyous labour.

Article From Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling at www.starlo.com.au

Marc Sibille

Starlo explains the cyclic abundance of tailor

From year to year and decade to decade, tailor runs wax and wane. No
doubt fishing pressure, both commercial and recreational, impacts on
tailor numbers, as do a host of other natural and human influences,
from rainfall to pollution and siltation in our estuaries, where
juvenile choppers spend their early years.

Overseas evidence paints the tailor as a classic boom-and-bust species.
They’re caught in South Africa (where they’re called shad or elf), as
well as on the east coast of North America and parts of Europe (where
they’re known as bluefish). In all these places, there are good and bad
years for tailor, perhaps related to climate, ocean currents and the
relative spawning success of adult fish. There’s also a line of thought
that very big tailor tend to produce lots of extra big eggs and extra
big fry, with a higher-than-average opportunity for survival and a very
good chance of producing more maxi-tailor with a similarly high
reproductive capacity in following years. The bottom line of this
theory is that over-sized tailor are an extremely precious resource and
worthy of protection. That would seem to paint the tailor as a classic
candidate for a ‘slot size’ limit, even if only on precautionary
grounds. I couldn’t see too many serious anglers objecting to a slot
between, say, 30 and 50 centimetres, and maybe a reduction in daily bag
limits at the same time. But I also can’t see it happening any time
soon. For one thing, the pro’s would probably howl like stuck pigs, and
that always seems to carry plenty of weight with our fisheries
management authorities.

Article from Starlo at www.starlo.com.au

Marc Sibille.

Starlo explains How to Catch tailor.

There are all sorts of ways to catch a tailor. The traditional approach
is to cast and slowly retrieve whole pilchards or garfish on ganged
hooks, ideally using an Alvey sidecast reel and a long rod. This
technique is about as deadly as it gets when it comes to specifically
targeting tailor. But there are other methods that work pretty well,
too. Metal casting lures are highly effective at times, and so are
plastic and timber minnows, or even surface poppers. Saltwater flies
also work a treat on choppers. So, it must be said, do soft plastics.
Some anglers curse tailor for ripping up their rubbers, but others
don’t mind quite so much, especially when the fish are a decent size. A
one or two dollar tail seems a fair price to pay for tangling with a
kilo-plus chopper.

In addition to destroying soft plastics, tailor teeth are famous for
cutting lines — or fingers! Ganged hooks prevent most chop-offs, unless
a bigger greenback swallows the bait deeply and gets its dentures to
the leader. Then it’s usually all over, and very quickly. Smaller
lures, and especially flies, are much more problematic and, to be on
the safe side, it’s not a bad idea to rig a short length of wire ahead
of any such offering. As always, wire is a trade-off. Using it will
definitely cost you bites and limit your by-catch. Not using it may
cost you a trophy tailor. Keeping the trace as light and short as
possible certainly helps, and 15 cm of fine, multi-strand wire is
usually plenty of insurance when dealing with tailor, even big
greenbacks. All the same, don’t expect to catch too many bream when
you’re rigged that way.

Article from Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling from www.starlo.com.au

Marc Sibille

Tailor is not too bad on a plate

Some folks love eating tailor. I must admit to having always had my
serious doubts in that regard, but recently I’ve swallowed my pride,
and a fair swag of tailor fillets, and I’m starting (slowly) to see the
attraction.

If its fresh and well cared for, tailor is actually not too
bad at all on a plate.

Frozen and mushy, I’d still rather eat the worst
of supermarket sausages, sawdust and all.

Tailor, exciting fish to catch.

But I have no argument
whatsoever with those who claim tailor are an exciting fish to catch.

They strike hard, fight energetically and erratically, jump from time
to time and look great in their newly-pressed silver and gunmetal-blue
winter uniforms. They’re just neat fish.

Article from Steve Starling ‘Starlo’ from www.starlo.com.au

Marc Sibille