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Steve-o

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  1. If you go to the hospital for that they will slice you open to get it out, stitch you up and leave a nice scar. Just push it through, crush the barb, and slide it back out. Two little dotty scars you won't see after a few months.
  2. I think they were rationing 2 cans per day of "near beer" in Afghanistan. It is like 0.02% alcohol.
  3. I never thought beer tasted that good which is why salty food is never far off... to cleanse the palate for the next swill. If I had a beer and didn't start feeling numb around the eyes it wouldn't be the same. I like that natural brewed Bundaberg Sarsaparilla. Apparently it is fermented in the bottle, and if you leave it in the car too long it can become alcoholic. But just off the shelf it's okay.
  4. I've never met an angry cocky to tell you the truth. They usually like the chance to talk to someone who isn't the dog.
  5. I dunno but if you hook two on a hook back to back they flip against each other and make a clicking noise in the water.
  6. Is the high water mark the area of that gets covered in a flood or is it the area that's wet? This sounds like an awesome trip.
  7. I saw this. They want to ban bowfishing in saltwater as a part of the proposal. You can currently bow fish where you can spearfish when it comes to saltwater. They propose ending that. I don't think this sport should be banned or even regulated. I don't think you should need anything more than a fishing license to do this. There should be rules associated with it, such as not done within 50m of other waterway users for safety, common sense type things, but apart from that there should be no special permit system or exemption for bow fishing. Doing so encourages the public to hold the view that bowfishing is inherently dangerous or risky and encourages the perception that bows are lethal weapons and not sporting goods. If it can be taken legally with a line it should be legal with a bow. Sight stalking for fish in inland waterways would probably be fun for a lot of people and get them a feed of remove pests from the ecosystem. Imagine cruising down a waterway on a little boat with an electric motor and wearing Polaroid sunnies and seeing fish hiding in the snags along the shore. Then account for refraction and take a shot and motor along until you seen the next one swimming about. Probably would be great fun and should not be seen as unusual or in need of extra regulation. Having said that I've never bowfished and have no interest in doing so, but I don't think this should be over regulated and should be an accessible option to everyone.
  8. If you are separated from the boat, such as it getting swamped or otherwise sunk, these gizmos don't seem like they will help. Maybe if you run out of fuel you can open it and launch a flare, but if a bunch of you are thrown from the boat it's not gonna save your life. It's gonna still be in the boat.
  9. Best thread on Fishraider. BTW if anyone knows where to get that bed I am interested in the price.
  10. I've heard of whitebait on two tiny gang hooks for bream but not whole pilchards on gang hooks.
  11. I also started getting back in to exercising because I want to do a nine day hike, did a two hour practice run and realised I was way out of condition and was never going to be able to go up and down hills carrying the weight of nine days of gear in a backpack. Ten years ago I was the fittest person I'd ever met but now I am a bitter dissapointment. The plan is heavy weights on legs, back, chest, arms, shoulders until mid-late spring with a calorie surplus for strength gains, then a month of cardio to get the fitness back and burn the fat gained and off I go. Cardio stops you building muscle at the optimum rate. Hope you guys get better soon.
  12. I could not believe it when I first saw it, the way it was so close to shore, the way it was so unafraid, and just how massive it was. I assumed someone had put it there for a TV commercial or something (but onlynl three of us were there) or the fisheries research office right next door up the road (now closed) put it there for research. I did not think it was a naturally occurring thing at all. It had a very artificial feel about it.
  13. On day it might eat a small child!
  14. I can see it form your view, but if you put it in to perspective, mining contaminates an area than can be measured in distances of approximately 5km at the greatest extent. This is a large area in the context of how big your backyard is, or how big a city block is, but 5km of contaminated land is really really insignificant. It's not an entire ecosystem going down. Think about the average walking speed of 5-8km an hour, and think how far you walk in an hour. The area contaminated is less than that and the area made barren (and able to be reclaimed) is much less than that. I have no conflict of interest here my only belief is that the vested environmental interest groups know the exact situation on the ground and want to use fear and panic to control my thoughts and behaviour towards fulfilling their agenda. I believe they show absolutely zero respect for the human condition and seek to exploit it for enabling a level of social conformity reminscent of a police state with ideologues, group think and a cult of confession. Kind of like brainwashing people to burn witches at the stake in the name of eternal salvation for expressing political dissent as in days past. That's just what it looks like to me. They have the FULL picture and only give you the half of it.
  15. Do the signs still say do not consume fish west of the bridge because they're full of carcinogenic dioxin? The nasho is really a nice clean spot and you feel miles away from Sydney.
  16. There's a giant blue groper at least a metre long maybe a metre and a half or more, that lazily swims around Bass and Flinders point on occasion, right at the base of the rocks less than two metres out. Best of luck. It's a monster.
  17. Hi fishkent. The sand between North Cronulla and Wanda is covered in beach worms. Put some stinky fish heads in a stocking, drag it through the inch deep water as it is running back out and look for V's in the water. This is where the beach worms are sticking their heads up for a whiff of that sweet sweet rancid seafood smell. Put some pliers around the V at sand level and pull. You will have a beach worm, sometimes 50cm long! Cut them up in to inch long pieces, thread on a small gape long shanked hook and you can catch anything. There's really nothing in the sea that won't go mad for a bit of beachworm. Off the beach just there you can get bream, flathead, whiting, tailor, jewfish, salmon, dart and I guess anything else that is on a beach. All of these can be taken on worms. If you want, use a big strong hook and get a few 10cm long worm sections and poke them once in the middle on to the hook so you have 5cm of worm either side. That can be your big jewie or snapper bait. You can find pippies too if you walk along with no shoes. Try the beach worms they are better I think than nippers for whiting, and go back and hit the sandflats and see if your luck doesn't change. If you see someone with an Alvey walking parallel with the beach, searching entire gutters each cast it's me. But you probably won't see me around. I've never seen anyone else with an Alvey down there.
  18. Thanks for the thought Luke. If I thought you had a fight worth fighting, I'd be fighting right alongside you. Ultimately I don't see your concerns as outweighing human development in Africa, South America, Asia or the Indian subcontinent. I feel bad that for the second time in this thread mining and big business have been portrayed as evil. I'm not here to change your mind for you but I actually do not resent people who have an idea that they bring to market and become rich off. I am more or less grateful that they gave millions of people something nice, like an iPhone or a PlayStation or even a cheap pair of Nike's built in Vietnam - helping that country establish an economy for future living standard increases. I'm happy with my very unimpressive bank balance that lets me afford the products billionaires push on me, products that enable me to have a standard of living where I can go clubbing, hiking, camping, fishing, diving, driving and wear nice clothes all at the same time as being in a lower socioeconomic class. I really think if someone did all that for me and millions of others, they deserve their billions and they have done great things for the human race.
  19. Hey there Luke. Thanks for keeping this going. I'll try and do every point you raise from here on in. 1. Combustion engines and mechanical parts are a better solution for the developing world. The skills needed to operate and trouble shoot a diesel are much lower than those required for electrical storage, generators and repairs. It's also safer. In addition, electricity needs to be delivered usually with high voltage wires. This type of infrastructure is not available in the rural communities of developing nations, neither is the expertise necessary for maintaining an electrical system. Our systems cannot be transplanted to these places. They do not have the infrastructure or skill to use and maintain the equipment. 2. Droughts are bad. I agree with this. Modern agricultural practices such as powered irrigation, bores and drought resistant crops can alleviate this. Cereal grains could be planted in vast quantities rapidly, and harvested just as quickly, using tractors instead of hand sowing. These grains could be drought resistant crops instead of the traditional crops. The people taken off the land could work in infrastructure development such as road construction, or in stores and banking to modernise the economy leading to other advances due to a labour surplus. 3. Net carbon is determined by global demand. This rig, if it goes ahead, should reduce the pressure on other rigs. Running at reduced capacity could even be more efficient with less emissions per tonne occurring due to economies of scale. Regardless, the emissions at the capture point are not the pressing concern when you have billions of cars on the road and people lighting up their homes for Christmas to show the neighbours their level of social prosperity. 4. Oil can and does naturally leak in to the ocean where no drilling occurs. I have great faith that if there was an oil spill it would be dealt with and cleaned up. The ocean is huge. Over time any oil that wasn't cleaned up would disperse in to the background and become undetectable, having no impact on the environment. The localised effect on populations of marine and bird life would be harmful for that immediate area, but it wouldn't wipe out life and it would all come back in short order. 5. If there was an oil spill and an oyster farmer was hit hard, the government would bail them out and they would be compensated by the company responsible. Life for them would go on. They would still have refrigeration, running water, electricity and food. There are hundreds of millions of people in developing nations without plumbing and electricity. I'm sure the oyster farmer can see the big picture and would be annoyed, but I'm also sure he would survive. 6. You write as if major oil spills are a regular thing and will harm your ability to enjoy the beach. I do not believe this is a regular thing at all. 7. So we are a net exporter of energy but for all the energy we actually use as Australians we are net importers per capita? There are lies, there are damn lies and then there are statistics.... 8. Green energy is in development. I welcome the day it comes. Meanwhile, children are starving to death and living in mud huts. We can do something about this but for some reason a bloody sardine takes priority? And before anyone says they can do it themselves, worry about our own backyard - unless you are Einstein or invented the internal combustion engine or wrote the Magna Carta, you have no dog in this fight. You yourself did nothing and prosper off the discoveries and teachings of others. You are no Da Vinci. 8. Sonar blasting - the problem is what? Some fish died? Okay? I don't see the outrage. 9. The government lady said if anything is built it will be 30km offshore. She said you will barely be able to see anything unless you use binoculars. In fact, I think that that distance is beyond the curve of the earth and over the horizon, so you won't be able to see it or be affected by it. 10. Again localised commercial fishing and tourism should not be placed ahead of human development. This should be about everyone. 11. Am I up against AGL now? Why is AGL here? AGL is a company that does what makes best business sense. Unless you are arguing on their behalf I do not want to discuss AGL without giving them the right to reply.
  20. Pretty sure that's the type of get up people used pier fishing in Japan.
  21. Lots of body boarders access breaks that are not on beaches by jumping in off the rocks and coming back in up the rocks. Maybe they could offer education. I think the reason a lot of people drown is because they think they are going to get smashed up on the rocks and so instead of swimming up over the rocks, try and stay away from the rocks, and get tired, or go fetal position near the rocks and get tumbled around instead of going up and over.
  22. I support anti pollution initiatives and keeping things clean and pristine. I love rainforests more than most. Renewable energy is great, I support this too - less pollution. I don't think people in developing nations should be held back because we, in already developed societies, have decided to boycott certain systems after we already have the infrastructure in place. Sorry, I am more concerned about millions of women dying in childbirth and children dying of dysentry than I am concerned about a shoal of bait off the coast of Newcastle. Let's give them all the coal and gas they need to catch up and talk about it in 20 years, when the systems we gave them need to be replaced at the end of life cycle, rather than hold them back by not letting them use the same things as we have when we still don't have a green solution to replace our own infrastructure. I am now an American woman. Awesome. That was always my childhood dream since I heard that Lenny Kravitz song. It's not about you. I just don't understand how anyone can put personal recreational fishing ahead of global human development. I am not talking about climate of pollution or any of the sort. This oil rig is not going to have an effect on net global carbon, that is determined by demand for fuels. So it's not even a valid global climate issue. Electric cars and a reduced demand for petrol is what will change things. I believe the UK and France are outlawing combustion engines for new vehicles between 2035-2050? In the meantime, a tractor beats a donkey for harvesting enough grain for millions of people in Africa, enabling less people to be toiling in the sun and the development of an economy followed by massive increases in living standards. Hopefully there won't be an oil spill. But if there is, I'm sure there are methods to clean it all up and it's not a cataclysmic event. I really don't think there will be one. I didn't know we were a net exporter of energy. I thought the overwhelming majority of petrochemicals were imported.
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