Thread: bream

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

Oops! Cultural disconnect. .

Not really Bob, we have freshwater bream too, and catfish.
Saltwater Bream are also called Brim in some places and there are the fighters, Estuary Perch, I fly fish for these and someone asked me how do you know when you have one, my answer is, while retrieving with the line between your forefinger and thumb, they are suddenly pulled through the stripping guide, these buggers, pound for pound really give the bream a hiding.

Originally Posted by Iain

Not really Bob, we have freshwater bream too, and catfish.
Saltwater Bream are also called Brim in some places

Well, I feel summat better. Although we spell it bream, we pronounce it brim in all regions. Catfish are something else again. Not unusual to catch a 20 to 40 pounder in some rivers locally. Give you a nasty puncture if you're careless. But good to eat, filleted and skinned. Large market here for farm-raised catfish fillets.

And how do you catch catfish fillets? use the same bait as for kippers

Originally Posted by Iain

And how do you catch catfish fillets? use the same bait as for kippers

I can't see why you would have a competition that promotes the capture of that many fish. All the bream comps down this way require the use of live well tanks and the release of the fish after the comp. I'd guess you might be able to keep some based on bag limits.

Weisy, how many other boats were in the comp and how many fish were taken in total? Aren't you a little concerned over time this will have an impact on the Bream population in your area?

HH.

we just got back from tonights fishing trip.

we left here (gold coast marina) at 4.30 and just returned about 30 mins ago.

we have not counted the catch but it is probably about 45 we filled the esky. and we got 2 whoppers that will be over 1.4 kg. bigges i ahve everr seen.

Originally Posted by HappyHammer

I can't see why you would have a competition that promotes the capture of that many fish. All the bream comps down this way require the use of live well tanks and the release of the fish after the comp. I'd guess you might be able to keep some based on bag limits.

HH.

yer and look were you live "la la land"


there was about 15 boats and 400 fish went all together.

I've been hesitant to reply to this thread,
cuase I have grown tired of internet arguments.
But, second big catch in a week, well I will have my say.

Personally I love fishing, and do it with a passion.
I fish to eat, and take pleasure in it- though the kill itself is always hard. As soon as I have caught enough, for me and my immediate companions, then I stop fishing. Sport fishing and catch and release, I just don't agree with.
Catching 90 fish for a competition, well that just makes me mad.

Most people I know who catch and kill a lot of fish are the types who will fillet off the very best bits only (ooh yuck, not bones) and end up throwing away a considerable amount of the fish. If not this, then maybe they will chuck it in the freezer for a few years untill they have to throw it out to make way for some fresher catch.
This again sickens me. I despise the wasting of meat- killed animal, fish or red meat- whatever.
I cook my fish whole, and very carefully and very well, and savour every little bit possible. I consider it a very serious and important thing to be taking the life of another animal just to enjoy catching, killing, and eating its body. It infuriates me to see disrepect and waste within this process.

I am all for people taking the initiative and responsibility to catch and kill their own animals rather than purchasing from the supermarket in a sanitized foam and plastic packaging in total isolation from the reality of its provisioning. But excess and waste within either form drives me crazy.

each to their own I suppose, though it irks me.

Weisyboy,
you must have a bloody big freezer
I know you said you give some away,
but,
135 fish in one week,
any chance you will be giving it a rest soon?
What condition do you think the oceans would be in if we were all catching and keeping the amount of fish that you are?

I find this is just pure stupidity, send me a reddy because I don't really give a rats ring, but to gloat about senseless slaughter of a resource is just absolutely moronic.
I have seen it happen in our rivers and we started to get some control and get it back, but to boast about catching more than what you really need is an admission of cretinism.
I love fishing, and because of people like you my kids probably will not have the opportunity to.

Me too, I haven't bought into this yet because.. well I was hoping it was some sort of unusual thing ..

You are the reason that the casual recreational fisherman like myself can't get a good feed when we do get to go for a fish.

What world are you living in that you think that you can go on a public forum and boast of such unsustanable practices..... What do you want - a pat on the back!

By the look of your other threads IE the grass tree's that you had ripped out of the ground you are a lost cause mate...


Have a redie mate.

Most people I know who catch and kill a lot of fish are the types who will fillet off the very best bits only (ooh yuck, not bones) and end up throwing away a considerable amount of the fish. If not this, then maybe they will chuck it in the freezer for a few years untill they have to throw it out to make way for some fresher catch.

i simply remove the head and gut and keep the rest you remove to much meat when filleting. i also keep the head and gut for crab bait and burley so none is waisted. the fish dose not stay in my freezer for moore than a month befor its gone.

you must have a bloody big freezer
I know you said you give some away,
but,
135 fish in one week,
any chance you will be giving it a rest soon?
What condition do you think the oceans would be in if we were all catching and keeping the amount of fish that you are?

we give away at least 50% of the catch to friends and rellies so they do not have to eat the crap that is imported from veitnam.

i have a regulsr sized freezer (top of a fridge freezer) to keep the catch in. but have a chest freezer for bait.

as i said i only do about 3 or 4 trips like this a year the rest is only a "few" winter whiting.

no offence but most people are not capable of catching that amount of fish. and there is that many bream around that i am not making a dent. you can snoirkle along the seaway walls and you cant see for the schools of bream and the schools are sometimes 40 ft accross. there is billions of them here.

Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb

Me too, I haven't bought into this yet because.. well I was hoping it was some sort of unusual thing ..

You are the reason that the casual recreational fisherman like myself can't get a good feed when we do get to go for a fish.

wat the hell do you think i am i can go out all day and fish and not catch a thing. (i went out at 9 am thismorning and did not return untill about 3 pm and only landed 2 small flat head only just legal but i threw them back because i new i would gety plenty tonight.)
however when we went to the same place tonight i got those fish.

What world are you living in that you think that you can go on a public forum and boast of such unsustanable practices..... What do you want - a pat on the back!

i have just as much right to post here as anyone else. i do not go on about the amount of timber everyone is wasting. there is no diferance.

By the look of your other threads IE the grass tree's that you had ripped out of the ground you are a lost cause mate...

those trees were dead i planted them in my garden around the pool about 20 years ago when the house was built and they died recently. the scrub around here is full of them. i would not go and start riping down green ones. then what would the kids have to use as toy spears

Have a redie mate.

thats a bit harsh aint it. i have given out tones of greenies but never no mater what i thaught of anothers post have i given a redie. its just not cricket.

forgot to mention we eat fish in my house as others eat beef and pork and lamb. i am a strong beliver in beinbg self sustainable i grow all my own vegies and chooks for eggs and meat. we hardly buy and food from woolies. its the only way you can be sure it dosent come from china.

just thaught id mention that 50%($100) of our club fee goes toward restocking of the species we tearget. thats about $4000per year. as well as the volinteer work we do that puts back (as fingerlings) nearly twice what we take.

I don't give them lightly, only the second I've ever sent. I really find the keeping of that many fish offensive in this day and age. Let your relies and friends catch their own fish, and keep only what you can eat straight away.
Mate where have you been in the last 10 - 20 years. Don't you buy fishing magazines? Or don't you read the articles?

Actually mate I'm wondering about your boasting. I fish up on the broadwater at least a couple of times a year and i recon the only way you can be getting those numbers is by fishing in the canals where people feed them ... even then its a big ask...

BTW whoever edited my first post ..thanks I was a bit upset.