North Australia Fish Finder and South Australia Tuna
Posted by Meggs | Fishing and Boating Posts | Posted on December 16th, 2007
Greetings!
Well it’s taken me a while and I’ve always promised myself that I’d do it.
I’ve finally put my order in for the “North Australia Fish Finder 7″.
This is the supposed Fishing Bible up north and well worth the $26.95 investment if you can get your hands on one.
You can order it online at http://www.fishfinderbooks.com/store/index.php/cPath/21
The latest edition has an expanded Northern Territory section in addition to northern NSW rivers including the Macleay, Richmond and Clarence Rivers.
I will leave my comments about the Weipa section for when my copy arrives.
I ordered it on Tuesday and have not yet received it – but it is Xmas and I’m not sure how long it will take to arrive.
The book is some 350 pages long with everything from satellite imagery to GPS coordinates – now that’s something that will come in handy I’m sure!
My wife was away this weekend and one of our crew Wazza, came over for a few drinks and a bit of a punt. I was quite keen to show him this website and blog but will save it for a surprise for all the boys in the new year.
My son Grant (nickname Tuss) called me in to watch a TV show this morning on the Discovery Channel called “Tuna Wranglers”.
It’s a show about some South Australian Tuna farmers and the only downside is that it has American voice-overs.
Apparently, the tuna are placed in a large entrapment that may also snare sharks and (you can imagine!) the American voice-over man has a field day describing how the Aussie divers go into the waters to man-handle and physically wrestle with the sharks to move them out of the cage.
Another interesting side to the show was that they also had footage of the old days where men would catch the tuna on poles and throw them in the boat. They even made mechanical fishing poles that once felt the bite of the tuna would automatically throw the fish over the side and then reset itself!
Anyone who has berleyed up or cubed for tuna will attest that these fish will school in numbers and once you have them near your boat it is very much like shooting fish in a barrel.
Oh well, it did make for some interesting TV. It mentioned that Port Lincoln in South Australia had a high proportion of the town rich off the back of the tuna industry.
Anyway that’s it for now.
Sea you later,
Skipper Meggs