He probably doesn't know it is a naturally occurring mineral.
It was secretly created in a lab from petrochemicals .
Last time I looked, there were heaps of lures and jigs down there too someone must of gone in and got all the good stuff already.
I was hoping for pic's of all the cave's there I never got many when I was out the front of the point, plenty of picks from the top on my 19 trips out there since 1981 tho.
He probably doesn't know it is a naturally occurring mineral.
It was secretly created in a lab from petrochemicals .
Last time I looked, there were heaps of lures and jigs down there too someone must of gone in and got all the good stuff already.
I was hoping for pic's of all the cave's there I never got many when I was out the front of the point, plenty of picks from the top on my 19 trips out there since 1981 tho.
Pretty shocking but what a tool he is. Divers removing fishing gear through tears - laying it on a bit thick. Just more fodder for the anti-fishing lobby unfortunately.
We are certainly living in a climate where people are going extreme with their attention grabbiong words/phrases to get their point across i.e. diving through tears and toxic lead etc.
The divers had lead weight belts if I am not wrong? And I am pretty sure lead has a very high resistance to salt water so yeah, its in the water, but its form doesnt change for centuries.
What a load of dramatic pearl clutching shit.
Still, the state in which the fisher folks leave Steep Point really pissed me off when we went there.
There was heaps of cut off line, lure / bait packets and just general rubbish in the cracks/holes in the rock. This was down from the sign and by the edge of the dry stuff so entirely from the fisherfolks who go there and appreciate it because it is such a good spot. Yeah we could talk about the bank of generators running, chest freezers and marquee cities setup too, but we're focussing on the rubbish.
The change to fishing rules, as we all know, is going to put added pressure on the shark bay environment so there is going to be more pressure on those of us who recreationally fish in these areas to lift out game to make sure that bit of plastic that has blown away has been picked up and ultimately do out best to leave no trace. Yeah, if a line snaps there isnt much you can do but lift your game and dont give people ammo...
Using AI, it is easy to write dramatic stuff now. Here is a paragraph that I put in and asked it to make it more dramatic:
"The changes to the fishing rules, as we all know, are going to place more strain on the shark bay environment. And because of that, the responsibility is on us, the everyday recreational fishers who love these waters becomes heavier too.
This place gives us so much. The calm mornings, the thrill of a catch, the memories we take home. The laset we can do is gove something back. That means lifting our game - every one of us - and making sure that the stray bit of plastic that blows out of the boat doesnt end up drifting into the ocean. It means taking those few extra seconds to look around, pick things up and do everything we can to leave no trace.
Yeah sometimes a line snaps and there's nothing you can do - that happens to all of us. But everything else? Thats on us. WE can choose to be better. WE can choose to protect this place. And if we do, we take away the ammo from those who say recreational fishers dont care. "
I am hopeful that that those who create the problems and draw negitive attention are not regulars on this site.
Unfortunately it is not just Steep point that gets shit left lying around, as a recent trip to the Montes showed, the lack of care with idiots lighting fires at their camp spot , discarding headlamp batteries along with a myriad of other rubbish that should have been taken back to the mainland. Then these same people wonder why these places get locked up.
I found the same thing at the montes recently, shit left everywhere and you only have to watch a couple of youtube videos of the place and you can see the intelligence of some of these pelicans!
I work on the Kwinana strip by the beach and have seen people fishing in the morning (balloons out). I went for a walk at lunch and found the rubbish buried in a shallow hole (could see the plastic sticking out), with bait still in the bag.
Seems way overblown, albeit the line and lead on the bottom is an ugly sight. Similar would be found at any fishing spot with snaggy bottom, around jetties etc. In the scheme of things, those sinkers on the bottom likely represent stuff all lead going into the environment. Stormwater runoff around Perth is know to be contaminated with heavy metals, including lead. So a few slowly dissolving sinkers is likely way less that what's going into local waters around Perth. Nonetheless, the lesson is that we should try to do better, maybe shifting to different sinker materials and things like biodegradable fishing line that breaks down over a few years rather than decades or centuries.
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Wow!
Wow!
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What's the title it's under .
What's the title it's under . Will look it up later
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Billcollector
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So some more greeny shit to
So some more greeny shit to get fishing banned there as well....
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What a flog....
He lost me when he said 'Ocean floor paved with kilos of toxic lead sinkers leaching poison into the eco system.....'
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Not a commercial quantity
He probably doesn't know it is a naturally occurring mineral.
It was secretly created in a lab from petrochemicals .
Last time I looked, there were heaps of lures and jigs down there too someone must of gone in and got all the good stuff already.
I was hoping for pic's of all the cave's there I never got many when I was out the front of the point, plenty of picks from the top on my 19 trips out there since 1981 tho.
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Not a commercial quantity
He probably doesn't know it is a naturally occurring mineral.
It was secretly created in a lab from petrochemicals .
Last time I looked, there were heaps of lures and jigs down there too someone must of gone in and got all the good stuff already.
I was hoping for pic's of all the cave's there I never got many when I was out the front of the point, plenty of picks from the top on my 19 trips out there since 1981 tho.
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Sponsored by no one and I work for myself so my comments are my own.
davewillo
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Pretty shocking but what a
Pretty shocking but what a tool he is. Divers removing fishing gear through tears - laying it on a bit thick. Just more fodder for the anti-fishing lobby unfortunately.
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marble
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I wonder if Leon is
I wonder if Leon is involved
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sea-kem
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He probably wrote the
He probably wrote the script.
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We are certainly living in a
We are certainly living in a climate where people are going extreme with their attention grabbiong words/phrases to get their point across i.e. diving through tears and toxic lead etc.
The divers had lead weight belts if I am not wrong? And I am pretty sure lead has a very high resistance to salt water so yeah, its in the water, but its form doesnt change for centuries.
What a load of dramatic pearl clutching shit.
Still, the state in which the fisher folks leave Steep Point really pissed me off when we went there.
There was heaps of cut off line, lure / bait packets and just general rubbish in the cracks/holes in the rock. This was down from the sign and by the edge of the dry stuff so entirely from the fisherfolks who go there and appreciate it because it is such a good spot. Yeah we could talk about the bank of generators running, chest freezers and marquee cities setup too, but we're focussing on the rubbish.
The change to fishing rules, as we all know, is going to put added pressure on the shark bay environment so there is going to be more pressure on those of us who recreationally fish in these areas to lift out game to make sure that bit of plastic that has blown away has been picked up and ultimately do out best to leave no trace. Yeah, if a line snaps there isnt much you can do but lift your game and dont give people ammo...
Using AI, it is easy to write dramatic stuff now. Here is a paragraph that I put in and asked it to make it more dramatic:
"The changes to the fishing rules, as we all know, are going to place more strain on the shark bay environment. And because of that, the responsibility is on us, the everyday recreational fishers who love these waters becomes heavier too.
This place gives us so much. The calm mornings, the thrill of a catch, the memories we take home. The laset we can do is gove something back. That means lifting our game - every one of us - and making sure that the stray bit of plastic that blows out of the boat doesnt end up drifting into the ocean. It means taking those few extra seconds to look around, pick things up and do everything we can to leave no trace.
Yeah sometimes a line snaps and there's nothing you can do - that happens to all of us. But everything else? Thats on us. WE can choose to be better. WE can choose to protect this place. And if we do, we take away the ammo from those who say recreational fishers dont care. "
I am hopeful that that those who create the problems and draw negitive attention are not regulars on this site.
Billcollector
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Unfortunately it is not just
Unfortunately it is not just Steep point that gets shit left lying around, as a recent trip to the Montes showed, the lack of care with idiots lighting fires at their camp spot , discarding headlamp batteries along with a myriad of other rubbish that should have been taken back to the mainland. Then these same people wonder why these places get locked up.
swarf
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rubbish
I found the same thing at the montes recently, shit left everywhere and you only have to watch a couple of youtube videos of the place and you can see the intelligence of some of these pelicans!
Swompa
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I work on the Kwinana strip
I work on the Kwinana strip by the beach and have seen people fishing in the morning (balloons out).
I went for a walk at lunch and found the rubbish buried in a shallow hole (could see the plastic sticking out), with bait still in the bag.
Theres fish because its a healthy environemnt.
If its full of rubbish, there will be no fish.
Stop being fu<king lazy, people!
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Watched it the other day.
Watched it the other day. They go on about fishing lines but what about the 1000,s on mtrs of nets that get caught up in the oceans around the world.
As far as lead sinkers go . They have been using lead for blast in boats for centuries .
All a bit of a joke imo . Don't like seeing rubbish lying around and in my opinion that's a whole lot worse that what they show
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Swompa
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They would sob uncontrolably
They would sob uncontrolably to the point of dehydration if they ever saw the amout of shit that flows into the waterways after a decent downpour.
marble
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Millions of smoke butts a
Millions of smoke butts a year . Lazy filthy pricks drop them everywhere
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sea-kem
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They should head over to
They should head over to India and clean the Ganges up.
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flangies
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More drama than a Neighbours
More drama than a Neighbours season finale. It's a 200m stretch of a 150km coastline of cliffs.
Reefsta
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Not the best but
Seems way overblown, albeit the line and lead on the bottom is an ugly sight. Similar would be found at any fishing spot with snaggy bottom, around jetties etc. In the scheme of things, those sinkers on the bottom likely represent stuff all lead going into the environment. Stormwater runoff around Perth is know to be contaminated with heavy metals, including lead. So a few slowly dissolving sinkers is likely way less that what's going into local waters around Perth. Nonetheless, the lesson is that we should try to do better, maybe shifting to different sinker materials and things like biodegradable fishing line that breaks down over a few years rather than decades or centuries.