Question
Submitted by lame on Thu, 2016-02-11 20:19
Any theories or what they do to keep their fishing spots productive
I personally only only fish a spot 2-3 times a year at most
I also release all females and anything over 8 or so Kgs
As you can tell my families not huge on eating fish its more RandR for me and something in the esky is a bonus
But my spots always produce
I regularly see photos of large pigeon pairs ect
Do you find that fish take there place on that structure
The way I work i figure a male will always find a female 
so when I take one another won't take long to take he's spot which appears to be the case
Just wondering if anyone else has a system or theory they use
crano
Posts: 712
Date Joined: 04/11/09
spots
The biggest secret to keeping spots productive is keeping the spots secret.
When diving most dhus I see that are size are solo.
I have got spots that have been restocking for 10 to 15 years.I dont get fish every time but if just go there occasionally the strike rate is pretty good and all of them are worth a try every now and then
cruzy111
Posts: 274
Date Joined: 08/10/13
Keep your spots secret. If
Keep your spots secret. If you are on a secret spot and any boats come within 500m of you leave immediately. " Never" give spots to mates. They say they wont flog them and take anyone else there. Yeh sure they wont!!! When I lived in mandurah I spent most of the day looking for new spots and I never drifted always achored. I had around 400 spots in the end. I would only go to good ones if I had to. I had around 20 that always produced but rarely fished them. A lot of these spots were in highly fished areas as well. I only used to take one or two dhu of a spot then leave. Never went home without fish. And I never fished in any depths over 30m.
Auslobster
Posts: 1901
Date Joined: 03/05/08
Correct me if I'm wrong...
...but would it not be risky to stop and fish ANYWHERE, even with no other boats in sight, simply because of radar? Some prick could be zapping you from miles away, without you even knowing it. Or am I missing something?
Why else would more and more rec fishing/trailer boats be carrying radars these days?
dodgy
Posts: 4584
Date Joined: 01/02/10
Because there are more and
Because there are more and more boats out there and people like to travel at night. Lost count of the number of dinghys out fishing the sound late at night with no lights on.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
randall df223
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Date Joined: 08/08/11
In regards to baldchin, if i
In regards to baldchin, if i remember my facts right from my tour of the ocean aquarium at shark bay, a school of baldchin has one dominent male thel rest are female. If that male is taken from the school, the next biggest female changes sex and becomes the dominent male.
If we have any marine biologists here, please correct me if i am wrong. It was talked about at the ocean park aquarium in regards to tusk fish, so i assume the same would apply to baldchin.
Fish! HARD!
barneyboy
Posts: 1392
Date Joined: 08/01/09
same for blue groper also randall
and wrasse to I believe.
Even letting big fish go after hooking them whilst they are breeding can make them not breed. They will self absorb eggs/sperm and miss a go at reproducing. Some old barra guru told me that. Made me feel pretty guilty for a whilst even though I had let them go and not done anything wrong.
I farm my spots so they don't get flogged
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
lame
Posts: 315
Date Joined: 20/01/10
huh interesting
Thanks randall
Can you visually distinguish a male baldy from a female ??? Colour pattern or something