Who's doing what?

I'm off down to the blue mountains with the family and will be taking the .22 and shot gun. Going to do a bit of rabbit shooting and fox whistling with the fabulous Baker Boys. But before that we are popping up to Tin Can Bay on sunday to see my folks and do a bit of fishing and crabbing.

Spot of fishing

Got a weeks chital hunting out of Townsville in first week of January

Bastard my invite must have got lost in the post who you hunting with??

Geez - havent you got it yet - I posted it ages ago ....

Hunting with Clark macGhie.

You got any hints on bringing home headskins/antlers/skins ??? Like dealing with beauracracy at airports ?

Some mates are hunting with Clark last week of December.

Skins yes,ill phone you, bringing skins back is an on going drama right now

What if you have the capes tanned here, will that make it easier getting through quarentine?

Are you flying into Brisbane first Muzza?

Akl - Bnb - Townsville - hunting

then back to Bnb , 4 days near Gympie , then home on the 15th

Tin Can Bay prawns (shrimp) Bakesey have to be amongst the best,I have had them from there 10 inches long and thicker than an old model Chiko roll.Try and get some!
Go out to the lighthouse at the Sth end of Rainbow beach and look down for sharks and turtles,the kids will love it.
Meanwhile I did do a spot of fishing down the creek recently with my old krico .22..Euro carps,rats of the water ways here in Aus.

Do a bit of that here with Koi Carp.

Nice shooting fella's! I've caught a few carp on lures in Wyanglla dam. Bloody things can pull. Also saw a bloke on telly (the show is called River Cottage) who kept live carp in clean flowing water for a week and cooked it up. The people eating it said it was "quite nice"

River cottage muppet,i see that crap is on Australian TV now too.

Yes,they are a great sports fish.I only shot they because they were in a flooded paddock and would have died anyway.

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River cottage muppet,i see that crap is on Australian TV now too.

Yes,they are a great sports fish.I only shot they because they were in a flooded paddock and would have died anyway.

Least he puts a bit of shooting and game-gathering on prime-time TV right around the world. He may be a git but at least it is a promo for the sport. Jamie Oliver does a bit of it too....

I love River cottage. As Matt said at least he shows everything, guts and all.

We'll we're back from Tin Can Bay. Not a bad visit, put the boat in and went for a explore up the Great Sandy Straight. Lots of small fish that went back, we ended up keeping a nice bream and a flathead. Caught a heap of bream but they were just a poofteenth under legal size. Had to watch out for the green zones . Saw a fair few pro's netting the sand flats which is probably why there is bugger all with any size to it. Spoke to some old timers down the bowling club who say that the fishing is crap now days.

This is my young bloke with a small flathead

and his older brother with a small mackerel

Well, weather permitting, I'll pack my kit and bow or rifle (hav'nt decided yet) along to xmas day, have a quick feed with the rellies, and try and be In the middle of nowhere by sundown looking for a Red, or a stray reindeer.

Mokai-Patea's on 4 January for a few days with Cooch.

Patea as in the back end of Taranaki Patea or is there somewhere else afflicted with a similar name ?

from kawhatau base? If so that will make you sweat.Hope you've left a few dumb ones alive round Rangi Bruce.

Flying in and walking out to the base.
Still some in the Orua The guys doing the Contorta heli survey saw enough to keep you and me going for a while.