Beam trawl query

[timgoz]

The best fish I've ate is either King Salmon or Pacific Ling Cod. Your suppossed to be able to eat Atlantic Cod everyday without getting tired of it. I'm tired of it halfway through the meal. Bland.

Pike would be my first thought on the above (attacking fish), but they drained and then refilled the dam the creek runs into. Some could have survived in the channel though. I'd like to think it is a large Brown.

Fancy yachty types will probably fish- if you bait thier hooks and take there fish off for them Problem is they start skipping rocks & such if they do not immiedeitly start to catch fish.

Tim

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by timgoz

...Fancy yachty types will probably fish- if you bait thier hooks and take there fish off for them Problem is they start skipping rocks & such if they do not immiedeitly start to catch fish.
Tim

Nah Tim, can't imagine yachy types skipping rocks and such...Most are elderly and overweight.They'd maybe just shuffle to fridge for another beer...Then dash of a note to the Boat Design Forums whingeing about loss of points....

[timgoz]

Yep,

Tim

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Nah Tim, can't imagine yachy types skipping rocks and such...Most are elderly and overweight.They'd maybe just shuffle to fridge for another beer...Then dash of a note to the Boat Design Forums whingeing about loss of points....

oi!!!! who said I wuz overweight, 1.83 90kg, dont have a beer fridge, and the whine !! celler is always empty

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Jeff...dock this man a dozen points - he's off topic. This is a boating forum, not a bloody anglers bar.....

invite orf, you are becommin' a typical Ozzie DOB IN THY NEIGHBOUR

[safewalrus]

OOOO! Laze, I like it when you get ruff! thats retreads for you - no sense of honour!

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Nah Tim, can't imagine yachy types skipping rocks and such...Most are elderly and overweight.They'd maybe just shuffle to fridge for another beer...Then dash of a note to the Boat Design Forums whingeing about loss of points....

Talking to me?

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by jack frost

Talking to me?

No, No Jack. It's "You talkin to me...(pause) Are you talkin to me...." Then jump in your taxi and drive off.
Now, go and practice in front of the mirror...

[Guest-3-12-09-9-21]

This is one of the "skimmer boats" fishing for shrimp in Bayou Lafourche - does this qualify as a beam trawl?
--Chuck

[Bergalia]

Attachment 13517
This is one of the "skimmer boats" fishing for shrimp in Bayou Lafourche - does this qualify as a beam trawl?

I've included a sketch of a 'small' beam trawl used here in Australia for 'prawning'. The type I had in mind were the relaly big versions once/perhaps still used in Northern Hemisphere to scour the ocean floor. Between the runners in the sketch the northern version had a series of wheels mounted on a beam - plus 'doors' to keep the net open at the middle.

nu you were old but not that old
BERGALIAbuilt by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company,
Yard No 392
Engines by Ailsa SB Co TroonPropulsion: Steam 6 cyl triple expansion.
Built: 1925
Ship Type: unspecified
Tonnage: 548 grt | 195 nrt | 340 dwt
Length: 159 feet
Breadth: 35 feet
Draught: 8 feet
Owner History:
Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Company Sydney
Status: Not Recorded -

Last updated: by Paul Strathdee from the original records by Stuart Cameron

[Bergalia]

Fascinating stuff Lazey. Thanks - opened up a new source of interest. Bergalia, by the way, is said to be one of the 'original' Aboriginal clans who inhabited this part of the NSW coastline. Gone now of course. Only a few traces left, fishtraps, oyster middens and such - though I did find a broken stone axe head whilst fossicking near Mogo.

[safewalrus]

Thought you'd be keeping the midden going - remind ye of the croft!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

Thought you'd be keeping the midden going - remind ye of the croft!

Wouldn't be without one Walrus...beats a sauna anyday....

[safewalrus]

Aye ken wit ya mean - it's the aroma ye ken!! Lovely!