come down to the cannijg bridge on sunday and ill show ya how to find the bream----- its not that hard really, just a size 2 running sinker down to a size 4 hook and a whole headless river prawn threaded onto the hook

yeah i used to dig for bloodworms around redcliffe

the rule ussually is u have to be 5 feet from the river bank to stop destruction of habitat

 and b careful of the head coz it has pinsers that they use to cut through branches that will probably try and get you

 around canning u might b a chance for a cockel also a good bait :)

Man, been sooooo many years since I did that, but (if my memory serves me well), the correct thing to do is dig beyond the low water line and replace your 'dig'. Not sure if there any laws etc (now) from (what is now) the Swan River Trust etc.   

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

Well I think I better not take the risk and give it a crack. The prawns do well anyway. Its good thing to probably research through though.

Cheers lads,

Darda. H

Darda, when I was back in Perth, you could buy blood worms. They weren't cheep, but perhaps an option mate. 

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

tried the frozen ones but they were beach worms and when thawed out they didnt even look right so i used to brave the cold water even in winter to get the fresh never regreted it always got the goods .bonus was cobbler loved the worms also but they are now protected so i believe. 

RUSS

"A family that fishes together stays together"

G'day Russ

Yeah, now that you've mentioned it, I vaguely rmember something about that, so I went looking at the WA Stae Law Publishing website - both at:

The Fish Resource Management Act (1994):

http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/pco/prod/FileStore.nsf/Documents/MRDocument:5921H/$FILE/FishResMgtAct1994_02-f0-00.html?OpenElement

(another rediculously long URL!)

The Fish Resource Management Regulations (1195):

http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/pco/prod/FileStore.nsf/Documents/MRDocument:7253H/$FILE/FishResMgtRegs1995_07-g0-00.html?OpenElement

(ditto!!)

- no luck.

Then I thought, perhaps it ws an environmental issue, so I went to the Swan River Trust:

http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/portal/page?_pageid=973,2910247&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

..which refrred me over to the SLP site.

As I'm 51, I think I'd die of old age before I sift through all of this.

I'm sure that they don't make it easy is just accidental

I might drop both DPI and the SWMT an email and see what they say! 

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

i do recal back in the old days when i dug the dirt they did stop you from digging in some areas of the swan and to keep the dirt off the bank.20 plus years back :s@#t must be getting old: 

RUSS

"A family that fishes together stays together"

Heck mate - it's 36 years for me - can't do it any more, the zimmer frame legs get stuck in the mud

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)