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Hey Guys.
Just a quick thanks to the fellas I met on the weekend towards Mary river way at the boat ramp.We had a chat and you were telling me how your trip had started bad as you forgot your bait and had no throw net.As I didnt need mine I lent it to you and off we went.
It was blind faith that thought I would see them again but just thought I have been there before and its not a good feeling after planning,getting up early and all the other fun stuff that goes with fishing.To my surprise my nets turned up at my doorstep last night so thanks for returning them.

Jez

Throw nets out towards Mary River? They are illegal there and in Kakadu too.

Bait? What's that?

people doing it at shady, seen live baiters at mouth and barrage

was that the fellas in the 520 renegade?

Geez guys, how about good on ya for trusting a random bloke, and just as good he returned it.. TOP STUFF!!

Sounds like someone with the house breaking implements passing them onto someone else... Then sobbing them in on the www!! Like your work!

dannett wrote:Throw nets out towards Mary River? They are illegal there and in Kakadu too.

So is bait

You can use nets outside the Mary River Management Zone box. The box is reasonably small but poorly defined via GPS data, I tried to get the co-ords a few years ago and it wasn't as easy as it should be, from vague memory they used an old measurement system and I wasn't game to print my calculation of the zone boundary in case it was wrong, as there could be legal implications.

The management box is slightly less important now the area is open all year, but I expect it will be retained for managing regulations such as livebaiting.

Even if people were allowed to livebait Sampan mouth etc, I doubt it would make much difference if the rules were circle hooks only, to prevent gut hooking of horses. I don't think the mullet would like it tho ...

I am fairly sure you are allowed to live bait further than 100m away from the barrage on the Mary River? You just cant use nets in the system at all to catch the live bait.

Kakadu you arent supposed to use bait at all or nets.

Much of Kakadu you can only fish for half the year, the road closures see to that.

cuddlescooper wrote:I am fairly sure you are allowed to live bait further than 100m away from the barrage on the Mary River? You just cant use nets in the system at all to catch the live bait.

Kakadu you arent supposed to use bait at all or nets.

Pretty sure this is correct. Nothing stopping you using bait out on the reefs.

Nothing stopping you from using bait in Shady camp as long as its more than 100m from the barrage. Kakadu is different. Technically you arent supposed to use bait untill yuo are out of the kakadu box which includes Field and Barron islands were a lot of people fish. If you look into the rules a bit more I think from memory that you are only supposed to use a single hook through out the system. No trebles, So I was told any way by one of the TO's I worked with.

Sweaty wrote:Geez guys, how about good on ya for trusting a random bloke, and just as good he returned it.. TOP STUFF!!

This x 2.