Blr243 wrote:Some one else told me you can do all right fishing in the river. It’s surprisingly successful. Most of that yucky look is actually just muddy water , but it’s still a pollution concern to me I would be a little bit wary After the major floods I was working on some of the homes that went completely under and u could see th e high water mudline and it was amuseing to think that a couple of weeks back there could have been bull sharks swimming round the back yard
Stoney wrote:I saw some pictures from WW2 of the Brisbane river and it was clear as crystal. In a book I have just read the author confirms that as well. What happened?
Blr243 wrote:I heard that when u catch bream in the Brisbane river that the bream Get down on their hands and knees and beg you not to throw them back in there
bigrich wrote:Depends what part of the Brisbane river you fish, north of Ipswich the water is clean and clear, I’ve eaten eel and telarpia fish out of it . Beautiful
The brissy river is muddy cause of silt run off because of people. It had a sand bottom and rainforest all along it’s banks in Captain Cook’s time
But environmental change has nothing to do with people.......
Bugman wrote:All I can remember, from many years ago was a guy catching bull sharks in the river. Can't remember which part of the river though.
JimTom wrote:bigrich wrote:Depends what part of the Brisbane river you fish, north of Ipswich the water is clean and clear, I’ve eaten eel and telarpia fish out of it . Beautiful
The brissy river is muddy cause of silt run off because of people. It had a sand bottom and rainforest all along it’s banks in Captain Cook’s time
But environmental change has nothing to do with people.......
Mate I’ve not eaten Talapia but caught plenty of them. I am assuming they cook up alright then? And tips or just cook as you would anything else?
Grandadbushy wrote:Yeah Stoney what hasn't the government partially ruined as far as eating wild game, wild pig, roo, wild cattle, i doubt they've missed any animal yes wild animals do carry disease but what animal doesn't , i'd eat almost any animal if i need to survive, as long as it is cooked well, i'm surprised they haven't pushed harder on deer, hygiene when cleaning up wild raw animals like washing hands several times during slaughter, gloves and cover cuts before starting, you can look up the common diseases and see how to avoid them whilst slaughtering an animal and to eat, government sites will advise against eating wild animals where possible but just think of the old timers and how they survived on eating wild food even today thousands of people still eat wild animals, you know the funniest part of the gov is , to them we shouldn't eat these wild animals yet they start sending them overseas for the food industry ,yes they check the carcass before sending them but almost none were condemned only a minute percentage and even today the same goes for the farm bred animals, one of the main ones today is pesticides in animals from mostly up here from putting animals on previously cropped land where the old pesticides are in the soil , there's a bloke up here who after 17yrs has just had his cattle accepted for slaughter and human consumption by the meat works, my theory is clean, cook well and eat most things.
Stoney wrote:I have eaten some stonking size tilapia out of the Ross River in Townsville because my mate has an Asian wife an she was insistent that we keep them and she would cook them. Bloody delicious for a fresh water fish. I guess the Government doesn't want people eating from the land as you are supposed to throw them on the bank and let them rot.