Tasmania is awful.
I know 'cus the Dog says so…
I’m going to suggest that’s a no on the coracle idea. 
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Can we get you a house warming gift? Some bait? Some beer? A life jacket? 
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Shark repellent?
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A manual about how to fight invasive species?
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Technically, isn’t that about 400 years too late?
Looking at the videos… a bigger boat?
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Never too late depending on what you fight for.
Haven’t seen the video. No opinion on that, but I think the kid saw more movies.
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I did say technically.
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Tasmania still has fairly extreme quarantine restrictions to this day, BTW. Plants, seeds, unfinished timber, unwashed garden tools: all forbidden to import.
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My grandfather used to take me fishing for flathead in Port Phillip Bay. Because they’re bottom-feeders, you need a decent sinker (one of those upside-down pyramids) and a section of line to make sure the hook floats about 20cm from the bottom.
Now I want battered flathead.
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For good reasons, mostly. Island ecosystems are not good at coping with globalisation.
Insert goldblum.gif here, sadly. Inverse Jurassic Park setting, in a way.
(When I clicked through to the comic, I was surprised someone would be allowed move cats and dogs, but then, people are very attached to those. sighs)
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I caught the biggest trout of my life yesterday (and that’s no small thing - I obsessively fish for big trout in lakes). Previous biggest trout was last year, at a little over 10 lbs. This one was between 12 and 15 lbs and way too big for the (usually oversized) net.
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Huge! How many servings from something that big?
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Zero. It’s a catch-and-release lake, which is how they get so big. That, and I’m fairly certain it’s a triploid - a modified fish that doesn’t spawn or even try to. No redirection of resources towards spawning means they get bigger faster.
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I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
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I’m OK with it for artificial fisheries like this one. Fifteen years ago, the lake I fished was a low spot on a farmer’s field. They added an earthen dam and now it’s a lake.
I wouldn’t want the fisheries folks to mess with natural lakes and streams like this. Better to support & restore the wild ecosystem and encourage native fish to thrive.
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