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salt aint the only place for big fish.....this is a good size fish but the record is twice this size

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size doesnt matter much, all beats work....you really want jealousy ive got a pic of the 75 pound paddlefish my ex-wife caught her first time out after them.....not big on fly fishing though i do...

smallish snot rocket
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my record smallmouth bass
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these are zoo pics. went to two different and dont rememberwhich are from which.
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very cool.i had fun going through the Adelaide Botanical garden while in Australia. but they had switched to mostly outdoor exibits and being there in the middle of their winter wasnt alot out and...

actually other than feral animals not much you can shoot, few ducks if you take an intensive ID course cause they have a couple endangered species.....Troy was telling me it was near impossible for...

Melbourne was supposed to be mainly sambar deer though sika and fallow would be around too. out of Brisbane pigs, scrub bulls, feral horse, water buffalo, feral goats, fox, camel....prolly others i...

down by Adelaide

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i showed up on Troy's doorstep with little warning and he had just changed jobs so we didnt get to do alot though i was there for 3 weeks.....was going to be hunting outside of Melborne and Brisbane...

i never had a problem with it in fairly stable temps in my basement

either of those should work..

Andrew, beggers cant be choosers....never had luck with temperate species but other than that i dont care.....i do not have a set up like i used to so i am more...

i have zero interest in living there but have alot more exploring i want to do....had to cut my trip short and was only there for 3 weeks instead of the planned 2 months

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the divorce pretty well wiped me out back to square one other than a few guns and my book collection....cause i went AWOL for 3 months traveling out to Washington to help a friend and then spending 3...

thanks for the additional info...good to know....heading back out into the bush this weekend but on the lookout for other stuff mainly

will be over there in a few weeks and hang out and do some hunting for sambar deer and exploring the national part outside Warburton while John is at work during the week....after a few weeks there...

ill keep that in mind, ill be here in Adelaide for a few weeks before going to Johns place in Warburton over there outside Melbourne to hunt sambar...will prolly be around there for 2 or 3 weeks...

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lol see swords got the correct ID befor me sitting with a key to Adelaide plants in my lap

ahhthe big one is Pterostylis sanguinea and the lil one with a single leaf is either Cyrtostylis robusta or subulata

edit: the bold is wrong, read the key wrong, its likely Corybas diemenicus

i started my exploration of Oz with Troy offering to take me out to see some tuberous Drosera he knew about.....unfortunately while i came at a bad time for reptiles(winter down here) was the perfect...

dont know bout cephs but found these my first day here....luckily Troy isnt just a hunter he is an amateur naturalist like me(scary how similar the contents of our bookshelves are as far as subject...

was bout two years in the making and looking back dont think id do anything different so just moving on.....gonna go do something ive always wanted to(Oz) and then start over

yeah i know i cant spell feel free to make jokes bout the title 12 year newspaper man that cant spell.....ha ha :nono:

im sure none of the newbies know who i am but did spend alot of time here awhile back and made some friends...

few months back the wife and i split up after 12 years together, nine of them...