Hopefully some good news

[peterb59]

Further to my gripe on undersize fish being taken from the Marybinong and Fisheries didnt seem to act. I took the advice of a few bream master members and emailed the head of the fisheries department.
Well i recieved a phone call today from them asking about my email at first saying the patrol the river quite often to which i replied i have fished it most weekends and never seen them for ages.
They told me i should ring 13fish on the day to which i said i had, then they came up with the excuse that the rostered oncall person might not be from melbourne.
After a long chat they assured me they would patrol the river soon.

heres hoping

[IceManDude]

heard that before, wont happen and if it does they'll do it for a few weeks just to be seen and then nothing

they're hopeless

[Fishworks]

I have fished this fiver for over 6 years both boat/land and i have never seen or been asked for licences etc.I have called 13fish several times and always hear the same old excuse no one is rostered on in that area today.So i have now decided not to even bother calling anymore.Hopefully soon they will get caught and drowned in the river.

Cheers FW

[ando_04]

i have only been asked twice, once in the nong walking the banks and also in the boat fishing willy

[Emo]

These damn fisheries tracked me and Hazy about 5 Kms through bush, hills, snow and blackberry bushes up in the high country a few years ago. I had parked the car at a bridge and was walking a tiny creek Trout fishing between Omeo and dinner Plain:confused:

When they finally caught up to us all they wanted to do was check our fishing licenses.

This little excersize must have taken them 2 hours. If they spent 2 hours checking the fish soup brigade along the Nong and the warmies on any given weekend they would make a killing from fines.

But don't hold your breath, obviously making sure we have licenses is more important to them than protecting fish stocks:mad: