Hawkesbury Marine Park Proposal

Hi All,

It's with great regret to announce that the greens have finally tried to invade the last frontier of the NSW marine region. The Hawkesbury mrine bio region spans from stockton beach in port stephens past sydney all the way down to wollongong in the south.

The greens have some serious clout this time. They have luminaries like Valerie Taylor, the hag who got bitten by a shark 20 odd years ago. Too bad it didnt finish her off. Clover Moore... enuf said, and other political back benders and rubber armers. The greens obviously know they will need some clout this time round cause it will be a big undertaking. Sydney has over 1 million anglers and if mobilised could counteract this movement. But as has been shown in the establishment of other marine protected areas, anglers are an apathetic bunch. Unity in voice is not thier biggest strength. Unfortunate. Drama is, unless anglers are directly affected, they are loathe to unite. We could be an immense political power, able to create our own legislation and govern our own sport.

The Hawkesbury bio-region will unite a large percentage of anglers, thats for sure. But now is the time to act. Everone must write and lobby against this proposal before it gathers momentum. If there is enuf backlash the ruling Labor party will not jeorpadise thier already unstable government and try to implement this. 1 million voters swinging the other way will overthrow them...along with the greens.

So lets do this.
YOU CAN HELP STOP THIS WITH 2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.

1) Copy and paste the text below into a new email
2) In the subject line put "Hawkesbury Marine Park"
3) Include your full name on the bottom of the email where it says
4) Copy the recipients:
To: dp.office@tebbutt.minister.nsw.gov.au
Cc: thepremier@www.nsw.gov.au
5) Click ‘Send’


Dear Premier & Ms Tebbut,

As a recreational fisherman I vehemently oppose the proposal for a Hawkesbury Marine Park. I feel so strongly about this issue that should it go ahead, I will not vote Labor at the next State Election.

A Hawkesbury Marine park has mobilised the one million strong recreational angling community and you can expect to feel the political backlash on an unprecedented scale. You would be best served to dispel any speculation by immediately announcing that a Hawkesbury Marine Park will never happen under a NSW Labor Government.

Regards,

Weekend Report

Hi everyone,

Just a quickie today. Its late in the day and im coming off the back of two days in bed sick.

I hit the Hawkesbury river on saturday with two local tackle store gurus. The main aim was to hit a nice jewie on sp's. Been doing well recently and i put it down to s-factor. The new squidy scent is dynamite for turning lookers into takers. I used to sound out jewies all the time but would only have a 30% strike rate even once sounded out.

Now the s-factor has improved that equation. I reckon i'm hooking 60% of the jewies i sound out. Big call...but it seems that way at the moment. Only time will tell.

So we did manage to wrangle a samll soapy out of a new hole i havent flicked before. It looked the goods, had a nice colour change, a deep drop off, reef bottom, an eddie and panned out to a nice mud flat. All the ingredients for a good bag of fish. Sure enuf we got our mark. Also throw in a couple of good flatties as well.

Admittedly it was a tough day. Mooney ck was devoid of life and wind showed up....again. Seems like November 08 will be remembered for the gail winds and lack of fish. No surprise really. November in sydney is typically bad. But the good news is December usually fires up so bring it on.

I made a personal goal at the start of the year to knock over a jew over 20kgs on plastix in 08. Ive got 1 month to go. So far all i've got is a 11kg model. Cross my fingers.