I have been shuffling between NSW, Vic and Qld throughout the last couple of months, I have spent time in rural Vic and Qld - which isnt all that bad, but I wish I brought my fishing rod on one occassion as there was a really nice lake to fish in! I got a chance to do a 40 minute fish in a lake at Marysville in Victoria the other week which proved to be unsuccessful even though the lake was stocked last november.

All in all its been a crazy time and by the time I finish work the last thing I want to do is look at a computer screen - hence the slow, well non existant updates. Seeing as I am using less and less of FreeBSD I am planning on make a FreeBSD repository on shintara.org that will help me (and you) with issues and how to make things work on the operating system. This is a long shot at the moment but I would really like to make it happen!

I have been doing quite a bit of reading on freshwater, mainly trout fishing and it saddens me to read about the state of our freshwater rivers, mainly in the NSW Central Highlands, a few years ago these rivers were prime fishing spots for all sorts of freshwater species. The drought, a carp plague and moron fisherpeople who dont catch and release have really killed off what is a great part of our fishing culture.

I cant work out what it is that when people catch ten fish they keep them - do they eat ten fish? This behaviour kills our water systems and runs them dry of healthy fish!

An article in the current Freshwater Fishing which still gives hopes and even mentions my favourite fishing ground, the Turon River. To quote "In central western New South Wales the trout do it hard, but those that survive provide a tough challenge for anglers." I suppose persistance does pay off!