If you want to make your own unique carp bait that is different and will hook big fish this summer, why not now use these decades-proven cheap homemade protein based bait recipes and ideas (but with a modern twist?!)

Being able to find fish on a lake before you even put your boat in the water is key to a successful day on the water. Looking at a map and being able to read the bottom of the lake and determine the migration route the fish will follow to and from the feeding grounds and where the feeding grounds are from a map is important. This way the time you spend fishing will be in the more productive areas of the lake instead of casting blindly and hoping for something to come along.

The Humminbird Smartcast Rod Mount RF25E Fish Finder If your hoping for a long range this is not the tool for you but if your the kind of fishermen that dosn't want to cast to the other side of the lake then this is an indespesible piece of kit.

The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) is trying to unlock some of the mystery surrounding a fish that lives in the Glenelg River.

CompetitionsWIN! Monster Hunter And A PSP To Play It On By David Wildgoose on June 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM Capcom’s RPG sensation, Monster Hunter, has invaded Australia. Find out how you can win one of four copies of Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite plus one of four PSPs to play it on.Thanks to Capcom’s Australian distribution partner THQ, we have four copies of Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite and four PlayStation Portables to give away.To win - and start your monster hunting, mining, farming, fishing, c

CompetitionsWIN! Monster Hunter And A PSP To Play It On By David Wildgoose on June 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM Capcom’s RPG sensation, Monster Hunter, has invaded Australia. Find out how you can win one of four copies of Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite plus one of four PSPs to play it on.Thanks to Capcom’s Australian distribution partner THQ, we have four copies of Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite and four PlayStation Portables to give away.To win - and start your monster hunting, mining, farming, fishing, c

Nintendo downloads this week: For Virtual Console, you’ll find a memorable Sega character making his return in a classic single-player sci-fi adventure. A new Nintendo DSiWare title that’s sure to have sudoku fans reaching feverishly for the nearest stylus. And rounding out the lineup are a trio of WiiWare titles - two built around water-themed challenges and one designed to keep your mental chops in top shape. Nintendo has now added these new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel and Nin

The Write Stuff By Jon Meacham NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Jul 13, 2009 Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in The Catcher in the Rye, was whether, once you finished it, you wished the author were a great friend you could call up at home. I remembered Caulfield's insight when we convened a roundtable of writers to come to NEWSWEEK. The conversation was honest, and a persistent theme emerged: that for all the frustrations of writing, the uncertain future o

This is an update on previous posts (see our Australia category, here ) we’ve done on the veritable flood of asylum seeking men from Muslim countries attempting to get into Australia. For all you commenters who called me an Islamophobe at this post last week, where I said it was a lie to suggest that Islam welcomes the stranger, note all the flow of refugees is always away from Muslim countries and toward westernized countries. You don’t see hordes of refugees beating on the doors of Saudi