Comments on: The Ponde Tree

By: stuart

stuart — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:35:08 +0000

man thats completly and utterly carless
these fish are as deep rooted in history as they are in their snags!
save the fish or else the next time you go fishing youll go hungry!!!
catch and release ONLY!!!!!

By: rod

rod — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:36:32 +0000

Hi Nuffster,
Mate I think you will find one of these trees in most well fished areas. With time they will become fewer with any luck. Thank you for your comments on the yarn. Ponde tree, cod tree one and the same.

By: nuffster

nuffster — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:49:39 +0000

Hi rod,iv seen two of these trees up along the murray at merbein and never heard of the name
befor .
Good story.

By: shade

shade — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:05:06 +0000

This reminds me of something my grandfather said to me years ago.

“Thank God we didn’t have chainsaws in my day”

By: Ray Clifford

Ray Clifford — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:35:13 +0000

Great peice of poetry to sum up a sad looking picture Rod.

I’ve seen a couple of lonely heads nailed to trees but nothing like this ponde tree, and I’m sure we have all seen Cod heads hanging on the walls of many small river town pubs, but the biggest collection of mans cunning over beast was the Ponde Wall in a pub at Coonabarabran in mid NSW, the heads where racked up side by side from the biggest of about 80lb down to the smallest of about 10lb, their would have been about 40 of them, At the time which was about 18 years ago, It was an impressive sight for a young bloke that didn’t give a hoot about fishing, Not sure how I would react nowdays knowing I’d rather have the swimming in the river catch myself.

Cheers.

By: rod

rod — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:38:21 +0000

I have had the misfortune to have seen several over the years, each as glum as the other. There’s nothing pretty about death, regardless of what it is and even less when it’s put on display in this manner.

codmac

By: Boobs

Boobs — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:52:06 +0000

unreal, like TB and Steve I have never seen a pic of a Ponde Tree, heard about them years ago but thought it was another fishing story.
Good little story.

-Boobs

By: SMH

SMH — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:53:37 +0000

Rod,

Have never seen one for cod but have seen tree`s and piers with large flathead frames nailed to them around the mallacouta & bemm river areas. One would hope that I never come across a Ponde Tree.

Steve

By: Codclassic

Codclassic — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:09:04 +0000

Rod

The best short piece of writing I have ever seen that relates to Cod. Unbelievable story and pic. Have never heard nor seen of this stuff before.
I must be living in a slightly different world where our fishing mentality has a bit more respect hopefuly.

Cheers The Big Cod