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Had to look at last years posts :PGarfish & King George Whiting, Murray Darling Basin was European Carp & Golden Perch.

Many people are probably already aware of this but thought I'd post it up anyway.The Pirtek Fishing Challenge is on again, quite some time until the day yet.Check it out at https://pirtekfishingchallenge.com.auHope you have better luck than I did last year :whistle: but hey you've got to be in it to win it and there are some great prizes up for grabs.

Well done once again fellas! Now...Just how many of those cameras do you have Jimbo?? haha

I was able to shrink the file size down of the PDF sent to me by Tacklebags. The file is attached for those interested.The Neurobehavioral Nature of Fishes and the Question of Awareness and Pain - Dr. James D. RoseFISHPAINsml.pdf

Good job Jimbo! Cheers for the vid always great viewing

I thought you weren't allowed but this customs link kinda suggests it's only certain types of knives http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4369.asp#e1066

I know it's illegal I tried to import a cigarette lighter and it was confiscated by customs Didn't actually realise at the time it was a not allowed.

Oh yeah Gimp, forgot about that one.Photo's turned out pretty good. Like what you've done with the weed, amazing what playing with the saturation and contrast can do. Not sure what settings the programs have that you used but in Photoshop I always play around with the levels, gives you more control for changing the contrast as you can change the dark, light and mid tones separately.Good stuff, I look forward to seeing some fishy pics

Nice mully mate, love the 2 camera setup, awesome

Hi TT,There's a bunch of free online photo editing tools which seem pretty good. Here's a few:http://www.picnik.comhttp://pixlr.comhttp://www.lunapic.com/editorA Google search will find a whole heap more

Great catch Sian. Another great vid too Jimbo

That's a good guide breambo :clap:Should help out a few people

Nicely done! I think a bit of squidding is in order for me

Ok, That's it! I'm getting a canoe shaped fish attractant Just wondering, when you painted the MM did you happen to put a little tuna oil or some kind of fish attractant in the paint ???

Came across this after looking online for fishing shows and docos.A fishing game on the National Geographic Channel site, I'm guessing many of you have come across this before but for those who haven't here's a link and a couple of screen shots:http://natgeotv.com.au/games/hooked/Enjoy

Always keen for a fish jimbo

Another great vid, very cool setup with camera :clap:Not a bad couple of onka mullies either

Great post Jack Only coming across Strike & Hook last year when I caught the fishing bug I am a complete amature. The amount of info I've gathered from the site has been astounding, whether it's searching through old threads or posting up a "How do I catch this" or "Where to catch that" thread, I've had nothing but help from lots of fishos on here.Fisrt time I ran into someone from the site was back when I decided to go to a MPLAG meeting down at Aldinga, ran into a bunch of suss lookin blokes, I recognised JimboJames as I too had been following his posts on his Mully adventures, then was introduced to Banga and Mully Madness. Had a couple of fishing catch ups (one of which I'm sure a couple of us are lucky to come back from alive ) and look forward to catching up again.I regularly catch up with Waterboy, Woody, Flubba and who ever else shows up on a Sunday at the Onk. I've only seen 1 big mully run which unfortunately spat the bait, but I AM HOOKED!!! This year I'm keen to target mullies, might not have any luck but watchin a few of the die hards goin for mullies I've learnt a few things that should help me out.I love the boat threads, so much so that I bought an old trashed boat as a restoration project, probably won't see water for ages, hard work but I love it.When I started fishing, it was bream, bream, bream after reading on here and talking to S&Hers I've changed that to, bream, whiting, mullet, tommies, st's, leather jackets, now looking forward to upsizing my catches to something a little larger :)Sorry about the long winded write up folks but thanks for all the inspiration and help, definitely made me a happy fisher.and UHF we'll catch up for a fish some day

I use a Lee melter, 220v version is available, mine came from the US via ebay ;)Heating the moulds is a must for me otherwise the lead won't come out as easily, a few pours the leads pop out with ease. In between moulds I rest on the top of my melter. I tried sooting up with a candle but it didn't work too well, I probably needed to soot up more.If you get a melter my best advice would be use clean lead or if you use dodgy lead like me, melt it in something old, I use a baked bean tin, then pour out ingots (just large sinkers ) then use them as clean lead. I say this as my melting pot is covered in rust on the inside, this buggers up the pouring spout where the lead drips out, clogs up all the damn time, wish I hadn't buggered that up as now it's easier just to pour from a tin If you mould running sinkers a bycicle spoke is good to use for the holes, heat em up first like the moulds, I have a pice of wood on the end to use as a handle.I'd have to echo what Rickster said about safety gear, I wear welding gloves, glasses and a mask, a sinker dropped out of a mould bounced off my bench and landed right between my legs on my chair, last time I ever sat down and did moulds, I now have a permanent reminder melted in my chair of what could have happened to my leg.

I've recently been researching the affects of Barometric pressure on fishing and amongst the info on this thread which was very helpful, I came across a couple of other sources, they had tables and info so it was easy to read etc.I put together a table with the info I found for us noobs, it shows barometric pressure, fishing conditions, how to fish that kind of thing. I know different fish do different things but this could be a kinda overall guide.please more experienced fishos let me know if you think I should change anything on there ;)I know I had too much time on my hands BarometricPressureandFishing.pdf

Haha hmmm... yeah.... I meant 5

Hi everyone,Just looking for some photos for the new Onka Stompa website. We have photo galleries of previous Onka Stompas and really need some photos of Onka Stompa 7 which was 2009.We do have photos for the other years but any additional photos are most welcome.If anyone has any photos and wouldn't mind them appearing on the website, please send them to: bjorn@elementmedia.com.auIf you have a bunch of photos that you'd like to share please let me know prior to sending hundred of huge photos to my email ;)Thanks guys n girls for any photos you can share.

I've thought about doing this, it would be a cool project I reckon. I found these woodworking plans via Google.beginner-project-fishing-pole-rack.pdffishingrodhold.pdfAlso found these on youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQv4Cf7acsQ andhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqy8JjwhtsM There are heaps of vids on youtube

nearmap is cool. I've been using it to spy on my neighbours :ohmy: not really. Been looking at buying a house, very handy for that. Took me about 60 seconds then ohhhh look at that great fishing spot.

Here ya go bigtime, is this what you were expecting? Now seriously... Any mullet down south? I've heard there are a few inside O'sully's breakwater near the boat ramp and pontoons.