Chris__64

thats been photoshopped for sure. Magoo is a completely different font and colour. Nice work, have you got a link to the coastwatch video? I've only seen a couple looks like a good show. Cheers heres a link to a good one about catching mullies most here have probly seen ; https://www.facebook.com/260717244043939/videos/261048070677523/

GDay Archerfsh, basically fill a bucket of water until it snaps then weigh the bucket. If it breaks at the knot at 6kg then the line strength is at least 6kg. Good for comparing knot strength. In practice I actually filled the bucket to 2kg then marked it, then 3kg etc Cheers

Coincidentally I just found a 1000m spool of 12lb maxima "ultragreen" in the back of a cupboard that would be nearly 20 yrs old and it seems like new. It's in a little white cardboard box, haven't seen them in a while. I quickly tested it and it broke at 5.5- 6kg [at the knot]. Took a pic but gave up trying to attach it. I also have a big spool of maxima 50lb which would be about the same age and that seems fine too. Used to put it on the old Penn 6/0 HSS but ahven't used that since I sold my boat 15yr ago. Now I've been using it on hand lines with squid jags. Have no easy way to test that.

I have a Lateo 11' M. Has a 40g lure weight and feels like anymore would snap it. Casts further than 10'6" power tip but not a lot in it. Probably with 20g lure would outdo it a bit more. First fish I caught on it was a good 3kg salmon from the bluff wharf. I'm pretty sure if I tried to lift it with the rod it would've snapped even if I kept it horizontal. It's ok at Waits etc but not the most versatile rod. A 4000 Aird seems a little small for it, the 5500 Windcast casts much better but feels a bit too big/ unbalanced. A stradic would be nice but I canna afford it at the moment. Something

I nearly bought a 5000 yesterday for $199 at BCF but just noticed today they are $169. I dunno what their refund policy is but maybe you can return it and buy one $30 cheaper

we used to pump clickers here; -34.763889, 138.507547 at low tide. not much help to you now though, that was 20 yrs ago. was a good spot for st's too. they were white, soft/ not very tough but great for bream. never tried but maybe you can try around here; -34.769713, 138.514720 its as close as you're gonna get now, cheers

good work bloke. is that first pic a blue shark ? where was that ?

theres a series of ten or so of these knot wars; I've had the trilene knot slip with big yfw and their head shaking even after landing several before, and being careful to pull the knot up tight and leave 2-3mm tag. I use mono or flouro, can't comment on braid it [the tri knot] might be better. I'm not a fan of the snell either, the knot bramkin just posted is the only way I know to snell a knot and have had the same probs of it unravelling with head shaking, even with tommies. Like I said before, never had the palomar fail., and it's easier and quicker than the others to tie.

try the palomar knot. the igfa say yr after yr that its the strongest and most reliable knot. Ive never had the knot fail and use it for everything except loops. its the easiest way to tie a hook on too imho. I use daiichi #12 long with 6 or 8lb too for garys, its easier to pass the tag end thru and back than doubled over. I'm "Not (no pun intended!) sure what the difference is between a standard and improved Blood Knot, though..." either , I guess its the same as improved clinch knot no?

try the palomar knot, piece o p*ss. With small eyes don't double the line and put it thru, put tag end thru then go back, you'll see what I mean if you try it. Have'nt seen this thread before, thought it was going to have some detailed gar rigs. I use [off the jetty] the trace with a bottom sinker and 3-4ft of line up to the little berley cage with a cork above it. I put a hook on about 3-4inches of line above the cork and one below. I use a piece of stainless mig wire thru the cork and attach the cage to the bottom but it's a bit of stuffing around, and attaching a new hook to the to

I use a plano shoulder bag type of tacklebox, and tie a scaler bag to it with about 2 metres of rope for the fish when I go wading. they drown after a while but stay fresh. should be interesting to see what everyone else does

thank you sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar ! for anyone else reading who is interested we didn't exactly clean up but we got a few. It looks easy but for a newb [like me] it's a real challenge. Was good to finally meet up with a couple of people off here, Tri came down today and had a crack. Sorry I wasn't more help mate, still trying to work it out myself. I'm sure you'll get there, I can see you have the persistence ! Fishingmad, if you're still having trouble finding them, I can help you out with that much , but I'm no expert when it comes to getting the slippery little suc

I'll seeya at 10-10.30ish tomorrow if it's not too blowy, I think you mean around burns st? shouldn't be too hard to spot. Cheers

I made them and they turned out pretty good but there was a lot of liquid on the oven tray, maybe the snags[slape&sons hot italian from foodland] had too much moisture content. made them exactly to the recipe except I only had 3 cloves of garlic. is that meant to be a tblspn of garlic hoopsy? sounds a lot. thanks for posting, were pretty good for a newB who never made any bfore, cheers

any joy ?