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Hi all.Long time no speak. Mine would have to be to build a shack on my block down south end of the peninsula and semi retire for 15 years then fully retire and have fish fresh that I caught for breakfast every morning

Hi all.Go easy on Sideshow.Was my payout to him. DONT everyone else get on the bandwagon becase someone else has. (think back a week to how you all wanted to get hold of the fisherman than killed the bronzie that washed up on the beach) He got into me so I got into him. Sideshow.Im told you can be an idiot but thats expected when you are a young fella sideshow however i am told you can be ok! Not one person on this site can lay claims to being level headed as a young fella. My advice to you sideshow is just think before you leap and you will have less foot in mouth disease! I was a little shi

Hey addict.I was the same from the early 80's and a young fella. My neck of the woods was from port Stanvac to Cape Jervois. Best spot was definately Rapid Bay without a doubt. The only place you could catch everything you could imagine. As a group of 10 young lads we spent 22 days on the jetty in 1984 with parents bringing us up food and booze. We had a hoot and caught some great bloody fish. First was a 4/0 then a 6/0 and went all the way to whale killer 16/0. Best reel woithout a doubt was the 12/0. Balanced and was easier to manage. Nearly got pulled in down at Rapid bay. Bout snagged my l

Hi all.Spiny you can remain a sceptic. However if you read what I posted about landbased from a jetty you may start to understand. From a beach is simpler than from a jetty and I give ya mate credit for his catch.Luke_Westlakes You are wise fella. Some do fight harder than other not just varies between the species. A Mate hooked a 10 foot White in the gulf in boat a few weeks ago and it took him 10 minutes to get the fish to the boat and they didnt up anchor. To me this is unheard of. ANd it was on a TLD 30! He said it put up no fight at all. And yes as soon as he got it to the boat and saw w

Hi Surfish.Tell me the story that you heard.I have heard a few even with others claming to have caught the fish.One that I heard was that I pushed it back dead, If this was the case I would have taken her jaws and sold her to the fella on the jetty that wanted to buy it for his mate that was a chef.Also that it was a white is anotherHave heard that I already took the teeth and then released her??? Can anyone explain this one to me! Also read that it was a gummy, It died from the benz (Divers get decompression sickness from spending to long to deep and not doing a decompression stop or from com

Gday SurfishThere was heaps of Mad crabbers and the odd fisherman. Actually there was a couple of young lads that ballooned out on little reels like about the size of an abu 7000 size about 20 metres from the end & one of them caught what looked like a 3 footer. Didnt get that close to it. Unsure if he kept it or not. Personally I would have as they are really great eating that size.Why is that Surfish?Cheers & BeersTim

Hey SuperThahn.Come on fella you dont know what you are missing!Different strokes for different blokes. The 130 I actually bought on a wim from ebay and it aint going to sit around in the cupboard. Fave reel is a 50vsw and had an 80 VSW on a stick built by Rob Wilson at South Oz Rods. This was a good unit.. Good size and can cope with most that we catch around here, the 50 that is., Unfortunately the closest that I come to is a 6/0 loaded with 24 on a 24-37 stick. Mainly use this for bottom bashing though. Your correct would most likely cope with most that we can catch around here.Have a grea

Hi all.Addict. Cheers for the comment. The only thing that would stop me for fishing for these would be if they made it illegal and then I would probably move to a place that we can.SuperThahn & Bigfish.Yes it was tail roped to bring it up on the sand and then turn it around and push it back out. Every been hit in the wrist by a swinging tail or tried to hold onto one without breaking a wrist. Not pretty.Edit.Bigfish. It was not dragged thru the water backwards. It was turned in about 6 inches of water. Nat dragged backwards as you have suggested.SuperthahnYes have caught a 12'tip to tip (

Hey Superthahn.Sent you an email and a message with my phone number on it to give me a call.

Hi all.After much buggering around we managed to shrink it so here is the pic of her on the beach.To Ranger thanks for your words and to all for the welcome.Have a great day and happy fishing.Tim http://www.fishyorkepeninsula.com/images/attachments/3LMJV081__BronzieGrange.jpg[/img]

Grumps can I flick the image to you and do this ofr me as I am unsure how to do this.CheersTim.

Hi All..The image i have is a 1.38 meg JPEG. Can anyone tell me how to shrink this down so that I can upload it??CheersTim

Hi all. Thanks for your support. Yes it was dis appointing to see her go belly up and land on the beach. Please do not have another lock out. If anyone has a gripe please direct it to me and i will respond and if everyone else can leave alone and have a read all questions will be answered. Lets not get into a poo fight on here over this.Spinnyeel. Would you prefer me to leave the smoothie on the jetty to suffocate, or end its life earlier so that the fish does not suffer. ( If I thought this fish was going to die I would have ended her life as well )I know that I would rather go sooner than la

Gday Guys, To Brookesy. I had a run but the fella that was fishing with me lost a 4 footer as we tried to handline it up it snapped the line.To SuperThahn.I have the strike set at 17kg. I only have it set at this as holding onto a fish that is running with a reel this size and staying on your feet is near impossible. I was told that I hooked up at 11.50 pm and had it at the jetty and 1.50. We did a few up and backs around the posts to keep it up at the end and so that it didnt go under the jetty. Like I said before just because you have the heavier tackle does not mean that you will have the f

Hi people this is Tim that caught the Bronzie washed up at Tennyson. First of all to the person who apparently laid claims to their mates catching it, you are a fool. The fact that It took me 2 hours to bring in means that it was a hell of a a fight.Frankly I am surprised I had her in in 2 hours, The bigger the gear does not mean it will be a skull drag! It means that my gear will not fail! And I bought it on Ebay for a price that I could not knock back as any fisherman would have done that has fished for big fish. To the people that think they can land a 10' on a 6/0 in 30 mins from land base