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hooklinestinker last won the day on November 6 2017

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  1. As a part b'day present from my fiancé and a present to myself I went out and got a new toy on the weekend, it's a thing of beauty so I had to share 13 Fishing Envy Black 7'1" with 2500 Stradic Ci4+ running 8lb Daiwa TD Sensor braid. It's a pity I'm working this Sunday or I'd be trying it out down at Onkastompa!
  2. I was at Thompson's Beach during the week and walked right out to the channels that lead out through the weed beds, got out there maybe an hour before low tide (on quite a low tide). Walking through a couple of deeper bommies on the way out I was in the water up to just below the nether regions, and could see some healthy schools of juvenile YFWs swimming around. I decided to make it a bait-free day, and my clear Daiwa double clutch 65 and Bassday Sugadeep were doing the damage in less than knee-deep water, and I reeled in a very fat mullet, a couple of salmon trout, one 40ish cm YFW, and I pu
  3. If you've got half an hour spare, this video was what I watched when I first started squidding - Yamashita Squid Fishing Techniques with Taiki Natsume Yamashita Squid Jigging Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swl5JfD4yvg Taiki describes all the variables to consider for squid fishing, water conditions, tides, time of day, light conditions etc. You'll learn almost everything you need to know with this one video. Changing up your action to suit the activity level makes a big difference for me (landbased), with a more rapid action when the squid are firing, and a lazy flick with the r
  4. I just came across this beautiful specimen while browsing through Reddit, and thought it was pretty enough to share. According to the comments, it's either a California Golden Trout, or a palomino trout; either way, you'd have to get a kick out of reeling something like this in Imgur link: http://i.imgur.com/o2nn9eS.jpg
  5. Hey bjorn, The weather seems like it's coming good briefly on Tuesday so I'm gonna try and do some winter flathead hunting on the flats with my day off. I'm keen to try some SPs and hardbody lures, but I'm gonna be in some fairly shallow water, and I'm not sure what to go for in hardbody lures... I don't have anything in my collection yet, so I'm off to a tackle shop tomorrow to grab a couple of things. If anybody's got any suggestions on what works for them, I'd love to hear 'em! Cheers, and best of luck to all the other winter fisho's out there HLS
  6. Thanks doobie! Quitting has been the best thing I've done in ages, my fitness has improved dramatically, I don't smell like an ashtray, and the aforementioned $$ benefits. I tried Champix (the medication) and patches and all the other things that didn't work, and it was e-cigarettes that finally did the job. Your wife would need to outlay about $150 to get all the bits and pieces to quit (I'm happy to tell you the kind of stuff you need if you like), and it lets you get off cigarettes while still having that familiar habitual element of having something to drag on, and blow out vapour instead
  7. The sky really is the limit when it comes to purchasing fishing gear doobie, as I and my bank account have already come to learn (I only just discovered last week you can buy fly fishing rods that cost over a grand... crazy!!). In the space of about 2 years I have moved from a $25 Shakespeare rod bought at a Normanville service station, to around a $70 Shimano combo from BCF (plus extra for braid), and then onto my current rods, which all cost between $300 and $450 all told once you've spooled them up with good quality braid (Thanks @ Fishing Wholesalers!). In the right hands, the $25 Shakesp
  8. I'm only a relative novice, but I noticed an increase in sensitivity & hookups and a big decrease in line coil problems etc when I moved from my first cheapie rod with mono to a slightly better setup running braid, with a few extra bucks dropped for some fluorocarbon leader (this is just going for small shore-based species). As for line weight of leader vs main line etc, I agree with pretty much everything Scissors and sbarnden have said. I also find that using a slightly better grade of swivel allows everything to move freely gives me less hassles, too. Cheap crappy brass ones jam up afte
  9. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-12/dramatic-drop-in-coorong-fur-seal-population-in-sa/6932998?WT.ac=localnews_adelaide The number of long-nose fur seals in the Coorong has dropped significantly in just a few months, but authorities say proposed population control measures will still be needed. Just five seals were counted in the area last week, compared with about 100 in August, the Environment Department said. Department ecologist Mike Gregg said the seals had moved to the offshore islands for breeding, and were likely to return early next year. "Just because the numbers are low at
  10. There is a seller on ebay with a mint condition one like this here, it looks like you've got a 'slightly used' Len Butterworth Pastime PoweRod there. There are a few hits on gumtree as well if you chuck in Len Butterworth, so you can see what you might have, or what it's worth. Cheers. Here's what a brand spanking new one looked like:
  11. Haha, cheers for letting me know Alex, my ruler must be outdated, it says 27cm, I'll be taking home more fish next time! I just got my hands on some halide Spotters, and I could see schools of little YFW cruising right in front of me clear as day, but the big fellas were harder to spot, I didn't see any large schools of them unfortunately. You weren't kidding about the toadies, they were everywhere. My observation was though, the whiting were mostly going for the worms, and the Gulp! bloodworm and camo sandworms (pre-packed in the short segments) were getting destroyed by the toadies. Ser
  12. Well, for a few bucks in bits'n'pieces from the Reject Shop, I put together a live well of my own, basically a mirror of Alex's basket, just smaller. I took the basket and some preserved bloodies up to Thompson Beach yesterday, and had an awesome day reeling in well over a dozen YFW from 20cm up to 26cm. With such frequent bites happening, I decided to take the girlfriend there today for a few hours. We managed 7 puffer fish, 2 undersized YFW, and I managed to reel in these two beauties, measuring 35 and 36cm. Words cannot express how happy I was when I reeled these in, they're my first 2 lega
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