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The Autumn sunsets are back, this is always the best time of year for some ripper sunsets... took these tonight.. (5-4- 2017)
 
cheers
Adrian
 


 
 

Took this photo tonight from the back deck here in Sheffield.. it's a typical Autumn sunset after a wet day..
 

 
cheers
Adrian
 

The " Trout Stalker  " has new sunnies!!! My money was on you for the win Adrian. Well done!
Cheers,
Greg.

The " Trout Stalker  " has new sunnies!!! My money was on you for the win Adrian. Well done!
Cheers,
Greg.

Wow!!  Just found this out, thanks to Spotters for putting up the prize and also strike & hook in picking my report as the March winner.. It's very much appreciated, thank you Bjorn for selecting my report..
 
They will be put to very good use inn the rivers down here in Tassie.. 
 
PM about to be sent to you..
 
cheers
Adrian

The staff have had a look at a whole bunch of reports and we are quite impressed with the amount of reports and the quality of report content.
 
Consistently posting up great reports full of pictures and interesting information we decided the winner of this months fishing report competition winning a cool SPOTTERS prize pack is.....
 
Meppstas with our favourite report being A few more trout caught this morning...
 
Congratulations mate! A very well deserved winner of the SPOTTERS prize pack!
 
The SPOTTERS prize pack includes a very cool cap, sun shade, sunglasses strap and a pair of awesome SPOTTERS FURY (Gloss Black) with Halide lens.
 
Please send me a PM with your contact details so we can get the pack sent off to you ASAP.
 
Thank you to all who posted up a fishing report in March, once again a month of excellent fishing reports!
 
We'd also like to thank our sponsor for the competition SPOTTERS! Please check out the SPOTTERS website for their full range of sunnies that are perfect for fishing and many other outdoor activites. There are heaps of different styles, colours and options available.
 
>> www.spotters.com.au <<
 
 
Good luck to everyone for the next competition to be announced soon.

Damm
 
Mods could you please turn pic 3,6,7,12 and 13, 90° to the right please.
 
Could well be my fault sitting by the pool up here draining rum cans
 

 
Bloody hard work lol
 
Cheers
 
WILDA

Now that's pretty sexy!.... I go more 'old school': 90mm storm pvc with end caps, rods bagged with some rags or bubble wrap jammed in each end so they don't move around much.

If i'm traveling with rods, they will always go in my rod tube...   My fishing gear is like family 
 

Rob at South Oz Rods on Mullers Rd. put a new tip on my unused Ocea 732, after casting "imaginary" stickbaits into "imaginary" bustups and smacking the tip into the concrete floor  . Stupidity pain is so different to "hammer onto thumb" pain  . Cost of repair was $20 and it looked like new..

I snapped 3 rods one night.. giving them the "flex test" you think i would have learnt after the first one broke..
 
Damn beer......
 
Lucky they where just cheapies tho!

Rob at South Oz Rods on Mullers Rd. put a new tip on my unused Ocea 732, after casting "imaginary" stickbaits into "imaginary" bustups and smacking the tip into the concrete floor  . Stupidity pain is so different to "hammer onto thumb" pain  . Cost of repair was $20 and it looked like new..

Haha, sounds like the type of thing I'd do.
 
At least it sounds like stupidity is not going to be to costly.

Rob at South Oz Rods on Mullers Rd. put a new tip on my unused Ocea 732, after casting "imaginary" stickbaits into "imaginary" bustups and smacking the tip into the concrete floor  . Stupidity pain is so different to "hammer onto thumb" pain  . Cost of repair was $20 and it looked like new..

It has taken me a few weeks of mourning to post this pic'!  
 
I managed to snap the tips off both my bream rods, a Venom Death Adder and a Dynamix Bream, which were in the car on a fairly recent road trip to Marion Bay. Depressingly all my own fault!
 
R.I.P. my friends.
 

An update, now Youtube and Facebook know about the comp so get those reports coming in!!!
 

Hope this image loads ok. Photo attached.

Took this photo this morning, didn't come out all that good as I only used my small Canon camera that I use for trout fishing..
 
Didn't have time to grab my good camera  and set it up as the moon was setting too fast at the time.. May get up early tomorrow and see what it's like.
 
Cheers
Adrian

Lanes Hunter
 
Get yourself one of these, and wire it up under your bonnet near the battery...
 
 

 
 
Blue Seas CCT Breaker
 
Same style you get for electric anchor winches...
 
Around $50 - $70 depending on where you buy it from
 
Hope this helps
 
SF

Now that I am on the wrong side of 50, my good wife decided that the days of me hand winching the Northbank onto the trailer, were to come to an end, and bought me a electric winch for Xmas. Bonus! Better than hankies and socks.
 
She got me a Powerwinch 712A which is made in the US and has about a 3400kg pulling capacity. Which is heaps to drag in the 500C.
 
Then I just had to install it. Being Mr Tight A I wanted to do that myself and not pay someone to fit it.
 
The post on the front of the trailer where the hand winch was - I had to measure a point on the post where the new winch would sit, and allow the cable to be level with the boat's draw ring in the bow. Then removed it and cut the top off the post nice and straight with a drop saw at that point and welded on a 6mm plate to the top. (I predrilled the plate to fit the winch mounting bolt holes).
 
Then off to the galvanizers. $33 to get the whole post done. Came up a treat. There is a trick to preparing a closed tube for galvanising - you have to drill the end plates so that the liquid will get in - and flow out - whatever angle it is dipped. Look on the web for that.
 
New marine grade stainless 10mm x 30mm bolts, nylocs and washers  from Universal Fasteners at Wingfield. $10.
 
The cable supplied with the winch wasn't going to be long enough to run under my 4WD. So I had to get 6m of 6mm twin core auto cable. Which I ran under the car using ribbed conduit as required + plenty of zippy ties. I then got 2 Narva Anderson plugs - put one onto the cars 7 pin socket mounting bracket at the rear. Nice and neat. The other I cut the supplied cable to the winch and put it on the end. The cable and plugs were $28.(You will need crimping pliers for the Anderson plug connections).
 
Connecting to the battery / earth was pretty straight forward, and I used a 60A inline fuse to protect everything. No fuse, maybe one day your car burns to the ground. The winch peak draw is 90A - so I wouldn't go higher than 60A. If it blows, it blows. Better than a fire.
 
Bit of stuffing around but it works great. Not sure how much the winch was as it was a gift $300? Plus another $80 of bits.
 
 

Exactly Booma.  We pay a cost for the licence, the money goes to (hopefully) more fishery officers, facilities etc.
 
The video is a very worse case scenario and will never happen that way - it's just going to extremes in many comments which can blow out to all proportions unnecessarily.
 
And yes BerneyB, it would be good to have these issues addressed now, but it just ain't happening.  Whether it would happen after a rfl was introduced - who knows, but at least there maybe a little more 'sway' seeing people will be paying for a licence and expecting more results.

I just don't get why people are afraid of what could potentially happen (big brother and misuse of information and all that), when it clearly doesn't happen in other states.
 
Getting a fishing licence in Vic or nsw is basically no different to filling out the online form to get into Innes national park here.
 
Regardless of what pressure comes from whatever group is making suggestions, pretty sure any rfl we do end up getting is gonna be a bog standard, pay your money, get your card, get a warning/fine if you can't present your card when asked while fishing type affair. If dealing with that inconvenience means we get more fisheries officers, better facilities, stocking programs etc (as it does in other states) then I'm all for it

The answer can be found here in this historic video about the construction of west lakes. Takes one back in time this video! 
 

I hope mods approve? If not delete
 
 

 
watch his other vids also

Howdy all, 
In my spare time, I have created a fishing blog where I write about most of my fishing trips, well the successful ones anyway. To save copy/ pasting content from my blog to this forum  I have provided this link below for any of you who wish to read about my recent fishing  adventures:
Cheers all- LL
 

http://lachycross.wixsite.com/crossyscatches