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yellow door 1

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  1. Soaked them over night with no noticeable leaks and just did a test took 6.8kg of pull and the swivel still held - the straw actually snapped in half first
  2. I have tried garden worms in salt water and was a waste of time - die very quickly and became soggy. Although many years ago I use garden worms in the Patawalonga between the lock and 1st bridge and hooked up Bream. Maybe due to some fresh water in the Pat helped the worms to live a little longer. Also tried Catchall Crawlers (good for Sea and fresh water) - wasn't impressed with them either - died quickly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have mucked around with garden worms.
  3. Salmon mullet and flounder have also been mentioned
  4. Just asked the question on a few facebook pages and alot of people mention bream Other mentions are Garfish, trevally, KG whiting, flatties, snapper, pinkies and small Jewies .....- to be continued.......
  5. Great question Malb - Thats something I was wondering about aswell. I know estuarine species like bream love them but I havent used them out in the bay. I have seen a guy slaying grass whiting on them in pure salt water but I wonder what other whiting think of them
  6. One innovative use of plastic that never fails is the old dust pan worm collecter - just head to the local car park and start scooping em up - got about 80 from this stretch - some big boys in amoungst them
  7. Haha - Yeah I havent used it yet - so im not sure how it will go during the water trials
  8. Plastic drinking straw Hot glue end caps with a swivel shoved in Red heat shrink indicator
  9. No worries- that super subtle tail has got me intrigued for super slow wiggly presentations.
  10. actually if you chose the 35mm option you get 50 for $3 - so I went with the pumpkin seed and the white. I reckon they'd be good on the little drop shot rigs I use aswell
  11. No worries mate - seems like anything associated with "Ajing" fishing comes with a hefty price tag. So heres the ali express version - $2.24 for a 20 pack sound more reasonable than some other prices I found https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000197310472.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.6ae936c7mv0SVU&algo_pvid=0e6c14a4-9729-4306-b500-be9bbb5116fe&algo_exp_id=0e6c14a4-9729-4306-b500-be9bbb5116fe-3&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"12000023673453498"}&pdp_npi=2%40dis!AUD!!2.24!!!!!%40210318cb16567613125867579e9b68!12000023673453498!sea
  12. I suck at gars on lures - the guy who caught that one said it was " a mebaru oboro plastic and a small ecogear jighead unsure of what size tho. Cheers" The guys who use these lures fish ultra light tackle and tiny lures - the style is referred to as "Ajing" i believe
  13. Here’s the things they come up to feed on around piers light at night
  14. Yeah when I asked what lures to use for gars, there were plenty of blokes listing all the lures they have got them on - but very few photos. Ive mouth hooked one on a little thin metal lure while chasing salmon. But when I burleyed them up and tried lures, they werent effective for me. So I just whipped out the chicken hunks and started landing them quite freely. If I was going to target them again with lures I'd be using something very similar to this
  15. Heres some footage of gars gnawing on weed - I wonder if they are stripping it for little bugs and snails etc or whether they just like salad. That pointy beak and up turned mouth suggests they do a fair bit of hunting aswell. Lots of guys swear by lures to catch them but I have found it no where near as effective as bait and burley. (I did give up pretty quick on the lures though)
  16. And the bit of wire on the stick was vital too. Once everything gets coated in tuna oil - those plastic stoppers get slippery and hard to pull out - so you need pliers, teeth or a hole drilled through and wire on a stick to get them back out. My guru used to custom turn wooden end plugs on a lathe. They were shaped like a mushroom so they were always easy to pull out no matter how slimey your hands were
  17. I eventually drilled straight through and added foam so there would be no line hanging outside the cage to catch my hook while casting
  18. Some floats need a bit of tweaking and adjustment of casting styles to avoid tangles while casting. But once you get in the rhythm, it can be quite effective. While its difficult to fish 2 rods at once effectively - it might be worth trialing both methods against each other to see which one you like. A light float very a burley float. Bring a towel and have a bucket of water to wash your hands, as gar fishing, especially burley floating, can be a dirty labour intensive style of fishing And always keep their bum pointed away from you when giving them a squeeze while removing the
  19. I like a burley float with a short dropper to keep them around the hook
  20. Good to hear its not getting worse. That crash in the snapper stocks was frightening - I was looking at some graphs of catch rates last night. Something definitely need to be done. Almost looked like an environmental disaster. Like something was wrong with the water They reckon huge rain events during snapper spawning can kill alot just hatched snapper in PPB.
  21. Apart from Rex Hunt getting rid of the scallop cage dredgers way back in the day - here some updates on what the Vic authorities are doing for Port Phillip Removing nets from Port Phillip Bay In 2014, the Victorian Government announced a commitment to grow recreational fishing in Victoria through a number of measures, including the phasing-out of all commercial netting in Port Phillip Bay by 2022. The Government is on track to deliver on this important commitment. What's new? Consultation has concluded on the final management arranagements to end netting in Po
  22. Ahh I see - thanks mate its got to something other than Rec pressure. The amount of boats out in Port Phillip bay has to be seen to be believed and they still keep getting huge recruitments of babies
  23. Just saw this on the Vic Fisheries face book page. Victorian Fisheries Authority 2 h · The results are in and it’s fantastic news! Our scientists have recorded a bumper spawning of baby snapper in Port Phillip. It’s the third best result since monitoring began nearly 30 years ago. Combined with record abundance of baby snapper back in 2018, these two strong year classes will see terrific snapper fishing
  24. Yeah we drove over a school of monster gars with whiting underneath, 30m from the ramp. I was heavily hinting that I though we should drop anchor and burley. But it wasnt my boat and they were heading out to a mark they had done well on. After 3 drops of the anchor, following local internet guru tips and only wrasse to show for it - I was bighting my tongue. But then the locals kicked it old school and went searching for prominent weed beds with long patches of sand leading up to them. With a fair bit of polaroiding - a couple of half hearted - "Should we drop here's" they final
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