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yellow door 1

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  1. Been mucking around with a few designs to see what works best in the field I have my suspicions that the bent melt will be the most snag resistant
  2. Sacrificial 4lb leaders so I don’t lose the whole rig if they get snagged
  3. Might tie up a few with 6lb mono loops so they break before my 10lb main line does
  4. The “Expendables”. drop shot sinkers 6mm steel round bar 30lb mono loop Wrapped in braid and locked on with a few strategic dabs of super glue. Average size around 7gram Biggest one 10grams
  5. Not the most PC method but Ive heard of guys melting cheese into a chux bench wipe. The material with embedded cheese become a super tough bait that tastes like the real thing. Also seen guys bind cotton wool to the hook and dip it in the brown gunk inside a cray fishes head - Dynamite bait when drifted unweighted down a pylon
  6. So many people have trouble getting the angle of their transducer right. Time for tilt trim power transducers - so you can adjust the transducers angle with a button on the dash Someone get on that
  7. Manufacturers set the eye of their hooks at a particular angle to aid with hook penetration when tied with a standard through the eye knot - changing the angle of pull can assist penetration with certain rigs or make it less effective. If your hook is designed to have best penetration at a certain angle of pull - you need to understand the angles before changing them and have a good reason to do so.
  8. Heres a vid that explains why running the leader back through the hook eye can be advantageous - especially with circle hooks
  9. PS - if you need any tips on how to make your first work bench - just ask
  10. Also looked into reel storage ideas as mine was a bit messy - the fancy photo From the Pen fishing page is taken on an angle to make it look more compact than it is. Decided to just stick with the mess
  11. Theres plenty of stuff lying around the house that can be converted too
  12. Out till 3am not catching Jewies If you are looking for tools and are looking to do more diy -and dont want to spend a million bucks - just bight the bullet and get a combo kit - much cheaper than buying piece by piece - Ozito cordless arent up to scratch - they lack power across the range in my experience - but Ryobi one will take care of alot of DIY - and the 6 year guarantee is real - anything breaks - just take it back and get a new one on the spot (At Bunnings - not sure about other shops returns policy but Bunnings is very painless). Ryobi make 100's of tools that work with
  13. Have you got a photo of the way you do it- sounds interesting
  14. A $4 can of Fiddly bits Matt black from Bunnings can work Miracles
  15. That style you bought is also easy to attach to the side of a storage tower
  16. one of the cheapest ideas Ive seen is a wall mounted $2 pool noodle with slits cut into it. Its completely customizable with regard to spacing. Quick to make - And the Verticle slit holds your rod neatly. Also super quick to put your rods away at the end of the day. Some people also you Computer cable management clips - they have a self adhesive backing. Just stick those to a bit of wood and mount it to the wall or just stick them straight to the wall
  17. But if you dont need it to be compact and get free wood from Kerb side junk piles you ride past - you can stretch things out a little. Or just grab a little table with wheels off a junk pile and you have a mobile unit with storage capacity
  18. Yeah if you want a small rectangular footprint. Those racks are hard to beat. it can be hard slotting all you reels together. Especially if they all sit at the same height. I added feet to mine so they could handle big bait runners pulling the over
  19. I haven’t had a snell fail yet only possible issue is if you bind it the wrong direction around the hook eye or your hook eye has particularly sharp edges i just tie the simple version like Lee Rayner
  20. Just put them next to a decoy 1.5 - fat wire is strong wire - and for $5 you'd get around 200 clips instead of 13
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