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Ok the diy legs have been ground down just waiting on some button clips to lock them in IMG_8183.MOV

Ive dived off a pier in the middle of winter - (It was a sunny day) - to catch a sea horse by hand, just to get a photo - so I reckon I'd do the same for 10 squid Jigs - darkness does ad an extra element though - Id probably think a little harder about it. Diving in, in winter is does weird things to your breathing - I was hyperventilating like a maniac due to temperature shock - but one way to control that, is to hold you breath and dive down to catch a sea horse - I discovered you cant hyperventilate while holding your breath Further-est Ive gone to save a $4.50 lure is to wade th

Yeah Id misinterpreted the information given to me by traps - with a trap it seems that they just keep piling in and will never stop eating. But I noticed a definite decline in appetite - after the 45 min mark nearly all the yabbies in the area had backed off. So in the new nets - that are much easier to get out of - it may pay to check more regularly in the early stages Like when you over burley a mullet school - their will come a time when their bellies are full and they go off the bight

Got some "clearer" results last night

I cant cross him off the list - Im still scratching my head - maybe it was the yabbies theres a weird phenomena with those bugs - if you point you torch at the grass it unleashes a storm of bugs - and you kneel down into that storm - you'll be breathing bugs

I was thinking about a summer time Jewie spot thats a bit of a hike from the carpark the other day - So I figured a folding cart would be handy

Now with shoulder strap so you can fight possums, chuck rocks at Yowies and it wont pull you elasticated pants down

Well the torch arrived and its a ripper - apart from heat sensors dimming the light when it gets too hot on turbo mode (The adds say you can start fires with the torch beam)- its perfect for me. Also added a velcro strap at the back for extra security. Its not really required as the mount is tight enough to scrape paint off the torch - but it does make it "impossible" to dislodge - instead of just "extremely unlikely" Also set the torch back a bit, in the holder, so the tip doesnt protrude so much. As any Docks fisherman while tell you - balance is important

its the end with the bulbs that get the hottest but is a short torch, so that means your hands are quite close, if not touching that end. In winter it would probably be pleasant to have a warm tool in your hands but not on the recent balmy Melbourne nights - we've got an over night low of 24c coming up. The mount isnt just to protect your hand - these torches have internal sensors which will automatically dim the torch when it gets too hot - so making a mount will also increase air flow around the torch and hopefully keep it cooler so it can run at higher settings for longer. An

Got a new fish spotting torch arriving soon It’s supposed to heat up a bit On the highest setting - 60 degrees Celsius is the same temp as water out the hot water tap So I made a mount

Also comes in a full diy version https://youtube.com/shorts/ndJxH2SFJmA?feature=share

Yeah we all got done trying to release double header undersized on the weekend I swear the little fellas are more dangerous my mate had misplaced the Flatty flickers I made him last time so it was a painful arvo

Handy when on the water

Yeah I didnt get them wet so im not sure how they react when soaked. The day before I was wearing socks to stop my feet burning but they were getting too hot - even after dunking them in the water to get some evaporative cooling going it back fired - after about ten mins it turns your socks into a steamer. So I'm not sure how the pants would go if they got wet - on a yak you have much better exposure to the breeze so I spose they would be sweet and keep you cool. In a tinny with poor access to breeze - if the pants got wet - they might end up steaming things you dont want steamed.

The "Ike-Hawk" - Another failure - the bigger the carp - the harder the head - and these heads were too hard for the Hawk. The hammer is coming out of retirement

Yeah with all the lines I was interested in at the time - his results lined up my suspicions - if I though a line was thicker than stated - his results would show it - if I thought a line was much stronger - same - if I thought a line was slightly weaker than other lines from the same company - his results would show that too......... So I just trusted what he had written as gospel because it supported all my hunches and made me think I was a bit of a genius for being able to spot these minor differences by eye, feel and using the force

There used to be an independent line tester called PAULUS - his results used to be freely available online but I can find them anymore. They were super handy and showed which brands stuck close to the truth and which ones were wildly inaccurate. His results even high lighted different strength ratings, for different lines, within the same company. Berkley were all over the shop with their line ratings I strength test my line with luggage scales theses days but I dont have the gear to test thickness

"HI Larry, I love working these with any current available. Letting them drift past the front of snags, pilons, pontoons and boat hulls. The key with these lures is watching the line. They are not like a conventional lure were you feel a sharp tick. What you will find is your line rattling or just starting to take off. Another technique i have found works great is 'feathering' the lure while on the bottom. Sharp but small and soft lifts and letting it sit on the bottom again. They key to this is to have the lure falling as much as you can during a retrieve in the strike zone. Y

Yeah there’s a technique I vaguely recall hearing about that uses whole mussels in the shell. You somehow bore a hole in the shell to put your hook through its supposed to be a specialist big bream technique. As the little fellas don’t have the jaw crushing power to get through the shell the bottom of our live well used have a fair bit of mussel shell coughed into it at the end of a session