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Ahh found it - I was searching for “Ikegun” instead of “adept ikegun”'

Haha - nah I just love my tinkering Always have Plus I’m a tight arse so if I can make something myself from stuff I found on junk piles - I will the wood on this project is from and old school hall they demolished and the steel is from a metal clothes drying rack I found on a curb side junk heap I went looking for some footage of that gun in action. Couldn’t find it but I did see it being loaded.. plenty of potential for destruction there

You do have to hit exactly where they say to for an instant kill. Not a cm to the left or right but when you line em up and hit that spot exactly. It’s lights out

For along time I've been using a hammer on carp - because its pretty much the most instantaneous death I can think of - Hard to miss the brain with a hammer But I'd like to keep more of their fluids in, as I use them for bait. Someone suggested a rubber mallet would suit that purpose but I dont have one. So IKEJIME seemed the best way to go. I've got a fair Idea where a carps brain is - but as you say alot of species and sizes are slightly different - the other species they will be used on are flatties and snapper. And I will be brushing up on their brains locations before putting th

Yeah that style handle and short spike would have come in real handy on a carp the other day i tried Ike jime with the ground spike of my camera monopod. (I left my hammer at home) His head was too hard and I ended up bending the spike while having a few goes at it

Just drilled a hole in some wood - glued in some round bar - sharpened it on the belt sand and added some loops

Yeah it was a pretty handy revelation to me i often have my rod tips pointed to the water or horizontal, so the right angle to use them back wards very rarely presented itself. I had to tilt them up a bit to get over some reeds and there it was

I was today years old before realising rod holders can be used back wards and forwards Handy for rigging up and changing baits or when you need your rod pointing north. The pic below shows a very vertical position but a slight lean will make it more stable

Depending on who you talk to - these rail mount rod holders, are rock solid straight out of the box or they need something under them to grip a 25mm rail and not slip when a big fish grabs your bait. Heres the suggestions so far Hand tighten the bolt with allen key, then whack allen key with hammer to get super tight. Some guy said put salt under there? another said rough up both surfaces with sand paper. and when it comes to grippy underlays - you've got - bike tube rubber - garden hose - Silicon hose - duct tape - grip tape - silicon tape Then you get into Tack

I currently use Berkley vanish main line Fluoro and I’m testing out this stuff by kast king. It’s mono coated with fluoro according to the add (I just got it because it was cheap and I like my other kast king braids) I didn’t recommend them because I wasn’t sure how you were using them and I don’t know if they are great or not. But they do what I need them to do Kinks in leaders can be stretched out or rubbed out if they’re stubborn. I often do that to my pretied rigs, on my 2 piece rods that I break down for travel. They develop a kink in the line, where it wraps over the

Yeah its annoying when you try a new line, only to find out its got some bad traits. In general, flourocarbons have a harder outer coating and dont absorb water like alot of mono's do. That has a tendancy to make them less supple. Some companies like Berkley Vanish make a "leader" version and a "main line" version of their flourocarbon. So maybe a "Main Line" version would be a bit more supple When you say twist - are you spooling your whole reel with it or just cutting off 2m sections for leaders. Unfortunately I dont have a recommendation for you, as I only use flouro as

Yeah I won’t be taking that chance again i brought my own can this arvo and went with a bit of eucalyptus bark

Its not just while I'm trying to get to sleep either - the pinnacle is the on the spot hack. Mozzies arent usually a problem where I fish but I Fished a new spot the other day and the buggers found me - A quick scan of the bank and I had the answer to my prayers - a tin can and some tea tree bark - and bang - see ya later Mozzies

Just trying to make the world a better place, one hack at a time Doobie

Would also work as a trenching tool for different style chairs and a good "carp whacker" if it was made from heavy steel

I fish on a lot of sloping banks - But I also travel light on a push bike, so I cant have a big bulky chair with adjustable legs This makes it difficult to get my chair level - so I made a little “post hole digger” out of steel pipe. It fits in the same bag as the chair. And is more than capable of digging into the softish banks I fish.

Ive also wondered if pureeing mussels flesh and using it as a marinade on precut chicken pieces would be a good idea I used to make lure scents from blended mussel, oil and salt - but never tried it on baits. I also remember watching a guy on King Island useing cotton wool dipped in the yellow un cooked gunk, inside of a cray fishes head as bait - and he was smashing the trevally on it. So anything can be made tasty if it has the right marinade

I tried a few home made devices - but nothing is easier than a gardening glove and a floating pontoon

In my experience, there is nothing quite like the local mussels you pick and shuck on the spot I got an "apprenticeship" off an old bloke down at the local docks and I thought I might be able to become the master, by using lighter gear and more space-aged technology. I figured mussels were mussels and I could just buy live ones produced 70km away in ocean water. But they were no match for the disgusting, polluted, river mussels that grew on the pylons at out feet. When fished side by side, freshly shucked, local Mussels, way outperform live ones from somewhere else. The levels o

Yeah I've fished with a couple of those blokes over the years They can lead you to do some crazy stuff to catch up When ever I get the opportunity - I'll rub some local scents on my hands before a session

A mate of Mine and Doobies called Dave went out 2 days ago, for a short session with a mate and got outfished 13 to 0. Same baits, same boat, same everything - they even swapped rods at one stage. So sometimes the striking technique you have chosen for that day, doesnt match up with the way the fish are feeding and it can make one bloke think they were timid and another think they were bighting well

Some band wagons exist because of the “hype train” and some band wagons exist because they are a phenomenal product. but neither of them matter if you can’t make them work. So personal trials are all that really matters in the end. Even if 100 blokes tell you procure is the best- if it doesn’t work for you and something else works better- they are wrong Im a firm believer in not believing everything I’m told So much of what gurus say doesn’t work where I fish- and in some spots the exact opposite of what they say works best for me. So you just have to find the right

Yeah my experiences with stimulate weren’t as good. When that Mark Berg infomercial came talking about pheromones etc I had to get some my test was on hoards of tiny bream in clear shallows. I was watching them from a bridge. They were happy to peck away at my unscented lure but when I put the stimulate on, they were actually backing off it when I dead sticked the lure. I gave it a couple of hours, targeting different schools then never used it again. By the end of that session I was thinking they should explore this recipe for possible uses as a shark repellent That was the

Yeah the reason I switched to procure was both from recommendations from bream comp winners. But also because they did specific scents for different prey items When I used to make my own scents - they were all made from local things the fish ate every day. Mussels, crabs, worms, shrimp and bait fish. So I like the idea of smearing a worm scent on a worm lure etc