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Heres some stuff Ive heard or tried for long casting with bream gear Lightest line you can possibly get away with FG Knots Filling spool dangerously close to the lip Smooth casting action, so lures dont tumble in the air or just use lures that arent prone to tumbling and are slightly heavier. Having a rod correctly matched to the lures you throw most often Ive been told long rods are the go -but Ive never gone much longer than 7 foot. Long casting surf and carp spinning reels tend to have long, fat spools and I remember the super fat alveys being a great dist

Nice one SurfcaztR. I remember going to a salt water fish farm in Ballina and thinking - this is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel - it definitely wasnt. The owner asked me what lb leader i planned to use - I said 8lb - he said - you wont get a touch on lures unless you use 4lb. These fish have seen every lure and presentation imaginable. Of course I had to test the theory - only took 45mins to realise 4lb leaders might be the best choice - it made a big difference. That visit was a bit of an eye opener - at a fish farm where they arent fed live food - their food d

Ahh good work

Nice one Love the set up I was convinced by an old flounder guru to make a 2 pronged, heavy spear with long spear shafts and no barbs. Its a serious weapon that worked much better than I though it would. He reckoned barbs on the shaft, just slow you down when removing fish and I found that to be true aswell - and the extra weight really helps drive the spear home on those "One inch Punch" style jabs. Especially on boney headed flathead Your set up looks great - just putting up another option for the diy spear.

Yeah Chicken wings are phenomenal - its just hard to know when you have had enough

I went through a sweet chilli phase that lasted many years - Id put it on anything including fish - when it caramelizes on the edge of a shallow fried whiting fillet - its a taste sensation. You do need salt to even it out though

Just spotted this spice mix - could be interesting

Yeah both great sauce options

sriracha sauce batter flatty nuggets

Yeah torches and batteries have come so far over recent years - if I looked at the specs on my 6 year old flounder light, theres no way I would buy it again today. While its still effective, its only 250 lumens, which isnt a bright light. But i imagine the low lumens, is what gives it its 5 hour run time and you have to keep that in mind for a flounder light As long as you can find a dive light with enough flood in it - and one that could maintain peak performance for a few hours on one set of batteries - a dive or waterproof torch would be a very solid option. With the $75 I pa

originally I just bent some pvc pipe and strapped a cheap dive torch to it - but things got out of hand pretty quick after that - I put a bend in the shaft so I could hook it over my shoulder when I needed 2 hands to removed fish from my spear

Light weight and hydrodynamic is much more important than I thought it would be when putting this monstrosity together I ended up buying the one these skinny yellow battery operated ones the guys use in the video but lost interest in it and never used it - I just turned it on then and the batteries still worked so it has very little drain over the years

When you're built like me - Breathability is a big factor

May aswell round out the collection with a 50mm pvc pipe unit. Saved myself 3 bucks with a fiddly bits spray can lid and gaffer tape "end cap" - if it proves itself, I might splurge on a real one

Yeah you cant get a better endorsement than that - There really is some magic going on with those shirts I was a bit Skeptical when Buying my new fishing shirt - It didnt make sense these new shirts could be cooler than cotton. I wouldnt have even bought it if I didnt have a voucher, I didnt know what to buy with. I was always told cotton was the best - and for a long time it probably was - but the breathability claims of cotton now have some serious competition. The newer polyester shirts are well worth checking out. I just went outside and blew air through the 2 s

Dont forget the bottom half either. These are great for sunburnt legs and take up very little room in a tackle bag

heres a shot of a variety of different hats in the same conditions. Im wearing the White Greg Chappell cricket hat - (similar to the Grey Nichols in the middle of wide brim hat picture below) As you can see - my new Ali express is much wider and offers even more protection

My hats have also evolved - I used to wear baseball caps but they basically just shade your eyes - and often thats all you need. But if you are out in real sun - super wide brims are where its at. It amazing how much cooler you stay when direct sun isnt blasting your shoulders aswell. This huge brim from ali express is very well made and collapsable - so you can pack it easily in a suitcase.

This is the whitest I could find at the time - plus I figured if a squid inked it, it wouldnt look too out of place.

Ive moved away from the $2 cotton op-shop business shirt. Mainly because I had a BCF voucher burning a hole in my pocket and I was intrigued by the claims of the new materials Theres definitely some truth to those new polyester shirts keeping you cool - it doesnt make sense that they could be cooler than cotton but there is some weird science going on once you start to sweat. If its super hot and Ive got no shade for hours out on the boat - I go with the new tech polyester and huge brim hats - in white

Yeah my reply was a little tongue in cheek, but also a bit real. Recruitment is strong. "JULY 26, 2022 This year is proving to be a fantastic year for Victoria’s snapper stocks with high recruitment found in Port Phillip Bay. The latest snapper survey by the Victorian Fisheries Authority has found the third highest abundance of baby snapper since monitoring began almost 30 years ago." NEWS Strong Snapper Recruitment in 2022 JULY 26, 2022 This year is proving to be

Yeah we need to thin out the herd a little in Port Phillip Bay - since they stopped netting, scallop dredging and alot of commercial fishing - the joint is carpeted in fish. We caught about 30 undersized flatties in as many minutes before getting a legal, last session. Ended up giving up because the reward wasnt there Pinkies are the same - absolutely thousands of the little buggers hammering your baits - it gets to a point where you have to go looking for single big arches on the sounder, to try to get away from the piranhas. No matter how many rec boats are out there plunderi

In my local Bay - Legal Flatties and Whiting are 27cm. I had to snip the lip off the container with tough little snips - then sand it down for a smooth finish. Removing the lip would make it easier to scoop fish off the floor. Bit its got a thin side for whiting and a fatter side for other fish - A legal pinkie is 28cm - so if you can estimate what a centimetre looks like - it could be of some use there aswell

Yeah Trusting manufacturers specs on how thick their line is has caused me heart ache in the past - very annoying when you cant even fit a 100m top shot on a reel. I think that was about the time I went looking for answers and someone recommended Paulus Fishing. Scanning through all his Strength and diametre tests was a big eye opener. Surely the manufacturers know how thick their lines are but then they go and write something different on the label - super annoying . I suspected they did it to make their braids seem stronger than they were - ie if we say its thinner than it is,