yellow door 1

Plastic drinking straw Hot glue end caps with a swivel shoved in Red heat shrink indicator

Great! Cheers mate 👍

You can jag a few gar on small (5g or less ie halco twisty) chrome lures with sticky hooks pretty reliably when they're thick too, gar love shiney things, they also love a squid jag under one of those flasher floats, works better than burley sometimes, but if you actually want to catch gar then a small hook with appropriate bait and rig is 20+ times better.

Thanks for that yellowdoor1 👍 I have never tried catching them on lures, but it would be worth having this in the tacklebox, when you run out of bait or if they are finicky, i guess! could be good fun to try out. Thanks again

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

 
 

The only "lure" I've caught Gar on is the Berkley Gulp Maggots Asticots - soft plastic gents..

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

I like a burley float with a short dropper to keep them around the hook

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)
 
 

I like a burley float with a short dropper to keep them around the hook

I like a burley float with a short dropper to keep them around the hook

I like a burley float with a short dropper to keep them around the hook

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 Port Phillip Bay, and the establishment of a limited hook and line snapper fishery in the bay.
After 1 April 2022, 35 of the original 43 net fishers will have exited the bay, leaving 8 commercial operators supplying fresh snapper to consumers. These fishers will no longer use nets. The gear will be limited and catch will be carefully managed.
The key characteristics of the commercial fishery post 1 April 2022 are largely set out in the fisheries legislation and include:
Nets will no longer be authorised in Western Port or Port Phillip Bay. A snapper quota fishery will be established in Western Port/Port Phillip Bay. Regulations to prohibit nets will come into effect. The final Western Port/Port Phillip Bay net licence will be cancelled, and compensation paid. The Minister will allocate quota units to each of the remaining 8 eligible holders of a Western Port/Port Phillip Bay Fishery Access Licence equivalent to 11 tonnes of snapper. The adjustment package of $205,000 will be paid to those eligible licence holders who have not yet received their compensation. Quota will be able to be traded and leased between licence holders. Quota will be set at 88 tonnes and will not exceed this amount, recognising the recreational significance of the species in the Bay. Licences will remain transferable and may be sold. Recent finalisation of a Fisheries Notice has specified catch limits for other species.  These include annual limits of up to 1 tonne of shark per licence and up to 2 tonne of other species, excluding King George whiting, calamari, King fish and mulloway. The final notices, including the Initial Quota order, the Further Quota Order to allocate snapper quota, and the Fisheries Notice to set catch limits, may be viewed here.

Honestly? Caught more legal snaps including my pb since they were banned than ever before, it turns out that I should have been trying not to catch them all along, especially on lures, look forward to keeping the odd one or two 50cm or so bycatch snapper I catch.

Catching plenty legal ones as a bycatch when chasing whiting. All have to be put back. Snapper starts early next year but probably with a severe rec limit. Almost not worth while chasing at all - while the Pros quota increases. Bloody idiots here in SA.

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 Port Phillip Bay, and the establishment of a limited hook and line snapper fishery in the bay.
After 1 April 2022, 35 of the original 43 net fishers will have exited the bay, leaving 8 commercial operators supplying fresh snapper to consumers. These fishers will no longer use nets. The gear will be limited and catch will be carefully managed.
The key characteristics of the commercial fishery post 1 April 2022 are largely set out in the fisheries legislation and include:
Nets will no longer be authorised in Western Port or Port Phillip Bay. A snapper quota fishery will be established in Western Port/Port Phillip Bay. Regulations to prohibit nets will come into effect. The final Western Port/Port Phillip Bay net licence will be cancelled, and compensation paid. The Minister will allocate quota units to each of the remaining 8 eligible holders of a Western Port/Port Phillip Bay Fishery Access Licence equivalent to 11 tonnes of snapper. The adjustment package of $205,000 will be paid to those eligible licence holders who have not yet received their compensation. Quota will be able to be traded and leased between licence holders. Quota will be set at 88 tonnes and will not exceed this amount, recognising the recreational significance of the species in the Bay. Licences will remain transferable and may be sold. Recent finalisation of a Fisheries Notice has specified catch limits for other species.  These include annual limits of up to 1 tonne of shark per licence and up to 2 tonne of other species, excluding King George whiting, calamari, King fish and mulloway. The final notices, including the Initial Quota order, the Further Quota Order to allocate snapper quota, and the Fisheries Notice to set catch limits, may be viewed here.

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 Port Phillip Bay, and the establishment of a limited hook and line snapper fishery in the bay.
After 1 April 2022, 35 of the original 43 net fishers will have exited the bay, leaving 8 commercial operators supplying fresh snapper to consumers. These fishers will no longer use nets. The gear will be limited and catch will be carefully managed.
The key characteristics of the commercial fishery post 1 April 2022 are largely set out in the fisheries legislation and include:
Nets will no longer be authorised in Western Port or Port Phillip Bay. A snapper quota fishery will be established in Western Port/Port Phillip Bay. Regulations to prohibit nets will come into effect. The final Western Port/Port Phillip Bay net licence will be cancelled, and compensation paid. The Minister will allocate quota units to each of the remaining 8 eligible holders of a Western Port/Port Phillip Bay Fishery Access Licence equivalent to 11 tonnes of snapper. The adjustment package of $205,000 will be paid to those eligible licence holders who have not yet received their compensation. Quota will be able to be traded and leased between licence holders. Quota will be set at 88 tonnes and will not exceed this amount, recognising the recreational significance of the species in the Bay. Licences will remain transferable and may be sold. Recent finalisation of a Fisheries Notice has specified catch limits for other species.  These include annual limits of up to 1 tonne of shark per licence and up to 2 tonne of other species, excluding King George whiting, calamari, King fish and mulloway. The final notices, including the Initial Quota order, the Further Quota Order to allocate snapper quota, and the Fisheries Notice to set catch limits, may be viewed here.

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 finally found a weed edge neither of them could argue about. And then it was on - good times😉

Nice haul! 

Giving the scaler bag a run
 
 

Yeah Im finding I'm willing to sacrifice thinness for stuff thats easy to bend - the .90 gal wire has the strength I need and is fat enough to not cut my leaders.

I gave the wire harness a go yesterday - and it has its draw backs - I suspect it might hurt hook up ratios and its harder to clear the weed from the twisted metal

 

 

Nah -no good -  the double loop didn’t do much
 
got to 5.2 kg or around 11.5lb, before cutting the 30lb mono. 
 
The wire is too thin even when you double it

Nah -no good -  the double loop didn’t do much
 
got to 5.2 kg or around 11.5lb, before cutting the 30lb mono. 
 
The wire is too thin even when you double it

Rusting problem with mine was I kept them in an ice-cream tub (no lid) and they got salt water (spray etc) in the tub... and I didnt empty..
Now the "new ones" are in sealed food containers and cant get wet.

80lb brown stainless makes a more subdued package and should hold on the bigger hook