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Yeah I remember watching Starlo talking about deep sea fishing on Rex’s show
It was words similar to. “There is no catch and release fishing out here. Get your bag, then go fish shallower water if you want to catch and release”

Graham Keegan from MRFAC Says 90% of snapper that go through the release weight process die. 
 
So while it may be the best case scenario. It’s still a pretty dismal scenario

Heres my best - he fought harder than the fatter yellas from the same water

Yeah I’ve got a mate who occasionally eats a mulloway And he says when the bait schools are in, their guts are jam packed with 3 inch skinny bait fish. He said the stomach was like a sausage casing stuffed with tiny bait fish
 
so small lures definitely have their place for mulloway
 
here’s  one I got on a 5cm hb and 8lb leader

This fella ate a 4cm blade

Thanks Knackers - interesting unit
 
 

Yeah I’ve got a mate who occasionally eats a mulloway And he says when the bait schools are in, their guts are jam packed with 3 inch skinny bait fish. He said the stomach was like a sausage casing stuffed with tiny bait fish
 
so small lures definitely have their place for mulloway
 
here’s  one I got on a 5cm hb and 8lb leader

Here it is. Fingerling shad

It was a “mojiko” one they used to sell at anaconda.  I think mojiko used to rip off river 2seas designs . So it’s probably just a copy of a river2sea. I bought a heap of mojiko a when they had a massive clearance in the Melbourne store
 
ill see if I can find the name when I get home
 
theu used to dive to around a metre or 1.2m

Yeah I’ve got a mate who occasionally eats a mulloway And he says when the bait schools are in, their guts are jam packed with 3 inch skinny bait fish. He said the stomach was like a sausage casing stuffed with tiny bait fish
 
so small lures definitely have their place for mulloway
 
here’s  one I got on a 5cm hb and 8lb leader

Yeah I’d just dropped a mate off on a floating litter trap to collect some tennis balls for his dog.
As I was floating away, I glanced at the sounder and said to my mate “you should see the bait on the sounder!!!!”  
He says have a cast, so I did
one hop of the blade and there was a solid weight.
It was on bream gear, so my mate had to balance awkwardly on a floating litter trap for the next 30 mins😉
 

Heres my best - he fought harder than the fatter yellas from the same water

Heres my best - he fought harder than the fatter yellas from the same water

Bewdiful work Adrian - We recently had something similar whipped up for my Grandmas 90th - even at 50% off, its a decent investment but what price do you put on capturing priceless memories.

Just received my 2019/20 Trout Season photo book, this time instead of making a two half yearly books I made a full season one of 134 pages..  I'm pretty happy with the end result..
Here's a few photos of the finished product.. Once again I waited until Snapfish had a 50% sale on that included extra pages.. The book is A4 size...
cheers
Adrian..

Yeah I’ve had limited experience with alveys but I do remember them casting a mile......but bringing the line back in wasn’t much fun😉
yeah I’ve never understood aniseed scent in the salt. I know there are plants that grow along the creeks that smell a lot like aniseed so it wouldn’t be too “foreign” a scent there - and would probably mask some human odours but I wonder why it works well out in the salt.
i occasionally think some people catch fish in spite of the scents they are using, not because of them😉
like wd40 - a lot of people used to use because they believed it was made from fish oil but the website says that isn’t true. But i spose when the fish you are targeting mistakes golf balls for duck eggs - you aren’t dealing with the most discerning palate

Yeah when I was loooking at the profile of these old lures they looked like they could do with a bit of bending to get some action out of them

Yeah I've had mixed results with stones - I lack the patience and the skills to get the best out of them -

these, "almost idiot proof" electric units, are more my speed.

I dont want to cut my fingers off when reaching into a soapy sink full of water - so "almost razor" is where I like my knives to be😉

I can imagine with todays sounders and a vigorous jig - you wouldnt even have to wait for the fish to be hungry

Yeah nothing worse than casting a mile then coming up solid to a clump of weed as soon as you turn the handle. 
I’ve switched some of my metals trebles over to singles to help minimise this problem