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4/0 circle landbased and yak.2 snelled 8/0 gama suicides off the boat and the biggest bait I can find.

The Ulua rods look interesting. The technique seems very similar to the South African Slide baiting techniques of casting a heavy grapnel sinker then attaching a slide bait rig.When I fish got interested in distance casting I got a few Kilwell Pendulum 1 blanks and trimmed down the tips. These will cast 8oz and bait but and very heavy to hold.I have heard a few thinks about the Saltiga ballistic rods. There a few guys into distance casting using them in Australia, but even the heaviest model bends a fair bit with only 3ozhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRgg32iAGoM

I like thinking outside the box when fishing. The old guys on the jetties get plenty of fish, but as more and more people fish the fish get smarter and you need every advantage you can get.I have fished Glenelg jetty for about 12 years and started with cheap outfits, mono and glass rods. Since upgrading to long, light graphite rods, light high end threadline reels, braid, fluorocarbon trace and chemically sharpened hooks I am catching more fish and enjoying it much more. Once you use high end gear, it is just too hard to go back. Now most of the locals on Glenelg use graphite, braid and even s

Would love to see some more isofishing rods in Australia. They have great applications fishing for gar and tommies as well as bream and ST. Some guys are bringing them into the east coast but I have only seen one of two in tackle stores in SA and that was about 10 years ago.http://isofishinglifestyle.com.au/

I've got a few ideas for a great kayak rod.7 foot long to clear around the front of the yak. something around 1 1/2lb test curve.Interline blank with the line running on the inside of the blank. The lack of guides makes tip wrapping a thing of the past and also less likely to break if you roll the yak in the surf.(Daiwa seem to be the only one with a reasonable line up of interline rods. Example here) http://daiwafishing.com.au/tmx-interline/IM 6 graphite with a tip large enough to pass a 20lb leader knot. Fat foam grips for comfort (25mm) and also to provide some positive buoyancy and float w

http://www.anglerman.com.au/products.phpI got my breakaway impact shields from here

A paternoster with short droppers to the hook will cast well. For longer distances I use a clipdown pulley rig. Rig small neat baits of squid strips or cube of gar or Tommie. If you can get a fresh salmon, they make great snapper bait.Snapper sinkers will cast fine. Rod and reel and line are just as important to casting distance as the rig.All spots fish differently. Most of the land based metro snapper spots require a good cast to reach the structure. Off Yorkes, some of the deeper jetties such as Wallaroo have deep water and structure straight down and you don't need to cast at all.

Are you after KGW or YFW?metro Adelaide or country?I still do a fair bit of landbased and jetty fishing and prefer a 10 1/2 foot light graphite rod, small threadline rod and light braid. A high quality 10 foot graphite rod is as light as a 7 foot glass rod but will cast a lot further which is a big advantage if casting light baits to whiting or casting out further for squid. It is also a huge advantage casting a float off a jetty for gar and tommies.There are a few options in the $100 price range. I fished with a pair of 9 foot starlostix for a while and caught plenty of good fish on them.

If the snails were collected from an intertidal rocky reef below the high tide mark then it was illegal. There is no size or bag limit. If they were collected from a break wall rock or the like then that would be legal.Also the definition of intertidal rocky reef as per PIRSA is from the high tide mark down to 2m depth. http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/13100/intertidal_zone1.pdfIf the snails were collected from above the high tide mark, then technically this is legal."The highest, most exposed sectionThese areas are generally wetted only by extreme high tides or by spray. T

http://www.strikehook.com/forum/22-saltwater-fishing/226511-fish-id-weird-lookin#226516

Another one from a few months backhttp://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/06/18/322015_ntnews.html

Looks like a match. The tail especially with white, then black then black spots fits the pic.

Given the spots, looks like a KGW

Ausea, have you found any of these available in Australia or overseas only?

Here's my first idea. I have the Komodo 13 foot rods but so far changed the guides. I have kept the original guide spacing but changed to larger sized guides and tapering down quickly as per Fuji new concept system. Guides are extra high double foot size 20, size 12, then double foot size 8, double foot size 6 x 2 and single foot size 4 x 5 and size 4 tip. The guides will still pass a 15lb leader knot.The extra high stripper guide is set up for casting and will balance a Daiwa Luvias size 1000 (used for the Onkastompa last year). It will still balance up to a Shimano Stradic 5000 (used about a

Thanks for the comp. I got a heap of ideas Stuart.I've built about a dozen rods from scratch and modified another half dozen and there are quite a few gaps in the Australian market.Can you get access to specialty guides such as lowriders or k guides?Also can you get any interline blanks?

Silver Dory (Cittus Australis)Sometimes caught on the deep snapper reefs.Very unusual catch off a metro jettyAwesome eating.

Sunline Super PE or power pro. If you can stretch the budget Sunline Castaway is good.

Fish was caught on bait on my whiting combo, cheap ebay interline rod, pfleuger supreme XT and 12lb nanofil.

Put in a few hours tonight off the yak. I made the most of the break in the weather and fished a metro spot a few hundred metres off the beach this evening. Got one run at 7:30 and hooked a good fish. Went on a great first run and took me a while to turn its head. Eventually had it next to the yak and netted my PB Yak snapper. Went just over 80cm.

More likely to be a small mullie. Did your mate ID the fish? My best from the lake is only 41cm.If a 55cm+ bream was caught from westlakes, there would be heaps of pics.

Acid wrap/ Sprial wraphttp://www.acidrod.com/acidrods.html

I went with Arafura last year and they were greathttp://www.strikehook.com/forum/48-interstate-fishing-reports/205394-darwin-trip?limitstart=0&start=15

Should work fine

I started with a hand meat grinder but soon upgraded to a second hand garden mulcher from cash converters ($60). It really scales up production and you can put through big pieces and whole whiting heads. I usually freeze all my heads guts and frames as well as squid offcuts and crab shell, then make up a 10kg to 15kg batch every month or two. These are then frozen in 1kg blocks that fit in my burley pot.