Kelvin
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It all depends how long the gents have been in the tackle store before you buy them.I usually find that I can get 2 weeks out of most gents if kept in the fridge. By the third week they are usually a bit dried and shrivelled and starting to form casters.It is also worth changing the bran every week to keep the gents fresh. Casters are a reasonable bait in their own right and will still take fish. They are quite popular as an alternative to maggots in the UK.If you can find these, extended life gents are great and will last twice as long as normal gents.http://www.sheldonsbait.com.au/index.php/products/gents-extended-life
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Hi T Bone. What type of Yak? and any reason for favouring such a short rod.I use 6 1/2 and 7 foot spin rods and prefer 7 foot rods as they can more easily clear the bow.
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They freeze great.I usually fillet, then pack meal size portions (6 to 8 fillets) into snap lock bags. Make sure they are dry and squeeze the air from the bag.
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Through the head, just behind the eyes. If you are careful you can hook them just through the shell near the pointy bit. Rigged this was, the fish can't suck the heads and most bites result in a hookup.Rigged a bit too low and you are left with a dead shrimp.
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These are my favourites
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If done right they are absolutely delicious. Like most seafood, they either have to be cooked very fast or very slow and for a long time. Order Abalone in a Chinese restaurant and you will pay top price for it.Here's a quote from Neil Perry"Dad and I would wander through the old food stores and he would pick out exotic ingredients to cook for us that night. When we had finished shopping, I would be thrilled if I could see a tin of poached abalone in Dad’s grasp; I knew that meant a fabulous steamed soup or stirfry of one of my favourite ingredients in the world. (To this day I believe the greenlip abalone from Tasmania that I serve in all my restaurants is as luxurious and delicious an ingredient as truffles, foie gras, Ibérico ham or caviar.)"http://gourmettraveller.com.au/asian_persuasion.htm
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Glue in place and coat with paint. Give it a coat of epoxy and its done.
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During the summer, garfish and tommies come in shallow at night and can be caught just below the surface. A pencil float is useful, but more fish are caught by casting further out using a weighted buley float. Bites are felt rather than seen, and the best float to use is one which can be packed with burley and cast out a long way.Here is a popular design which I made.First I get some foam balls, pen body and some wire
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I've just had a flick through some of my lures and I do have a lot of pilchard imitationsKelvin you sure do like that pilchard pattern! Maybe I'll take note of that! Hmmmm! 8)
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The Hardcore caught most of the fish
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Caught these at west lakes today on some repainted lures
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I have only caught a handful of small sharks, but I hope to get into some big ones this summer.I have a Penn Gti 330 spooled with 30lb. A Penn Senator 6/0 with 50lb and a Shimano TLD 50 2 speed with 50lb mono.The Penn Senators are a good entry level shark reel and can be picked up second hand quite cheaply.
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Caught some big gar today. Biggest was 37cm from tail to upper jaw {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif
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When I first moved to Adelaide quite a few years ago I used to live in one of the residential colleges near the Uni. I fished a few times a week in the Torrens and pulled out some big carp {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gifSome of the big ones were over 1m. I used to use an 8lb handline alot just for fun. Lost some big fish to snags though.
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62cm and 3kg {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif Caught off Port Germein jetty last year on live trumpeter.
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About 2 dozen. A couple of 24kg combos, a few 30lb outfits, some surf rods, a few 9 to 10ft rods, 3 or 4 rods for salmon fishing off porties, half a dozen light spinnning rods for bream and for bait soaking and leading to guests, two short, light graphite rods I use off the Yak, a few telescopics I hace picked up over the years, a six piece spin rod also for travel and a 6 piece 3 to 4 weight fly rod. {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gifBut Its still not enough. I am looking to getting another 9foot starlostix to match the one I already have for jetty work. If I get into surf fishing some more I would like another suft rod and maybe a new baitrunner to match. And you can never have too many bream rods. {SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif
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Yep, as Wino said, they're not Moreton Bay Bugs, but are actually Balmain bugs. Moreton bay bugs have eyes on the side of the head, while Balmain bugs have eyes closer to the centre. Regardless they are both delicious.
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As long as I don't have too late a night tonight and the weather is nice, I might try the blocks at glenelg again tomorrow morning.
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And caught one off Brighton jetty a few months later in a crab net.Delicious, tasted like lobster {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif
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Caught one off Glenelg on a cockle off the Yak last year
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I normally do a trip or two every year to Lake Eucumbene in NSW. I mainly baitfish with powerbait and usually do very well with Rainbows and Browns to the low 50s. We've hooked a few bigger ones though.We normally fish for food, so the following photos may upset C&R fishermen.But we stick to limits and regulations and none of the fish are wasted.
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I caught some big silver drummer off the rocks at Lord Howe Island when I was there a few years ago. The biggest went about 53cm, from memory. I landed about 1 out of every 4 hooked.This one took me all the way down to the spool knot.Great Fun {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif
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Its so hard to pick the best fishing trip. I had alot of memorable ones including my first legal snapper and fish snapper from the surf at Salt Creek a few months back, trips all over NSW, catching big 1.5kg muddies in the gold coast, chasing trout in Eucumbene and going out in a charter boat off bateman's bay (threw up at the 2 hour mark and spent the next 4 hours curled up in a little ball {SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif).Probably the best would be my Trip to Lord Howe Island 3 years ago on a medical elective as a medical student. I spent 4 weeks on the island and fished every day. I managed a few rat kings, heaps of big mullet and gar and some thumper bluefish and silver drummer. Seeing the kingfish feeding at Ned's Beach was also fantastic.I fished off the rocks at Old Gulch one day and hooked a nice shark on a Penn GTI 330. After a 30min fight, I had the fish on the surface. I was solo, had no gaff or rope and was stuck as to how I could land the fish. I spent 10 min waiting for the tide to rise and eventually surfed the shark onto the rock platform on a big wave. {SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif
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YepGulp sandworms, 6 inch cut in half, camo and bloody colors