rotare

Another alternative for fish eyes to buy some of those realsitic 3D, solid looking things off of ebay.  There's a local ebay seller that does 20 or so for $2 which includes postage.  Last time I brought them they gave me another 10 or so of various sizes as samples!  I think the sellers store is called something like Discount city fishing and they have plenty of different styles and sizes of eyes to choose from.  I stole some of those joggle style eyes from my kids craft box once for my lures, but found a lot either fell apart in the water or filled with water.

This reminds me of thread about a shark sighting on another fishing forum a few years back.  Story goes they were fishing out of a 6m boat and got a visit from a great white.  Of course those that were there said it was bigger than the boat, easily 6m, possibly 7m or bigger and they had had video and photos to prove it.  I remember there was a lot of debate whilst everyone eagerly waited for the video to be posted....

 

When I viewed the footage and photos I personally thought the shark was more like 3.5 - 4m long, as did most from memory.  Definitely big enough to give you a scare, but the original poster and others that were supposedly there on the day still said it was at least 6m and wouldn't even entertain the idea that it was any smaller.

 

I think it's natural in the circumstance for people to over exaggerate the size of these things, but I think the facts and physical evidence suggest that a great white to 6m is a pretty rare animal.    

I've got a Shimano Tekota 600 that I reckon is 7 or 8 years old, had a heap of use and just keeps going.  Pulled it apart for the first time a couple of years ago and gave it a service.  Was very careful at looking how everything came apart, and when I took a part off a laid it on the table in order of how it was removed, paying particular attention to which way shims etc were fitted.  Over the years I've pulled reels apart to service them only to find they were never the same after I tinkered with them....   

 

The first time I pulled the Tekota apart I did so without any assistance, but a tip for young players is Youtube or google is your friend, and with a little bit of searching you will probably find a video or some steps by someone who has pulled the same or similar reel apart. 

 

Anyways just recently the drag on the Tekota started to get really sticky and not smooth.  Was quoted $50+ for service plus the cost of any parts.  For the sum of $7.99 delivered to my door from ebay I picked up a set of carbon fibre drag washers for the Tekota and replaced the worn out old (and fused together) factory paper washers.  Already had a little tub of Cal's drag grease and so the drag now on the Tekota is back to being silky smooth and hopefully has a little more grunt than when it left the factory  .  I was so happy with the results I lashed out another $7.99 and upgraded the drag in my Saltist 40LW with a set of carbon fibre washers too!

 

I reckon if you're slightly mechanically minded, can read a set of schematics and can watch a video, a basic service is well within the abilities of most. 

Great video

Hey mate,

 

Not sure what size you're planning on getting but the brother in law had an ex surf rubber ducky for a few years.  They are pretty durable, reasonably easy to cart about and launch, but as he quickly realised not really ideal to fish from - no proper seating, no rod holders and everything on the floor slides about.  Not probably what you want to hear but IMO you're probably better off looking at a small tinny if the purpose is primarily for fishing.

Awesome write up and I loved the video.  Top stuff

We smashed the snapper a few weeks ago locally.  Had our bag of over 60's in no time.  Changed over to light gear and plastics and C&R for a while - awesome fun.  Shifted to another spot in 15m of water looking to fill our bag of ruggers and kept on getting smashed by more big ones - what a problem  .  All fish were 65-85cm.  Just been too busy to write a report

 

 

The little silver fish is a Parequula melbournensis, or more commonly known as a Silverbelly

 

http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/family/98

I've got something similar tattooed on my body.  Can measure the size of a legal garfish on it.

 

Don't use it often as it's a bit "awkward" pulling it out in front of other blokes, then measuring a fish against it.  

 

I hate making others feel insecure, if you get my drift.  

Impressive. I'm guessing though he probably does that for a living....

Was wondering if Rotare was going to add his report in there.

 

 

Hi Bjorn,

 

We discussed this before we put up the post.  I say "we" as Ale and myself both worked on putting the post together, with pics, vids etc (it was more than a one man job - lol  ).  As Ale is a moderator on the forum we thought adding our report to the comp section may be seen as a conflict of interest, and hence why we've simply placed it in the Eyre Peninsula section.

 

The Easter competition is a great incentive, but the reality is we would have put up the same report, with the same effort and enthusiasm had their been a comp running or not. 

 

On this basis we're not fussed either way, but the final decision is yours

 

Cheers

We all commented  about the type of tackle needed for this type of fishing, lesser gear may knock over a fish or 2, but I reckon after a hectic session like that, only the best would still be working at the end of it.

 

 

I agree 100% with what Ale has written above.  However, just to put things into perspective and avoid people being "turned off" doing these sorts of charters thinking "only" high end equipment is needed, it's probably not totally the case - more so "quality" equipment. 

 

For example, I did the same charter 4 years ago and took a $30 "ebay special" 15-24kg glass rod (sambo elite) matched up to a Daiwa Saltist 40LW.  The rod brought in 30+ fish over the 3 days, and I still have it in one piece in my rod rack. 

 

Most on here would know that the Saltist range of Daiwa stuff isn't in the same league as say the Saltiga stuff, however they are still a good quality bit of gear (in my humble opinion), and the same Saltist overhead I used on the charter 4 years ago, was the same reel used this time that you see in the vids.  Maybe I just got lucky  , but my Saltist has been through hell and back and is as good as gold.  Hell, it's even a levelwind model which is supposedly a "no no" for jigging.... 

 

There is a but however.....

 

The higher end stuff is soooo much nicer and friendlier to use!  On this charter I used a Saltiga rod with the Saltist reel.  It was beautiful to use in comparison to the ebay rod! (there is no comparison, really)  Nice and light which allowed me to jig fish harder and for longer, it was designed and built for the purpose of jigging and I had the upmost confidence that almost any fish I hooked could be handled by the rod.  Throughout the trip I was also lucky enough to try out the other guys rods and reels (spin reels), which were Catalina's, Certates , Stella's and Saltiga's.  They are just simply super nice to use (compared to my lower end spin stuff I have  ) and inspire confidence.  It's hard to explain until you've had the opportunity to compare...

 

Long story (sorry!), but I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you can catch these types of fish without having to take a mortgage out on fishing tackle - buy the best you can afford.  Choosing the right tackle on this sort of trip though and not skimping too much on quality IMO would be a fine line between having an awesome trip and catching a fish of a lifetime, or a trip that ends in tears because your gear catastrophically fails on day one, on your first hook up.

 

I hope that makes sense       

Thanks for all the comments so far  .  A report of the trip with pics can be found here:

 

http://www.strikehook.com/index.php/topic/24408-awesome-long-range-charter-trip/

Hey guys,

 

As some of you on here may know, a few of us from this forum just came back from a 3 day live aboard charter with Absolute Fishing Charters.  We all had an amazing time with loads of fish caught.  In the near future we will post a detailed report with more videos and pics, but in the meantime here's a vid I've put together from some of the action from the second day where 42 Samson fish were brought on board (and released) with at least 10 bust offs amongst us.

 

Enjoy...... oh, and one last thing, apologies up front because the "F-bomb" gets dropped a few times throughout the video  .... however I'm sure you can appreciate we were all pretty excited on the day hooking onto these hard pulling monster!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayko0IDLCZA&feature=youtu.be

 

 

 

Stay tuned for the detailed report coming soon!!

Excellent trip and write up - well done!

Top effort Alex!  Great video too

Great video. I reckon had a bit more "action" been put into those lures instead of simply being trolled along a few of those squid would have been dinner!

It would only take one shark to take a nibble on her to realise she probably tastes really good..... :whistle: Oh to be a shark...... sorry, I digress From memory that dude that hung out with wild grizzly bears felt a connection with them too..... until they decided to eat him! I'd say swimming with great whites is probably a short term hobby!

All well and good, but it`s also no bad thing to be aware of what is going on away from a jetty or boat.

Ignorant is bliss sometimes, although I reckon a lot of rec fisherman are well aware of the political issues in this hobby. I'm sure no-one has an issue with fishing related politics being discussed on this forum, and I'm sure that plenty even enjoy debating it.... but do we have to steer every post into a political soapbox and witch hunt? I mean, don't we have enough threads already on this forum alone that go into minute details of people's personal grievances with PIRSA, Recfish and every other political party and fishing body that ever existed?

Good video. Cheers.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the link.

Hope your recovery goes well and quickly and you're back out wetting a line and catching fish in the near future!

Cool vids! Thanks for posting.

Yep, was about to say it's a strongie (dusky morwong), but savage480 beat me to it.An idea to stop your pot pot spinning in the current is to add a "tail" to it. Maybe get a bit of aluminium sheet, say 100mm wide by the length of you pot, and connect vertically. I made a PVC camera housing some time ago and this is kind of what I did so it wouldn't spin all over the place.

Like others, I've hooked quite a few snook with the youzuri jags. Most of the time they fall off they when you try to lift them into the boat.