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Yeah I've used them a few times and they seem to work fine...... although I've never caught a fish yet on the down rigger though, not to say that has anything to do with the bomb

Here you go.

Hey Dutchy,Yeah, I've made my own downrigger bombs. Pancake style 10lbers. I just used a couple of small biscuit tin lids that were about 150mm in diameter and 10mm in depth. Melted a heap of lead and poured into the two lids. Once cooled I cut up a piece of stainless steel sheet which got sandwiched between the two pieces of lead for the "tail" of the bomb. Whole lot gets bolted together with a couple of stainless bolts.My description probably sucks, but a picture tells a thousand words. I'll take some pics for you later and post up so you can understand my dribble.

I guess it needs to be taken into context when the last overhaul of the jetty occurred. I don't have the answer to when it exactly happened, but the Port Stanvac plant hasn't been in operation since 2003, so based on this I would suggest the last overhaul didn't occur in the last few years, and was more likely undertaken at least 10 years or more ago.A lot can happen to structural steel and concrete in a marine environment in that time.Furthermore wasn't there a statement from either the Onkaparinga council or Mobil themselves that implied that the jetty would require extensive refurbishment

Agreed, and that sharpening tool looked pretty nifty too. Hope Ale takes note of this and gets one of those tools as the last time I filleted a fish using one of his supposedly sharp knives it felt like I was trying to fillet using a hack saw blade.

That's crazy, I've never seen a rod like that. I wonder how long it takes Surtees67 to get one....

What a great advertisment for that rod! Was it my eyes, or was he fighting the fish with the second half of the rod, upside down? (ie, the rod eyes were pointing downwards, instead of upwards?)

Mr Sav, have you dived on the Stanvac dump? If so how does it compare to the blocks?Cheers.

Wow, thanks for sharing! Very ineresting. A lot more stuff down there than I thought.What were you guys doing with the string - measuring? looking at the amount of structure it's not surprising either that you collected so many lost anchors.

All this debate over internet speeds..... seriously, spend a day where I live and deal with inconsistent wireless speeds we endure..... and any proposal by anyone to improve what we currently have will be greeted by tears of joy

The squid heads will be in fine, in fact chuck any type of food in the mix, it doesn't really matter. The cheap (black & gold) style dry dog and cat food grinds up nicely too and helps increase the volume of your burley mix too. When I make up a batch of burley I just go through the cupboards and freezer and pull out any food stuff that's out of date and add to any old bait and burley I have, as well as adding a nice amount of tuna oil. I really don't think most fish are overly concerned as to what exactly is in the burley. So long as it sends out a scent and visually has some bit's an

I wonder if you're allowed to bring a GPS with you....:dry:

Another option to a garden mulcher, albiet on a smaller scale and probably slightly less effective is to use a kitchen food processer / blender (or whatever they are called). I picked one up that had steel blades (some have plastic blades) for $5 from an op shop and I've blended up all sorts of left over baits, fish frames, old squid and cockles and frozen the mix into old ice cream and milk containers. Works for me for the volume of burley I use.

Wow, that's crazy!

Looks like you may have just made yourself the unofficial event coordinator then :pinch:

For your first boat I reckon a 5.3m (17ft) half or cuddy cab fiberglass would be the go. This is a popular size and I could list dozens of makes and models of late 90's and early 00's boats that fit this category and your price range.My other advice is always try to look for something that's been repowered with a late model or low hour motor, if possible, to give you the best start to a few years of trouble free boating. A newer motor will likely be more reliable, more econonical, possibly quieter and also easier to get parts for down the track.

I'm another carpet guy. So much nicer under foot especially in summer when the floor can get really hot, and without carpet a bare fibreglass floor can get pretty slippery when a bit of water gets on it as well as bait and fish guts. Carpet also helps reduce Eskies and tackle boxes sliding while underway too..And so far as it being hard to clean and smelly..... I'm not sure what you guys are doing! I've never had that issue, even after having multiple tuna bled on the carpet, lots of squid cleaned on the carpet and the usual bait and burley mashed and trodden into the carpet all day long.

Sure you do...... :whistle: So how long you two been engaged?

Please tell me it`s not something crazy like CBD boat trailers during peak hour, as has been suggested in a RecreationFishersVoice facebook site post...that would be great publicity for the cause and would generate so much public empathy for same.Not.Not sure what they are planning Kon. Reading some of the posts over there it would seem they aren't certain what type of protest they are mounting and have no clarity of what exactly they are actually protesting about!

Thanks for that confirmation Ranger, it's very encouraging to hear. That's a totally different attitude to some other SA based fishing websites and clearly explains why this website appears to becoming more popular.

Hi Tonyb I agree that if you look at the OP's original question clinically and take it for exactly the question that it asks,then yes, the only responses in this thread should be yes or no.However, expecting people to answer "specifically" to "do we want the use of the jetty or not", without any other considerations or discussion is surely loaded? I mean this is a fishing forum so really how many people would say no? To have any relevance to people's responses and for this poll don't we have to gauge at what cost and how badly people want to have the jetty stay open? I can't see how you c

I hope you receive a friendlier reception on this website, than what you did when you posted the same thing on FishSA!

That is my major concern - how much will this cost the tax payer. Let's be honest, there are much more important things as a state we need to be spending money on when you look at what is looming in the future...... healthcare, infrastructure, public housing etc. When you consider there are government cut backs taking place everywhere on projects that were already considered necessary and important, where does the buying of a dilapidated jetty and it's remediation, then it's ongoing maintenance so people can fish from it, fit into the order of priority when considering everything else that o