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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.

C'mon Lads.......... let's be a bit more positive.The Jetty had a major overhaul a few years ago.Too much conjecture without the facts - too easy to make a case to do nothing.

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 if it was to remain and be used in the future?Not against the jetty staying..... but just commenting on the likely condition.

That bloke filleting is amazing to watch! very skilled!

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.

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

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?)

The dump is a nice dive from my perspective. I don't have specific marks because any anchor in the area will put you on something. A mass of cables and all sorts of dumped metal. It is a great haven' date=' and yes snapper run in there as well.Some years ago I was taking friends for a joy ride on the boat, and pulled up over the dump, to have a seal lie on its back alongside my boat, with one massive snapper between its fins, where it casually ripped the head off, dropped the head, and took another big bite, dropping the remainder snapper. It ate what it had, then dove down and resurfaced with the remains took another rip into it, and did this until it ate the whole fish 3 times. Quite amazing to watch before our eyes.I recon there would be a few anchors lost in the dump, but there is no one single location that I know off.For migrating fish, like anything - right place right time. I lost my mask of my head in schooling fish once of port noarlunga jetty, go figure.I think the Blocks are well positioned and only thing standing for transiting schools, with the seawolf and lumb wrecks further south of port noarlunga.Send me coordinates if you have specific anchor spot, where you have lost anchors.Regards.[/quote']Cheers. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

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 and pieces floating in it, you will have fish sniffing it out and swimming up through the trail.

I would like to get this thread back on track.'Let's have more Competitions Prizes & Raffles every month'OK as a SPONSOR of this site' date=' in the past we at Compleat Angler Wallaroo & Moonta donated a prize each month. We have given DVD's, Tournament Shirts & Squid Jigs away. All you had to do was email me your name and address. We did this for quite a few months but it came to an end when numbers drifted off and we received 5 entries for a prize worth $50 -$60 dollars per month.We are prepaired to do this again and we could look at prizes & vouchers but you guys and girls need to get behind us. Enter the competitions, support the shops when you are in the area, purchase items from our online store. You are all braging about where you buy your gear from and these placed don't support and will not support your website / forum but some of you SLAM and don't support those of us that do. We need you to be spending money in our stores so we can spend money supporting YOU.Think about it...[/quote']Fair call and good response from a site sponsor.At this stage count me in for next Wednesday night for a feed and a few drinks. Let's hope a few more members take the opportunity to come and meet up. See you guys there.

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!

The highway is my local so makes it very easy for me.

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. I think one of the keys to help in keeping it clean is washing it down with a bucket of water or the deck wash during the day and keeping the ink, blood and guts moist, then back at home chucking some soapy water on it and blasting it with the hose. Any tough stains can be scrubbed out using a stiff brush and warm soapy water. So long as the boat is stored in a dry place with the jockey wheel wound out so the bow is up high, within a day or two the water drains off the carpet and out the boat and the carpet is back to new again...... well at least that's how I do it

I have a good fishing mate who is gay and wants to marry his boyfriend.

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

Ale - not being one of the FSA-annointed' date=' what "protest" are you referring to?

admin-FSA management wrote: They are not supportive of our protest so they can go hoot

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!

As a staff member here, I'd like to remind everyone that we are not censors who decide what can or cannot be discussed by site members.

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 can't help harping back to the essence of yakattacks post tho' and that is totally about do we want the use of the Stanvac Jetty for recreational purposes of all different sorts, or don't we?

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 could gauge this by simply expecting people to give a yes or no answer.

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

I see you are concerned about funding, as so we all should be

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 our tax dollars need to be spent on?I know you have suggested it could be self funding, but how much do you reckon it would cost to remove all the old fixtures and pipework and dispose of them properly (remembering they will be contaminated with chemicals), replace an extensive amount of the structure below and above the waterline that has corroded away, then make the jetty safe so it complies to all current OHS requirements, then ensure the rest of the infrastucture (like roads, toilet facilities, carparks, lighting and god knows what else) are adequate before it's opened to the public? $10-$12M you think? Who really knows, but at a guess I'd say $10M wouldn't get near what is actually required.... which means the tax payer will ultimately have to fund what's left to make it happen.

Do we pay a fee to go on the other Jetties

No, no-one has to pay to go on a metro jetty in SA. But I'm sure the cost to maintain the jettys are worn by those that live within that council. So are the residents of the Onkaparinga council happy to see their rates increase to cover the ongoing maintenance of the jetty? Perhaps rate payers would prefer to see some other Onkaparinga council projects slated to make room for this jetty project and it's ongoing maintenance?I guess it all comes down to what "we" can afford, and whether it's considered necessary or just a "nice" thing to have......