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after getting that response i would have yelled back 'fisheries are on their way' while holding the flat phone to my ear

jinkai or black magic are really good that 10x is good for strength but as thick as clothesline wire

good shit Blighty glad to hear some of the tips given by members are helping with your desiese, sounds like your on the road to recovery :cheer: cheers

my best is only 9lb from murray river but i'll try to get pics of my old mans record trout from dartmouth at 17lb back in 88, not sure if the record still stands?cheers wes

Don't freeze your crabs Old Salty a mate of mine tried that once and all he got was acheing balls, just go to the doc and get some cream or something ok i'm off to get my mind out of the gutter

yep yabby, they grow to over 500g in dams but generally a 200g yab is considered big (all depends on what your used to seeing), at a guess yours looks 140-180g.they generally don't grow to that size in rivers with all the predators around so that is a very large river yabby.cheers

Fishlups, yabbies have 5 legs either side, the same as almost all aus crayfish sometimes they lose legs then re-grow them.murrays crays are extremely rare even in the upper part of the river in sa they are rarely found below swan hill as they dissapeared when the locks where built.cheers

girly beer is good when eating yabs so the beer doesent overpower the yabs flavour I'll stick with that story anyway :cheer:by the way thats a 75cm platter plate the yabs are sitting on, roughly 6kg, F##k i'm full

it's definately no murray cray as they have large spines, it's a yabby like my lunch today

definately a yabby (cherex destructor) Marron have small spines and thin claws and have a different body shape.south east freshwater crayfish have large spines and look like a murray cray and are only commonly found in the glenelg river system and a handful of stocked areas in the lower south east.just need another 20 of them and you'll have a feed :laugh:cheers

Hi Coight, would you know of anywhere that I could view them on the net? can't seem to find them? cheers

thanks for that Coight, i'll look em up cheers

if your keen on trying a saltwater bait for yellas, peel some green prawns they work pretty well over east when the local shops run out of yabbies

G'day, i'm just after some opinions of the best rodholders on the market, mainly looking for sidemount, 360 rotation,plastic or like and removable to be used for spinning outfits, eggbeaters and low profile reels on rods mostly rated under 10kg.so far I have found ram mount and scotty, are there any other brands worth considering? any helpful suggestions much appreciated cheers wes

another option would be to buy reels with spare spools to cover more bases eg, 2-4kg rod 1 spool 4-6lb for your light work whiting/gar/tommies and another spool 10-12lb for snapper/salmon/mulloway ect.then a second heavier outfit one with 15-20lb and the other with 30-50lb.that way you can take out only 2 rods with 4 different line classes.

buy a kayak and fish out of it for a while, you will have no choice but to find alternatives then go back to boating

plenty of people use them for bream especially in upper reaches of estury systems

I'm definately no expert but as far as I know flat headed gudgons are a freshwater species, there are stone headed gudgons and sleepy cod that are in the gudgon family but their range is normally on the east coast and up northern aus?cheers wes

cheers for the comments guys If i catch a mully on the thing I'll post a pic Look foward to seeing the new models Matt they are labour intensive to make but i'm sure well worth it when results are achieved.sounds like you need to pick up a 25kg kingy jigging rod for that 150mm blade cheers wes

we don't get flatties in the estury systems down this way either even though the river is open to the sea most of the year, I have asked locals who live on the river and they say they've heard of 1 flattie caught in the last 15 years. It is strange :huh:You would think of baby flatties are in the lake then mum & dad flatties would have to be in there at some stage?cheers wes

will do Softy just waiting on a boat delivery then I'll be out amongst them.

I have been meaning to have a crack at making some blades for mullies for a while but have been a bit lazy, so after seeing Matt89's home made blades I thought what the hell I'll give it a crack!Here is my first it's a bit over 80mm and a bit over 40mm deep, it's suposed to look a little like a small bream because I noticed last time the mullies where around that the small bream I caught had a lot of large bitemarks on them and there was'nt anything on the market with a deep body and in silver to match the hatch.so here it is it's unproven at this stage but I hope to remedy that soon

they can be a real pestfish but are eaten by some fishos down this way, I'm told the flesh is pretty good but they have a lot of bones that are hard to remove when filleting.cheers wes

thats a ripper of a cray Last time I was up near robe doing some cray measurements for pirsa there was some divers that brought in a cray a little over 6kg and it somehow latched onto my leg while I was measuring it's mate, I thanked the divers for their time and went to walk away with the cray still attached I only got 2 steps in before they pulled me up That bloody cray went from foot to mid thigh and it took another 10 minutes to pry it off my leg.It is odd for a cray of 8kg to stay shallow and grow to that size and not go off the shelf and turn white like the normally do at 4-6 kg.I wou

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