hoopsy

getting out is my problem when well enough its blowing its arse off had a good couple of days last weekend 2 bags of KGs and 13 squid ..so the freezer is looking healthy again couple of seafood baskets coming up this week

and dropped a 50+ on the friday AGAIN they dont get that big being dumb..drag was as lose as a hanson rd hooker too
 
when asked how big was it after a few froffys??  

getting out is my problem when well enough its blowing its arse off had a good couple of days last weekend 2 bags of KGs and 13 squid ..so the freezer is looking healthy again couple of seafood baskets coming up this week

and dropped a 50+ on the friday AGAIN they dont get that big being dumb..drag was as lose as a hanson rd hooker too
 
when asked how big was it after a few froffys??  

and dropped a 50+ on the friday AGAIN they dont get that big being dumb..drag was as lose as a hanson rd hooker too
 
when asked how big was it after a few froffys??  

getting out is my problem when well enough its blowing its arse off had a good couple of days last weekend 2 bags of KGs and 13 squid ..so the freezer is looking healthy again couple of seafood baskets coming up this week

and dropped a 50+ on the friday AGAIN they dont get that big being dumb..drag was as lose as a hanson rd hooker too
 
when asked how big was it after a few froffys??  

and dropped a 50+ on the friday AGAIN they dont get that big being dumb..drag was as lose as a hanson rd hooker too
 
when asked how big was it after a few froffys??  

getting out is my problem when well enough its blowing its arse off had a good couple of days last weekend 2 bags of KGs and 13 squid ..so the freezer is looking healthy again couple of seafood baskets coming up this week

A few Ruggers last weekend

Since you asked mate 😊

great fun out of the boat we smashed some huge 1s there a few years back on tuna lures
 
great footage mate

Here we go, the official announcement of The Fishing Guru Salmon Comp!
 
Exactly the same as last month, post up your salmon related topics. Get creative, you can always post up a how to guide
 
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1 x 7g Stainless Steel 'Twistie' Surf Lure 1 x 15g Stainless Steel Holographic Surf Lure 1 x 23g Stainless Steel Holographic Surf Lure 1 x 10pk Stainless Steel Slimline Snaps 1 x 5pk Ezy Rigs 2 x Running Surf Rig 1 x Stainless Steel Fish Filleting Glove 1 x 40pce Ultimate Beads pack 1 x 20pk Black Bait bands 1 x Camo Microfibre Fishing Buff 1 x Strike & Hook Cap 1 x Strike & Hook Beanie  

 

 

 
Awesome!
 
Get your salmon topics cranking to have a chance to win all this great Fishing Guru gear and good luck!

they are brilliant mate well done and when u get ya new PB people ask what did u get it on ?? what a feeling saying the Bjorn lure mate

With a early morning flick down the Onk with no results I came home still thinking fishing and after catching up on a bit of work and doing a few things around the house I thought I'd get stuck into making a few DIY soft plastics, I'd rediscovered the moulds in my shed recently.
 
Paddle tail and curled tail grub in a few colours. The green one glows in the dark, takes a bit to charge up but does glow pretty well. I'm pretty messy when pouring but just trimmed them up with scissors afterwards and they look ok. Also have a few jig head moulds, the jig heads came out pretty well, I'll be trying those with the paddle tails. I can't wait to have a flick and see how they go 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone who writes up a salmon related post from the start of June 01/06/2015 until the end of June 30/06/2015 will go into a draw to win a Strike & Hook salmon pack.
 
The salmon prize pack consists of:
 
Swivel's Original SA Fish Measure Swivel's Original Neoprene Sunglass Strap Lazer 35g Blue Mackerel metal lure Kamashark 40g White/Red head metal lure 2 pack of small blue surf poppers Strike & Hook Cap Strike & Hook Beanie  
Keep an eye out for something a little different that will start soon and is related to the Strike & Hook Salmon Comp
 
 
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Haven't posted in a while so thought I'd chuck up a pic of my lure pb from today, beating my previous of 83cm. Also picked up a 71cm and 64cm. All went to the 2500 Sustain and gomoku.

 
Oh, and out-fished dad 7-0 including bait fish

yeah especially on a pencil float with 8lb mono off the rocks.. and quite a ledge to lift it up.. i climbed down and tried to swing it up onto a semi submerged rock.. then  snapped the line.  ended up grabbed  her by my bare hands and throwing her up on the rocks.   luckily didint get spiked.  
she put up a pretty decent fight thats for sure!
 
 
gotta be one of my favourite table fish... tasted fantastic

Here's our long weekend fishing report, stay safe everyone and catch plenty!! FSA
 
SA metro and country fishing report produced by Mark Mills for Fishing SA magazine.
 
 
Metro
 
Salmon – Sellicks Beach, Maslin Beach, Moana, North Haven, Outer Harbor, Port River, St Kilda
 
Mullet – Aldinga, Moana, Onkaparinga River, Tennyson
 
King George Whiting – Sellicks Beach, Hallett Cove, Brighton, West Beach, Semaphore, Grange
 
Snapper – Sellicks Beach, Aldinga, Moana, Seaford, Glenelg, Outer Harbor
 
Squid – Moana, Port Noarlunga, Port Stanvac, Seacliff, Semaphore
 
Tommies – Port Willunga, Port Noarlunga, O’Sullivan Beach, Semaphore, St Kilda
 
Garfish – Port Noarlunga, O’Sullivan Beach
 
Bream – Onkaparinga River, Patawalonga, West Lakes
 
Mulloway – Onkaparinga River, West Lakes
 
 
Country
 
Salmon – Cape Elizabeth, Bird Island Reef, Wallaroo, Browns Beach, Port McDonnell, Canunda, Carpenters Rocks, Beachport, Salt Creek, Sheringa
 
Mullet – Butlers Beach, Moonta Bay, Sheringa, Tumby Bay
 
King George Whiting – Port Vincent, Moonta Bay, Port Victoria, Whyalla, Port Augusta, Farm Beach, Coffin Bay, Port Lincoln
 
Snapper – Ardrossan, Edithburgh, Port Augusta, Coffin Bay, Cape Jervis
 
Snook – Moonta Bay, Port Hughes, Port Neill
 
Squid – Moonta Bay, Port Hughes, Whyalla, Port Augusta, Elliston, Farm Beach, Tumby Bay, Port Neill, Victor Harbor, Rapid Bay
 
Tommies – Butlers Beach, Moonta Bay, Beachport, Whyalla, Elliston, Port Lincoln, Port Neill
 
Garfish – Cape Douglas, Livingstones, Whyalla, Port Augusta
 
Bream – Port Vincent, Wallaroo, Glenelg River
 
Mulloway – Coorong, Goolwa, Salt Creek
 
Gummy and School Shark – Port MacDonnell
 
Sevengill Shark – Victor Harbor
 
Tuna – Port MacDonell
 
Elephant Shark – Goolwa, Salt Creek
 
Kingfish – Port Augusta (to around 20kg)
 
Callop – Cobdogla
 
 
 
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make sure you've got a wake at the back before deploying the scaler bag...the bag should be just in the wash and the scaler bag tumbling over (hence the swivel on the scaler line).
Most have two bags...the inner bag you fill with the fish to be scaled and then that goes into the outer bag.
Some people dont use the inner bag, takes a bit longer to scale but not a lot of difference but make sure your fish are big enough that they wont go through the mesh of the larger outer bag.
Great for whiting to get rid of the slime and the scales and as jayman mentioned great for doing the squid (take out the head and guts first though!).
Would never put gar in them as you will destroy them (running your hand down the gar scales them pretty well).
great tool to have to save some time on the filleting table.

if u have a tucker box it becomes alot cheaper i use everything nothing gets wasted..i mainly fish for table fish no need for snapper as i use dynamic lifter in my garden lol (jokes)
 
only bait i buy is gents as i get my own cockles
 
whiting and garfish frames become crab bait all shit fish also become crab bait
 
crab shells guts ect become whiting berly
 
squid heads also crab bait and candles and flaps whiting bait
 
every year i go bloodworming and get a years suppy of them for KGs and YFW
 
i have a small ice machine and also freeze up 2lt water bottles ice for esky
 
so gents $5 ramp fees $7 and $20 fuel  go out and chase crabs squid whiting and garfish mostly and even if u dont catch anything its a cheap day
 
even if ya mates think the boat runs on thanks lol

well done mate and i bet the blood was pumping specialy seeing others busting up great report and congrats on ya 1st Kingy

So I’ve heard many stories of people finding rat kings within a couple of hours from metro in the last six months and never had any thought of chasing them due to not owning the correct gear. However, one close fisho friend of mine gave me some sound info a fortnight ago and gave me motivation to have a go at a landbased king. Not having ever seen one in the wild (plenty in aquaculture) and never having caught one, I went out chasing.
 
Day began at 5am, left home early and drove up to an area that had frequent sightings of rat sized kings. Armed with a few combos and a couple of not-so-fresh baits, I was hopeful. I began by sending out a freezer squid under a float and let it drift way out off where I was fishing. Whilst that was out the back, I began tossing a squidgy flickbait around on my 1-3kg Samaki Zing and my newly acquired Daiwa Caldia 2004 hoping to nab a few salmon or maybe a snook. After a long while and no hits on plastic, I swapped to a simple paternoster rig hoping to at least catch a fish. Managed to catch typical reef/rock fish such as sweep, zebrafish, wrasse and heaps of leatherjackets in the small size range. I kept periodically checking my whole squid throughout the day but it remained untouched. I swapped out the squid and put on half a garfish just to see how it went. After midday I swapped back to plastics and was rewarded with a solid hookup and strong run. The Caldia was singing loudly and I was losing heaps of line fast. The fish hadn’t jumped so I knew this was no salmon, the Kingies were finally here!! I fought this legal sized fish for five to ten minutes but without a crab net to lift and having completely the wrong gear it was hopeless. The king went for a short run and busted me off on the last pylon. I couldn’t entice another strike from anything until around 4pm when I began to bring in my last half a garfish bait under the float. As I retrieved the float, it began to bloop and pop the garfish across the surface. To my surprise two/three kings came from nowhere and smashed the gar on the surface and things came tight. Against strong drag from the Stradic 5000, it still managed to take line and felt like the harder I pulled, the harder it tried to run away. Eventually I got it close and was able to deadlift it on 40lb leader. Success!!!
 

 

 

 
My first ever kingie at 70cm. Great fight to it and to do it by myself was awesome. Now I just have to wait until late spring to hopefully go and find some more. Would love to land one on plastics as well, so that’s my first summer goal for next season.
 

5 mins as your nearing the boat ramp 10 -14 knts should be enough to remove all scales without tenderising your fish,  squid tubes only and as long as you can, basicly tenderises the tubes.make sure the scale bag has a float/buoy attached ,good luck 

if u have a tucker box it becomes alot cheaper i use everything nothing gets wasted..i mainly fish for table fish no need for snapper as i use dynamic lifter in my garden lol (jokes)
 
only bait i buy is gents as i get my own cockles
 
whiting and garfish frames become crab bait all shit fish also become crab bait
 
crab shells guts ect become whiting berly
 
squid heads also crab bait and candles and flaps whiting bait
 
every year i go bloodworming and get a years suppy of them for KGs and YFW
 
i have a small ice machine and also freeze up 2lt water bottles ice for esky
 
so gents $5 ramp fees $7 and $20 fuel  go out and chase crabs squid whiting and garfish mostly and even if u dont catch anything its a cheap day
 
even if ya mates think the boat runs on thanks lol