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We all eat w a y too much at Christmas ....What are you all planning tomorrow ...Take a pic of your Christmas spread. Lets see the variety of great foods that we put away. ...Happy Christmas to all you hookers Have a great day on the morrow.

Have used Bream, with some success. But it takes a fair bit of preparation of a fillet/slab and not really worthwhile in my opinion considering it will basically only end up in a ray (trimming spikes, scaling, cutting).....also very boneyWould rather drop some dollars at the fish factory for decent baits than go out and try and catch and prepare a 30cm bream!

You should only take what you need for a feed when chasing bream. They are very slow growing and to take a 30yr old bream and put it out as live bait i think is stupid.Not sure bout you but id much rather swallow a troutie or tommie over a bream with that dorsil spine full of spikes

Just realized I clicked on the wrong one http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/recboatingfacilities/boat_ramp_locations/yorke__and__mid_north/tickera

Never launched there, but I hear low tide can be a problem. http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/recboatingfacilities/boat_ramp_locations/yorke__and__mid_north/port_rickaby

well done on the fish on placcys mate top effort as for retrieving your anchor bloody norah your game cos were there are snapper there are with the rate of the grey fellas being sited out locally here no way i'd be getting out in the H20 cheers 4THA

Nice little story there w2Bf I can relate to your frustration losing a good anchor. I've lost about three good grapnels, with chain in the rip, until i was told how to set an anchor up properly by the late Laurie Birdseye.Wasn't a shackle issue, just getting them snagged on the bottom and not having the power to pull them free.And there aint no way i'm diving down into 25 meters of rip water to retrieve anything

well, took the boat out yesterday after work for a quick sesh. ended up in about 10ft of water flicking around soft-plastics for snapper. on my 3rd cast i hooked a nice flathead which swam straight to the surface and gave me a good eyeball of it before spitting out my plastic and swimming back down. i was spewing but happy as well because mate Will and I had always suspected that we would get flathead in this spot and now we had confirmation that they were there.Will hooked and landed a nice snapper not long after which i reckon would have gone 42cm but he wanted to make sure so put it up to the measuring sticker on the side of the boat where it decided to jump out of his hands straight back into the water. Oh well, at least we had each hooked (and in his case landed) quality fish on SP's which was our mission for the trip.not long after the Snapper jumped back in i noticed we were drifting. Will jumped up and pulled up the anchor rope and that was all we got back, the anchor rope. my 20ft of chain and anchor had come off, the stainless steel D shackle had loosened and finally come undone. i was f :c g spewing, i could see myself having to fork out $150 for a new anchor and chain so, despite the fact that the tide was almost in making the water nearly 13ft deep, the sun was half set and i didnt have a snorkel or flippers, i jumped straight in and tried a few duck dives looking for it. i reckon i tried for about 20 minutes before accepting that i would have to wait until daylight and a low tide to have any chance of getting it back.So, today i rushed home from work, hooked the boat up and my mate daniel and i headed out to try and retrieve it. it wasnt ideal conditions, im not sure how strong it was but there was a pretty decent NE blowing but the water was reasonably clear so we got to the spot i was at the day before and tied an anchor he had bought with him to my anchor rope and anchored up near where i had marked my anchor. i jumped straight in and started swimming around looking for my anchor. i could see the bottom fairly well and it was only around 9ft deep so i was optimistic that i would find it. it took me about half hour but eventually i saw the chain lying n the sand. my heart leapt and i duck dived straight down, grabbed it and swum it back to the boat. Might have to go buy $150 of fishing tackle with the money i saved when i come down to adelaide next week to see the folks for xmas :cheer: Moral of the story is that if you must use stainless steel D shackle's for ur anchor then MAKE SURE THEY ARE TIGHT OR PUT WIRE OR SOMETHING ON IT TO MAKE SURE IT CANT COME UNDONE. they have a habit of gradually loosening over time as i found out the hard way. it took mine 8 months to loosen and come off and im just glad it happened in 8ft and not 80ft. from now on i shall be using galv D shackles or if i do use stainless steel do it up with a shifter and check it regularly for tightness. some might say rookie mistake but oh well, the story had a happy ending and hopefully i can save someone from losing an anchor! :side:

A 2 metre long shark was spotted at less than 100 metres off shore! :woohoo: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/twometre-shark-spotted-by-aerial-patrols-at-port-willunga/story-fni6uo1m-1226786615201

Mate, pm pirate pom, he catches garfish land based in his sleep! They pretty much line up pre crumbed for his autograph when he shows up at north haven

that is how tha chief come across it squiddo :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

that is how tha chief come across it squiddo :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Might try that on my missus. Soy sauce you say?

Better Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQmOR_QLfQfreakyCheers all

Cool Dish Watch this, Fresh Squid Dish It has a dead squid on top that “dances” when Soy Sauce is poured on it, activating it’s neurons (Odori don - The new dish where a squid comes "back to life" and dances on your plate.Diners in Japan looking for a moving experience over dinner can now order a squid that dances off their plate. A restaurant has created a dish, named Odori don - literally meaning dancing squid rice bowl - by adding soy sauce to a fresh squid. The high salt content in the sauce reacts with ions in cells of the squids' tentacles creating voltage differences, and making the squid move.To prepare the dish, chefs at Ikkatei Tabiji, in Hakodate, Japan, first remove the head of the squid before serving the body, with tentacles intact, over a bowl of sushi rice. Seasoned soy sauce is then poured over it. As the squid is served so fresh, when the sauce is added signals across nerve cell membranes are re-activated temporarily, making it 'come back to life’. The body is then removed and prepared by the chef to be served as a side accompaniment. The meal, which is proving popular with diners, costs around ¥2,000 or £15.30 per person. The dish is such a success that the restaurant have patented the name of the creation. Now other restaurants in the area have begun making their own versions of the Hakodate dish, under different names.

I personally have never liked Shimano rods, for my money Daiwas are heaps nicer, the Generation Black series is a great bang for buck lineup of rods.

cheers guys really appreciate the feedback sounds like the t-curve may be the way to go is there any other bang for buck rods around?

the t-curves are really good rods. can't go wrong. popular and reliable.don't know about the ifish nano's as I haven't seen one, but the catana nano's are great.

I have 4 t-curves now in my opinion best bang for buck rods going around HSVLS19 caught a small bronzie on his inshore 2-4kg curve and handled it a piece of piss cant comment on the Nano's but ya mate wont be disappointed if he getz a curve bud cheers 4THA

i got a keg steamer also can boil in them too but once u steam crabs u never go back i use a galv mesh square chicken wire for the insert as it doesnt get hot enough to become dangerous but many will tell u otherwise ..always clean them up green then when ive got 3-4 to go light the cooker steam for 20 mins and intoa seawater ice slury (mouth is watering)..im pretty sure the hong kong at paddys market sell big pots also

Hey guys. As the tittle suggests, what is your best artificials bream? I personally have been unlucky with my biggest only at 37cm (x4) but I certain I will crack the 40 this summer. So let the picks roll in.All these are within the last 18 months, with the last two within November.My first legal lure bream, caught in the Glenelg. Back in the days of keeping them :whistle: Caught on vibe.Another from a Glenelg trip earlier this year. Caught on vibe.One from last month in the lakes, on plastic.One from a couple of weeks back, on vibe.So, lets see how many 50s we have out there. I know there will be a few, and hopefully they post the pics

Not my footage but worth a watch

Well done again Alex a nice mixture of fish from the lake think you might have to get a new s&h hat, bit young to be drinking jim beam cheers 4THA