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I do a bit of float fishing with a stick float trotting a single maggot on a size 14 fine wire hook and a English style float rod in the Onka. Longer is better for trotting out in the current, 12ft to 14ft rods are not too long and they only weigh a few ounces. These rods are not easy to find tho' a certain Tackle Dealer down at Victor Harbor was brought up fishing with them in his Homeland. and would be sure to help out? Float rods are very forgiving with their "through actions" and given time, you will be able to land some very heavy fish with a correct drag setting and some p

Any pics? we LUUURRRRV pics

Nearly there, boat gets its arse wet tomozza up at Tauwitcherie

Tagged SA king recaptured at Coffs 17 Nov 2014 THE recent recapture of a tagged kingfish has amazed members of the fishing club that originally recorded the capture over a year ago. According to a post on the Adelaide Gamefishing Club facebook page, the club received a call from NSW DPI with information about a kingfish tagged at Port Augusta on October 21 last year by club weight recorder Paul Williams. At the time the king was estimated to weight 14kg and measured 114cm in length. Over 370 days later, Gerard Billing recaptured the fish at South Solitary Island, off Coffs Harbo

Hi Des, I'm a bit out of my comfort zone as a dyed in the wool freshie fisho but I was pointed in your direction (the YFW whisperer) by more than one angler as I've taken a fancy to catch YFW along the metro coast this season. I have caught YFW on poppers but only as by catch when bait fishing for other surf fish. I was fascinated to read how you changed your rig to a two hook set-up which is identical to that advocated by Andre Georgescu in his Australian Bream Fishing video series to catch his bream. (the videos' if you haven't come across them are all shot locally in the Pat and

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South Road Bridge upstream is "bandit country" after October the first

Wow! technological advances bring some good ideas to improve casting and here's the evidence. My pride and joy was and still is, my good old ABU 9000C with it's lifetime Guarantee still valid 50 years down the track I believe. First thing I did was to remove the levelwind and also all 4 of the centrifugal brake blocks. Regular lubing with the finest machine oil I could find was a given for this classic reel. I remember when they were first introduced to the Brit fishing scene they were installed with a plastic spool. We Geordies soon had them rethinking the design as the big cod we use

Awesome session boys and awesome to see the youngsters out there and doing it instead of vegging out in front of the electronics Got as good as a stick of dynamite with those ZMans fellas Great pics as well and I dare bet there's not too many peeps viewing this that have seen one of those "jumpers" out of the water Let's know what it tasted like mate?

Had a giggle about your mention of practice casting in open paddocks as this was exactly what I was doing one day (while living in the UK) when a couple of cheeky young kids came by and watched me for a while then one of them asked what I was fishing for as the grasshoppers don't grow very big in this particular field? Tis a bugga casting in soft ground as you sometimes found you had to walk near 200 yards each time to dig your 4oz to 6oz aerodyne sinker out of the ground!!

Yes Indeed SB, and the first thing we'd do would be too take off the level winds from our Abu Overheads (we call them "Multipliers" in the UK) and get the "educated thumb" too such refinement that night or day rain or shine it would be second nature and bird's nests became a very rare occurrence. I had a mate who did a bit of tournament work who used to cast out and actually back off the spindle end thumbscrews as the cast was going out and all without thumbing the reel at all. Not for the faint hearted nor the inexperienced! I have my first ABU 9000C reel still and can punch 170 ya

Makes me giggle when I think about my mates in the UK who fish 90lb braid off the beaches and if they get any wind knots or tangles they just wrap one end of the line around the boot and the other end around the arm and rip the knots straight out! (better if the line is wet ) We used 4 oz to 6 oz sinkers with 60lb mono shock leaders for "Pendulum" casting, normally with 15 to 20lb main line. Fairly easy to get extreme distances even with large baits with this method PS Pendulum casting was rightly banned on competition days off the beaches for obvious reasons PPS Ch

Just really sad that this bad behavior can be seen right through this bream closed season with PIRSA not having the resources to police it and people who care about the Fishery not game enough to take on some of these belligerents who think that Fishery rules don't apply to them

http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2484

Always has it been so mate A small percentage stuffs it up every time Unfortunately bad news always travels better than good news and the Management of the fisheries have to address these concerns Good to see that we more concerned anglers are having a go to try and keep the playing field level

Hi All, I had a very interesting conversation this afternoon with an avid angler who lived 5 minutes from the Lake for nearly 12 years and has fished it a lot. He moved to the southern suburbs recently. He tells me that the places where he used to see one or two anglers are now at saturation point with dozens fishing. Furthermore, he told me that there has been/is a massive influx of soapy mullys and this is the prime reason for lots of anglers day and night using this facility. Moreover he tells me that expiation notices of $160 were common and these have now doubled to $360 (PLEASE don'

From the SAFWAA Forum it appears the closure is about the fishos who use the place at night

Anyone game to ring Dani for clarification? 'Twould be devastating for our recreational fishing community if yet another freedom of access was removed at a Councillor's pen stroke

I once hit a shoal of smallish redfin about 6" long and caught three triple hook-ups one after the other on a team of three size 12 gold bead headed pheasant tailed nymphs, whoo hoo, never repeated that again but that fly is a firm favourite tho' as said the smaller redfin have a strong diet of aquatic larvae in the early stages of their growth and will tackle most anything I have seen some corker redfin landed on 4" or 5" fluro orange marabou streamer flies fished in tandem which shows that redfin are not fussy critturs at all

Caught a very lucky yabby that was still alive and kicking in a big redfin.Why was it lucky? It was a very hot day so I gutted the reddy, which is not my normal practice and the yabby won its freedom

I can't agree with you this time Cal, for far too long we have taken this crap, time to stand up for our rights although it is a painfully long and drawn out process. As said, we do have Tea Tree Gully Council's agreement even tho' you are technically only supposed to fish here with a Council permit (see the link I posted on this page)And TB, unfortunately, because we have traditionally fished here for many years does not in any way make it legal mate? Public Liability are two of the worst words in any recreational activity nowadays and don't the Lawyers luv it?

http://www.strikehook.com/forum/98-recfish-sa-formerly-sarfac/256533-tea-tree-gully-council-considers-proposal-from-recfish-sa-education-comps-at-wynn-vale-dam