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Maslins. All around the flats where you see grey patches in the sand, this is the excavation of the nippers.

Not as big as Nanmans, but neither is my wife!Caught on a popper out in the Whitsundays between two islands where the current fairly rips, Dangerous Passage.Only around 20 -25kg. Couldnt stop that smile all day..

Same as most places Mac, right time and tide will catch a few.Only issue is that the boat traffic through their is very high so Monday to Thursday is best.Also as Boyo said, you will lose your anchor if you snag up any of the cable that is laying all over the place that has been there for 15 years +Better option is the reefs to the left of Sulli's and finding a nice ledge..

Same as most places Mac, right time and tide will catch a few.Only issue is that the boat traffic through their is very high so Monday to Thursday is best.Also as Boyo said, you will lose your anchor if you snag up any of the cable that is laying all over the place that has been there for 15 years +Better option is the reefs to the left of Sulli's and finding a nice ledge..

Same as most places Mac, right time and tide will catch a few.Only issue is that the boat traffic through their is very high so Monday to Thursday is best.Also as Boyo said, you will lose your anchor if you snag up any of the cable that is laying all over the place that has been there for 15 years +Better option is the reefs to the left of Sulli's and finding a nice ledge..

Same as most places Mac, right time and tide will catch a few.Only issue is that the boat traffic through their is very high so Monday to Thursday is best.Also as Boyo said, you will lose your anchor if you snag up any of the cable that is laying all over the place that has been there for 15 years +Better option is the reefs to the left of Sulli's and finding a nice ledge..

I picked up the GoPro 3 Black last fortnight for the Freshwater Classic Milang to Goolwa race. Couple of things I have found with the camera I am not happy about and lots that I am.Happy.Picture quality is better than anything you have ever seen. The action shots I took of 30 shots a second mean you can do a great sequence.The WiFi connect App is great, on the iphone you can select all the different settings and record video or shoot pictures.The case is very tough, dont think the attachments are as tough though...Sad.Battery life is dismal, I get around an hour out of the standard battery. From the moment you turn it on the Wifi is chewing the battery so quick its almost disgusting they let it out of the factory like this. I have now bought 2 spare batteries with a charger so I have them ready to go. The Battery BackPack only gives around an extra 30-45mins as well.If filming on 1080 at 46 frames a second I fill a 16gig Micro card on one battery or close to it.The Type of card you want for the best results is a Class 10 with a write speed higher than 45meg a second. I have a 90meg a second card but they cost big $$'sThe footage I got from us sailing down the Narrows at Goolwa was pretty good, unfortunately I ran out of battery when the wind started to come through and we were hitting 25knots on a reach.Looking at getting another one as one is not enough once you start playing with these things and they are mounted in fixed positions..Cheers

Hi guys,The settings I have been playing around with that give me the best results are what I stated above. 48fps at 1080. As we are using this to record our sailing we often hit speeds in excess of 20knots with the gps clocking 27knots the other day. On a 18ft catamaran you can beef it pretty quickly at these speeds hence the required frame rate and picture quality. I would rather be running 60fps but it does chew the juice quicker.Slowing the frame rate or the picture quality would mean a poor quality finish.I have played with the Protune on and off and there is a slight change in battery use.. My issue was the camera was mounted to a fixed point ahead of the cat so I couldn't put another battery in midway through the race otherwise I would have been fine.TT, not sure what you mean mate, there is no other camera apart from a Contour, GoPro or similar that you can take underwater, mount to your boat or strap to your head. You can get an LCD screen for them as well, I find I can use the iPhone instead.

I picked up the GoPro 3 Black last fortnight for the Freshwater Classic Milang to Goolwa race. Couple of things I have found with the camera I am not happy about and lots that I am.Happy.Picture quality is better than anything you have ever seen. The action shots I took of 30 shots a second mean you can do a great sequence.The WiFi connect App is great, on the iphone you can select all the different settings and record video or shoot pictures.The case is very tough, dont think the attachments are as tough though...Sad.Battery life is dismal, I get around an hour out of the standard battery. From the moment you turn it on the Wifi is chewing the battery so quick its almost disgusting they let it out of the factory like this. I have now bought 2 spare batteries with a charger so I have them ready to go. The Battery BackPack only gives around an extra 30-45mins as well.If filming on 1080 at 46 frames a second I fill a 16gig Micro card on one battery or close to it.The Type of card you want for the best results is a Class 10 with a write speed higher than 45meg a second. I have a 90meg a second card but they cost big $$'sThe footage I got from us sailing down the Narrows at Goolwa was pretty good, unfortunately I ran out of battery when the wind started to come through and we were hitting 25knots on a reach.Looking at getting another one as one is not enough once you start playing with these things and they are mounted in fixed positions..Cheers

I picked up the GoPro 3 Black last fortnight for the Freshwater Classic Milang to Goolwa race. Couple of things I have found with the camera I am not happy about and lots that I am.Happy.Picture quality is better than anything you have ever seen. The action shots I took of 30 shots a second mean you can do a great sequence.The WiFi connect App is great, on the iphone you can select all the different settings and record video or shoot pictures.The case is very tough, dont think the attachments are as tough though...Sad.Battery life is dismal, I get around an hour out of the standard battery. From the moment you turn it on the Wifi is chewing the battery so quick its almost disgusting they let it out of the factory like this. I have now bought 2 spare batteries with a charger so I have them ready to go. The Battery BackPack only gives around an extra 30-45mins as well.If filming on 1080 at 46 frames a second I fill a 16gig Micro card on one battery or close to it.The Type of card you want for the best results is a Class 10 with a write speed higher than 45meg a second. I have a 90meg a second card but they cost big $$'sThe footage I got from us sailing down the Narrows at Goolwa was pretty good, unfortunately I ran out of battery when the wind started to come through and we were hitting 25knots on a reach.Looking at getting another one as one is not enough once you start playing with these things and they are mounted in fixed positions..Cheers

I picked up the GoPro 3 Black last fortnight for the Freshwater Classic Milang to Goolwa race. Couple of things I have found with the camera I am not happy about and lots that I am.Happy.Picture quality is better than anything you have ever seen. The action shots I took of 30 shots a second mean you can do a great sequence.The WiFi connect App is great, on the iphone you can select all the different settings and record video or shoot pictures.The case is very tough, dont think the attachments are as tough though...Sad.Battery life is dismal, I get around an hour out of the standard battery. From the moment you turn it on the Wifi is chewing the battery so quick its almost disgusting they let it out of the factory like this. I have now bought 2 spare batteries with a charger so I have them ready to go. The Battery BackPack only gives around an extra 30-45mins as well.If filming on 1080 at 46 frames a second I fill a 16gig Micro card on one battery or close to it.The Type of card you want for the best results is a Class 10 with a write speed higher than 45meg a second. I have a 90meg a second card but they cost big $$'sThe footage I got from us sailing down the Narrows at Goolwa was pretty good, unfortunately I ran out of battery when the wind started to come through and we were hitting 25knots on a reach.Looking at getting another one as one is not enough once you start playing with these things and they are mounted in fixed positions..Cheers

Technice is good value. Frozen water bottles last longer than the trips. I cool the esky down the night before as well.

Technice is good value. Frozen water bottles last longer than the trips. I cool the esky down the night before as well.

Technice is good value. Frozen water bottles last longer than the trips. I cool the esky down the night before as well.

care to be a little more non specific about it?Don't need to give away location but a bit more info would be good if you have it?

Watch out if landbased fishing, there are crocs and they will come up without you even seeing them. Just because its a big sandy beach does not mean they are not there.. If you can get some live bait then rig a 30lb - 50lb leader with a 7/0 circle and send it out. If you see a guy throwing a cast net around tell him you will give him $5 for a dozen herring. (You will need a bucket to keep them alive unless you fish next to the guy)Send out one line with a live bait and cast lures with the other to keep you busy.I would use 30lb braid on most of my mid range gear.Estuary fishing can be a bit hit and miss. See if you can get a Sunrise or sunset session instead of a 9 - 5 day. Most of them will do it. And if they are not using live bait then they are not a good operator who wants to put you onto fish.Cheers

Got this in the mail today, luckily ordered just before the Aussie dollar dropped below parity again.Gonna set her up with a nice 3 weight rod to use in battle against the finicky trout that live down the end of my street. These fish love to laugh at my hard and soft lure offerings whilst they casually sip bugs off the surface near my feet..... Hopefully a tiny dry or nymph will do the trick. Limited edition brown trout Ross Evolution LT SE.... Can't wait to try it out. :woohoo: :woohoo:

Fins windtamer 300yard spools for $10. Bought 10 packs of different strength and delivered for another $20 to OZ. That's me sorted for half my reels.Found its supple and good enough. As good as Bassman or YGK or similar.Buying a well known brand in bulk and splitting it with your mates is the best way to go.

Hi All. Just a couple of notes to clarify some doubts, hereabouts.1) Cod and Callop are on the approved list. However, we DO NOT encourage tagging of fish outside normal open seasons etc. If the regs suggest that Cod must not be taken, then they shouldn't be targetted. Generally Cod have a closed season to reduce stress to breeding females so they shouldn't be messed with at all. ATM we have regs that seem to be a reaction to low river levels due to an extended drought. Some thinking suggests that at these times Cod are too easy a target so rules have been put in place to protect them. Taggers are expected to follow the letter of the law as well as the spirit of the law. All the same if a tagger was trolling for Callop and hooked a small Cod we'd not get upset if he quickly placed a tag in it without removing it from the water. For information, NO COD, have been tagged by ANSA taggers since 2008.2) Tagging provides stacks of information. Apart from the obvious movements (or lack thereof) and growth rates we can also make educated guesses at how hard a fishery is fished. If, for instance, in Gulf St. Vincent 15% of tagged snapper are recaptured but in Spencer Gulf only 5% are recaptured then it would be fair to say that GSV is fished harder than SG.If over time, Mulloway recapture rates reduced from say 10% to 3% then we could make a good case for increasing bag limits.The ANSA Saftag program is a long term program. We've been tagging fish continuously since 1998. ALL the tagging programs run by Governments in SA were short term programs aimed mainly at predicting migrations etc. The Gov't has never been in a position to assess fishery health except by monitoring commercial catch rates. We hope to eventually have enough data, spread over decades, so that we can make informed scientific arguments when fish stock patterns change.3) Nanman suggested that it might not be very useful to tag fish that are already well researched. Most of the research that has been done is now out of date because fisheries have changed and research methods have changed even more. For instance, traditional thinking has Snapper migrating up the gulfs to breed in Spring and then back out to sea (where?) in Autumn. Our tag records suggest that gulf Snapper don't move much at all. Fish outside the gulfs do, however, migrate as far east as Port Philip Bay and as far west as Esperance. A case could be made that we have 4 separate populations of Snapper - 1) East 2)GSV 3) SG 4) West. Recent DNA research is making similar assumptions. Currently it would seem that although our Snapper stocks are very closely related there seems to be only random mixing of the stocks rather than annual breeding migrations. Much like Humans that were born on this side of the gulf tend to stay and breed on this side of the gulf, while only a few move or breed elsewhere we expect that only a few Snapper move out of their comfort/feeding zone.

AFF are you drifting the baits with a baitcaster or spin reel?And when your stripping line are you keeping in contact with the bait or is there a couple of loose loops of line floating on the surface?If your keeping in contact with the bait as its drifting down keep the reel in gear and strip the line instead of free spooling once your bait is in the area the fish are holding. If they hit it dont strike just let the drag hook them. Once your rod is bending and the line is coming off the reel then your hooked up.And as nickmav says keep the hook point and gape clear or you will keep missing hits. The more slack you give the fish the more chance it will swallow the circle instead of pinning on the lip.Cheers

Very true fishieAs for snapper in the port they've alwys been there

AFF are you drifting the baits with a baitcaster or spin reel?And when your stripping line are you keeping in contact with the bait or is there a couple of loose loops of line floating on the surface?If your keeping in contact with the bait as its drifting down keep the reel in gear and strip the line instead of free spooling once your bait is in the area the fish are holding. If they hit it dont strike just let the drag hook them. Once your rod is bending and the line is coming off the reel then your hooked up.And as nickmav says keep the hook point and gape clear or you will keep missing hits. The more slack you give the fish the more chance it will swallow the circle instead of pinning on the lip.Cheers

brenton, are you making sure hooks are well exposed and not buried in the bait. these circlies need alot of open gape showing.nick

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Well done, I am sure that Karma is waiting for it opportunity to repay you both in good luck.Hope couple learnt a lesson as well about the tides in the port.cheers