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Or you could go for a bucket of Gulp Alive so that you've got plenty of juice! If out on the boat and swapping heads/tails etc, just drop the used ones in a bucket of water until you can deal with them.

KGW, Mahi Mahi but most of all WAHOO

Depends what you want with it! If 'twere me I'd fillet, when the rib bones are cut out you get a long V cutout down the fillet, I usually continue this down the fillet 'til it's in half lengthways & then cut into equal size pieces. This way you get a chance to cook the thick pieces for a bit longer without the thin end being overdone. Then it's up to you, Ranger's beer batter, a nice tempura or coat in corn flake crumbs (much crunchier and tastier than breadcrumbs)CheersWahoo

Been using Fireline in various colours and breaking strains for years. I find the fused gelspun is a bit stiffer & easier to tie knots in than some of the more limp braids. I also find it fairly easy to unpick when the knots appear!!Grey 6lb fireline and size 4 circles are killer on KGW!Wahoo

Yeh. The SBM would have been moored by chains and either anchors or very large concrete blocks. No guarantee all chains were removed when the refinery was closed. & yes, fishies correct, the pipeline would run along the seabed, often short runs like this would be secured with blocks to stop it floating.Wahoo

Hi AleRegarding the onloading and offloading from tankers. Due to the difficulty in close manouvering of such a large vessel which would be hard to control in close proximity to a shallow coastline, especially with any windage, tankers moor up to what is known as a SBM or Single Bouy Mooring. These bouys have a pipeline from the refinery to the bouy which then connects to the tanker for loading. They are used a lot in the offshore oil industry where there is no alternative loading facility. The following link tellr you more in depth :whistle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_buoy_mooring

In no particular orderPt GilesKleinsKingscoteArdsEdithburgh

I've thought about it quite a bit over the years. Problems at the moment are I'm time poor & when I get time the whole family want to come, when the oldies get past clambering into the boat and with retirement racing toward me every year it's certainly a possibility in the future.

You're right about ABU being class gear. Didn't take Crispy long to sell that 6600. Now, those Redfin........Mainly UK & Victoria, been pretty much saltwater since moving to SA, they are fun though, especially when they get around a kilo.

@tonyb: Phewww!! I'm so pleased there is someone else nearly as old as me on the ForumYes, and I've caught my fair share of Redfin as well!!

Got 2, Tenterfield Terrorist & Pom/Terrorist X, come out on the boat all the time, once we anchor they just go to sleep

Yep. Got both of mine in the mid-late 1970s when I was still in UK & single. I was south coast & you needed a long cast to get Bass in summer or Cod in the winter. Still got a 12' ABU Atlantic beach rod capable of casting up to 9oz a bloody long way. As you say, removing centrifugal blocks helps, got rid of mine years ago. Kept the level wind as I'm too lazy to use my thumb!!

There's a lot of little tricks with these things. As has been mentioned if it's noisy when casting some lubrication sounds in order. If it's a 7000 & not 7000C it will have bushes, the C denotes bearings (used to anyway), way back in the 1970s the Ambassadeur 7000 was the reel of choice for champion beachcasters who were achieving distances of 200metres! They're easy to take down and clean, so I'd strip it, check the grease on the gears & replace with a light grease and oil the bushes & worm gear with a very light oil, the oil supplied is perfect for the bushes & worm gear. Whe

I've often thought the whole lot of them should go swimming at dawn/dusk with the great white sea kittens

After going through a number of filleting knives over the years I'd have to agree with Let's Go Fishin, my current favourite is a 7" Marttini, also have a 7" Kershaw that's pretty good & a 6" who'se name I've forgotten for bait cutting duties on the boat. Sorry but I reckon you can't go past the sharpened bone handled butter knife for removing the Gardies rib bones!Wahoo

Well Said RangerExcuse my ignorance as I haven't visited or fished that area for many years. Someone mentioned that there are few rips or dangerous currents on that beach & that's certainly my recollection. So my drift here is: If the shark fisher is paddling his bait out 300m, why would he be bothering to burley heavily from the end of the jetty if there is little in the way of current to take his burley past his bait and out into the gulf. Why attract fish to the jetty when your bait is 300m away?Probably oversimplifying here but I think as a few people have mentioned. Wise heads need to

Tommies definitely make good roll mops, been using a similar recipe to Ranger for a few years for Tommies. Gar make good Sashimi, nice texture.Wahoo

Had some fun with them off Port Giles Jetty a few times. They love to hang around the pylons in full view eating your burley but get very picky when they see line and hooks. I managed to get bites using unweighted hooks well covered in fresh bread (it tends to open up and hide the hook). Even then, using 10lb mono and a locked drag I was done like a dinner every time. Good fun though. :woohoo: Wahoo

Way back in 75 or 76 I was diving on an exercise ground mine in the middle of the night somewhere off the coast of Scotland, I notice something flapping about in the non -explosive end of this thing but didn't have enough bottom time to do anything about it. When we recovered the mine back on deck a 2kg Cod falls out the back end of the mine! By catch when you're not even fishing, can't beat it!Wahoo

For info of all interested. 1 grain = 0.06479891 gmAs Kelvin said. 6wt will be fine for your intended purpose.Wahoo

Well Said B214 & SamboThis is govt knee jerk reaction at its best! "Something needs to be done, this is something, therefore we will do it!" Puts me in mind of a certain movie from the 70s. Masses of boats heading offshore to catch a shark. How do you know if you get the same one that took that poor diver? Wahoo

Doesn't that drive you nuts. Being offshore, fish everywhere and you can't fish. I've experienced that in so many places. In the North Sea the Norwegians used to fish off the dive boats and then hang the fish up outside to dry, they're very into dried fish. I have heard of divers on the North West Shelf catching fish on handlines smuggled into the dive bell!! That was back in the mid 90s & in the words of Sgt Schultz "I Know Nutting"Wahoo

Hi AFFRe: Hook up rates. I'd have to say that they're better than before, but a lot of that's because I'm having to put the rod down a lot which helps the hooks work the way they're suppose to. I also tend to keep the bait on the move which also helps.Wahoo

Hi AFFWhile the idea of using circles soudns great, my only worry about using them on KG is the width of the gape. Are you sure you're not talking about kahl type hooks which have an enormous gape. The light circles I'm talking about have a gape not much different to a J hook of the same size but a shorter shank. I've tried the kahl type circle with a spectacular lack of success. They are good on flatties and ruggers though!!Wahoo