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On fishing trips longer than one day, I believe it's bad luck for your fishing clothes to see a washing machine, you can shower in them or hose them off, just don't let the missus chuck them in the machine, disgusted my missus initially but it didn't take long for her to realize us fishermen can be a little eccentric sometimes & she's quite happy not to have to deal with them herself, just gives me that "poor simple fool" look when she sees me doing the stomp on my clobber on the shower floor.cheers, Spog

the thumb rules I use for fish are as follows; drop a raw spud in your water & mix in salt until it starts to float, keep a couple of fish heads to drop into the brine once the eyes have turned white brining process is complete, air dry fish until skin is tacky then smoke, of course smoking times vary depending on smoker design & fish size. I also add about 1/2 a cup of that real thick "ABC" soy sauce to every 10 lt of brine, it adds a subtle flavour & enhances the colour.Strips of meat you do the same way, althoug you can experiment with other additives to the brine or rub in spic

Hey Big Ian,Been almost a month now any updates on the Tyrnos, thinking about getting one myself, looks really good value on paper. I'm probably gonna go with a 7 foot live fibre for versatility i.e boat & land as I've already got a 15 kg 5'6" roller tip backbone. Roughly how much 50 lb did you get on it? I'm considering braid with mono topshot.cheers, Spog

I'd check out Baudin beach 11 k's out of peneshaw on the main drag towards Island beach, good reef structures everywhere within 500 m of the ramp, snapper, trevers, whiting, gummies, bronzies, blue morwong, squid etc. etc. plus if you don't mind diving there's scollops & the odd cray. Also not too far from the Chapman river which can hold some good bream. I've been heading over there every year around xmas time for the past 8 years, excellent people, dissapointed I won't be able to make it this year, but I'm hoping to get back there for a winter trip next year to sample the legendary whiti

Hey Rob, the best advice I can offer is to head to any inshore reefs or structure adjacent deeper water or channels straight after a severe onshore blow especially from about now onwards, this tends to bring schooling snapper in close for a brief period while the water is still a bit stirred up, any of the rocky points on our gulfs should fire up i.e. Point Riley, Cape Elizabeth, Bird reef, areas around Pt vicoria & the foot of Yorkes, further away you have Coffin bay with snapper spots within spitting distance of the boat ramp plus you may encounter a kingy from mid to late October onward

hey fellas just thought I'd share a site that can be handy for identifying a fishcheck outhttp://www.australianmuseum.net.au/fishes/index.cfmIf you S&H administrators are happy with it perhaps you could add it to "Links"Cheers, Spog

Here's the system I use which enables the quick instalation/removal of pencil floats [file name=tisJxN5n__float.doc size=37888]http://www.fishyorkepeninsula.com/images/attachments/tisJxN5n__float.doc[/file]

Normally when you use this system, you're fishing within an area that has consistent depths & conditions you only have to tie off at the first anchoring and then leave it tied off, I used to keep a fish tub behind the helm station & just coil the rope into it then flip the rope up so it sits on the bow coaming pull it tight & tie it off on a gunwhale rail or canopy upright to keep it there while under way, then she's all ready to just drop over the side & circle hard once it's close to bottom so the the anchors set in the right direction, if you fish alone for whiting on anchor

Yea! I've used that system myself in the past, it's also handy if you want hang a bit more beam to current or wind to open up the leeward beam to enable more room to fish if you're a bit crowded fishing out the back, just pull up on the running bridle until the stern comes around to where you want it and tie off on the stern quartercheers, Spog

Can't find any humour in that, not a fan of unnecessary cruelty, kill only what you intend to use be it either for food, bait or burly and do it as humanely as possible.

I'm still smarting from the marketing ploy changing the humble shitty to striped perch, fond memories of that fish, only time as a child I could get away with swearing; DAD, " who'd ya go down the jetty son?"SON; " terrible dad! nothing but bloody shitties" DAD; "never mind son keep trying & maybe one day you'll land yourself a nice striped perch:" Excuse me a moment I think I'm going to chunda :(

In an earlier thread I read some discussion/debate on the new standardized common names for some of our species, now I'm not particularly fussed either way although I do like the individuality our local names for some species affords us & will more than likely continue to use the original names until I die, I was just a tad disappointed to learn that "Pipi" is a Maori name according to my old & reliable "Jack Pollard's Australian Fishing" guide for amateur anglers, if we can't have a sth Aussie name lets at least keep it Australian. After all hopefully none of us would approve of rena

Hey pillie, If the same fella owns a Bar crusher, he was on our rig about 3 weeks ago, had a few BS sessions with him, loves his fishing. I've met him a couple of times, he works for Halliburton so he moves around all the rigs as required, carries a 3 piece & overhead with him where ever he goes. I'm pretty sure he was on his way home when he left our rig, so's probably due back shortly.Cheers, Spog

BYO shovel ;D ;D

Sorry it took so long to reply Yobbo, but had trouble posting the pic.I,m on a tender assisted drilling unit, basically we use a 200 ton crane to erect a drilling rig on the clients platform, then supply power, drilling fluids & human resources for drilling operations. http://www.fishyorkepeninsula.com/images/attachments/P0uEaGdg__AIRIAL_PICK__03__T8a.jpg[/img]