spog61

yeah! once you could send the tin lids down to the jetty to do a bit of night fishing while us parents stayed back at the shack and told lies, not any more!, What's wrong with these idiots

Here's another hint that goes with this technique, it's an easy way to attach a balloon anywhere on the main line with no threat of leaving remnants on the line, you can also tie the balloon neck directly around the loop, but I prefer to use a rubber band as my fingers aren't as nimble as they used to be, especially when they're cold.plse see attachment [file name=baX41zhT__rigging.doc size=25088]http://www.fishyorkepeninsula.com/images/attachments/baX41zhT__rigging.doc[/file]

If you want to accurately set your live bait a certain distance from the bottom to keep him from seeking shelter or maintain him in the strike zone first make a dry run with no bait just a sinker attached to the hook, run to bottom then pull up the desired distance then place a small piece of paper, plastic, string etc. under that wrap on the reel spool then wind up & bait, when you run back in stop once the flag is released & presto your there. Cheers & tight linesSpog

If you've got a bunch of fussy gardies in the berly trail, try gently removing the sh*t sack from a cockle & put on the hook, only economical if you're whiting fishing at the time to use the rest the cockle, or you could salt them for later.

might pay to take a sea anchor or collapsible bucket to throw out the back to make the big hoodlums work a bit harder, a lot easier than trying to maintain some "beam to" while fighting,sounds a real hoot though

For the last 4 yrs I've been working off the west coast of Africa just north of the Congo river mouth, this river from memory has the 2nd or 3rd largest discharge of freshwater in the world. As our rig moves up & down the coast the visible effect of varying salinity levels is quite obvious in regards to marine growth on platform legs & our own hull. The Congo discharges into the east Atlantic (a huge body of water) & is subject to consistent high current flows up to 5 knots add to this that we operate in an area between 45 - 80 km offshore and 100 - 200 km north of the mouth, this

I've been working with de-sal plants on offshore oil rigs for years & regardless what the experts say the brine rich discharge will be a problem in any gulf waters. I'm not against them I just think they should discharge to open seas to minimize any localized salinity increase.

Went chasing KG's a couple of weeks ago, bought a kilo of green peeled frozen prawn tails (Chinese import) from Woolies for 29 bucks, worked a treat, twice as many baits as the cost equivalent of cockles & more robust on the hook. Added bonus if you don't catch any fish you can bung the bait on a skewer for some prawn shazlicks. I have in the past seen imported prawn tail meat a lot cheaper than that, so I'll be keeping my eyes open and stock pile when they're about.

I picked up a good trick years ago in WA, melt some solid cooking oil and mix it with your berley, add plenty of sand to increase weight, then set in fridge or freezer, you may have to experiment with a bucket of salt water to get the bouancy right, also works well for keeping berley in blocks on extended fishing trips where freezer space is limited and in a bag staked in the surf zone, cheers

A bath sponge used to mop up all your bait board guts & juice then topped off with tuna oil makes a good slow release mechanism, you can either hang it over the side or drop it in your burly bucket