Knackers

I thought these flares never went out of fashion? Why would you want to destroy them. Just wait 20 years and they are useable again.

Ya reckon? Never heard of you before.I'm pretty sure the Taliban are "amazed" that so many people don't share their vision either.Tell me everything that you stand for and I might consider voting for you.Until then be absolutely "amazed" that I reckon you are an arrogant fool for saying that you are "amazed" for me not knowing WTF your vision is.

I thought the original idea of the current shape of squid jags was to imitate prawns?Now we have them being coloured to imitate fish.I wonder how much better a KG whiting jag would work if was shaped like a KG whiting?Or maybe it wouldn't work because it stopped looking enough like a prawn?Lesson from my musings - squid are fairly stupid and will eat anything :silly:

Who? :whistle:

Between just you and me I have never watched Rex Hunt

I am disgusted nobody has mentioned Malcolm Douglas. Rex Hunt? iFish? River Monsters? Pfffffffffffttt! :vomit: Have a look at the crap these shows spruik you need - sunnies, buffs, latest lures, plotters, GPS, braid blah blah. Malcolm - shorts, shirt hat, bare hands and a piece of wood if he is lucky. RIP

Fridge,I wouldn't buy them as I don't fish a lot with live bait. The places I fish for mulloway mostly offers a good chance of getting my own.The only times I have really wanted live bait is when Kingies swim past the boat and won't take anything and I don't have a live squid to throw out.

Hi Crusher,A decent amount of rain will flatten out the ruts. The tides do wonders as well. Nothing wrong with highway tyres (or your size) on the sand either, more important to air them down. I have used cookie cutter (225 wide) with no issues on the far west coast.

Any reason why suited better to land-based vs offshore?

The same applies to those silly enough to wear waders in a boat.Fall over the side and the waders act as a floatation device' date='your head points to the sea bed and your feet point to the sky.Very hard situation to try and get out off.[/quote']Mate,I have tried to replicate the falling out of the boat in waders, feet above the head business. I did it in a mates pool. Head first, feet first you name it. It just doesn't seem to happen. I used to be dead against waders in the boat, now not so fussed. Maybe if somebody is worried wear a PFD?I'm not going to test it in the surf though.

Probably better margins on Daiwa?

Got lots of stuff from R&As. Just having a crack at Shimano's marketing :silly:

Just cruising and dreaming on the Ray and Anne's website and came across this very special feature of $899 (starting from) Shimano Stella reels:Approved for use in SaltwaterThey would wanna be!Second line from bottomhttp://www.rayannes.com.au/products/rods-reels/shimano/shimano-spin-reels/new-shimano-stella-sw-series-from-only-899/

I have pretty much stopped using pillies in the surf. I catch my own tommies and fillet them with the scales on then freeze. Keep the frames for berley. Next best is salmon trout, but find the flesh goes as quickly as pillies with pickers.

Juvenile and female blue throats are greenish in appearance

What size are they?They could be small female blue groper.

"what are those green rock cod called" Green Rock Cod perhaps?

Thanks Plank,Are the Shimano T-Curves any good? They seem to get mentioned heaps, probably a lot of marketing. Only ever used a mates one - it wasn't a surf rod though, stiff as.

Looking for some advice about a graphite surf rod. I've never owned a graphite rod.I have had numerous 4120 and 5120 with OH reels for surf fishing mainly baits and up to 6 Oz sinkers. Don't do much casting lures from the beach except at the odd visible school of salmon (just lazy I guess )Interested in peoples opinion on graphite rods. I'm not desperate for one but they seem to be better suited to casting lures than heavier baits?? I'd be looking at casting heavier lures up to 125 grams and if possible heavy baits. I'd be going spinning for this so maybe a 4000-6000 size reel. Just got a 40

http://www.strikehook.com/forum/5-general-fishing/158974-gps-marks-culverts

SAVE THE CRABS

So this is a classic collapse scenario. The pros keep saying that catches aren't falling but the average punter sees them disappearing from areas they always were.My evidence may seem pretty slim but enough people keep saying the same thing.My primary income has never been from fishing. On Mum's Grandfather's side they were all pro hook and net fisherman. Some of the 2nd cousins still are. But sometimes enough is enough.SAVE THE CRABS

I've been involved in fishing for crabs both recreationally and as a worker on a line lincence for a long time. The line lincence going back at least 20 years. In fact a law got passed just for us, one 18 ft boat, 2 snorklers, picking crabs up off the bottom. The law passed was that you could not snorkel for crabs on a licence. And this was just us. I reckon we would have been lucky to get a tonne as it was only a side earner in really good conditions.Now we have hundreds of tonnes being taken out of the Gulf. I was a Port Julia in Jun/Jul last year and a pro was still out potting. These aren'

JM,I used to live at Port Victoria as a kid and every year beginning in Autumn there would be seaweed like this. And the bay is far more protected than at Glenelg. In fact there are lots of spots in the state where the seaweed isn't gone until Dec/Jan. It needs to dry out and with a decent tide it floats out. We probably just don't see it so much because of the amounts of seagrass lost. I know every year it does drift North and builds up in the vicinity of North Haven, OH Breakwater etc.