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.

I find it amazing that so many people don't share our vision.

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:

/ Bushy and Starlo

I don't remember Ol' Rex flogging much crap on his show.

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?

thats what i call stupid.. wearing waders in surf in water your not able to stand in.. sitting above the swell on a tripod seat???least he was using an alvey

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 4000 Thunnus after I lost my baitrunner D. Maybe 20-30 lb braid.

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't normal pots/traps, about the same size as a kids smimming pool. It has to stop. The crabs do come out of the sand in winter and in deep water to get a feed.About a month ago I snorkled most of the St Kilda channel almost out to the black pole. Not a crab. If you have stuck your head in the water in these spots in Feb/Mar you would now that this is impossible in living memory (at least my long dead grandfather).At least one of these pros was at Ceduna and screwed the crabs there. Not sure whether it was one of the chaps mentioned though.To put it in perspective. We have one boat with say 100 8 x 8 ft traps. They do a run where they lay them 100m apart each day. That is 10 km. Now assume they do that from Pt Gawler towards Pt Wakefield when the weather permits. I'll be conservative, 150 days. That is 1500km of pot runs. So it is maybe 60 km from Pt Gawler to Pt Wakefield. So they get a very good coverage. Remember the crabs pretty well travel in one direction close to the coast. So in six good days your pots cover the advance and retreat of all the crabs on the eastern side of the gulf. You can do the sums.The pro crabbers do not report a drop in catches because they have an established market and need to maintain it. So they increase the effort to maintain the catch. They are doing this by going deeper. That is why most folks do not see a difference. And for those that still catch them you'd be south of outer harbour or out wide because the worst thing for the pros is to take recs to see them in popular areas. (cont)

Wow !! They really mean buisness. Not before time i suppose' date=' looks like squid for snapper bait this winter instead of on the plate.[/quote']You need to give cuttlefish a go on the plate. I like them far more than squid. They have a richer taste.

What's going on here????http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/sa/watch/92874e80-8223-32f9-a458-bfbb951acafa/big-machines-tackle-seagrass-at-glenelg/http://www.epa.sa.gov.au/xstd_files/Water/Report/seagrass.pdf