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I cast my TLD25 with a 9 foot LBG rod. It casts really well. On my boat rod with a lure would be a different story though.

Pumpy,Bit late in the conversation but there really is no such thing as fishing sunglasses. It is all just niche marketing. Any pair of polarised sunnies will do with a dark tint and that have a bit of wraparound to stop glare coming in from the sides.The only thing that arguably makes sunnies better on the water is having the lens made of glass. It is usually more scratch resistant when you get salt spray on them. Having said that glass is heavier and much more expensive, plus doensn't bend and they can shatter when dropped. I used to only buy Mako sunnies when I was spending a lot of time on

Very hot oil. The thicker parts of the claws you need to avoid though.

Sorry blokes,I lied. I deep fried them and am now cooling them off in the fridge. Prepared my chilli sauce so taking them to work tomorrow to eat. Heat the sauce with oil and in go the prior fried crabs. I've had a few and you can eat the whole lot (shell, legs etc), very crunchy but the meat is still moist.

I fry all my crabs. Chilli crab, salt and pepper grab and even curry them up. Crab Rogan Josh is my favourite.I'll give steaming a try tonight. Have to be healthier.

I'm a real fan of the baitrunners for surf fishing. I manage to drop them in the sand and surf regularly too. So much better for setting setting hooks. I have had more problems with overhead level wind reels in the sand that I have had with my 3 baitrunner Ds, and you wouldn't call ABU 7000 - 10000 series bad surf reels

I do. But I never have a full freezer and eat it all. I just can't justify the price of fuel/insurance/rego and maintenance and not get a bag limit. When I have enough Snapper I just don't target them anymore and might go beach fishing for mulloway instead or go crabbing. Enough for me is about 3 months worth with a snapper meal once every two weeks. So maybe 2 - 4 big ones and six small + a few giveaways to the family.

Lots and lots of schoolies in the Coorong.

Buying a pizza on the way home

Sorta looks like a tarwhine

With respect' date=' this capture di'd not happen... Ie a 60cm yellowfin bream.It's clear to me that the poster was mistaken in his identification of the species... The claim that there are loads of undersized yellowfin judging by their yellow coloured fins.I think the Glenelg river is a good study of the potential for yellowfin bream to be captured a long way south' date=' with both black and yellowfin bream captures reported.[/quote'']No problems, I have not a clue about the capture. Just commenting on their (potential) distribution :whistle:

The references I ound for it show that it does occur in our watershttp://australianmuseum.net.au/Yellowfin-Bream-Acanthopagrus-australis-Owen-1853and map

Mate, I have a Wilson Livefibre 5120 in overhead that I use with an ABU 9000 with 30lb mono for casting big lures and baits. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. I even used it to cast some lighter (but bigger) poppers and lures at some Kingies of the beach this XMas and it surprised me even with the lighter weights.

I use a mesh keeper net. I can't remember where I got mine from but the top ring is foam so it floats on the surface so you can keep some slack in the rope and don't have to worry about the outgoing tide. Just don't put live live squid in with your livies, I learnt this the hard way.What I have also found is more important than aeration is keeping the temperature of the water as close as possible to what it is in the water. Have experienced heaps of livies dying in well aerated water even after a few minutes. That is why I use the mesh keeper in the water. I even have a 12 volt bilge pump setu

Instead of buying the recharge stuff for Gulp if the liquid starts to disappear just top up with some olive oil etc.

My bad. Didn't add an hour to he tide tables.

Thanks Kingsley. Interesting, the tides tables list a high at 1900.

The other tide thread got me thinking why are the tides on websites sometimes contradictory.Today for example the BOM and Willy weather give low tide at Thevenard at 2002 hrs at 0.5m. http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/oceanography/tides/tide_predications.cgi (remember to correct for DLS)http://tides.willyweather.com.au/sa/eyre-peninsula/thevenard.htmlTides for fishing gives it as 1855 hrs at 0.4m.http://www.tides4fishing.com/au/south-australia/thevenardThats a whole hour out. Also T4F is sublety different in most tides (height and time) Anybody have the tide tables to refer to? I come across this

I had a 9 ft Wilson Live Fibre Trophy 1 pce 4-6 kg. I broke it unfortunately, my fault. It was good enough that I bought a second one in two piece.http://www.wilsonfishing.com.au/_products//Fishing+Rods/Live+Fibre+Rods/Live+Fibre+ESTUARY+++LIGHT+SURF+Rods/Live+Fibre+Trophy+9++4-6kg+2pce+Rod-163-1409-.aspx

I have an 18.5 ft boat and the 12 ft plastic. I have used the big boat 3 times in the last 2 years. The plastic gets a flogging. Reality is the gulfs are very benign. Unless you're fishing over 15 knots or want to take a heap of people out you don't really need a big boat. I reckon a 14-16 footer would be my pick. I even head out early in the plastic and come in before the sea breeze.

BCF, anaconda, Rays etc are the Woolies and Coles to small local tackle shops. Online sales don't help.

From memory as a kid we used to get them at Port Vincent and a place called Chinamen's Well between Port Victoria and Balgowan.

When I was about three years old the family went to the Adelaide Zoo. There was a cage that appeared to be empty and as young kids do I grabbed the mesh to stick my face against it for a better look. Of course the cage wasn't emptyand this oversize guinea pig leapt onto the wire and mauled my ring finger on my right hand. Mauled isn't the word it pretty much degloved it from the knuckle down. As there was no micro surgery in the day the doc just rearranged as best he could, bandaged it up and administered some antibiotics. This link is the creature. They used to be called agouti.http://en.wiki

I'm hearing ya. I vac sealed all my small snapper and even the fillets from a 25lb'er. Really god plus the thicker plastic prevents freezer burn. But a few whiting fillets etc. Too much hassle.