Knackers

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 the water but they got expensive. I now only use Maui Jim polarised and get good life out of them on the boat so they are fairly scratch resistant and light weight, but are still exxy for the cheaper ones at 150 - 200 $$.I'd be looking online in the US for somebody that ships here.

How do you not cut up your gums and mouth Knackers or are you having a lend :ohmy: I'd give it a go though looks delish.

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

Just because there's a limit doesn't mean you should reach it each trip.

Lots and lots of schoolies in the Coorong.

What's your secret to making drummer edible?

Sorta looks like a tarwhine

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

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 setup on 20 foot of garden hose that I use with a car battery and generator that acts like a live well for fishing off the rocks but that is another story.

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 a bit and always use the BOM as my authoritive source. I think T4F is an international site and use different data which seems to be corrupted.

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacaWas riding my dirt bike with a mate in Victoria a few years back and was ripping along. Two ducks flew out from the side of the road and I ducked (excuse the pun) but my mate Cam copped one fair in the face. He stayed on the bike but when we stopped I could not recognise what was his blood or the ducks - gizzards, blood and feathers everywhere. After cleaning him up found only minor bruising and some pretty good swelling. Thank god for full face helmets and goggles.The best one I ever saw was when raking at lower light/port parham. My cousin and I were about 14 and we were herding this huge smoothie around the shallows. A family friend Jeff was studiously raking a narrow sandy gutter that was about a foot deeper than the mud banks. The ray saw this as its only opportunity to escape and just as we shouted a warning Jeff turned a round as the ray hit him full on mid shin. It knocked him flat on his back and went straight over the top of him. No one hurt but we died laughing.

Vacuum sealing fish is the best way to go. It also helps to keep bait frozen for longer if you are doing a long trip as it takes all the air out and only takes a minimal amount of ice and locks in any smell.