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With me it depends where your fishing.In a REALLY snaggy backwater where you have to drag fish through a gap only a couple of feet wide, I like 10 pound it gives you strength but gives anything over 2kg fight pretty well.In the torrens, main Murray river channel and any kind of open water, I use a 1000 size real, 1-3kg rod and 6 pound line.For both, a ten pound leader straight to any hook is all, unless their is some serious current (rarely) I don't use a sinker.Ihave one really god rod holder, I set the drag to hit them, then they can peel line. This works well with circles especially. My oth

Bottom one looks like some kind of wrasse/rock cod.The top one almost looks like a western pygmy perch but big and from saltwater, no real help but thats what it looks like.

I took a gamble on a 2000 pelagic real.10 "S/S" (presuming super smooth) ball bearings, 5:1 gear ratio, holds about 120m of 8lb mono. It really SUCKS at throwing something under 1/8th of an ounce but for heavier lures it's surprisingly nice. It is a good reel to pop on a 9ft rod and walk a beach throwing lures for small salmon and snook.It would make an good reel for bait fishing but after having a fiddle with the drag it looks like if you put 2kg or more on anything that can pull hard it would just pop the wires that hold the disk.Really it compares to alot of jarvis walkers, just a little sm

I suppose the barra classics would be ok? Don't really know just chucking it out there. They have a good profile, like a mullet and can get deep down.

If your open to freshwater, big (5+kg) carp,arn't that hard to find.

Sneaky Fisho Isn't bad for price, but they only do deals.

Just today I was fishing The lower Finesse (where it meets the murray) sixth cast along a reed line and BANG a huge callop walloped my lure! From catching them in dam's quite a bit I could tell it would probably go into the low-mid 50's.It took it about 10cm below the surface, didn't know it was hooked until it broke the water. Then in one massive woosh of it's tail it popped the blood Knot :s :pinch: :c :angry: :angry:It would have been my first lure caught callop out of a river, that happened at around 2 and I am still feeling the insignifigant little pop in the line.I got 4 solid 1-2.5kg

I'd go swimming. I've only got three squid jags 2 red and white yozuris and 1 big green thing held together with masking tape.

How the hell would you fillet that?! :laugh:Just kidding he looks like a little gem, but get him to spit that dummy out right away! You wouldn't want him CHOKING would you?

Don't forget Samsons and Kings people! All though I would lie to catch my share before I tried it out.

And just when i find out about it.

People, i may have just come up with the best descreat weed bed tactic of all time! How ever this is one secret i probably won't reveal untill late autumn, probablly won't even fish with it if any bodys around :laugh:P.S does anybody know when BCF Mt.Barker restock?

Thats great! when i think about it, i might have to put a hook or at least some weight on the front to get the bib down.

I figure singles would catch weed less and have a better hook up rate.Thanks for the link mate. i think i may have posted this at the wrong time, the site crashed straight (maybe within an hour) after i posted it

I would use a sinker over a float, unless someone has berleyed up gar and tommies then a pencil float would be the go.

Could small singles work for little minnows? I have some long skinny (maybe 65-70mm) minnows, but they don't have hooks. I bought them at a garage sale in a big resealable bag full of lures i got for 50 cents, believe it or not i got a rapala count down in there aswell! Would small J hooks or suicides work, or are there specialist singles out their. I used one last night over an extremely shallow weed bed, just twiting it over and through, but got hammered by 4-5 25cm redfin each cast. But no hooks = no hook ups.Please give me a hand. Thanks in advance guys.

Yes please, who would be able to do this? Shows us all when we could go

In regard to temperature the kingies at lordhowe island are tropical so it shouldn't heat up too much. Full grown ones would clean it out but it is a decent sized system.

I once had an absolute ball on the carp with a telescopic rod up at Walkers Flat. I was fishing by the boat ramp and castin 3-4 meters away from that point (across and out). With just a #4 long shank hook loaded with corn kernals as my weight i would cast out and wait. I would see a twitch then the line start to slowly go out,3,2,1 BANG! i would try to rip the fishes head of with a sweeping strike in the opposote direction the line was going in.I landed 12 carp in 2 or 3 hours doing this, the best going 3.5kg. As a bonus toward the end i caught a shrimp in a little scoop net, baited him up and

How many people saw the pic of the massive snapper out of westlakes? it was in ever WILD COAST or Sa angler. Just wondering why kingfish couldn't be "stocked" in there, i mean the bream would cop it but imagine that! Mulloway and kingfish swimming around a crystel clear lake. Just stock them to big to escape.Any way, i doubt they are in their but i pray they get in there.

Yeah once one season goes off it would sure be fun to go and do that!

Barra in peelet fed holding tanks don't wise up to human fingers worked like poppers over weeks and weeks, so in the time it would take for a trout to eat a lure in an easy acces, small, roadside dam they probably wouldn't wise up to quick. I Rember reading on an W.A forum that a guy in perth caught a 65cm Barra in a small public pond. It must of been released in summer when it was to big for it's tank, it tokk him 3 trips to land it but he got it. That is basically this kind of fishing. Also that dam would have no where near enough food to raise a 20lb fish on it's own, let alone a hundred fr

A monster! I do agree with Cal though, the same goes for carp. They are basically farmed the amount of berley (Ground bait)put in their. Almost like fishing a hatchery pond.

Motly bottom is the way to go. Weed with sandholes all through it, you get a fair few but you also get more wrasse, leather jacket etc.

Yeah, head up into/past the gorge for trout. I fish almost the furthest upstream part of the onka that holds enough water. Only ever caught redfin (English perch) though.