Rod

I have made designed and made a wall mounted rack and a floor rack on wheels.  I had everything I needed lying around
The floor rack was the simplest. 
cheers
Rod

The Plan: Start at 10am at Southport and hit most southern beaches through to Sellicks and return finishing aback at Southport.
 
Did it succeed: Nope.
 
OK, so decided to hit Southport at 10am leading to the low tide at 11.30am and to lure for Salmon all day.
Was not expecting to catch anything at Southport, as have not yet done so, plus the low tide was not going to help any.
 
The only thing happening or moving at Southport were the walkers along the beach.
(now I'm not talking walkers from "The Walking Dead" from the series for those who have watched it).
 

 

 

 
So after about an hour luring it was off to Maslins and still only half expecting anything to take a lure at this stage of the day.
 
But, some excitement for me....a green floating ball.
 

 

 
But that was enough excitement for me, and as not takers for my lure it was off to Pt Willunga.
 
Arrived at the carpark and had a bite to eat whilst surveying the area - looked good.
 
Then.....something caught my eye......another bloody ball.  Thought for a moment it got here from Maslins before I did, but a different colour, but at least it smiled
 

 
So back to luring at yet again something took my eye....
 

 
Then it all appeared.....a shark?
 

 
Nope....a friendly.
 

 

 
There was probably about a dozen dolphins swimming around about only 50m out and with some chasing something out there. 
 
So I replaced my Halco 40g lure to a Halco 55g lure for a little extra distance thinking they might be scaring some Salmon closer to shore.
 
Just purchased these Halco's so was hoping for results.
 
Third cast and twang, the Halco 55g travelled very well and sunk to the ocean floor
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So here is a tip for all: Always make sure your reel latch is open before casting
 
The dolphins headed North - the way I was going anyway and then one dolphin leaped out of the water with wave - looked fantastic - I gave it a 10
 
They were then gone.
 
Maybe they scared some Salmon in close as this was the result near the Northern end.
 

 
So I was happy that, to get something was a relief, but then.........it happens again
 
Yep, another   ball.
 

 
What is it with balls today I have no idea, but they are following me
 
The few Salmon were then also gone and was thinking now to go to Sellicks, but this was in the distance
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Now I was thinking I was not prepared for that much rain and seeing I had hooked a few at PW, why not stick to a good thing.
 
Got a little bored with no takers so I etched this into the sand.
 

 
If you can't make it out, it says 'Strike Hook.com'
 
So ended up staying at PW without going back to Maslins or Southport due to time (about 4pm now).
 
But a great day of weather and entertainment plus a bonus Salmon and ST.
 
 
 
 

Cheers again fellas . I couldn't find the REALLY LIKE button on your comment Cal . Comment appreciated . The rolling swell that was going underneath us is not visible but was about 4-6m buuuuttt the chop was nothing and was quite comfortable out there . That is correct Rod , i fish\am right handed with my rod in the right hand .

Great video Jimbo, just the shot in the arm needed in this miserable weather.   Speaking of weather, you struck it lucky on that day, absolutely perfect.
Great looking charter boat, some great fish and nice to see someone (you) knows which side to put the reel handle 
I think I will have to put sampson fish on the to do list form my son and I this summer 
Cheers
Rod

Wow, very impressive Byorn
Cheers
Rod

yeah especially on a pencil float with 8lb mono off the rocks.. and quite a ledge to lift it up.. i climbed down and tried to swing it up onto a semi submerged rock.. then  snapped the line.  ended up grabbed  her by my bare hands and throwing her up on the rocks.   luckily didint get spiked.  
she put up a pretty decent fight thats for sure!
 
 
gotta be one of my favourite table fish... tasted fantastic

Caught this on my Garfish rig while  hitting a local spot down near coffins on a  trip a while back.
 
Daiwa xcellor 2000, 8lb Ebay Braid.  7' shimano Raider 2-4kg
 

 
 
caught a couple that day.. but this was certainly the biggest. swallowed the hook so it came home for dinner.

We had a pretty slow day out from West Beach on Saturday, not managing a single KG, however I did manage a new PG flathead while drifting looking for whiting, nice and fat and measuring 46cm.
 
 

G'day
I think much of the area you are talking about would fall in to the marine park no take zone for that area.  Here's a pic, to the right is another no take zone with the yellow bit indicating shore fishing is allowed.   This doesn't apply to the rapid head zone
Cheers
Rod

So I’ve heard many stories of people finding rat kings within a couple of hours from metro in the last six months and never had any thought of chasing them due to not owning the correct gear. However, one close fisho friend of mine gave me some sound info a fortnight ago and gave me motivation to have a go at a landbased king. Not having ever seen one in the wild (plenty in aquaculture) and never having caught one, I went out chasing.
 
Day began at 5am, left home early and drove up to an area that had frequent sightings of rat sized kings. Armed with a few combos and a couple of not-so-fresh baits, I was hopeful. I began by sending out a freezer squid under a float and let it drift way out off where I was fishing. Whilst that was out the back, I began tossing a squidgy flickbait around on my 1-3kg Samaki Zing and my newly acquired Daiwa Caldia 2004 hoping to nab a few salmon or maybe a snook. After a long while and no hits on plastic, I swapped to a simple paternoster rig hoping to at least catch a fish. Managed to catch typical reef/rock fish such as sweep, zebrafish, wrasse and heaps of leatherjackets in the small size range. I kept periodically checking my whole squid throughout the day but it remained untouched. I swapped out the squid and put on half a garfish just to see how it went. After midday I swapped back to plastics and was rewarded with a solid hookup and strong run. The Caldia was singing loudly and I was losing heaps of line fast. The fish hadn’t jumped so I knew this was no salmon, the Kingies were finally here!! I fought this legal sized fish for five to ten minutes but without a crab net to lift and having completely the wrong gear it was hopeless. The king went for a short run and busted me off on the last pylon. I couldn’t entice another strike from anything until around 4pm when I began to bring in my last half a garfish bait under the float. As I retrieved the float, it began to bloop and pop the garfish across the surface. To my surprise two/three kings came from nowhere and smashed the gar on the surface and things came tight. Against strong drag from the Stradic 5000, it still managed to take line and felt like the harder I pulled, the harder it tried to run away. Eventually I got it close and was able to deadlift it on 40lb leader. Success!!!
 

 

 

 
My first ever kingie at 70cm. Great fight to it and to do it by myself was awesome. Now I just have to wait until late spring to hopefully go and find some more. Would love to land one on plastics as well, so that’s my first summer goal for next season.
 

make sure you've got a wake at the back before deploying the scaler bag...the bag should be just in the wash and the scaler bag tumbling over (hence the swivel on the scaler line).
Most have two bags...the inner bag you fill with the fish to be scaled and then that goes into the outer bag.
Some people dont use the inner bag, takes a bit longer to scale but not a lot of difference but make sure your fish are big enough that they wont go through the mesh of the larger outer bag.
Great for whiting to get rid of the slime and the scales and as jayman mentioned great for doing the squid (take out the head and guts first though!).
Would never put gar in them as you will destroy them (running your hand down the gar scales them pretty well).
great tool to have to save some time on the filleting table.

Hi All
What a big difference using the right fishing gear makes to catching them, and all thanks to the advice I have gotten from this forum. I got these in the creek near Pirie.

My safwaa record cod

Though I better jump on the wagon and post a pic, few crays I got on a good mornings fishin! Will have to post a pic of the pig power house kingie I'm gunna catch in a few months time???
 
 
 

Gee you've got the the meal and drinks covered   

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

G'day
If you want to go trawling for snook, you'll need a setup like this 
If however you want to go trolling for snook, follow the advice above 
Cheers
Rod
 

YFW on the Northern Sandflats.
 
Caught this bag on Saturday   Good sizes too. Upto 40cm
 
Cheers, Des
 

Haven't been on for a while thought I'd share my monster cray with all you guys and make your mouths water got it out of coffins with a tail snare the other day. And yes that is a carton of beer it is hugging and making look small.

Need to go out and get myself some drinking straws. These look very realistic: