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It varies on which part of the state you are in and how far out to sea you are but generally in this gulf it may well be illegal to dump anything that you do not retrieve when you leave. I am not talking about cockle shells and marine stuff used for bait. Hefty fines may apply. Posting on a forum may be used against you by fisheries in court action. So it would be probably be inappropriate to comment on personal experience.Do I think dumping a sack of barley one day and fishing it the next day would work. SHIT YEAH Would feeding a reef work. A decent sized established reef that's not overfished probably wouldn't need it. Would feeding it helpSHIT YEAH

Luv ya work jay

WOW VERY NICE FISH

Agree with kayak fisherNice to keep a brag sheet,Better to keep a log of all things fishingI agree with others xcel spreadsheet is the go. If your not computer savvy an old exercise book divided into the twelve months will do.Just write down your results with as much info s possegTides, wind direction and strength etc tc

where can we get one of those, I'll take two

You are the exception Dazz, Even if you do catch fish that take line more often than not its the thumb doing the work

Plenty in the Port River and Westlakes,Just look for the tell tale sign of the little volcanos at the low tide mark

There was fly line for $10.00Line is something I wouldn't go cheap on,Flyreels on the other hand don't do a lot, There pretty much just reservoirs for holding the line.

Firstly you need to decide on what u prefer,Flatter bottom hulls are more stable at anchor, but shockers into the chop. Deeper v's are less stable at anchor but cut up the chop. Whats more important to you ?Tinnies are lighter easier to tow, cheaper on fuel, but the rides not as good. Again what is more important to you. Personally I'd go for a deep V, no matter who you are u will always go out and get caught out in rough weather. So what if it rocks a bit at anchor.Nothing worse then pounding into a southerly returning from goannas, all your expensive electronics, BANG BANG That short sharp chop we have in this gulf sux

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I had the line all wrapped up around the reel it was 10 kg.The last okuma same model but older went 3 seasons. This one carked it at the end of second season. Both within warranty timeframe, warranties mean shit, try and claim, they will rave about the warranty til they get ur cash. Then the fine print comes out. :evil: Perhaps I shouldn't say it out loud but that Sabre rod has copped some punishment. Not real useful on fish over 4-5 kg but its caught more than its share of 10kg plus fish and still feel the sneakiest whiting bite. I found this on ebay for the "PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED" Sorry ebay link didn't work, its an auto reel winder.

I can understand how you find it boring, I used to as well. I fished with an old school Italian bloke many many years ago, a handliner at Pt Vic. Frustrated the crap out of me, I wanted to see the rod bend, hear the reel screaming, that was the rush. There was no joy on the handline for me then. Not any more .... Last sesh I had with a mate we were rooted, and that was just after the first fish. We looked at each other and pissed ourselves laughing at how stuffed we were. We used to laugh at the idea of the electric reels. Not any more.... That was his first comment as soon as the fish was on board. "where can we get those electric reels from" .Bit pricey but .... they start at about $1000.00I don't catch much snapper this time of year, my season usually starts end of October til about June. Im gonna set up some sort of contraption to hold multiple handlines in the rod holders on my side of the boat all rigged with various rigs. With you comment on light line fun, when we first tackled the mullies we used to fish for them with 3kg line. You would hook them and then chase em for ages up and down while they shook their heads, took ages, thrashed it. I quickly found it more fun to use 15 kg and really stick it to them. The run didn't last as long but even the smaller ones pulled like mack trucks against the greater load. Each to their own I guess, we all do it for fun, whatever gets your rocks off.For me these days its about getting my bag in the esky and back at the ramp without the use of a kidney belt... so I can still get home in time to clean the fish have a shower and still get a few hours sleep.

Have considered them but they are 1-1 ratio, handlining would be faster. Maybe for sharks Last time I went on charter I never took the rod out of the holder. Was fishing about 150 ft of water, almost half a kilo of lead, used the Saltiga and just wound the line up rod still in holder. Smart ass captain asked me if my husband fishes too

My mistake Sil, the outfit that snapped that night only had 20lb braid, connected to a sabre 196-6. The reel was locked up tight though as tight as it could go. Its my whiting rod. It shouldn't have snapped with 20lb line because its rated to 20lb, suppliers told me that for most anglers it wont, he classified us as the 5% ers, "sorry sounds like Im bragging" because we catch fish its not designed to be under that stress consistently. Supplier wouldn't honour the warranty. I do run 80lb on all my heavy outfits, Saltiga, tld , shimano 6500 etc, but these outfits are too heavy to hold all night long especially in deepish water. I normally bring em as back up rods.Before the okuma I used to go through at least probably two abu 6500 a season. The okuma lasts usually at least 2 or 3 seasons. Not bad for about $100.00. When I asked the tackle shop owner if I upgraded to a millionaire or Calcutta type real he said would make no difference all have brass gears. Hence back to handlining, Like I said I prefer to use the lightest outfit I can, Only the saltiga has survived being used like a winch, I even stripped the gears on the tld in under a season just snapper fishing. Brass gears do not stand up to constant pressure.I will still take the heavy outfits for sharking, big mullies etc. But your not holding the rods the whole night when your sharking and mully fishing. Snappering is up and down all night long.Sorry I am dribbling now Sorry Pauly in answer to your suggestion the suppliers make these claims but you stuff up their reels they say the reel wasn't used as it was designed and will not honour their warranties. Even if you stick to the suggested breaking strain. If you fish once a month you will never have these issues, if you love fishing and go twice a week and are hooked up pretty much 2/3 hours straight every session mate nothing lasts. The stuff that does gets heavier and heavier to hold with every sesh.

Thanks for your post,After reading it took the kids and the missuss for a cruise to Victor today, hit middleton first and there was at least 4 whales within 200m offshore. Right on the surf line. It was my first time seeing whales in SA. Loved it, thanks for the heads up.

I try and fish with the lightest rod and reel I can for those allnighters.The reel was an okuma bait runner snapped at the stem that attaches to the rod, I fish with a tight drag and the reel always flexes, this time once too often. Great reels love em for value for money but I fish em pretty hard Not knockin the reels, they have outlasted every other model I have fished with apart from the saltigas. I was just surprised at how much curry the fish was giving me on the rod and my back, but handlining it in was a piece of cake.When you spend almost an hour getting to grounds then the whole time on your feet doubled over takes it toll on ur back. It was just so easy getting the fish to the boat. Most of the other reels I use the gears always give way. Only the saltiga runs decent gears, almost every other reel runs brass gears. Even the better ( more expensive models ) all run brass. Fished hard they all strip. I find the Saltigas' to heavy to be holding standing up all night with. When in comes to handlining my only concern is about the line everywhere, when flyfishing I run a stripping basket, to strip the line into, just don't want to spend the night undoing birdsnests. If the pro's still do it must be the best way to get the fish into the boat. Im over light line fishing and playing the fish, I just wanna drag the fluckers aboard get my bag and go home....

Does anyone still handline anymore ?I recently had yet another reel come apart on me mid way through a fight on a snapper. So I had to handline it in. Fish was giving me quite a work out on 80 lb braid. I was concerned pulling the braid in with my hands but it was remarkably easy. MATE ! my back loved it, was easier than giving away all that leverage to a rod. Rather than spending all that money on new gear every year I am giving serious consideration to going back to olds school methods. There was a time I had to catch it on a rod, but Im not so sure any more. Any of you blokes still handline ?Thinking of still using the rod holders to clamp the handlines to the gunwale and just using my hands.

Bloodworm run I would stay home for week

agree w/ Rollasmy best success came from no. 14 & 16 nymphsreal light leader small strips, long pauses

Theres heaps of em near the semi reefWe got them up around the 3kg mark they where like footballsThe ones we used to fish for where reluctant to take anything above 3 kg lineMaximum hook size we used was a number 2No weight no nothing just a hookWe would burley them into a frenzy with mulched up pilly and when they where actively feeding we would lower a small pilly fillet amongst them. 3 kg fish on 3 kg line used to take an honest 10 minutes to land.We lost more to the ledges below than we landed but we landed enough to make it worthwhile.Despite what you hear they taste great too

Bream is one of the harder species to target on artificialsIf you are fairly new to the sport you may wanna do a bit of researchand perhaps target them with bait first.Once you can identify locations and times when you know u can get them on bait perhaps then make the transition to spGet some runs on the board. Dont let anybody tell you any different bream on sp is tuff,If you can catch big bream on sp regularly you can catch anything on sp

Not sure if still running but,....Gulf port fishin charters of Nth Haven is GOLDIn all the years that I came across him and his clients I cannot recall a single trip where he did not bag outThink his names DeanAbsolute Gold

Not sure about the legalities but the wetlands from Mawsons to the port have yabbies in there

To all you freaks out there stay calm,Just putting it out thereThey reckon out of the millions of baby fish born less than 1 in a hundred makes it to legal size. Thats being conservative, Its probably far less.That would mean even less would get to monster sizesLess than 1 in a thousand snapper would get 30lbs or mullies to 50 lb, probably less.Doesnt it make more sense to allow anglers to take their 5 snapper any size.You would be actually helping the species. Taking 2 x 20 lb snapper would be the equivalent of hundreds, probably thousands of smaller ones it would take to get to get to that size. When you take into account the spawning potential of the larger fish ............ Doesnt it make more sense to have bag limits but no size limits.Size limits encourages the taking of the breeders.