Tinker

Never tried it, but thickening up tuna oil with corn flour (or similar), add a bit of powdered garlic/curry powder/five spice or whatever and you'd have a paste you could stick in a little jar and use as you'd use S-factor.  I might have go at this next time the missus is not in the kitchen.

Another tip.
If you ever have live bloodworms, mix your SP worms in them and coat them in the slime.
Keep fresh in resealable sandwich bags.
Works better than SFactor...

Another tip.
If you ever have live bloodworms, mix your SP worms in them and coat them in the slime.
Keep fresh in resealable sandwich bags.
Works better than SFactor...

I've been using Daiwa Tournament Hyper PE on my 2000 Freams for flicking lures at bream and mulloway. I have 10lb which is overkill for what I've been using it for but the 10lb is almost equivalent to 4lb Fireline. It's super smooth braid that lays nicely and casts a mile. I highly recommend it.

i use Fins braid.
it seems good,....but i haven't used others to compare it to.
but i am getting good life out of the Fins.
i use 30lb on the deep water rod, 10lb on the whiting type rods, and 6lb on the bream type rods.
 
i'm still using nylon on the beach rod though.

easier than that mate.
On the nights mentioned in the coming months, they will "commit suicide", jump out of the mud and float out of the port river during the run out tide. You simply sit in a boat or on a rock wall with a torch and net, and scoop them up

well its not as nice as southie's, but a favourite of mine also.
taken with the phone, whilst out hunting.

One of my favourite shots I have taken so far.....
 
Taken during a storm front Approaching Porties jetty just after dark!
 

Give you a tip mate.
Dip them in metho when alive then put them in small containers and freeze straight away.
When you use them keep them in the shade and as cool as possible.
This method gives you firm and reliable worms for fussy bream, and they don't mind the metho one bit.
I tried salting them live, but they squirt the blood out, and end up mushy after being frozen.
Usually dig for them at low tides below .20m, and when used live, are one of the best baits out.
However during the bloodworm run, using them as bait will be useless, coz most of the fish that eat them will be fat and full.

Walked out to 2nd marker about 630am, passed a couple of guys who were there real early. Knocked off about 11 and saw quite a few on the way back, had a quick chat but not sure which ones you were? If you did see me I was the guy pouring with sweat in a jacket.
 
Picked up a couple of decent size ST's but was really quiet even with a decent burley trail going. Not sure it was worth the rock hopping effort, not the best tide movement though.

Vxman and myself soaked some big baits off the local rocks on Sunday morning. No luck at all, but that's not surprising considering the dodgey tides!  So we changed tactics mid morning and started berleying for Gar and slowly started to get a few keepers. Vxman was expertly picking out all the undersize ones and much to my amusement dropping all the legals he caught before getting them on ice!  Managed to get a small feed of "dodgey" Gar on a slow but enjoyable morning.

i too like Ale got out metro yesterday. i took a mate and me 3 little ones. the youngest two played wth thomas trains on the floor and loved being out in the boat as always. my six year fished hard all day throwing plastics and squid jags. we picked up 9 squidleys and half a dozen snook by dragging a double clutch around. we only kept one snook which my son was extremely proud he caught. was interesting if the 5 different colour jags we tried they would only hit this one

Give you a tip mate.
Dip them in metho when alive then put them in small containers and freeze straight away.
When you use them keep them in the shade and as cool as possible.
This method gives you firm and reliable worms for fussy bream, and they don't mind the metho one bit.
I tried salting them live, but they squirt the blood out, and end up mushy after being frozen.
Usually dig for them at low tides below .20m, and when used live, are one of the best baits out.
However during the bloodworm run, using them as bait will be useless, coz most of the fish that eat them will be fat and full.

Its the same every year. Put it in your diary. July & August a few days after the new moon.

I managed to get out yesty locally. Mainly drifted around squiding with one paternoster in the water in case I stumbled on a tinger patch.
Only got hook ups on throw backs, leatheries, weedies , red mullet, even a juvenile blue throat!
Ended up with a good feed of squid (2kg of clean edible goodness) n the biggest cuttlefish I've ever caught. The thing was a beast.
 
Had a really good time just me n my girl, for a 5 year old she is really getting into it and guess what show n tell will be this week?
My little whiting rock looked killer on the sounder, the blue blotches where hordes of pigmies tho.

Found em north last week, metro this week, n my mate found them on all his tinger drops down at wirrina!!

Have to speak the guys at the desal, c if they can run a backwash trial again, keep the population in check!

Well i went out Fishing Yesterday, The fishing wasn't the greatest but the views and scenery were certainly awesome!

Would love to wake up to this every morning! 

Would you agree?
 

No kingfish but had a few hectic runs before they spat the hook but scored this grouper on a live makeral 30 foot of the bottom.

My most memorable catch would have to be my first Mulloway. After putting in excess of 50 hours fishing for these illusive silver ghosts it was a truly unforgettable experience catching my first. i decided to head to the onk one day after school and second cast i managed to hookup and land a solid 55cm Mulloway! to top this off i landed 2 more in the next 15 minutes making this even more memorable. from that day i have landed countless Mulloway in the onk and it all started from that one moment. 

this 116cm lake jew on what most would consider bream gear. 2500 reel with 4kg mono. 45mins fight during the day first fish of 2014.
 

 
and probably my first landbased snapper caught on a $1 ebay reel that almost exploded during the fight.
 

First Kingfish at Pt Augusta many years ago!!

That's a porno moe if i have ever seen one.... 

My most memorable catch after my first ever fish (A bream from the Onk) is my first ever lure caught fish.
 
It was a scorching hot day over Summer in 2011 down at Portland in Vic and after bombing out on the snapper charter, my attention turned to the trip home. As we were passing through Nelson on the way home I asked dad if we could stop and have one last fish. We stopped at an information guide and I found a little brochure for a tour of the Glenelg by boat and the name on the brochure was that of an angler I knew from the TV. After pestering dad for a while, he rang the number and surprise, the guy offered not only guided tours of the river but also fishing guide tours at an affordable price. So dad was forced to then book us in for a night in the Nelson caravan park and the next day we headed out on the Glenelg.
 
Having never tried plastics before, nor having a suitable rod and reel, it certainly was a learning experience. I fished the day using a Jarvis Walker Redbone with 15lb mono and dad did the same so we weren't really using the correct gear at all. But somehow I managed to hit this EP on the head in a snag and pull it out for landing.
 

 
My first ever lure caught fish and I was hooked. Throughout the day I also landed three bream of legal size and dad also caught his first lure caught fish being a 36cm bream. From that day ever since, my lure fishing technique has been developing and come a long way. If not for that day, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be as addicted to fishing as I am now. It's also my only Estuary Perch and is the reason why I really want to head down to that special place again.

My most memorable catch would be my first Murray Cod.
I was 18 and fishing with some mates at Blanchetown, doing an overnighter, which was ironic as after a few drinks everyone started crashing out in their cars or tents by about midnight.
By about 2am I was getting sleepy, but I was still catching carp on worms and callop on shrimp, as well as heaps of yabbies from the nets in a nearby backwater.
I decided to pin a small yabby through the tail and cast it out, then sat down to enjoy my last beer.
Next thing I know, the rod was bending over slowly, then suddenly going ape5hit in the rod holder.
I grabbed it, backed off the drag, and let it run, slowly trying to regain line when I could. It didn't fight like a carp, and the headshakes were different to the callop I had been catching.
After about 10 minutes of gentle coaxing, I got the fish near the bank, then realized the landing net was still leaning against the car where I left it 30m away.
I grabbed my dolphin torch which I then shone into the water to see a big mouth and a greyish patterned back which I knew straight away was a Cod, and I didn't hesitate to go into the water to get it, even though it was cold.
It wasn't a huge Cod by any means, but at a guess I would have said 55-60cm.
I then spent the next ten minutes trying to wake my mates up to see if anyone had a camera, back then we didn't have mobile phones yet, let alone phones with cameras.
The Cod had been out of the water for way too long, and I had to get back into the water and hold it upright, while trying to shine the torch on it.
It took about 5 minutes to get it happy again, but when I released it, it didn't dart off, but slowly and gracefully swished her tail and cruised back to the depths.
I stayed up the rest of the night throwing yabby baits out, but getting another Cod just wasn't to be.
Murray Cod to me has always been my favourite fish, and the night I caught my first will always be one of my best fishing memories.

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