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I have seen 2 wheel vehicles at both Marion Bay and Pondalowie, but I would be a bit nervous with a 18 footer plus. This also depends a conditions at the time, such as weed and weather the beach has be washed away from the concrete at Pondy.I would defnitely prefer to use a 4 wheel drive to stay out of trouble. I,ve used a 3 ton F350 on both and is rear wheel only. :f

Hi guys, hope everyone doing well On our way home last week from a driving holiday/runaway wedding through NSW and VIC, we came across this boat ramp. The bay of Martyrs in VIC.The sign at the top is quite interesting: Swimming not advised, strong currents, submerged rocks, something to do with cliffs, and NO lifesaving service. There isnt much room to swing a 4wd around at the top without a trailer on, so you would have to reverse over a speed-bump and around a 90degree corner, then down the boat ramp. Which is a pretty steep one! The sign at the bottom made me laugh, "vehicles not to be left on beach" What friggin beach!?!In my opinion, if I caught my hubby attempting to use this one he wouldnt be my hubby for very long ! Just asking...Does anyone know someone who has used this boatramp??I wonder how many calls Allianz have had about this spot?

mojiko gear... uh i'd rather a jarvis walker :silly:

I think if anyone went to the show at Wayville in October, it was completely different to a BIASA show. Lots to see and do and the vibe was fantastic. This was the SA Boat and lifestyle show. If BIASA had any vision they should hook up with Roadshow who presented that show and get some tips, and make one really good show instead of opposing it.If everone is going to complain about boat shows, stay home. Not all dealers are there to get the easy sell, more often it is about education, as you cranky old 50 year olds :whistle: are to proud to ask questions about newer technologies. The boat show does have better deals, often provided as rebates from manufacturers, such as engines. If you are really serious about buying a boat, dealers will do everything they can to sell at the show, you have to sell a lot of boats to cover the $20K + costs!

No offfence intended here but ever wonder why it's all the same brand ??? It's cheap crap !!Save your bucks up for what year really want, head down to your local tackle store, get some good advice and buy it once ! Look after it, clean it, even whisper sweet nothing to it while polishing it at night after a good days fishing and it will look after you for years and years !Once bitten, twice shy...

This might help answer the questions in relation to vision, and is also a very interesting read for anyone interested:www.thecephalopodpage.org/cephschool/CephalopodVision.pdf A little on the Firefly Squid, the only one known to have colour vision:

that was a very interesting read 4thalove thanksbut i believe its worth every cent spending good money on a decent jag.. i have a jag that i brought mid jan this year and i have estimated at least 50-70 squid caught on this same jag. squid are about $20 a kilo in the market (last time i looked) say 3 squid (estimate) = a kilo 60 squid = 20 kilo 20 x 20 = $400 from a $20 jag isnt too bad!!! plus i havent counted all the snapper/whiting i have caught from the squid heads etc and all the mouths it has fed.. l love squidding

this is an exerpt from a night held at a tackle shop in melbourne.Here in Oz 'Egi' fishing is still in it's relative infancy. Yeah some guys have been fishing with the old bait spikes attached to hand lines for years but the real art of 'Egi fishing', that we are only just starting to explore, is still a relatively new phenomenon here in Australia.In Japan the history of 'Egi Fishing' goes back more than 400 years, so they do have the odd tip or two to pass on.Here in Oz we account for only about 0.3% of the world's tackle industry, so the amount of gear Gan Craft ship to Australia is a drop in the ocean, however we are the only country in the world that these Gan Craft guys have visited with the specific aim of holding information/teaching sessions. Such is the respect the Japanese Egi fishing community holds for our fishery.'Egi' or as we know em 'Squid' generally account for over 60% of the world's marine biomass. So they are incredibly abundant, & Australia is THE single biggest squid biomass area in the world. This means we have undoubtably the world's #1 squid fishery, right here on our door step.Gan Craft are committed to creating top quality Egying gear & are using Australia extensively as a testing ground for their gear. Although we are a drop in the bucket of world fishing gear sales the Gan Craft gear we have access to is the very best available anywhere in the world today.The guys started out with the obvious - Rods.Now Egi rods are not just souped up bream rods. Until these guys started going into the specifics of Egi rod design I was totally unaware of just how complex these quality pieces are. It's not hard to see why their top range Egi rods have price tags of around the $700 mark. The style of fishing the Gan Craft guys are pioneering with their gear calls for tough but light weight & extremely well balanced gear. Try ripping a jig through the water the way these guys do, with a normal bream rod & you are pretty much guaranteed to end up with a hand full of rod pieces. In Japan Egi fishing is extremely competitive. They have a very large population that accounts for over 30% of the world's Egi tackle sales, so to be successful requires that your gear stand out from the rest. Squid are quite intelligent & will quickly learn that the last 10,000 times they saw a particular jig swimming around them one of their mates was ripped from the water, so they WILL learn to avoid items they have seen many times before. Hence the Gan Craft guys are constantly trying to develop new gear & techniqies that will 'stand out from the crowd' so to speak . Egi Fishing report - Part 2.The Gan Craft method involves using an extremely aggressive rod action to litterally rip the jigs through the water, followed by long pauses to allow the Egi to pounce. Squid are sight hunters & as such the 1st thing an Egi fisherman needs to do is get their attention. Hence the new generation of jigs we are seeing today & the very agressive way they are fished. However, it's actually when the jig is paused that the squid strike, so the pause is just as important, if not more so, than the 'ripping'. Gan Craft jigs are intricatly engineered to float/sink in a very natural & enticing manner. Squid do not 'taste' their food with their mouth as most other animals we know do. Their brain is a circular oragan through which passes their eaosophageus. Pressure on the brain renders the squid quite tepid & so food needs to pass into their gut reasonably fast. Hence squid actually 'taste' with their mantles (the 2 longest tentackles). Often when a jig is free falling through the water a squid will tap at it with it's mantles in order to 'taste' the item prior to actually biting.Egi JigsGan Craft make basically 2 types of jigs. A smooth version without any cloth covering & a cloth covered version (no way am I going to try to pronounce their correct names). When a jig is ripped through the water the 1st 'rip' lifts the jig. The 2nd,3rd,4th, etc actually serve to make the jig swerve from side to side. The jig is then paused before the process is then repeated. Aggressively ripping the jig through the water emphasizes this 'swerving' manner & is very good at attracting a squid's attention. When the jig is paused the squid then strikes. Due to greater water resistence a cloth type jig will travel slower & hence fall slower & swerve through a wider arc. The smooth jigs are faster, fall quicker, & swerve through a narrower arc. 'Horses for courses' or choices for conditions I 'spose.Colours - pretty obvious actually. Squid really only see in two colours - black & white. So why all the lovely colours we see on the tackle shop shelves? Because different colours reflect light differently. Reflect more light & you stand a better chance of attracting a squid. Having said that squid aint just gonna pounce on a piece of discarded cigarette packet foil either. The jig needs to be pretty convincing in regard to 'matching the hatch'. Squid want food & those big eyes are pretty good at determining if something looks like what they normally eat or not. Dark colours present better silhouettes. So the usual choice is dark for a good silhouette or light to better attract their attention. It all depends on the clarity of water, depth you are fishing in, & light conditions on the day. There is no right or wrong answer, just tried & tested 'winners' found through experience.Weight? Well here in Australia traditonally most people have opted for very light jigs in the 2-2.5 oz range.Elsewhere in the world, & partiucluarly in Japan, these weights are unheard of. Why? Well a big squid will look for big food. There's more of him to feed. But a small squid can also just as easilly feed on a large baitfish, so bigger is definitely better. Large jigs are easier to see than small ones & whilst a small squid will still attack a large jig, rarerly will a large squid attack a small jig. The Japanese use 3.4 to4oz jigs almost exclusively. Having said that they also generally fish deeper then we do. Most of their 'Egying' is carried out in waters of 6-8 metres or more, whereas we often chase squid in 1-3 metres. 3.5 to 4oz jigs can sink just a touch too fast in these waters, especially if they are of the non-cloth covered variety. Their recommendation is to use jigs of around 3-3.5oz for the majority of our situations, going up to 3.5-4oz for deeper waters. Gan Craft do not make jigs of less than 3.0oz.Reels?Only 1 size here - 2500. Anything bigger is going to seriously unbalance what needs to be a very balanced outfit, if the Gan Craft method of aggressive 'ripping' is used. 1000 size reels just dont have the retreval rate necessary to keep up with the agressive ripping either. So 2500 size reels are used almost exclusively with ratios oif 5.7:1 an absolute minimum & 5.9 to 6.1 ratios preferred. Drags are pretty tight to cope with the 'ripping'techique & can be quickly backed off if a larger 'Egi' strikes. It is also important to note that very agressive striking of the rod is also recommended when a squid strikes.Often the squid will grab at the body of the jig & not striking hard enough will often see the squid let go before it can be hooked. So, the Japanese guys say - STRIKE HARD.Lines?PE1 to PE3 (10-20lb on average) is the norm with top qaulity an absolute must. 'Ripping' puts a lot of strain on the line & anything that is less than top quality will quickly wear & break under the ripping action. 'Egi' rods are also capable of casting these light weight jigs extremely long distances. They often leave 2-3 feet of line dangling from the rod tip as they really load up the rod big time for these long casts., Rod tip speeds with these rods are increadible.Leaders are also exclusively flurocarbon & usually around the 8-14lb range. Length - aprox' 1.5 to 2 times rod length.It's important to note that the guys recommend that when the rod is rested & ready to cast the knot joining leader to line must not be on the reel spool.Knots uses - for joining leader to main line the FG knot is by far the most favoured. There are plenty of examples of how to tie this knot on the internet, particularly on 'YouTube'.Terminal knots? Well these can vary. If the jig has a fixed eye then the line is tied hard to the eye with a uni knot.However, if the eye is a swivelling type (as found on Gan Craft's non-cloth jigs) then a loop knot is used.The reason is that these jigs use the swivell eye to allow the jig to 'flutter' as it free falls though the water when paused.Using hard connection can restrict the action of these jigs.

OK I've been having major life changes as of late .wont bore the world with them.Going to change my way of fishing:boot: .Deciding to try lure fishing hardbodies first.I'm looking for a cheapish new reel and rod any clues !!I had a look this afternoon at my local fishing supermarket:P ( a few steps around my corner i will be looking everywhere) .Nice chap suggested 1000 to 2000 weight reel showed me a couple of nice rods .One being a Pflugger just like my fly rod .Of course I'll be chasing Bream in the lake and more likely the Pat .As I now live very close to the Pat and not down the bay:P .Braid what weight do I need and he said to use a Flurocarbon leader again what weight and no way will i buy vanish .Or is fluro like the mono I have been using as in 6lbs.Now I like the 1000 size which is small without using google can we get smaller lighter reels .PSI drive over brown hill creek to go shopping anything live down the western end of this creek?havent been fishing in weeks I'm getting itchy just gotta find some $$$

I had a pretty good summer with lots of great memories. Being a casual employee and having the majority of summer off with uni holidays resulted in fishing trips just about every week. Had the good days out and the average but always managed a feed, plus its mainly about having fun with mates anyways. But i was lucky enough to get a few good metro reds and break a pb of landing a 6.5/7 kg or 76cm red on 4lb line and 14lb leader. The fish took 40 minutes to land and i was freaking out that i may loose her every one of those single minutes haha.I already cant wait for next summer!

hi guys i was out in the boat on sun morning fished about 30k out and the swell picked up so decided to try a spot about 10k from the stkilda ramp,after fishing for about 2 hours we seen a boats signal a flare there was probably 20 boats all within 1 kilometer of eachother!!! it probably took us a min or so to notice and started talking about it and made up our minds in a flash to head over,when we got to the boat the guy said he has lost all his electrics and asked to use our radio which was no probs we let the coast guard know and they said they would be on the way.... so we waited the whole time with the bloke which was no problem at all we would help any1 and expect the same.what im trying to say is from what we seen not 1 person even looked like moving to go and have a look at this person in distress i know one or 2 of u reading this was probably out that way and seen it pls in futre people show a little bit more care for others and think twice if thwe shoe was on the other foot!!! if sum1 is in trouble just go that little bit out of your way to make sure people are safe on the water later guys

:laugh: Ive asked my builder to build my new house at location 138 19 254 34 43 292I know things will be slightly wet down there, but I just want to live closer to the snapper!

All you guys that think it's better interstate, you should spend your money by moving there.

The old man is a member of the Sea Rescue Squadron and even if we/i needed to be towed in i would always give a donation. but thats just me. i even towed a boat in on monday afternoon and thanks was all i needed (plus i reminded them they need a working radio)