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I'm with Jimbo - buy yourself a cheap vice online and get stuck into it. Heaps of info on youtube. Things like nymphs, adams parachutes and clousers are so simple you'll be able to do them straight away and go catch fish. Worthwhile investment

Onk or West Lakes with size 12s and maggots. Catch the little mullet and bream you can easily find with burley

I did this a few years ago. Used my farmed tiger worms as bait and food for my pet goldens/silvers.

I used a black crate. "The great Aussie crate... mate!" - one of them. A flat piece of timber became the lid, which I weighed down with a brick.

Drilled a few holes in bottom for drainage, line the bottom with a hessian sack to stop your friends escaping. Stapled hessian sack flat.

Fill crate/tub/trough with potting soil. Buy a large pack of tiger worms from bait shop - Got One St Marys managed to get me a thousand relatively cheaply when they were open.

Feed them food scraps, but never citrus. Keep them moist - a drop of water every so often will help this. Keep in the shade to stop them overheating and can't go wrong. They breed like.... worms.

Can't go wrong.

Great post mate. Big salmon and the brief bit of video I watched was totally good - great footage your mate took of you in the kayak.

I reckon your bad experience comes more down to the landowner than a reflection of SAFFA. The club actually allow members to take guests on to properties, provided they fish with fly only and follow the rules. SAFFA is a group of guys who live and breathe their fly-fishing... Good for them IMHO, one person having a bad experience with a grouchy landowner isn't reason to bag an entire club who have done a huge amount for trout + flyfishing in this state. The reality is that catch + release trout require careful handling - this unfortunately isn't the case with many fishos. You're also right that lures can damage trout, regardless of the anglers best intentions. Seems fair enough that people are protective of their fisheries when these things are considered

Even from the landowners perspective - people who have to deal with poachers have a short fuse when it comes to such things. Sounds like "a moral obligation to SAFFA" was his way of saying no. Forget about him and move onto the next property - happy fishing

My buddy from Tennessee is king of the smoker. Give baked beans a crack, totally awesome!

Great photos, nice work.

Awesome looking spots to soak a big bait through summer

The talk of opening 4 ressies has been around a while - but shake my head as to what good wil they do in port Lincoln, victor harbor, etc?

I would in a heartbeat

But with it, access to the torrens, onkaparinga below mt bold and regular stocking at both. Trout in various public dams during school holidays.

At least a north and south METRO reservoir. Even if they aren't stocked it would be a great thing.

Basically, would want license fees to go to the greater good of freshwater fishing, above and beyond the Murray

at one point of Hardwicke there is a flat rock section, that makes a good platform to fish off at low tide. Chuck some squid jags around and get some tommies with some burley.

I did find that side of the peninsula to be pretty average landbased TBH, tho had a kingie take a hooked tommie at the Turton jetty.

Recommend Berry Bay, beautiful beach. Caught some of the biggest tommies I've ever seen there on 40g metals along with STs

they'll deal with you direct at their factory. Get hornes - no point getting anything else IMHO. I had the seal bay ones - the boot is hornes, the rest isn't. Didn't last long.Hornes will measure you up and tailor them to you... Will be super comfortable.Well worth the money.

I look forward to taking a few STs from around the mouth through winter :woohoo: I'd steer clear of eating anything from the upper reaches tho

China .....I wonder why so many Aussie businesses are going under or struggling. Even in my local cabinetmaking business here' date=' I'm having to compete with China.I would rather pay a few extra dollars to know I've got a comeback.Our Aussie products,shops and businesses depend on us.[/quote']Everyone wants and enjoys globalisation, but noone wants to pay the real cost of it :S Plenty of good kit comes from the same factories as the cheap crap. I reckon cheap lures are cheap lures regardless of where they come from

if wind is good, swell is low and tides are right, never let a bit of rain stop you! What % of the human body is water again??

dead right on the SAFWAA call, $45 will get you a membership til the end of the financial year. Had tonnes of carp mouthing at the surface at a club dam this morning, was devastated I didn't have my own fly kit

I feel like people love to read too far into squiddingthey're bloody stupid things :whistle: Last summer I caught half a dozen on a whole slimey, on 2 12/0's under a balloon with 150lb wire trace! So much for how to work a squid jag Let along type of line used Use mono or Fluoro with a decent jag off the rocks and you'll do ok

I enjoy the Pommy reports - thanks Paul

Nice work Jimbo and Tony.I managed this one at the weekend' date=' from a nice little dam. [img']http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx68/judgek/IMG_0006-3-1.jpg[/img]

Yep. just snatched the Trophy Leader away from the regular "Cod Boys" for the first time in many years :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: The battle is on :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: (Funny looking "Sensational Silver Perch" tho' Phil, :silly: )I think I'd be tempted to put that lunker Cod on it's own special post???Awesome effort mate

After seeing Jaggers approach, where he'd never have to tie rigs out on the boat, I jumped on the idea of using small zip-lock bags, cardboard and a CD wallet. Doesn't take up space and never get tangles.

Well done Bream ReaperWait til spring, a caddis/adams parachute on a size 16 or so :woohoo:

Anyone who feels fishing regulations are too complicated in SA is kidding themselves. Just have a squiz at the freshwater regs for California, where I am now. Different rules around hatchery/wild fish (angler to identify the clipped fin in hatchery fish), changing regs above/below certain forks in rivers, particular methods only allowed on certain waters... http://www.dfg.ca.gov/regulations/FreshFish-Mar2012/ccr-t14-ch3-art3.html Sorry Damien, but I'm not real convinced it is too hard to go fishing in South Australia! :silly: While the regulations I pointed out above seem borderline crazy, I've been convinved they're very much needed to maintain the fisheries in a state thats population far outnumbers all of Australia's

I bought a shrimp net - around 2 foot square, with a handle around a metre. Fine mesh, which when wet sees fish released in great nick. Only ever use a net when I'm bait fishing, so not real bothered by trebles etc get caught in it. It was $10-20 from gotone

garfish are reportedly pretty well stuffedhttp://www.strikehook.com/forum/98-sarfac/207884-sarfac-agm-2011-report#207884also note the commercial closure of 3 weeks coming through winter of this yearhttp://www.pir.sa.gov.au/pirsa/media_list/fisheries/fisheries_move_to_protect_garfish_stocksSurely a reduction of the generous recreational bag limit of 60 will likely follow?

wouldn't be real suprising if dabbing for gar was banned next summer :dry: Or at least the bag limit severely reduced