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  1. I swung round their today and saw the sign on the door. Sad to see really. One of the signs on the door said to look for them on Graysonline but I checked and couldn't find anything. I'm not quite sure how to navigate that site yet, but it doesn't appear that you can search by sellers like you can on eBay.
  2. I think it's well been established fishing for sharks does not attract them; this is the flaw logic which got us the current shark fishing restrictions we now have in SA. This is actually a case of a freak accident. I mean look at the gear he was using; it wasn't exactly an International 130 with half a seal hanging off the end for bait. I'm also not entirely sure whether that beach would be classified as a swimming beach; in the sense that does it actually get a lot of human traffic all year round or not?
  3. I gotta say I don't see the issue with it "ruining" your "night vision". It takes your eyes all of a couple of minutes or so to adjust to lower light conditions...plus if you are sitting on a jetty which doesn't have lights on the end (like Henley or Grange) then having the area lit up the whole time is a great.
  4. Check this thing out; a friend I used to fish with had one for when we went sharking and it is wicked. The paddles can be taken off and used as individual torches and then when you click them back onto the main lantern they recharge. Gives off plenty of light too. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Coleman-24-LED-8D-Quad-Lantern-190-Lumens-Ultra-Bright-with-4-Detachable-Panels-/161130395784?pt=AU_Home_Outdoor_Lighting&hash=item25841eb888&_uhb=1
  5. Remember being told that back in the day the old guys fishing for squid from Brighton jetty and Marino Rocks would get them by putting a potato on a jag instead of using whole tommies. Apparently this was the way it was done back then, not a case of "oops, ran out of bait". A friend of mine years ago caught two of the biggest sand crabs I have ever seen down Noarlunga jetty on chewed up Hubba Bubba. First time we thought it was a fluke and he casts it back out and within 5 minutes he caught another one.
  6. Hi guys, I was just wondering what a good point and shoot camera would be to buy; I do a fair bit of fishing at night and off the beach and getting sick of crappy phone photos. I want something that is reasonably cheap, is fairly durable (I want to be able to chuck this thing into my fishing bag and not worry about it) and ideally to be somewhat sand and waterproof. Does such a camera exist? I know next to nothing about point and shoots as I have always been into my DSLRs hence the "point and shoot" variety never appealed to me. Cheers
  7. When is the season for yellowfin whiting in Adelaide? I thought when the weather is a bit choppy and getting colder that's when you get them.
  8. See I have looked around a few shops in Adelaide and the cheaper backing braid that many use isn't a "proper" brand as far as I was told, i.e it's not Penn or Power Pro or whatever. It seems that even from a tackle shop if you go the cheaper option you are still buying god knows what, except you will probably still pay 2 or 3 times what something from eBay will cost you. Thanks for the link to the braid testing website, that is really informative. Seeing those numbers makes me wonder why you would ever fork out the big bucks for things like Power Pro; the numbers seem worse than most of the
  9. Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone buys cheaper bulk braid off ebay to spool their reels with. I have bought cheaper braid from ebay before - paid about $40 for 800m of 50lb. I have spooled my TLD 25 with it and it seems to work ok, ties fine, however I am yet to hook anything drag meltingly serious with it; a few dog sharks and small eagle ray runs is all its been subjected to. I was wondering if anyone has any prefered eBay brands that they have tested and do trust to not fail under serious pressure. I was contemplating buy this one: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pro-100-PE-Dyneema-Spe
  10. I bought it with the sole intention of giving surf fishing for bigger things a serious crack; so taking it sharking up to Tennyson and around there next season off the beach (I don't have a kayak and don't want to piss about with paddling out baits), going mulloway fishing around the state, targeting the large eagle rays down Hallett Cove off the beach (I live there lol) etc....
  11. I bought one of the Penn Prevail 12ft overhead 15-24kg surf rods the other day as my mate has one and it looks the goods; put my TLD 25 on there an could cast a whole tommy with a 2oz sinker about 70-80 meters after about 3 practice casts. Going fishing tomorrow, will let you guys know if I happen to hook something big on it and how it handles under the strain of a real fish.
  12. I'd be surprised if you don't get asked to contribute to SA Angler in the near future....that's top notch fishing and reporting. Best thing is you don't make it a secret where you catch them; if it's land based I don't see the harm in letting people know. There's plenty of fish for everyone
  13. I wouldn't want anything bigger than a 50W regardless of the brand as for the foreseeable future it will only be used land based in this state to catch sharks; I don't have access to a boat and even if I did, a 50VSW should handle most things short of marlin or huge tuna pretty well. From everyone I have ever talked to, by all accounts if you go bigger in reel size for land based game fishing it gets unwieldy in terms of putting the line back on and handling it without being fully harnessed in. Two friends I used to go shark fishing with both had Penn Internationals and have caught some mons
  14. Em, I know it is a different mechanism but I have friends who own other Internationals (50's and 80's) and the reels NEVER jam up under free spool with the clicker on; obviously it will never be as smooth as a TLD (I never expected it to be) and yes, it will take more force to pull line out, however this was something else entirely. To put it in perspective, I had to pull so hard a few times to get line out that the 50lb Berkely line cut into my fingers.... I rang the guys at Dinga fishing and one of them said that in 30 years of selling these reels he has run into this issue 3 times before.
  15. Well the trip to the screwpile jetty never eventuated due to the wind being wrong for ballooning off that jetty. We went to Grange jetty instead and my mate got a short run on his bait but didn't hook up. Also caught a mixture of tommies and baby salmon trout (didn't realize that they weren't tommies in the dark till we looked at them in the light in the morning) and 3 gar fish. Bottom bashing was just pointless; the sea lice were prolific. The International 50VSW didn't perform as flawlessly as I would expect given the price tag; the clicker on it seems REALLY jerky, i.e. when in fre
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