Richard1

get a refund. its under warranty i take it?

yahoooooooooo!! u have me hooked on jewies now!

all this talk of mega squid is making me wanna get out there!! but its so cold!! and im sick..

some good advice there. im going to have to get my ass out to the beach haha

damn, ill be in port stephens.

i use 6lb suffix braid and 8lb flurocarbon leader for squid and i never have any troubles tierra 2500 has a good drag

what location?

where is the boat leaving from on sunday?

well i will have to give it a try, that is such a cracker fish, did it put up a huuuge fight? lucky your gear was up to the task

what are you using to get the salmon?

im up for it whenever too, just pm me when your going out and ill come along. im up for it whenever too, just pm me when your going out and ill come along.

im such a bad friend.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATE! ill cook you a massive flattie with some candles in the top

Thanks it was a great bit of luck. yeah i will be using that rig again for sure

At about 8:30pm last night I decided to go for a drive because I wanted to take the car out for a spin, so I planned to go up to the local maccas for some food, and on my way get petrol and some starburst. As I passed the petrol station I thought, why not go for a drive to “spot X” to see how the fishing is going, I will get petrol on the way back I thought. So I pressed on towards my “spot X”. I went to the usual spot and spotted 2 young guys fishing; I got out and asked them how it was going...one of them showed me the big whiting he had caught, and the trevally he had caught, and 2 little yakkas in a bucket of water. I noticed the tide was almost coming over the edge of the wall. They explained to me it was the new moon so it’s a monster tide. BUGGER, i didn't have ANY fishing gear in the car at all! After about 15 or 20 minutes of talking to them, I said, we should put one of these yakkas out for a Jew! They replied go for it! "if you get a Jew we will give you 10 bucks" and I said if "I get a Jew ill give YOU 10 bucks!!" and so Hamed gave me a bent 12foot rod to use with a reel that had a busted anti-reverse with some unknown strength mono on it. I asked Dave what the biggest hook he had was, and he gave me the hook off his spring type fish scale. it looked to be about a 3/0, so I thought to myself I better get this off the bottom, because livies have never worked for me when they are stuck to the bottom, so I sort of snelled the hook about 40cm form the end of the line and then tied the biggest ball sinker he had (about a 1dollar coin size sphere ) to the bottom of the line. And tossed the yakka out into the darkness. After 5 minutes or maybe 8...there was movement on the line. It had "drifted" far to the right and closer in than where I had cast it. We suspected a tiny injured yakka could not have done this So I started to reel it in and I started to get some stronger tugs and a huge weight on the line. As I was reeling this unknown object in, there was MUCH hooting and yahooing from us all. Luckily they had a net, and as I brought it to the surface it was revealed to be a big flathead! Yahooooooo!!. What a monster! measured dead on 65cm and about 1.2 KG.. i couldn't get a picture of it with the tape measure straight because it was curved in the plastic bag on the way home. damn lucky Hamed had a plastic bag for me! i put him in the frunk so the carpets in the car didn't get fishy haha he was too big for the bag. So we all posed with the fish, and I took home tonight’s dinner, with the promise I will go fishing with them again what a cracker!

good to hear some one else had some luck aswell last night. i found a BIG patch of slimy mackerals. my new favorite fish..

seeing as i have no idea on how to get these from land.. ill be at balmoral

ill be LB at illawong tomorrow night having a crack.

i have the uglystik USP-BWS22012 2 piece 6-10 KG and it is a fantastic rod imo, it gives you so much confidence and the warranty is hard to beat. "unbreakable under normal fishing conditions" for 10 years

i also concur, doctor

ill give them a go next time i need hooks

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! same spot as before? pm that answer! what a ripper!!!!!!!!!!

the photo is a actually a US NAVY seals promotional shot that somebody photoshopped a shark into, but anyway, thanks for the reminder, i had forgotten that MASTERPIECE of cinema was on tonight haha

looks like besides the ink to the face, you had one of those dream days. 2 kingies! wow

oh i have a LB spot in mind. FIX MY BAITCASTER!

yep. all of the above for me, also taking the latest copy of fishing world for lengthy bathroom breaks.. tying knots in stuff and then testing them to the limit. i tied some 20 lb braid to a swivel and to another swivel and i am going to see how much i can attach to it before it breaks..how many brake discs can 20lb braid support? important stuff i know! tie thousands of knots and get the so you can tie them all with your eyes closed with cold frozen fingers..