matt84

how to catch aussie salmon.... step 1. fish for anything... i cant get away from the bastards up my way.

my biggest is 80cm last year, have got a stack around the 70cm mark. 50-60cm fish seem to be pretty common around my area atm. they go hard on 6lb bream gear

life jackets might save lives in some cases were someone goes in and floats out. but how about those situations were waves keep smashing up against barnacle covered rocks, shallow water, breakers before the rocks, are you going to be able to dive under waves and swim out of the danger zone with an inflated life jacket or are you gonna get tossed around like a rag doll over the rocks. this life jacket thing keeps coming up, if you wanna were a life jacket go for it, but its not an answer. use some common sense, don't put yourself in a situation you know might be risky. Life jackets will only give some people a false sense of security, they will take more risks, i will be fine i have a life jacket on mentality. Someone got cleaned up by there board and drowned this week too, are we gonna make them were life jackets and helmets?

got the bearings from boca, reel goes good as new now, fixed a few other while i was at it.

not that i have caught alot of macks but from my experience, fast take - blistering run- come back pretty easy after that with a few head shakes. sharks slower take - fast run, may slow down then speed up again - alot of zig zags - win some line loose some - heavy weigh. The speed is normally a give away, You will never really know until u land one though.

Yer normally service my own reels but don't have calipers to accurately measure the bearing, I will have a look at the sites n see what I can find, before I go through shimano. Cheers

hi guys, can anyone tell me the best place to get a line roller bearing, its for a Shimano Biomaster c3000, brought in Singapore 2007 so older model which they did not have in Australia and schematics not in English. or someone who repairs reels in newcastle region. thanks

really cause it looks like you no were near nobbys in that pic.

Nitro Magnumm butt 5-9kg 7'6 9-40g and Daiwa Seagate 3500 or Daiwa Caldia 4000, loaded with 20lb braid sounds like a sik combo to me, perfect for lb on smaller wall, bridges, jettys etc and not too heavy for plastic for flatty, spinning tailor, scumbos, rat etc. if you were purely fishing larger breakwall then 10ft would be better, to get the line away from those bottom rocks. But if you are after a serious no questions asked brute stick for breakwalls and heavy structure, pure jew spinning stick, like my post said before go a pacific composite bws 8 or bws 10 with 30-50lb braid, some shops may have them or can get them build for around $300. they are a weapon of a rod, wont get much better. Having said you fish mostly the georges/estuary your not likely to come across massive jew in tight county so i would personally stick with your gut and go the nitro, will be much more enjoyable to use, and much better responds flicking sp's then a 10ft rod.

Shark was caught in the nets off bar beach. as far i know, as soon as you are aware it is a gws you are to cut the line, from what i understand regardless if it 2m or 200m of line hanging out its gob. so no you are not allowed to target them at all.

are you after more a 5-6' jig stick or 6-7' general purpose rod

lol i got an identical one off the palm cove jetty a few years ago

my biggest king on 6lb braid 12lb leader is 80cm. and 25kg king on 15kg mono. luck of the draw really, i have been dusted by barely legal kings on 50lb a few time if they wanna go not much will stop em.

penn spinfisher always on sale for $99 and will handle every thing you though at its for rod, can go full graphite option pen big game spinfisher, rovex or fin nor, all do what im pretty sure is the exact same 11' rod. or go you standard glass, shimano aerowave, silstar, ugly stick etc. for line stick with mono off the rocks 20lb should cover all bases.

weapon of choice for alot of guys around my area for tossing big sp's, hard bodies, are the pacific composite bws 8 9ft 1pc (to get them built normally $200-300) plenty of power down low, beast of a rod and would be my pick. otherwise you have shimano classic shore spin, jewel, t-curve revolution, which all have 9ft models.

i have a tyrnos 30 loaded with 15kg has caught marlin, kings etc and a few lbg blues. have since brought a tyrnos 16 also loaded with 8kg purely for lbg. they are a top reel, smoother drag curve then the tld, a 30 is a good around size. as for the 9ft lbg rod i would downsize to 8ft, your back will thank you.

central coast area, most on banana prawns.

they have a free rock safety dvd they could even do a mail out for everyone with a fishing license, no excuses then.

so does that mean if im gonna walk along those rocks without a fishing rod i wont need a life jacket and i wont drown? how stupid are they. i've seen heaps of people go in in the drink that were just sight seeing. have the determined all the people who drowned were fishing and had a rod in their hand or were they just watching there partner fish? but if you don't have a rod come on down? I was at Catherine Hill Bay the after noon those people went in at the exact spot they went in, i didn't fish it for long the sea was building and waves were starting to come over the ledge so i packed up and went home. common sense would have kicked in for most people and they would have taken one look and turned around also. im sorry but stupidity never ends well. sorry for the rant, but life jackets might save some that go in (not guaranteed), but it doesn't stop them going in the drink in the first place which is the problem.

longtom

found a few pigs on sat, caught 20-30 between 35-50cm, kept a few for a feed

was thinking about releasing it, but dropped it on its head try to get a photo, was still a bit green, didn't look like i was going to release well so decided to keep it and mate was best feed i have had in a while, flesh cooks up heaps firmer then browns that tend to go a bit mushy.

i use the fg knot, have had locked drag with 50lb braid an 80-100lb leader, have not snapped a knot yet

well what a day, mate gave the call to come try a new spot up the coast and didn't it produce, after a couple of good pigs decided to try wrestle a groper and come up with the goods. took 1/2 crab on 50lb gear and went 80cm, 7.2kg. absolute power house of a fish, glad i want on the slipery rock closer to the water would of drag me in fishing a locked drag. p.s damn had a few beanie's there, should of remembered for fotm.

i got one on lure back a few months ago landbased