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Hey guys i've decided to get a downrigger put on my boat now ive been told to look for 3 specific brands "scottys" "canon" and the "penn" by fellow raider from bias boating now i went to my local tackle store and he has all 3 there on special ranging from $400-$550 starting with the penn as the cheapest then the scotty's and the canon what iwant to know is which of these 3 would be a good enough to start out with and be the better the Penn one has a longer arm which means it can sit out furtherand in my opinion would suit a bit better as it will avoid getting near the motor etc.. however i did like the scotty's one was compact and looked a charm the canon to me looked about the same as the scotty's. now i know most people are buying the scotty's but i just want to know why that is.

haha i saw that whitley too i was behind him as he was going to that boat ramp on my way back from la parouse i saw it in the carpark

hahah hows it goin bro didnt know you were a member here too ay ill take ya out on my new boat soon

Hey guys i bought a new boat on friday a allycraft 535 front runner kitted out for fishn from QLD took it out on friday night to give it a test run and go for a quick fish in botany got there at about 7pm took the boat up to the hot water outlet and anchored up. While setting up my rods my mate droped a line in as he was ready to go and within minutes he caught a 40+cm trev things got a lil slow but i burley'd up and then i caught another trev and a few yakkas which i tried to turn into somthing bigger but they kept getting mauled by squid and other creatures went home happy with 2 nice sized trevs fed 4 of us at home P.S They tasted awesome havnt had fresh fish in a very long time

haha works a charm in my opinion but i wont be goin out for a bit as im selling my boat in order to upgrade

i used kwells and they made me sick before hitting the water :/ i now use travacalm and have to say for me they work best but each person is differant

yeh the guy in auburn is his cousin btw

well i send them about half way down and berley up usually fresh puke works hahaha each time i had caught the kingies there i had a servo hotdog/meat pie before heading out this usually gets me sick before i hit the water, from there i go catch my yakkas n goto middle head there is only 1 green marker thats near the head and yeh usally get a few as long as the leather jackets arent in season those fkrs kill my live bait >:/

ive been playing around with my sounder its the samemodel etc.. and from what ive been reading is that most people have the sensitivity too high and it picks up all kinds of dirt etc.. in the water and can even pick up the current. now i aint no pro but ive been playing around and i seem to have it working better than before and it actually found some decent fish by lowering the sensitivity and speed of the chart as i mainly use the sounder when drifting or going slowly when i find a decent looking spot to fish etc..

bait shop down @ woodville road granville/merrylands area hes open till all hours of the night i can go there @ 2 am n get fresh bait anytime

well i usually go under the spit early morning stock up on live yacka's possibly squid too then i head out to middle harbour near that bouy/marker (green one) and few drifts around that and usually pick up some decent kings from there ive done this roughly 4-5 times successfully live yakkas also pulled out some aussie salmon in that same spot too

alot of people prawn in the georges i dont know where if i knew i would go my self but i would say under the menai bridge would be a pretty good spot considering its mainly shallows

yer fis would be more active as there ies less activity in the water to scare them off specially land based and river based fishn :/

mid week fishing would rock

i had no luck there on saturday guy next to us wading in the water got a nice 60cm+ flatty and a crab that was swimming by his legs lol

thats NUTS!!! wy doesnt that ever happen with us anyone know what kind of fish they are?

id say about as high as the net with some extra

was this all from shore or from a boat? coz im thinking of heading up there on friday night to flick out some plastics n see how they go

hey guys, went up to Complete Angler on friday arvo to buy some stuff ended up spending $400.00 (my wife came with) came home with a new soft plastics outfit figured i would start playing around with some plastics set me back $200 ish with rod and reel then got braided line some jig heads and plastics so totaled around $270 and then to my suprise my mrs wants a new rod so she went n picked out a Okuma combo (pink) and got some pilchards. so we decided to go for a fish on georges river up picnic point area on saturday (she didnt end up coming :? go figure) started to flick out the plastics and really enjoyed the new rod n reel has some excellent accuracy and so easy n light to use got a few nibbles here and there nothing major ... and then BAM a big hit line goes off and snaps on a snag no idea what it was but wasnt happy Sunday took the boat onto the georges what a mistake IT WAS FILLED WITH HOOLIGAN JETSKIERS Speeding and doing stupid shit in no wash zones and RIGHT next the boat ramp so you can imagine the day i was having anyways waterways came booked a fair few of them thankfully i went down around picnic point area by boat and seen heaps of tailor flying out of the water as if they had wings! so i flicked some plastics out to them had few big chomps but no hook ups i think im putting on my plastics wrong or somthing needless to say the jetskies came flying back again and being retards again ! went back to the ramp @ georges river national park and the assholes followed and started doing stupid shit again just as the waterways wen away :/ i tie up to the jetty to go retrieve my car n trailer as i try to get off my boat the assholees create so much wash again that my boat smashs up against the wharf crushing my navigation lights and cracking my windscreen ... not to mention me going for a swim .. so yet again go home empty handed .,........

ditto

had the same problem although was in the harbour just wasnt the day for the fishys

great tip last time i done a fish on the bbq i said i wouldnt ever do it again because half my fish had foil stuck to it and when taken off lost alot of fish

well i definitely agree with that, i mean we pay for the licence but is that just going toward paying dude to go around checking fish or to actually do somthing ? :/

ive actually been looking into this too i wouldnt mind finding out sommore info

bring it on more fishing spots! hehe