Basserman

i have no dout that there is plastic in the ocean and too much for comfort at that what i'm discounting are some of the facts like the size of it i have looked at the ALGALITA site and other reports i have found pertainine to CATP Charles Moore and none of the reports ever stated anything like the size of australia now as i said i have no douts there are all sort of things that shouldn't be there with rope being the worst of the worst closely followed by plastic bags and there are loads of reports about micro sized plastic and in fact sadly alot of it now makes up a percentage of grains on many beaches the biggets thing is the size and some of the other things in the report but hey in the end even a bad bit of pubishing is good if it brings some of this info to the lime light

a floating island of rubbish that is as big as australia and yet there are no pics or other reports or yet alone any other new or media covergae sure it was in the repitable newspaper and more than likely gotten from some sorce but how often has the media got things wrong the condom one was also published in a news paper with all the facts yet you don't belive that one i'm telling you now that it wouldn't be that easy to hide a rubbish pile in the sea that covers the area of australia and even if the ships aren't running into it it sure as hell would be picked up from space hell the great barrier reef is seen from space and thats a hell lot smaller than australia

some one is late for april fools i think the proof lays here

1) Bottom bashing....(eggbeater)?? depending on depth needed Deep a Stella STL 10000FA Shallow Stella STL4000D they are top line but if you need to drop down a bit Baitrunner BTR 6500B 2) Live baiting kings..?? Torsa TS20 3) flicking plastics...??? Twin Power TP2500FB once again you could step down to the new Stradic st2500fi all comes down to your needs and your cash flow as even with a great deal on some of these reels you still talking big biccies

Ceph depending on what one you have brought but i have used the lobbie a few times now and although i have had to cut it down a bit to suit my needs they have been working pretty dam well on the bream on both natrual snags and the leases

well in the hornet i run a GME GX620 hand held VHF radio with this i'm getting about 10km out of it however this will be depending on terrain of course but this is plain old 10km line of sight range this is more than enoght for me as i doun't think i would take the hornet much more than 6km off shore but may be a few km up or down the coast so the range is a comfort the unit is small portable easy to use and water proof which is good as the marine radios look out of place on a bream boat but are handy on a snapper boat

good going buddy sure not the biggest fish but atleast it was a good days trolling nothing worst than trolling for all 0's any action is better than no action just one thing but the little so call stripe tuna accually looks like a bonito could be wrong

sound to me that your getting carried away a tad hopeing that these people will 'NECK' themself and all that BS maybe these are people that are fairly new to fishing or this syly of fishing and may not understand the dymamics of the fish school if it is that upsetting to yourself maybe you should try to get out when alot of these people will not be bothering you like either early or later in the day just remember fishing is sposed to be relaxing

ross i would of also thought it was a longliner from the looks of it no dout not only stocking up on some bait but trying the stay in some shelter and wait after that 30+ knot southly frount yesterday

i'm sorry but i can not see how it caught some boaties unawares the boaties caught out in it stuffed up and didn't check the weather before heading out i was out off coffs harbour yesterday and the VMR up there every hour was putting out the bullton about the change that was expected to hit sydney in the afternoon and the north coast later that night southly winds to 30 knots edit i also found it strange last night while watching the news how they were talking about the unexpected change that came though sydney that was so unexpected that the BOM was posting reports 24hours before it hit

nope there are ALOT more type of trevors inc; tealeaf, bludger, snotty, big eye, blue to name a few more yes they defintly look like plain silvers but

alot of verables there for light weight stuff like light jighead and soft plastics or small bream and bass lures then a spin reel wins hands down however when dealing with heavyer things like bigger lures or even a surf rig then the good old overheads still cast a mile easyest way to see this is to look at the castings comps and the distance those fellas can get from a overhead with a lump of lead it will also depends on the user i myself can always cast ferther with a spin reels than i can with any overhead

mondo they are being desinged by one of the larger australian lure makers so you should hear about them soon or later des the squire were caught all in water under 25meters deep

it wouldn't supprise me one little bit they have cesed the older stradic and have relunched it with a few changes and even a whole new MG stradic i belice shimano are going to try and revamp all the older range

i fish the rich mid north coast waters up off the crowdy head-coffs harbor area and all areas inbetween the winds were up a bit and that was the upper limit of my comfort zone however the winds were mainly a westly so it flattened the swell so the waves were low comeing at my under 1meter so it was more likt fishing in a dam with a big chop on it or a river that is chopped up my hornet is no off the shelf unit too as it has had a few changed made for me and it has all the safty equipment on it that you find on the larger boats for a vee nose punt that is set up for sports fishing they really handle the rougher stuff nicly in fact i find the ride in this boat as good as the ride in my sf17 southwind lure secret lure and jihy head is something that is getting worked on and we are hoping to have a porpuse built snapper jig head in the market soon enoght alot of the jig heads just don't cut it when your dealing with the snapper rods and reels

last couple of weeks have been bad for me so i was happy today when i got the day off and was able to head outside for a little flick around i say little because at first the wind was a nice strong westly then calming down for a bit before turning souwest in a larger boat it may of been alright but 15knot winds in a little 435 hornet sure makes you feel it but the boat still handled it great and each time i use her i gain more and more trust in what it can do the fishing wasn't the best but i did pack the bream gear away in favor for the 15lb snapper stick first mark was out a tad wider at 10km out but not much was happing and the westly wind was makeing it very chopie out there but still a found a couple of southen nannies and a few other crap fish moved in closer to the shallower reefs where things started to happin i still was getting the crap fish but i also found a few smaller pinkies that could of gone size but went for a swim insted i did however find two decent fish one goneing 65cm the other just on 60cm turned the nose to hame and belted my way to the bar in the chop nice day out and was nice to be on the water all fish were caught on a secret softplastic and jig head combo

yeh i have caught a few around the area as a by catch from bream fishing and it is defintly some sort of amberjack you would know if it was a balck trellay also known as a happy moment by some sick bloke as it sure si no happy moment being spiked by one

berkley horazontal rod holders

agree with the around 95cm and 6kg mark yeh there has been a fir bit of researsh into the humble flatties and one that size would be about 12 years old and yes all the big ones are the girls males only grow to about 70cm still a nice size but me personal size limit is 40cm-65cm nothing over nothing under

used the smaller one in the rivers for a few bream and the flatties love them but for bream there are better lures still trying them outside in 5 inch for the snapper but so far only caught rubbish fish on them

even better when shimano australia releases the stadic MG later this year from all reports from overseas and those that have got their hands on one it will be a killer reel and one to make sure the stradic name lives on

nope woun't effect them at all i know alot of blokes doing just that now days removeing all the juice and gulps and placeing in another airtight tub however then if you add this to the cost from buying the alives then your going up again in cost and it could be a case that you may be better off with the packets again

personaly i have played with these rods and next to some of the raider rods and others like nitro rods they do feel very bulky for the size the tournamant would be the better one here as yes it is a tad lighter but in the long run that would make for a better feeling combo truly amazeing the power you can get out of some of these rods these days

keep a eye out for the stradics as they are now superseeded (gone from the FH range to the new FL range) i have heard on the grape vine that these units will be coming down in price over the next few mounths as everyone clears them out for the new range prices i have heard are around $160-$180 mark

so the salesman said he is useing one in saltwater and that he thinks it is fine to do so Was he willing to put that down on some paper for you so it covers you for warrinty???? i know BLA (the main dealers of minn kotas) have in the past knocked back warrinty claims after finding salt in and on the freashwater modles sure the enduros and freashwater modles may never have a problem in the rusty stuff but your got to think about the What Ifs and how it will effect the warrinty