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Wobbiegong??
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Upstream from the spit,
Sea forth, bantry bay, sailers bay. Wherever they pop up, I've even caught them within sight of tunks park ramp
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So has wd40 got any confirmed kills yet?
We've all heard stuff but so far no reports of casualties
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The coin operated one you do yourself, not the big spinny dinny sponges!
Then flush the motor at home and rinse the reels under the tell tale!
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WD40 can degrade/ break down the insulation of your motor's wiring as well as not being good for rubber and plastic components. I am not too sure about CRC or Inox. Lanolin might be safer.
I've shown the result of long term use of a product, not what I have heard or read. If someone has used another product for years it will add some real value to the discussion.
We can all Google up how good a manufacturers product is then find bad reviews about it.
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Do I spray the motor after cleaning it down?
Cleaning the motor to me is (externally)spraying it with light pressure at the car wash for a few seconds. Internally, nothing, spray every few trips.
The crc spray,
"Displaces moisture, leaving a continuous molecular film" blah blah
If you read their blurb it's impressive, but it lives up to it.
If you look under my motor cover everything is a bit greasy to touch, so any water never makes contact.
Fishing line aside natch, I'd spray it on anything, motor, winch, switches it won't bugger anything up.
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And the drive through car wash is the best!
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to flush properly you need to run the motor long enough to open all the thermostats, or you only be flushing part of the the motor. below the points on my mercury are shown
for oil injected 2 strokes, turn them off rather than unplugging the fuel. i understand running them out of fuel that was a premix 2 stroke thing.
get a can of CRC 2.26, others use inox, i have nothing negative about inox i have just been using CRC for years and have no reason to change. give everything inside the cowling a good spray every few trips or a couple of months.
This is how my engine looks after 13 years. disregard the hour meter its only been fitted for a couple of years.
im definitely no maintenance freak but these tasks are always done.
if you get into night fishing, scout your local industrial area for a tap you can make use of late at night
ive never empied the tank although it is usually stored full
never used saltaway or stabil
the boat is stored the right way up, my pictures invert for some reason??
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I thought Michelle was great!
My daughter picked the winner and $2 each way smashed up the TAB! $216
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Well done mate,
How far out and what depth are you fishing over there?
And check your messages too
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Who's going to win and why?
I'm going for 23 excess knowledge
I always take the winner of the Lexus on Saturday with a big weight loss
How about you??
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We heard on #21 that a 100-150kg Marlin was hooked in 22c water when we were sat in 20.5 - WHERE THE HELL WAS 22c???
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Thanks guys
Don't get too hung up on other people's temperatures, he might have had 22 if he was sitting next to you! Keep reading the signs and act on them, the best marlin water is often inside rather than as far as you can go.
Also heard a report of another stripe caught in 100 fathoms but I think it was south of us
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Hi everyone,
We fished today out of Wollongong up to southern canyons.
Started with 18 water on the coast and put the lines in at about 70 fathoms, worked through a couple of breaks until we settled into one from 20 to 20.5 with a good line full of blue bottles and a few birds hanging around in 150. The break had bait patches but we didn't hit too many hard marks.
We left that break and headed wider and worked a line in about 200 that went from 20.5 to 20.9. It had bait but it wasn't stacked and it didn't have the right vibe.
So back to 150 and about 1300 right in the middle of cooking up lunch we get bit, right in the middle of the spread of too many lures for 3 on board.
Anyways we soon after released a skinny stripe of about 50-60 keg.
And other than that didn't turn a reel.
Sorry no pics we were a bit underdone for crew.
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No not the dart!
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Caution, technical jargon ahead-
Referenced off a symetre reel
It looked like you needed to turn the mechanism 15 degrees anticlockwise. 15 second fix?
The pieces should be
Screw
Spring with feet laying down over the "v clicker thing"
V clicker thing
The v clicker works like a chocolate wheel clicker on the plastic toothy wheel on the underside of the spool.
If it's not lined up like in your picture because either it's been tightened in the wrong position or the spring is lost/broken, the toothy wheel and the v clicker can't work together.
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I'll soften a bit and say if a rod fails in the first outing or 2 it may have a manufacturing fault.
But a decent rod used with reasonable technique and within its design limits should not break.
Put 10 pound line on the rod listed above and it can break
Cast 1/2 ounce and it will break
High stick it, say no more
Unfortunately high end gear can be more fragile to obtain weight loss at the expense of durability.
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I fish 2 and 3 pound, sp only with .5 - 7g jigs in really skinny to around 5m of water. Although I'll throw it at Kings if they're in the open
I have (among others)a Trion and reckon it's good value and balances well with a shimano 1000. General consensus seems to be the raider is better but I've never used one.
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Hate to tell you mate,
Broken rods and wind knots are both the fault of the angler.
Nothing else, but the fault of the angler.
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If it feels right leave it alone.
Opening all those well sealed parts and mucking around with intricate mechanisms is overrated.
By shimano or daiwa and give it a rinse every now and then, maintenance over.
Beaches may test these procedures but.
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The clicker on the reel has to mesh with the teeth on the spool,
The centre V bit should be facing straight to the axle if you get what I mean.
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What sort of coin do you guys spend on a knife?
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There's plenty of lizards in the shallows, most have been just under / just over legal.
I've had better luck with natural coloured small SPs like bloodworm wrigglers and gulp prawns, from Berowra to bar point over the last couple of weeks.hope that helps, its all I got
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From Bluewater magazine cairns article a few years back.
To me big fish =
100cm+ king and Jews
80cm+ lizards
Etc
And big bait
Tailor
Bonito
Frigates
XL mullet
Salmon
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To answer one of your questions, I don't tie braid directly to the spool, if there is no lug on the spool to tie to, the whole spool of braid can slip under (heavy) pressure and spin.
This lead me to lay out 300 m of line one day in Pittwater to put 10 or 20 m of mono under it. . Lucky nothing bit the jig on the other end!!
P.S I love you xxx
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Living the dream,
Yep amberjack, I released a bunch one day cos I thought they were undersized kings