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I have a question as nobody here has mentioned anything about knots.
Whats your prefered knot to tie your leader to say a snap swivel, hook or even just a swivel.
Once again i mucked about with some different knots & i found the Trilene knot seems to be pretty strong but was just wondering what other people like/prefer ???
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Thanks for that its diametre is .52 reasonably heavy braid & the mono is 1.0 in diametre so hopefully it should be ok.
I tried it quite a few times & seems quite strong.
What do you think Grant ??
Cheers Steve.
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I didnt some playing around with with one of my game rods & tried the PR knot 80lb braid to 100lb leader of about 20mtrs ( doing away with the old wind on leader )& tested the strength of it, i pulled 22kg on the spring scales very happy with that, im sure it would pull more but anymore drag than that id say i would get pulled over the side of the boat fighting a fish, after reading all about the mid knot & the PR knot the PR seems the better one & its actually quite easy to do. I will be trying this set up on tuna & see how it goes. It dont look like much of a difference between the 2 knots actually.
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that bloke that hooked up was one of my good mates, he hooked it on snapper gear being 30 pound braide and 30 pound leader, fighting it for 4 hours, ending up breaking free in the end, he was spewing
Damn shame about that theres nothing worse than a long fight only to lose the fish
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Sounds like a rays bream we caught 1 cubbing east of browns a couple of years ago very starnge looking fish indeed but then lot of the deep ooglies can be lol
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Id say thats why the fin left your cube trail Mr Mako turning up mite have been the reason, perhaps i should of had a cube problem was i was alone, the conditions got great just before dark i ended up trolling down to southern canyons to try find a temp break but there was no change 20.5 all the way until i got inside the shelf where it dropped to 19.5 anyway next trip will hopefully see the current back off a bit & ill be cubbing for sure.
Still was a good trip got a good feed of blue eye & gemfish.
Nice haul there President well done.
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Sorry for the late post but it was pretty quiet got a few blue eye current was running at about 2-3 knots at browns didn't bother cubbing &didn't hear much other than a guy hooked up on a Marlin at longy @ about 5 o'clock on snapper gear he said he was fighting it it for an hour & a half, i wonder if he landed it ???
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Havent heard much yet but im heading wide 2mrw let you no how i go.
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Has anybody tried this, just rock up there without fishing rods etc & sling a camera around your neck & go into the area to see what happens ??
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Did the makos give you any grief ??
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Sounds like you had a heap of fun good on ya for getting out there
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Whats your prefered knot to tie your circle hook or do most people crimp just wondering what some people prefer ?
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So it looks like the currents still bringing warm water from the north, appears to be a crazy season this year. Shame you didnt catch anything for the effort you put in mate.
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Thanks for the tip Juggs much appreciated.
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Just wondering if anybody knows where i can get bearings for a single axle (13'' wheels) trailcraft trailer as i want to get a spare set i havent really looked around yet, so i thought id just ask here first, im pretty sure theres a few trailcraft owners out there.
Cheers in advance Steve.
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sorry had trouble working out how to upload. And happy days lol
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sorry had trouble working out how to upload.
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Here is another option its what i use & it works well out at browns, 50mm reo bar that i get from jobs sites 9inches long cut on an angle to cut on retrieve when winding up wieght 1.8 -2kgs iv been using them for a few years on my tanacom bull 1000 gets to the bottom in no time.The mono is just there to attach a sacraficial line to, i use 80lb mono about 1mtr long on the bottom of a 2 hook rig set up.
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Onya boys nice job on getting that fish
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A sad sad season this year guys unfortunately
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Nice work guys
How was the water temp on the shelf ?
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G'day mate,
Unfortunately we made the mistake of pushing the drag to far in the end popping the line lost the fish & the lure
it hit the short corner, we were watching the lures & just as we looked forward for what seemed about 10secs & zzzzzzzzzzz went the tiagra, we didnt see the fish till he jumped about 6 times & the rest was history.We hooked it on the shelf in 115 fathoms & lost it out in 160 fathoms, he just went with the current dirty bugger. Theres always next week i guess
By the way thats a nice fish you got there mate pitty it got beat.
Cheers.
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Damo, just out of curiousity whats the current like up there ??
A mate & i headed out off sydney yesterday we managed to hook a nice blue but lost it after a 4hr fight on 24kg, it went deep after a few jumps near the boat & just kept going with the current, its still running quite a bit & has been for over 3weeks probably more
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That totally SUCKS.