General Zod

I went today to cash my second place ticket and I ask the guy there, he said that I could have won around $26,000 if I picked the first place winner in that trifecta. He was a bit busy so not sure if he had a good look. What I should of done is bet the field 1st then those other picks for my 2nd and 3rd, I would of cleaned up. The thing that gets me is that I was thinking about it but didn't follow through, damn.

So close yet so far.

Thanks for sharing. The temptation with boils and sticking with the plan can really be hard sometimes. I feel sorry for the kayak guy if the swell picked up. At least you and the kayak guy got a good feed.

Nice read mate, damn losing an anchor sucks. At least u got some fish.

Well done, good feed you got there.

Nice read mate, thanks for sharing. I can remember once we we're at Windang and forgot some leader as well so we went searching and found what looked to be some old 15-20 pound mono so we used that and we only had 8pound braid so it looked funny but we still got some fish, luckily for us it was day still as well. Anyway good effort with what you had.

That's just awesome matey, looks like u had a ball.

Nice catch there jay88, that bream is a monster fish, well done on the jewie as well matey.

Great quick report. I'm pumped now, I got get out there tomorrow.

At least you got to fish 3 days straight. Better than not going. Nice read.

What a lovely new toy you have there. I like the mags on it, better than the standard ones for sure.

Thanks for sharing, a top read, i really enjoyed that. Are you going to put carpet down as well?

Sorry to hear what happen to you. Hope your alright now. Thanks for sharing. I go fishing with the family and I'll look out for them now especially let the wife know. Wouldn't want her to get stung by one of those. Btw do they all look similar the salt water ones or are there different species.

Nice report. You must of had a good time, good on you.

Thanks matey.

I like your pick up, great idea. Looks like I'm gonna have to add one as well now. What size skin fitting u use for the hose to go through.

Top live reports, enjoyed very much reading them. Can't wait for more pics to come.

Thanks, If your talking about the round thing in the middle on the wall, 2nd set of photo's 3rd one across, no that's just a mold on the wall. The diagram below shows more.

After forgetting to turn on the pump first time out, I decided to install a timer, very straight forward. The timer switch its self is a great switch but has no light built in it which is common these days. So I came up with the idea of installing a small led light next to it. I would just have to soldier the wires of the led light to the back of the switch so when I turn the on or timer switch the led light would light up as well. That way when I go to take of if I see the light on then I’ll remember to turn the timer off. Hard part was cutting the aluminum for the switch to go into at the back of the dash I ended up cutting some wires by accident (was using a grinder with a cutting blade) so a had to re-wire about 5 wires again. Headache. After doing this I also decided to install a led light in the bait tank so the kids could see inside when there was some fish, kept them occupied and happy. And with only one battery I also decided to install a voltmeter reader as well to monitor the battery volt levels. After using the pump for 6hrs on/off, mostly on, fish finder 6hrs, Nav & Anchor light, and cabin lights for 2.5hrs, the voltage came down to 12.4V about 70%. So that’s it. Hope this was helpful with anyone thinking about installing a small bait tank in there boat. Regards

Is that anchor light similar to this. Because if it is then I have a LED that will fit it.

Spend that little bit extra and go with the Sarca. After owning different anchors some which didn't hold good in a strong current I ended up buying a Sarca for my old little glass boat and the holding power really surprised me and good decision I ever made. So when I brought the new boat first thing I did was buy was Sarca anchor. But although it says u can use on a reef, there no way I'm going to use it on a reef, already have that experience losing a anchor to a reef, so I've got a reef anchor for reef, with a good quality D for quick change over. I'm pretty sure also my chain on the anchor is not 5:1 that's most likely why the other anchors didn't hold to well, but with the Sarca it held.

This happen it me at Windang once before. No water was coming out, luckily in the tool box a I had a wire. I tried sticking the wire in the outlet but nothing so I took the motor cover off, felt the line and it was hard full of sand, i cut the line outlet i bit and then put the wire in again and sand came out, it worked, water started to come out again after starting the motor. Scary moment cause it was getting dark and didn't want to but suck out there with the family. Had to get the propeller fixed after as well. Glad you made it back safely.

Nice read thanks for sharing. Going out with the family is always fun, even more when there's fish.

That's just gold. Well done land based as well, seems there's a lot of jew's lately.

Top catches, and three that's damn good in anyone's book. I'm definitely going to the next plastic social in the Sydney area, sounds like a wealth of knowledge.