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Hey mate, I have had a 4.5m tinny with a 15 on the back and it ran fine mate. Didn't encounter any dramas with it, just cruised around inside the harbor mostly. Great tinny the seaman!

Good stuff AL! Cya friday hopefully if youre free

Hey Mate, We have found that even with livies down, kingies have been going for just floating pillies down, and ignoring the livies Hope you have some luck Mark

Hey raiders, Headed out to Middle harbour again with some mates. Been getting heaps of small kings, and pulled up this monster trev just on some pilly and a small sinker just off the bottom. It measured 57cm which i see is a fishraider record for 3rd place? What are the requirements for making it an actual record? Cheers Mark

Hey guys, After some advice/guidance on what boat models I should be looking at in looking for an old aluminium hull that is rated to carry around 7 or 8 people. Basically looking for a cheap hull to keep inside the harbour but being able to take plenty of passengers. Thanks for the help! Mark

I'm liking these though! Keep them coming! Cheers everyone Mark

I am an industrial designer and keen to know if there's one thing that you think should be designed in the fishing equipment realm of products, something to make it easier, or eliminate a problem, or just something you'd love to have. Or even something you think should be simpler and cheaper E.g. Something to prevent weed hooking onto chrome lures when trolling Cheers Mark

At this stage the thought process is geared towards incorporating a PFD into something similar to the current fishing shirts (i.e. the berkley/shimano style sleeve, collared shirts) or something similar ( may look into more of a jacket style). The ideal design will hide the PFD and be as light as possible for the user, as they will be wearing it the whole trip. Through material technologies and design innovation the hope is that fishermen/women will not even notice that they are wearing a PFD, but will have that security should an incident arise. The large majority of the design work is ahead of me, which is exciting, and hopefully I can come up with the goods for the sake of all anglers! There are obviously alot of considerations that need to go into the design which I have not mentioned in these few lines! What do you guys think of this type of thing? i.e. incorporating the PFD into a fishing shirt/ jacket.

Alan! Na using the yak I already had, its an ocean kayak 11 foot (i think its called a scrambler?) but I fitted a little electric motor to it last week, and am keen to get into some good fish. We should yak soon! You being catching much down your way? Cheers Mark g.w! Mark

Hey raiders, Where is the closest place I can launch my kayak for sugarloaf bay? Cheers

Thanks all for your feedback so far! Thanks for pinning it swordfisherman!!will be very helpful. alluring good to see another ID out there obsessed with fishing! Keep the feedback coming! Cheers Mark

Hey raiders, I am an Industrial Designer and am in the process of designing a PFD purely focusing on fishermen and women. I have done all my research and background info gathering but now comes the fun part of actually designing the thing. I would love your input. Whether you fish from a boat, a kayak, from rocks, from the beach or anywhere else! Let me know things you love about current designs,things you hate about current designs, features you would love to see in a new PFD design, comfortable designs you have tried, uncomfortable designs and anything and everything related to PFD design that might help me design a flotation device that will best suit you! Thanks very much for your help with thisl I hope I am not breaking any rules re: sponsors etc! Cheers Mark

yeah exactly what brettman said! Had a much worse session today, didn't troll up anything. Saw a big school of salmon working the end of a bay pretty aggressively but that was about it! We have found the time with the most activity to be low tide Mark

Hey mate we have had some luck on frigate mackeral, tailor and bonito in the last few weeks. Have just been trolling tiny chrome lures from Apple tree bay all the way up the hawkesbury and if we see some big groups of bust ups in a bay we'll stop and flick towards them. Hope this leads you to some fish! Am heading out tomorrow so hoping there is some fish around! Mark

hey raiders, I am going to get quite a heavy set up for my next outfit. I want to keep the cost below $250 if possible Would love recommendations on what combo to look at. Also trying to decide between overhead baitcaster reel or just to go with regular spinning reel I will load it up with 50-60 lb braid, and be chasing kings and big snapper with it, both landbased and from boat (mostly boat) Cheers for any advice! Mark

Awesome stuff!Keen to see the video!

Awesome stuff!Keen to see the video!

Hey raiders, Just wandering what depth we should be setting our downrigger to to try and get some kingies? We have been putting it a few feet of the bottom, but obviously the bottom changes in depth so it can seem like it might be too shallow sometimes. Cheers Mark

4 inch Gulp nuclear chicken on a 1/4 ounce jighead has caught me many flathead and snapper.Its tops! Mark

And also, there was heaps and heaps of fuel leaking into the water when we were trying, so the fuel cleaning could be the trick

hey mate i have caught most of my flathead in narrabeen lake on 3 or 4inch nuclear chicken minnows. If you have a kayak/boat then anchor up near the sand bank point which is near jamieson park i think. 1/6 oz jighead will be fine for the depth here, just make sure it hits the bottom and give the rod one or two fast lifts, retrieving back to boat. Good luck! Mark

cheers guys! Very much appreciated!! Mark

Hey raiders, we have a 12ft tinnie, just wandering if it would be at all worth while getting a scotty laketroller downrigger for going around the moorings in areas such as middle harbour?? We've been told not the best idea, but we don't want to spend too much/ we don't have much to spend and thought that we could get away with using it. Anyone know of any suitable downriggers we could get for less than $200? Cheers Mark

hey mate we find just using tiny, the tiniest you can find, hooks and burleying up alot of pillies and bread will get swarms of yakkas around balmoral wharf we just float the baits down, no sinkers, and seem to catch plenty, mostly early morning

the north end of narrabeen beach often produces fish Up near the entrance to the lake Give it a shot! Gang hooked pillies should find you a range of fish! Mark