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Oh cool, you got 'battle scars' to brag about (lucky though). One of my mates got a stump jumper treble through the top of his ear once, put it there himself with a real dodgy cast, swissssh argh, argh, argh, no one to blame....sad for him, at the time we were all sooo sympathetic looked like a tagged sheep

Weird or what http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/oarfish.html

scumbags, Lower than the bottom of a long drop dunny

works for me (until i get a boat)

we are doing 3 weeks on the Eyre peninsular might be a couple of K's further than you want though

40 cm flathead, a black n silver deep bodied hard lure from a bulk pack from Aldi, April 2010, off a cliff near Farm beach, Eyre peninsular SA, watched the flathead rise and take it in about 10 ft of crystal clear water as i drew it over a rock line in the sand. super aerial view. there was another there, it rose several times but just wouldnt take it. excellent fun but actually my first flathead ever

just think of the different lures you could bring back from afar, duty free too

And never leave/store them on a concrete floort, apparently it does something wierd and damages them, keep them on a shelf, duckboard, upturned milkcrate, bench or something Pirate

ooooh yeaaah, the things we do to save a quid. sprayed my tinny with white knight epoxy pressure pack, two coats no primer, came up a beaut. do not let the paint fully dry between coats though, as it will go wrinkly, sticks fine,3 tins did all around the outside of a 10'6 foot dehavilland tinny, didn't spray the bottom though, should have done to make it 'slippery' to the water, get an extra knot out of her maybe

Travel wrist bands, availble most phamacies, my missus swears by them. never suffered myself, maybe once as a kid out in a force six, with my dad and uncle doing a trawl, they opened the net and my uncle opened a scallop and ate it raw, not impressed, the words 'hey boys,i can feel it twitching in my stomach' was to much for me, instant burley time! maybe it wasn't seasickness after all lol

watch everyone else that is baggin out and see what they are doing or using that is different, technique or colour of lure, attractant.....maybe just a few meters off a good spot

unfortunatly a lot of people, whilst taking their licence, just do what they need to, to pass the test, and forget most of it as they leave the room, and at the time, never intend to go out at night. even the daytime nav aids, i think i would have to refresh myself in the book before going out as i don't go out often enough to become 'fluent'. The 'it'll never happen to me' and 'rules are for other people' attitudes are always there too (as a general comment, not necessarily in this instance). feel for the family,friends and rescue services though. I took the RYA motorcraft course in the uk many years ago, 12 weeks, one 3 hour night per week, it included a 'full navigation' section, (without GPS), dead reconning, course to steer, chart work, parallels and dividers stuff, it included sailing from a point at sea, to moored up in an estuary at night, 'document the lights, beacons,you will encounter from the chart plot waypoints' their elevation, direction and their meanings etc. Included a saturday afternoon practical in a 40 ft yacht (!), on the Solent, to show how difficult it is to manouvre a yacht and why the rights of way are such for motorcraft, crossing commercial lanes etc.....

same here, wire brush on grinder, wear dust mask, safety glasses amd thick jeans though, as the wires do break off the brush over time and 'fly'

watched him again last night, with this thread in my mind, i just down rated him to D***head, entertainment value 1/10 this episode, waste of video tape. but thats fishing reality, sometimes you catch, but sometimes you don't

oooh, transformer oil, nasty carcnegenic stuff

Of coures he winges, he's a pom, in his defence, he does acknoledge that his fishing experience is limited to fly fishing in the UK, and that he is a wimp, so as far as he is concerned most stuff is extreme. Jeeze but dosen't he squeal like a girl! yeah the one with the little shark was a hoot, you could smell the fear running down his leg LOL. I may be as excited as he landing a tuna though I am a pom from a fishing background, (oh shut up) and uk fishing does not even come close to the mildest fishing over here. nothing will bite bits out of you, sting you, chew threw a heavy leader, take more than a minute to land, require over 50 lb line, or squirt you with ink, unless you really go to extreme measures to hunt it out, so to Robson dearie, it is extreme, to us over here it is hum drum and unspectacular to the most. watching cement set is more fun than home and away though, i think we all agree on that (except )

all you need to do is encourage people and make it easy and fun to be environmental, rather than dictate and introduce a tax that we know will be missused, misspent, and proffited on by people who have nothing to do with helping the environment, the tax will eventually be managed by market traders, who will try and milk every last cent to 3 decimal places out of it, how good is that! most of it is common sense Unfortunatly the environment is not capitalist friendly, and the capitalist wins most of the times when i were a lad,(in the UK) local milk was bottled locally, in glass bottles. these were delivered to your door on electric milk floats (small trucks), and your empty bottles were picked up, washed, checked, and refilled for the next day. when i were a lad, soft drinks were all in deposit paid glass bottles, and in the summer,every evening, we would scour the beach from end to end for empties and take them to the icecream shop and 'cash them in, for 6 header ice creams. the shop keeper also insisted we bring rubbish off the beach when we collected the bottles, or he would dock us one bottle, and an extra half scoop for the most rubbish. this was in the 60's and 70's. milk is still delivered in some places this way now it is trucked around the country after going through miles of process pipes, having stuff done to it, then bunged in plastic throw away bottles, or cartons, inside boxes, shrink wrapped on pallets. dosen't even taste like milk anymore I rememeber a prime time childerens programme getting all the schoolkids to post the aluminium bottle tops and foil off choclate bars to them through the schools then they would sell as scrap and raise enough to buy and fully train a guide dog for the blind i digress beer was delivered in crates, and the empties were collected by the brewery, washed, inspected and re-used, they also had a deposit you could collect. (we used to pinch them from behind the pub, and take then to the bottle shop for a refund, untill we got caught and thumped by the local copper and dobbed in to our parents) if the bottles today had a cash incentive like in SA, the kids and charities would collect them, even from the bush, beaches, riversides, picknic sites, carparks and gutters

so what can we do that would definatly help the environment. reduce packaging. I don't need a bag in a box in a bag in a box. i am happy to eat chips out of newspaper, the ink is different to the old stuff, better recycling by re using the bottles like we used to (10 c deposit) europe was considering a euro bottle and euro jar, all returnable, re-usable and a standard range of sizes to suit most requirements, but the glass manufacturers played up fine the *ss of people for dumping litter stop wasting our resorces being shiped away and made into dollars for fat cats stop importing stuff that we already have over here (vegies meat etc) transport costs and fuel stop exporting stuff that we need over here (ditto) only build houses with an energy efficiency (we used to have large verandas for a reason, to keep the house cool) stiffer rules about re landscaping and planting the post mining land to it's former glory, or to farmland. make them start now, not when the mine is spent in 30 years time put propane/butane back as a refrigerant, it is sooo much more efficient, and there is only a few ounces in a fridge,there is more in an aerosol can it's not going to blow houses up keep our gas for us to use in cars, rather than exporting it and importing fuel oil, whilst we come up with a better power system all electric vehicles to be charged by solar means, not grid power, otherwise they are not 'green' ease the ruling on electric powered bikes so we can use more power and get a better travel range and economic speed, and provide safe parking for them. I WOULD use one to go to work, but it is to far, and to hilly for it.(and I have medical reason for not using an ordinary bike) so i drive, there is no othere way for me to get there ban bottled water rainwater tanks n stuff i posted earlier 20Kl miminum, not the compulory 2 Kl 'buckets' de-centralize our cities, so we don't have a mass transit problem into CBD then back out, plan new towns (like Milton Keynes in the uk ,but better) it was planned as a complete city, with business, industrial, council depot, shopping ,leisure and suburban areas all planned and transport linked encourage people to live nearer to work (raduis tax break) variations for regional climates some of these are not workable some are easy, some are cheap to impliment some things like solar panels would come down in price with volume, instead of staying artificially high due to govt incentives so would balance out big business would not be happy , but tough what else can you think of to 'clean up our environment' suggestions please, whilst i pack my rods for a fishing trip on the weekend

er, compulsory in the DA nnd build codes,and inspected by the building inspector, not retro fit byrip off cowboys under a shonky 'we are so good' government scheme

but that suposition is exactly what the tax is based on. yep i hope the environment will benefit, but i doubt it, the 'suits' will benefit when it converts to trading. but the whole thing is here because Julia lied, barefaced, as did her coleagues a better way forward is to put manditory codes on new buildings to make solar energy compulsory, grey water, rainwater collection high level insulation etc. a local builder offer new homes AND also energy efficient homes,

But the tree would decay and convert, the coal and gas would not if we left it buried If I could, i would go stand alone solar panel, solar hot water and also modify a southern cross mill for additional power. get all my vegies local, use reusable bottles for milk beer and soft drinks, eat chips out of newspaper, get my water from a tap (rainwater) not from the other side of the world in plastic botles. but i can't achieve this, only part. the point though is the tax will not even make a dint in the long term cyclic nature of the climate. This is my personal viewpoint, developed over my 50 something years of living in various parts of the world, not gleaned from shockjocks talkback or whatever(they reinforce what i already believe). I got my first solar cell in 1968. solar, geothermal, whatever, i am game. just not those ugly windmills, built under 3a rules, where you would not be alowwed to built a house because it wouldn't blend in!

oh don't get me started.....too late.....The climate has been changing for the last 12 or 15 thousand years, since the last ice age started to melt, notice the word 'last', there have been several ice ages,freeze up, then melt, then freeze up then melt, and in australia too. the orebody at broken hill had the top third pushed south by one ice age glacia, the middle third pushed north by another, and we dug up what was left. is the sea rising, or the land sinking? sea rising or plate tectonics sinking the land. we have had a lot of quakes recently, the coast in Japan sank permanantly nearly 2 metres in places during the earthquake, which lowered the sea defences and rendered them useless . better update the Japan charts ay. billions of cubic meters of silt are washed off the land into the sea anually, that'll raise it a bit oh no not a silt tax next, and a tectonic tax to stop the plates moving, (just need a big wedge and some nails ) hey Julia, can you hold the tide out for a few days, I want to dig some bait too much hot air from Canberra if you pay a plumber to fit a blue bathroom and he fits a red one he won't get paid. If you pay a scientist or institution to prove theres a man made climate change and we can stop it, and he proves there isn't......skinto. bringing some nice fish south though, soon there will be Barramundi in Botany lets see, 5 cents worth at 400% tax = $20.05 I burn wood in my fire, i get it off the ground, where if it were left to rot a proportion would turn to methane, but it would decompose anyway, i decompose it faster and extract most of the heat efficiently. electricity is created inefficiently, (and turned back into heat inefficiently) by burning coal which would not decompose naturally, but would stay where it is, as would gas. gas is better than coal which is why we are exporting all our gas to china, we will have none for ourselves in the future to make 'cleaner' energy from.

a quick search on the internet for the make and model of the inflatable and you shoud be able to get the self service information and documentation. if it looks too dificult, take it to an agent. If you self service, and it fails, get it fixed or replaced, do not cheat.