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whitworths sell a removable teloscopic one however you will need to install the new base. cheers, Greg

Greg, Just saw the prize pool too. Mate that's unreal! Cheers, Greg

so no Open next year Greg? Cheers, Greg

ETEC 115H.O almost 130 hp at the prop under a 115 cowling and only 8kg heavier Greg

Congratulations Roberta on the PB that's a great fish. I don't know how effective it would be for you but perhaps a small sea anchor behind the yak could help slow your drift down. I've started using one off the back of the boat when the winds right up. A lot of the guys I fished with in Tassie this year used sea anchors, or a drogue especially at St Helens when the wind was really howling. One guy was also using a large downrigger bomb tied off to a length of rope and dragged behind the boat. Cheers, Greg

Nice report Dave. Sounds like you cracked the pattern and got a nice bag. Cheers, Greg

Any reason for not wanting to send back to Daiwa? I just had mine serviced by them and was very happy. Greg

Thanks Pelican - The PDF is the one that I have read, but the first part of your post is precisely what I wanted. cheers, Greg

just got a new transducer and wanted some advice for mounting inside the hull of a glass boat. The old transducer is a standard transom mounted transducer and is fixed to the inside of the hull with what looks like black sicaflex only much harder. I Did a google search and found some instructions that outlined the use of slow cure 2 part araldyte to glue to the hull. Has anyone done this that could give me advice of a specific araldyte to use and also any pitfalls to watch. I understand that the slow cure allows the air bubbles to rise to the surface which means they won't affect the transducer's performance. I also understand that this is one of the reasons that you don't use silicon or sicaflex to bond the transducer, but one issue I can see is that a slow cure araldyte will "run" until it sets reducing the surface area that bonds the transducer to the hull. Any advice appreciated. cheers, Greg

Hodgey, all of the fish were caught on plastics. I must be the only person in Australia at the moment that doesn't fish blades and vibes. I did give them a run for a while, but without much success, though it's most likely a confidence thing because I fish plastics about 80% of the time these days Mariner 31, there's pics of my boat here http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.ph...519&hl=gerg. It's an Aussie built Attack 470. It's a great little boat, very comfortable though not as quick as some of the bass boats getting around at the moment. Justin, I've lost your number. Sshoot me a PM and we'll organise to head out for a flick Gary, I fished North Sydney to Silverwater yesterday. I covered a lot of water to get an idea of where the fish are at the moment. I caught fish pretty much everywhere, but didn't really find any size until I got back to the lower part of the system. Hope that helps. Cheers, Greg

Made a very late decision to fish yesterday morning, hoping that some of the monsters that GregL boasted about a couple of weeks ago were still around, and glad I did. On the water by about 8am and pretty much had the whole place to myself - literally, because I was flying solo today, something I should do more of. It was great, the rain cleared about 9 and it was pretty much perfect, mild overcast conditions until 1pm and I barely saw another boat all day It was a pretty slow start at the bottom of a very low tide. I tried a few spots and it was pretty much the same story - loads of undersize fish everywhere. Then it happened, I had a 30-40 minute session that was just perfect. A quick lure change (went "old school" and bigger than I normally would) and pulled a 35cm bream off a pole to join the 26 and 28 in the well. On the next pole, I'd just given up on the retrieve and was winding back in when I saw a shadow come up from the deep and slam the lure. It gave me some stick on 3lb line, before I finally got the net under it - 40cm to the fork and big and fat! I pulled 3 more fish off that pole smallest being 33cm and got well and truly stitched up by another. Moved on to another couple of spots and found fish at most of them. You know your having a great session when you're throwing back 28/29cm fish that you'd gladly take on any comp day. The bite slowed down at the top of the tide and the rain set in, so home I went very content. Cheers, Greg

100mm PVC pipe from Hardware. I placed an endcap on one end and a screw on cap at the other. When packing I used bubble wrap and plenty of it so the rods didn't move inside. Cheers, Greg

Penguin thats a sensational report. Some excellent specimens there, well done to your son for persisting... cheers, Greg

Have to agree. I have early model 80 series Turbo diesel with over 350000 kms on it and can't fault it. Even with raised suspension, larger diameter tyres and a heap of extra accessories/weight i get around 12 L/100km around town. For that money you should be able to pick up a late model 80 series or even and early model 100 series. I drove a late model 3.0l patrol in Tassie recently too and was quite impressed. Cheers, Greg

sounds like a nice couple of sessions Jeff. I've found IC to be fishing really sporadically lately with really inconsistent returns. cheers, Greg

some nice fish there Greg. Harbour's fishing pretty well at the moment and the by-catch between bream's been pretty good too. cheers, Greg

Billy, it's amazing how much difference a bit of rediscovered confidence makes. At the end of last year I couldn't buy a bream, but after a bit of a refocus at the beginning of the year, I'm having a ball on the water and consequently I'm catching some fish. Tassie was the icing on the cake. Royboy, kingy was caught near Woolwich. When I hooked it and it took it's first run, I had a fleeting moment where I thought I'd hooked a cannon of a bream,but that didn't last long before I had a pretty good hunch it was a kingy. I had a few follows from the kings a week before in the same spot. It got the adrenaline pumping and I was stoked when I landed it. First kingy as by-catch chasing bream - secretly hoping I get a bit more kingy bycatch Newattheame, my boat is an Attack 470. Cheers, Greg

Hit the river early again for a quick breaming session with mate Tony. Fishing floating structure again, the bite was a fair bit slower than a week ago. Definately had to have the lure in really tight to entice a bite. I also noticed that the school would spook once we pulled a fish, and we'd have to move on. Managed 6 legals the best 35 to the fork. The catch of the day however was a 60cm kingy caught on 4lb, tight in under a marina - What a buz! All the fish were caught early before 10am and then the bite shut down - perhaps it was the boat traffic. At 11.30, I picked up my kids from the ramp and we went and hit Iron Cove for a while. Couldn't even manage a follow in there - it is fishing so sporadically lately. Cheers, Greg

Nice report Hodgey. Just goes to show that "matching the hatch" is not always enough, we need to try to imitate the hatch as well - be "one" with the hatch if you like... I had a similar experience whilst in Tassie on the Derwent recently. I stubbornly spent the morning fishing my "go to" lure with not so much as a hit, because it had been successful on the previous 3 days. In frustration I changed my lure to an anchovy coloured flickbait (the closest I had to the bait in the area) and had instant success. I managed 4 fish in a half hour period. cheers, Greg

Mate, sounds like a nice break away. I've never been out there, and wouldn't mind to give it a go sometime. It's amazing it gets down to 200ft and only 22% capacity. cheers, Greg

CaineS, yeah I've seen it. I got a bit of a surprise when my brother showed me. It was caught when I did a charter with a well known Sydney operator. It was my first jewie and likely to be a while before I manage to top that... Roberta, the trevally surprised me at how little line it pulled. At first I thought it was a flatty because all I was getting were a few headshakes and weight. Wasn't until it saw the boat that it took a few runs. Jorge,forecast is for a bit of wind tomorrow. Hope you don't get blown away. I can't get out till Sunday when I take the kids out for a flick. Hope the rain gets them fired up in IC - easiest place to fish with the kids. Probably head out monday too, but we'll see how we go. Cheers, Greg

Nice day out on the water yesterday breaming with my brother Craig. Fishing Marinas all day, he got one on his first cast, which was to be a good sign for the rest of the day. The bream were there in numbers just about everywhere we went, albeit lacking a little in size. Having said that there were some good fish mixed in amongst them - I copped a roasting 2 or 3 times and managed a 37.5cm fork length fish early in the afternoon. Also managed a nice trevally that fought surprisingly like a wet sock. Once the sun came up, it put the fish down a bit, but they were still there, with quite a number of hookups resulting in the rest of the school following to the boat. And as always, the bigger fish seem to be holding tighter into the structure. Cheers, Greg

Nice work Roberta. Looks like some nice water there. Hope you crack the 50cm next time... Cheers, Greg

Cheers Greg. I think I'll go for the good bag... Let me know if you can't find a deckie. It's a squeeze, but I can fish 3 out of mine. Wouldn't mind to have a fish with you sometime. Cheers, Greg

see you out there Greg. Any tips - what's been fishing well. Haven't been out for a month or so. Hope we can find a few like that otherwise I'll be wishing I was on the derwent... greg