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Good on you Bob. Glad you could make it. On the list. Cheers, Pete.

Thanks Rob..All added and thanks to for the offer of the freebie torches. See Donna or Stewy when you register. Cheers, Pete.

If you are a guest or have been a guest for a while and ever thought about joining Fishraider.. now is the time. You can then come along as a member to the Kingy Social on Sunday... if you join up today. It will be a great day both socially and hopefully fishing wise with many kingfish caught. It's quick and easy and FREE to join. Cheers, Pete.

Great work lads. Nice kingie and Sampson. The social is gonna fire!! Cheers, Pete.

That's it...I've had enough!! I'm sending mine back Fancy cheapening the Gold Membership in that way..I'm horrified I hear also that they are available this year at the Easter Show in a showbag called simply "Stump's Swagbag"...in it you get..: 1 x Stumpys Used Joke Book 1 x Book if tried and true insults as used by Stumpy on Fishraider. 1 x Autographed picture of Stumpy using a crow bar to extricate a fellow fisho stuck between his motors. 1 x CD of Stumpy snoring so loud, your neighbours will be calling the cops. 1 x Free ride on the good ship Day Release (cheaper bags have 2 rides included) 1 x Book of swear words with a foreword by Stumpy rating them from 1 to 10,000 1 x Short story written by Stumpy on his humiliation of being outfished by his small daughter. AND... 1 x Gold Membership to Fishraider. Available while stocks last or when Stumpy gets sick of stuffing them into bags. Price..small Stumpy Swagbag...$30.00 Large Stumpy Swagbag..$25:00 (includes 2 free trips remember) So that's how he got the gong. Seriously though...He deserves one just for keeping us all in stitches on a daily basis. Congratulations Murray on the new bling on your posts from now on. Cheers, Pete.

Good stuff Dan, High tide is at 1115am. so prime time for kingies off the wharf I expect.. Glad you are moving back to the beaches...have to catch up for sure. Cheers, Pete.

Dan, you can register right up to close of fishing at 1pm as Donna and Stewy will be manning the registration/measuring table all morning. Come down when you can and maybe get a quick fish in...or a snag rolll at least. Good luck with the house move. Cheers, Pete.

Try it out GW..You never know, they may just look at doing it. Try: Granada Productions Fox Studios Australia Level 1, Building #61 Driver Avenue Moore Park NSW 1363 Australia Tel: +61 (02) 9383 4360 Fax: +61 (02) 8353 3494 Write a synopsis and outline and squirt it off to 'em. Good luck.. Cheers, Pete

Thanks David..never too late. Glad you could come with your boy. Cheers, Pete

Welcome to the forums Fred. Sounds like you have done some homework already and I'm sure some raiders will offer their views on most of those sounders. Great that you are doing a boat upgrade and have it all mapped out. The deal with the banker sounds very much like my . We've had that same deal since the day we were married and I always honour it (well..almost always LOL) There are some things that "slip through the cracks" occasionally, like tackle...ahem! Good luck with the sounder hunt. Cheers, Pete.

Added as well Simon. See you on the water. Cheers, Pete.

Top flattie that old gal. Pity you didn't find out what kind of freight train you hooked into earlier. Gotta be happy with today Ian. Cheers, Pete.

You're both added Ben. Cheers, Pete.

What a great session..you must be thrilled with that result. Great to know about the yakkas going off the menu and using cut baits and Penguin's prawns..It may become the poor man's downrigger technique for the social. Were they unweighted? Did you try any metal slices as well? Good work from the courtesy of the other fisho too...hope it's contagious. Cheers, Pete.

G'day Bob and little Moover..both added and yes, the guys are right..6am registration opens. Also...If guys..can we can it a bit rather than hit Donna & Stewy & Johnno all at once. I believe they are doing it 3 handed until more help arrives. Pete. Smole is added to your boat FGH...you've got a full crew eh? Pete.

Great chunky fellas those Peter Boy, they must be eating well on the Nthn. Beaches to get that fat. All on weed? BTW..your'e banned from the next blackie social cuz you are too good. Cheers, Pete.

Sounds like a lot of us are going to be hitting the harbour early to grab a parking spot. Probably very good thinking. Kingy (Terry) and I are launching from Roseville ramp around 0230 to go do the old livie dance along the way. Yakkas and hopefully some squid. Don't forget guys..We are using Channel 96 so when you get settled..let's keep each other in radio contact. "Fishraider Fishraider.. and you name" eh? We can keep Fishraider forum alive on VHF The weather is looking pretty good if you look at Seabreeze .. tonight it's: 5am..13 knot NW on a 2 metre swell. 11am..11NW on a 1.8 metre swell. 1pm (finish fishing) 11 knot SW on a 1.54 metre swell. High tide is at 1145 and 1.54 metres. Temperature 15 - 25 degrees and sunny. Lets hope it gets even better than this by Sunday. Cheers, Pete.

Added to the list Aloosh..See you there. Cheers, Pete.

G'day Marty. Fond memories of Mauritius and eating smoked marlin brekky, lunch and dinner. I don't know how they smoke it but it is SOOOO good. Congrats of a massive capture too. Cheers, Pete.

Bugger! I was hoping the gates opened earlier...Looks like Roseville then. pete.

Little Manly....bloody early! Anyone know how many car/trailer spots there are there? Cheers, Pete.

Missing link found in Sydney Harbour ONE of evolution's missing links has been found lurking in Sydney Harbour. Although only a microscopic, single-celled creature, it has excited scientists around the world because it is the nearest relative yet found of a group of deadly parasites. Its discovery, said Dee Carter, a University of Sydney microbiologist and member of the international team that found the organism, may provide vital clues for researchers seeking new weapons in the war against diseases such as malaria. Despite being a type of brown algae, an analysis of the new organism's DNA revealed that its closest relatives include cryptosporidium, the parasite which invaded Sydney's water in 1998, and plasmodium, the cause of malaria. "Scientists have known for some time that these parasites are related to algae," Associate Professor Carter said yesterday. That is because parasites contain relics of what were once chloroplasts, the mechanisms that allow plants to turn sunlight into energy through photosynthesis. However, until now, the closest known parasite relatives were a group of simple algae called dinoflagellates, often found living in coral. But, said Professor Carter, they were very distant relatives indeed. Comparing dinoflagellates with parasites was "like comparing us with ants". The new organism was much more closely related and appeared to be the long sought "missing link" between the two forms of life. It was discovered by one of Professor Carter's former students, Bob Moore, while exploring Sydney Harbour for algae living in coral. Only when then the organism was studied by the team of Australian, US and Czech scientists was it realised that it bridged the evolutionary gap. Their findings have been published in Nature. Professor Carter said it was amazing that such an important discovery could be made in Sydney Harbour. She speculated that the first parasites may have evolved long ago from algae which grew inside marine animals. "At some stage [the algae] said: 'Let's stop making our own food. Let's take it from our host"'. As the organisms invaded the animal cells and evolved into parasites, they gradually lost their ability to convert sunlight into energy.

Glad you and your crew can make it Destiny...all added to the ever growing list. Cheers, Pete. Good on ya Stevo...You'ld think 240 can would be plenty, but with the list growing like weeds...more may be necessary. If members can bring some backups in their eskys...all should be sweet. This event is shaping up to be a bumper social..the weather looks terrific at this stage...let's hope the kingies play the game too. Thanks Stevo, Pete.

Some great posts and ideas in this thread and some good advice. A lot of posters have had their 2 cents worth. Let's leave it there and move on now. This thread is now closed. Cheers, Pete