Nicho

lWhat type of reel is it.? If shimano, then you need to use the little shims to get the right shape of line on the spool http://www.henry-gilbey.com/blog/is-the-wrong-winding-shape-one-of-the-causes-of-wind-knots

If you fishing that area, then Westhead is a good place to try in front of the pill boxes, sound around till you see a school on the sounder and then burley up there is genersally a mess of boats around here getting yakka's in the morning, so it wont be hard to miss. Good luck

yeah.. but did the song sound like daffy duck in the end????

dont try and catch the worm by squeezing yourr fingers quickly rather.. slowly..SLOWLY start to squuese them by the head (they think its the sand tightening around them and keep chewing at your hand bait), when you cant squeese no more (i.e your fingers are nearly snapping off) then lift them.. if you try "grabbing them" then you will miss them

Not adriatic.. i spent two days on his boat only to watch the deckie catch fish.. even when we had a chick on board, and hinted that he should pass the rod to her for some fun, he still didnt budge!!! there is another mob out there that were really good.. I'll see if i can dig up their name for you

Ahhhh nice.. I have the Boston 210 outrage with 130Hp on the back Will have to meet up when I fix her up (about two weeks away) and go for run outside

If you hear "Banjo's".. then paddle like there is no tommorrow!!!!!

Yeah.. I dont know what it is about Brisbane.. but they always seem to fight and hit you harder up there.. Where as a 4Kg fish up there in 60 metres of water will hold you near the bottom for the while.. the equilavalent down here is a bit more lethargic.. But when they get real big.. they fight like a king sometimes (big runs.. just the head shakes give them away) Tell me about it.. Ihad one last night.. Simple BBQ, with Lemon pepper seasoning, some chinese five spice some salid and a few cold beers. It just doesn't get any better in my book!!!! Yeah, we hada small Jeep get stuck and the waves were hitting him as we got to him.. poor bloke didn't realise that you had to deflate your tyres.. Lucky i had a long snatch strap so could get him out without getting wet.. but i recon a fair bit of salt would have gone through him!!!

Am going through the same thing harold.. Have also split my fuel tank and had to get one custom built in Darwin of all places!!! have only just received it after several months and it will be anoter 4 weeks till i get too fit it. Also had a gremlin in the electric's dept and blew out the powerboard... But at the end of the day.. Its worth it when you hit the throttle and it all works!!!

Hawkes Nest Beach 20/5/06 Been off the last few weeks doing some fishing before the next contract starts.. Ended up in Hawkes Nest beach to do some camping on the 20/5.. and found a nice looking gutter right in front of the lemontree beach access track. Well I stopped to have a look and got bogged didn't I.. so after running around for 30 minutes getting unstuck, I finally managed to throw in a beach worm and got hit by a Salmon on the first cast.. After fishing there for around an hour, we caught two Whiting, the one salmon, a little bream and fished out two other cars that were also getting stuck in the sand (made me feel a lot better knowing I wasnt the only idiot to get stuck in front of the access track!!!). Went home with the idea of hitting the beach after dark to chase a Jewie. Well after cooking the fish, and several beers later, we decided that the swags were the best place to be, and we would go for a fish first thing in the morning. Hit the swags and the heavens opened.. and I mean opened... So there we were, wet, cold and miserable.. when morning came all we could manage was to light a fire, get dry and head home (So much for the Jewies!!!) Brisbane 24/5/06 Headed up to Brisbane on the Monday and took a boat out on the Tuesday out about 10Km's out from the Stradbroke/Morton Bay Bar..the fishing was hard and by 2 O'clock we hadent hit anything noteworthly and then like a switch the fish just came on.. Over there we sound for fish in around 60 metres of water, plot the school and then drift through them.. which is a little different from how I fish for them over here. After 2:00 we were getting snapper on each drop with the majority being in the 4Kg range. By three we had caught our baglimit and released around 15 fish as well.. so we took off home. (all the fish were snapper) Brisbane 26/5/06 Went out again on the 26th, this time I got hit on the first drop, It wasnt a snapper but faught like a mongeral.. Ended up being a 4 foot bronze whaler shark, then I puttled in a 4Kg Amberjack.. After that it was a mixed bag of snapper and pearl pearch and one large but unlucky squid..we hit our baglimit on the first hour and tried to get an amberjack or kingie for no luck before heading home. I went up to Brisbane with 8Kg on luggage (carry on) and came home with 23Kg.. My fridge is looking good with a healthy population of snapper which is a good thing as I just found out that my boat wont be fixed for another 4 weeks (still mucking around with a cracked fuel tank... but I am a lot closer to having it all fixed now) I wish snapper fishing was that easy in Sydney!!! Nicho

That would have kept you on your toes!!! My theory is that is you touch it and then loose it.. its considered as "Catch and release" (well thats how i justify not crying myself to sleep every night!!!)

we used to get a barrel sinker, paint it white and put a treble on the end. Worked well for spinning Bonnies of the rocks, and was a lot cheaper than a bought lure.

Im Freelancing!!! but have just been told that a new contractg might start up in a few weeks time. ormally, I work in Business Development/sales for IT type companies.

and thats probably why hes called numbers!!!! Classic!!!

I recon putting them in an oven ruins them... Try cutlets on a BBq with a little lemon +Pepper Seasoning.. Gold!!!! (Oh and I bleed and gut them as soon as I catch them as well)