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If you want to fish the bay it's self, there is a good rock ledge ramp in Vincentia. Coming from Hyams beach go straight at the roundabout at the Vincentia shops. Take the left after you round the left hand bend. You won't miss it as it's a colder sack with views of the water. Saves all the 4knt stuff and is closer to Hyams beach. Just east of the ramp is a little point with a sand ramp. Heaps of squid in close there and the odd king has been taken there.

Thats hilarious, but I suspect your not joking. Welcome to the forum

25 minutes north, St Georges Basin. 1m flatties, 45cm Snapper and tailor to 6Kg are quiet common. Yes you did read right, 45cm snapper. Ian Phillips bagged 3 in 3 casts last week. Is a bloody big lake but one of the better estuary fisheries in the area.

I am a rate payer in the area and the issue has played out many times over the years. Not only Conjola but also Burrill & Tabourie lake. They state the issue with the sand being taken away is technically classified as mining. The flood management strategy you where referring to when the lake reaches the level where the council will open the lake gets around the mining issue as the sand is shifted aside. The only way to permanently keep the lake open is to build a break wall each side of the entrance and drege a channel as they have done in Narooma and Forster.

Nice mixed bag there. What sort of depth did you find them in?

Any style of cage trap with entry points will suffice. You could use witches hat style traps to cover more ground, but muddies will make a mess of them and you will have your work cut out trying to get them untangled

Big W use to sell fold up square traps for around $10 each

Let us know hiw the inspection goes

How much are they asking? That corrosion is pretty nasty. In my expience, the corrosion you can see generally is not the half of it. Although it would be impossible to conclude how much there is from a picture. I would suggest if u do want to procedd that you have the issue and the outboard and potentially steering inspected by a reputable marine place

If your not mechanically Savy, do the water test and a general check over. If your are happy I would make an offer subject to a mechanical inspection of your choosing. Whilst a seller may seem genuine, does not guarantee there is no issues with the boat. There may even be issues the current owner is unaware of. $100 or so bucks for an inspection may save you thousands of dollars if the boats a lemon

Are you referring to Green Island just of Cairns? If so from I am led to believe the island is swamped with Day trippers. Hinchinbrook island might warrant some research?

14.64v? Did you measure the voltage right after you removed the charger? A 12v battery will not hold that level of charge. 14.6v is a bulk absorption charge level. Are you running a multi stage charger with a 12.7v ish float charge or just a run of the mill unit?

Of the shelf tail lights these days are plug and play. Burnsy is correct in what he is saying, in the early days of LED becoming mainstream there was issues where they where not directly compatiable. I am no electrical engineer but From memory I recall my old man whio's an auto elec having to add in line resistors or similar to get LED indicators to function on motorbikes. Non of this will how ever be an issue for you.

I must admit I feel the same way. On a average a 35cm yellow fin bream is 10 years old

I agree with Dylan, Forster and surrounds would be a more desirable locations then Ulladulla, it is also marginally warmer. I like the central coast also but the traffic can be a downer.

Thanks Rayzor, Apparently the sticker was on there for months before he noticed it

Is there a easy way to determine male from female with these guys? Can any one confirm what species they are? We have always just called them Green Eye? One reasonably sized unit I caught a few weeks back was loaded with row. Gave the squid a miss for a few weeks to let them lay their eggs. This guy had neither row or millet.

I couldn't tell you, Some one may be able to chime in, but I was always under the impression that squid only live a relatively short life?

Found half a dozen squid in 20 minutes while my mate tested his new sounder. Hooked into this horse in about a meter of water. Gave me hell on my state of the art 20 year old Rex Hunt combo. Didn't have a measure with us but the esky is over a couple of feet in length. Second image is of my buddy getting his picture taken no doubt so he can claim it as his own on Face Book. Note the random sticker on the back of the boat

Spent about 25 years in Ulladulla. I also lived in Orange for 6 months and could not stand the weather there. In terms of Shopping and Hospitals, Ulladulla is still a small town. Having said that there is the upsides. For example, the hospital is smallish but you dont tend to wait as long as you may do so in a larger town. In terms of Crime and Drug issues, Ulladulla's really does not have much of a drug issue. As with most smaller coastal area's there is pot usage but as there is no night clubs or similar the harder drugs are a minority and in 25 years some thing I really have not seen much of in the area. Nowra and Batemans Bay suffers from drug issues. Rental is about what you would expect to pay in Orange, maybe a little less. Any time of the year execpt Summer you can get a park out the front of your favorite shop. In terms of shopping, I tend to only really need to travel out of town for electrical appliances or to go to &&*&*& or similar. Both of which can be had at Batemans Bay (30 mins ) or Nowra ( 50 minutes ). There really is no bad area of town as such, There is more so a few houses in a street where you would rather no live. Ulladulla does not have a slum area as such similar to what Orange has behind Sams Warehouse there. A few towns that i would recommend you dont settle if you look around include: - Batemans Bay, population seems to be high in riff raff in comparision to Ulladulla, difficult to get around. - Sanctuary Point, has a few nice parts but is largely similar to Oranges housing commission - Nowra, Hard to navigate, populated heavily with poor characters

Earl, if your keen to go on a school night and you are happy to drive 15 - 20 mins North of Bbay I would be happy to go prawning with you

If you where to patch a new set of lights into the existing harness, Use a decent length of heat shrink to prevent water ingress. If you do run a new harness, take the extra time to run the harness through the trailer chassis. I use a strip of yellow tongue out of a sheet of flooring. Another option is to just pull the new harness through as you pull the old one out.

Whilst you will get some prawns with your headlamp, you will struggle to make the drive worth your while. Most of the light tends to reflect of the surface of the water and if there is the slightest ripple on the water you will not see a thing. You need an underwater light and a bright one at that. You can buy a 12V 50W hallogen light prefabed up in a stick of conduit for $20 from Kay - Mart or Big Dubb. Problem is these consume a fair bit of power ( At 4.2 Amps ). As such you need a decent battery to have enough power on hand to allow you at least 4 hours to make that drive worth your while. There is 3 common ways to chase prawns: - From a boat on a run out tide - In a estuary channel on a run out tide - Circulating around the knee to waist high water From a Boat: A good method if you don't want to get your feet wet and allows you to chase prawns in deeper water. Saves you dragging around a battery and a bucket to keep your catch in Estuary Channel Probably the easiest and best method. Head down to the entrance of an estuary wade out into kneeish depth water and simply wait for the prawns to come to you. Chase the prawns around the flats Some lakes for some reason tend to be more successful using this method EG Burrill Lake. Show up at some flats usually towards the mouth of an estuary and circulate around scooping up prawns The problem with having such a big battery is that it's very heavy to carry and as such you don't want to carry it hundreds of meters from the road to the water. Ideally you would park close by the water. Once you have your battery at the water, you need it to float behind you. There is a few common methods to do this. A body board, Foam green grocers box with no holes in in, an inner tube with a wood or similar to hold the battery & some build a rectangular pontoon from 90 or 100mm PVC pipe. If this is starting to sound to hard or a pain in the arse, your right it is. Over the years I have tried the foam box (Worked well but far from ideal) Small car battery in a back pack (Herts the hell out of your back). I have been researching ways to make this years prawning easier. I started looking into LED prawning lights. Most seem to be powered by 3 AA batteries and cost around $60ish. Reading a few reviews, the common verdict seems to be that the the light given of is not that great. The Yanks are right into under water LED lighting for what they term Flounder Gigging. They have some great stuff but your talking hundreds of dollars. Looking at some of the yank stuff I figured I could make my own far cheaper. Surfing the net for underwater LED lighting bought about a few options but again the pricing out of this world. I wasnt prepared to end the search there and took to flebay looking at what China had to offer. The site was loaded with suppliers advertising LED lighting as waterproof. I contacted a few sellers to find out the IP rating of their products. It seems they all get their stuff from one supplier and most of the sellers where selling the same thing but described the same lighting as having differing IP ratings. Thinking about it for a while I decided on an alloy bodied LED flood light. The unit was 10W (less then 1A) and 12v. The unit looked to be constructed from 3 pieces of Alloy and was screwed together. For $10 i figured it was worth the risk and bought it. Took 3 weeks to arrive. When it arrived I was amazed to find it had O rings fitted to each joint. Given I will not need to pull the light apart in the future I opted to run a bead of Hi temp waterproof silicon between each join and assembled it back together. Mounted the light on the end of some Conduit, Bent up a handle and ran the wires through the conduit and sealed the ends. Purchased a 7.5 AH deep cycle battery from the same sight for a little over $20. Battery weighs 2.5 kgs and can easily be carried in a small back pack. The light is bright as hell and has cost me about $40 all up include the purchase of a battery. Look out prawns.. Whilst all lakes contain your small estuary prawns, only a few house another variety ( No idea what they are called but they have a colored tail and grown a lot bigger caught them upto 15cm long). When I go prawning these are the guys i tend to look out for, Hope this gives you a bit of an idea...?

Yes, thats your issue. My 70HP Johnson did the same after I changed the water pump out. My issue cam about because I spun the shift rod a round a few times when I had the leg out not realising the rod was threaded thus shortening it. Found the issue after i put it all back together. i had enough adjustment in the shift cables to fix the issue. 50 50 shot as to if you need to tighten or slacken the cable to fix the issue. Just make a small adjustment untill you eliminate the clicking in neutral. Be sure to check prop engagement in forward and reverse before you call it job done.

Chuck one of those $1.50 surf poppers on your rig as well as running your baits