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It will work but like the 16p the question is how well? As a rule of thumb each increase in pitch raises your top end speed about 6% and because it’s a more aggressive pitch it will reduce the wot rpm (motor working harder). But it lowers your hole shot performance. The 16p would have a lot of push at hole shot rpm (was the boat set up that way coz it carried a lot of load) so moving to 19p you’d lose some of that. Ask your mechanic for his opinion on the 19p it all depends on what problem you are trying to solve. PM me if you want to discuss over phone cheers Zoran

I was about to suggest exact same. Especially if the problem only surfaced after you worked on the impeller. cheers Zoran

Thanks Sam. Conditions were great. Motor is now well run in. First service 20hrs on Tuesday. Reo bar sinkers are a necessity when the sash weights dry up 👍. cheers Z

Hahaha that would be grand but I just implemented the 2m 40lb sinker breakaway trace so I don’t lose the rigs if we snag bottom ... we’d be fighting the mako or bill on 40lb mono 🤣🤣🤣 cheers Z

Search for casting a center pin reel. cheers Zoran

They are a lot of fun and capture absolutely fantastic footage. BUT get ready to update your home IT setup and burn lots of your time - they use up heaps of storage and you’ll find yourself going thru hours of video (unable to delete any coz you might want it one day 😬). Typical day fishing Clips = 22gb storage. Typical skiing trip 150-200gb of footage. That’s hours of video to go through and heaps to backup and store. It becomes a world onto itself. But lots Of fun. cheers Zoran ps - maybe I just have to get more disciplined with what I keep 🤔

Top stuff Yowie. Another great feed. cheers Zoran

Thanks @Yowie, yup Dieter and I were pestered by makos last trip - maybe it’s them again. If so we have just stumbled on a cheap but effective mako lure ! cheers Zoran

Trust me its more ingenious and much less effort to have a FR mate like Dieter who can keep you in supply of sash weights ! The alternative requires a full time operation: Procurement, Manufacturing (cutting, welding), Finishing (painting), Storage and Distribution... Cheers Z

Hmmm barracoota could be a possibility, but why would they be interested in a 30cm black steel rod descending at free spool speed 2-3m below the squid/pillie/lumo jigs? I'm perplexed. Two of these were taken on the way down --- @61 crusher and I had the same experience last time around, but from memory they were on the retrieve, which was slower and with the wave action may impart a jigging like action... Cheers Z

Hi KC, coming out of Port Jackson Brown's is 40km SE, and you travel almost directly over 12mile. So I do often stop around 12mile to see if I can sound some bait balls or other activity. To return via Peak it would add 20-25km to the trip. It's on the cards one day but I just have not done it as yet. Cheers Z

Guys... as much as I like this debate it is somewhat removed from @DerekD's OP. ... perhaps start a separate topic in the bar about Oz's immigration policy and the repercussions ... Derek's topic at least had something to do with Fishing and belonged in a fishing chat. Derek, I'm sure there are several if not many FR's who share your problem and I know that you said you are"..,over it and give up" . But where these is a problem there is opportunity. FR is a collection of like minded people. Is there a way that the FR community can form an FR group (by location or suburb) that can negotiate a better storage deal, or collectively (say 3-4FR's) hire a yard or something where they share costs and facilities that would solve their problem. After all we are like minded ... just putting it out there. Cheers Zoran

Hey Raiders, a quick short report. The Sydney rains subsided (finally) and the offshore conditions calmed - Wayno and I had a free Thursday so Browns it was. We hit Ermo boat ramp around 630am (no Mr Asia - guess it was too warm for him at 8C), and were well on our way by 7am. Conditions through the Harbour and offshore were spectacularly smooth - once at the heads a 40min 55kmh trip to Browns - my fastest in memory. At Browns found the water Temp 18C, and surprisingly the drift was W-E at 1.8-2.0kmh. Quite a few boats there and more to arrive through the morning. We ran the 15HP Aux in slow reverse and held spot at our chosen mark - usual bait, squid, salted pillies. I also added a glow stick shoved into the body of the lumo plastic squids. Here's a few pictures: By 1030am the count was 3 - Wayno, 0 - Zoran-oh ohhh ! But the gods shined on me and I managed to pull up the horse of the day - to take the total count to 4. We ended the day at 1130am, bagged out - so raced back to Sydney heads for a flattie drift which produced zero. Sinker tally - 5 donated to the deep - two taken on the way down - sharp tug tug and then no weight - all bait coming up intact - what takes a 2kg steel sinker on the way down at around 200-300m ???? One sinker lost with the horse tangling both lines and cutting off the braid on one. Cheers Zoran

Yes, caught them before and around the size in the photo they are very good eating .. the only problem with eating them is they do have a high mercury content and the weekly recommended limit for me (about 70kg) is only 150-175g .... so eat in moderation. AND...... the way they were making short work of the hooked fish and the fin we saw around the boat implied they were a "tad" bigger ... Cheers Zoran

Hey Donna. Absolutely no need to apologize! The site is fantastic. I’ll bite my tongue regarding how I feel about hackers. I found that if I look at my profile and search for My posts it shows a subset. However if I play with the search filters and invert the search to show oldest post first many old posts show up that did not show up previously. I suspect the missing posts may still be there but the metadata associated with that post and used by the search engine may have been corrupted. This would also explain why Google finds some FR posts that our search engine doesn’t- google may have cached a previous search and has a direct link to the post. Anyway I’m sure a more IT literate person could make more sense of it. Perhaps there is a way to rescan/rebuild the metadata. cheers Zoran

Suggest you PM @antonywardle ... from memory he had a few welds done recently. Cheers Zoran

For some reason i have found slimies hard to find consistently (maybe it’s the weight !!!!) - but honestly lately I have not been live bait fishing much lately. It’s been pretty much flatties or deep dropping for me. Not sure why really 🤔. cheers Zoran

@blaxland I’m 100% with @King chaser on his interpretation. When using the 6hook set up I do not put bait on any hooks - but I have found a dab of SP attractant on a few of the jigs improves the bite rate. cheers Zoran

Like others posted above I find a heavy sinker helps with reducing tangles in the sabiki jigs when you get 2-3 or more fish hooked up. If I’m not using sabiki jigs then I do as you describe - little if any weight. cheers Zoran

I have seen a landbased fisherman using 6hook sabiki rigs - he was fishing in the Sumida River Hakozaki Tokyo. However, he used a sabiki purpose build rod of about 12ft length - these rods have no guides - the are like a fibreglass tube and the sabiki jig slides inside. The line emerges from the tube near the baitcaster reel. He was casting a good distance with this set up. Since seeing that, I have gone the whole hog and invested in two sabiki bait rods. I tie a snap swivel at the bottom of the 6 hook sabiki rigs. The snap swivel clips onto a plastic ring - I then wind the whole 6hook jig into the rod (up to the plastic ring) for storage and transport. when fishing we attach a sinker to the snap swivel and drop over the side. It has solved my tangle issues. Agree with the use of a heavy sinker !!!! Cheers Zoran

Hi Duncan, Yup I had trouble finding my old stuff as well - seems the search engines find stuff before 2014 and after 2019... but if I narrow a search then I can locate stuff from 2017, 18 etc. Strange. Anyway... here are links with a bunch of references to different offshore flattie set ups that I use: The sinker jig: I'll summarise my "drift and drop" technique again because I could not locate the original post. Bluespot flathead prefer a sandy bottom, but like any bottom dwelling predator they like some structure - so I look for depth contour lines that are close together signifying a drop off - Flathead are also carnivores and like other fish are opportunistic feeders - they do not like to expend unnecessary energy - so they'll be lurking on the deeper side of the drop off waiting for prey to swim/drift over them. I usually mark a few spots that meet that criteria at various depths (30-40-50-60m) - because they do tend to move up and down at different times of year - not sure what makes them do this !! We then drift across these locations as drifting helps you cover more ground. One of my theories is that because flathead are carnivores, they tend to hang around in schools of roughly the same size fish - it prevents them getting eaten by their mate. So when we come across consistent hits from the pickers we keep drifting (or motor until we are another 10m deeper). We drift until we start catching the bigger models. At this point I drop the anchor - swinging on the anchor rode usually lets us pick up the bigger models that have schooled together in that gully or drop off - if the bite slows its quite easy to let out another 10-20-30m of rode and repeat. Once the bite is dead, we lift anchor 3-4m and start the drift again until we hit the bigger models. So "drift and drop". This technique evolved once I installed an anchor drum winch - prior to that I would not have considered it practical anchoring in waters 40-70m deep. But experience has shown there is a down side to this technique. Once anchored you are an easy mark for schooling jackets. So if jackets are prevalent, the only alternative is to up anchor and drift with heavier weights hoping the drift is fast enough that the jackets can't be bothered chasing your bait. Regarding rigs, we tend to use a 2 hook paternoster rig and often change sinkers to make sure we have just enough to hit bottom - 4oz when anchored. Keep the rig moving and bouncing on the bottom. We have standardised on a 10cm SP on the top hook, bait on the middle and a bottom bouncing jig at the sinker. Here's a report where it all comes together: Hope that helps. Cheers Zoran

You have a lot of boat structure under the hull, and the prop is set back from the stern - just bear in mind these structures and any turbulence created by the prop will affect your sonar operation. Ideally you want a location that has smooth (laminar) water flow so be prepared to test spots further toward the bow. Alternatively, I see two planing planks (fixed trim tabs) at the stern. They may well be good locations to mount your transducer. Cheers Zoran

Great to hear she can pursue her career and her fav hobby. Awesome. Pays to stay positive!!! cheers Zoran

Hi @Blade I will describe how I understood my 200efi to work (as that's where I have direct experience), you can cross reference with the service manual for your motor. Look in the Fuel/Oil injection section of the manual there should be a verbal description of the oil injection system design/operation. On the 200, the oil injection pump was driven by a gear shaft running off the motor crank case. So if the motor was spinning, the oil pump was pumping as long as the oil gear shaft was intact or the gears were not stripped. The oil pump was crank case driven not electric motor driven. So assuming the gear and shaft were intact the only time you would not have oil flow when the motor was running would be if the oil tank was empty of oil - hence the empty tank oil sensor. Even if the tube exiting the oil pump broke, the oil tank would be quickly emptied and you'd have the alarm go off. I agree with what @noelm said about reliability of the system. My system was very reliable over the 21 years I had my Merc. The 200 merc had an external 10L oil reservoir, feeding the smaller oil tank situated on top of the motor. The only problem I ever had with the oil system was when the cap for the oil tank on top of the motor cracked and was no longer air tight. The "system" recognised this as a low oil indicator in the top tank and continued to pump oil from the external reservoir. I had oil everywhere. It looked like a major issue but a new top cap solved it. The root cause was most probably an inexperienced me over-tightening the cap because I read somewhere that it had to be kept air-tight !!!!!!!! Also I'm also pretty sure if the system detects a NO oil situation the motor goes into a limp mode preventing you going above certain RPM. Again check your manual - I no longer have mine. Again I agree with what @noelm said. I'd also add, that if you eventually figure out how to place an inline flow sensor between the pump and the motor, you are also adding another failure point. Most of the flow sensors have some type of impeller mechanism, if that jammed or failed, it could restrict oil flow (below the calibrated rate of the pump) and you would probably do more damage to the engine as you'd be running for a much longer period of time with lower oil content then you would if it went into limp mode. Just my thoughts on the topic. Cheers Zoran.

There is certainly a lot of interest and it has been discussed. Contact Donna @mrsswordfisherman Thanks and Cheers Zoran