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New Alvey 650C5 and 9kg IGFA line to match! Plus new Okuma spinning reel and graphite rod for chucking around SP's, and some ca$h for my charter early next year for Kingis and Dollies out of Port Kembla OH!..n and a new subscription to Fishing World magazine- WOO-HOO!!!

Thats insane... Great catch of Kingies mate

Cheers Scotty, thats good advice. Just what I was looking for was something that comes in a 1km spool size and not just a single 300m or 500m spool. Thx mate, appreciate it!

Hey Mate, I reckon you can look at the following rods: 1. Wilson Live Fibre in a 10-12' and 8-12kg 2. Silstar Crystal Powertip 10-12' in a 8-12g or a 10-15kg 3. Shakespear Ugly Stik 10-12' in a 5-8kg, 8-12kg or even a 10-15kg. You want something with a medium taper and plenty of bottom end grunt, get one with an integrated tip (Ugly Stik and Silstar are both integrated tips). I got also a Shimano Beast Master 5-8kg and it rocks off the stones and beaches, and I also use it live baiting for Jewies off the wharves locally on Parra and Lane Cove Rivers- has never let me down great rod but I still prefer my Silstar and Ugly Stiks any day but they are all overhead rods not intended for spinning with eggbeaters FYI- Make sure the reel mount isnt too high and mayeb take the reel you ant to use and fit it to a few rods to try them out for balance. Good luck!

Ladies and Gents, my Mum has bought me a new Alvey 650C5 for X-Mas and I am wanting to know what is a good mono line to put onto it I will be using it from the stones chasing Kingies, Drummer, Sambo's and Trevs, aswell as chasing Jewies and Taylor from the sand. It will also be used as a long range live baiting reel for fishing in the rivers and off my local wharves on the Parra and Lane Cove Rivers. Am looking at 20-30lb mono and has to be a 600+ spool Anyone got any suggestions for which line I should be using??? NOTE- I use platypus and Daiwa Sealine on my spin and Overheads but am thinking I need to get a minimum 600m spool to fill her up and these just dont come in 600m spools that I have been able to find. Assistance apprecaited muchly.

I know where I'd rather be ... I got an Xmas party tonight and again Friday night for my fisho buddies, + its my work Xmas party same night... Decided am going to hang with my buddies and talk fishing instead of going on a harbour cruise wishin I could lob my TLD25 with a live squid out the back for a slow troll, lol roflroflrofl

Thats Gold Roberta! All my favourite Xmas days were all from whe I was a kid staying up @ Harrington. The day started with brekkie and a few tunes on the CD player, while opening pressies. Get lunch packed ready and head to the beach (armed with worming pliers for beach worms, spade for pippies, + my trusty surfboard and my Dad's old 14' beach rod and Alvey Sidecast reel). Get to the beach, unpack lunch and head out for a surf. After surfing for an hour or so crack open a beer and eat lunch, then go and harrass the Beach Inspector (who we were friends with for many years and still to this day stil contact). After lunch scout around for some Beach Worms, then lazily thread them onto the hook and cast out to past the breakers. Wait until just before dark then go home and have a BBQ made of fish caught that day, fresh prawns from the Co-Op @ Crowdy Head and fresh shcked Oysters from the Manning River). Head down the Harrington Pub for more beers and socialize with the locals who we all knew also. Have more beer upon return and Bob's your uncle Thses days its more like this: Get up and make kids brekkie, start cracking open beer after brekkie Go for a dip in my In-Law's pool, then get out th seafood for lunch (Oysters, Prawns) Get the rest of lunch ready (Ham, rolls, salads) Get dips ready and crack into them with crackers. Have more beer, then open pressies after lunch Make a few phone calls to other family members and then go for another dip in the pool Get dinner ready for BBQ and any left overs from lunch Then if not too hammered go and dangle a line @ my local spot in Gladesville until midnight-ish go home and drink more beer than pass out. I hope this year I can go to the beach for the first time in 20 years on Xmas Day Hope you all enjoy your Xmas festivitie- thinking of festivities I have my works Xmas party on tonight, then another Xmas party with my Fisho mates Friday night. Going to be a cracking summer of food, fishing and beer (and working lol)

Awesome report Billy Nice freakin boat to... love that ride! Nothin like getting into a few nice fishies is there...

YUMMY Whiting Keflapod! Great score on them mate, shame about the Snaps being undersized, lol Still a great day out all the same

Hey Mate, I am interested in coming along with you at some time. Got own gear and willing to split costs, am pretty good with a net and dont get sick at all. Am free one day every weekend and occasionally through the week but I have small kids so cannot afford to go every week- but willing to come every month or so if you want a regular deckie/company. You can contact me on 0430 360 863 Cheers

Now thats a feed mate WOW!- Thats a Kidney Slapper! Great catch budd

OH! WAY too much fun kingies on the troll and jigging. BUT- I still reckon we shoulda gone the Flattie Grounds, one guy running another charter bagged 60 in under 3 hours then went home, lol But hey, got to blood the TLD for the first time, got a stonker Morwong (42cm) and had a ball doing so. We should book pretty soon if you wanna go either mid-week, but am organising another charter for the first weekend in Feb for my B'Day out off Shoalhaven Heads. Chat soon mate- thx for the replies lads, much appreciated

Finally the piccies... enjoy ladies and gents And the last few...

Mission Accomplished! Me and my mates went on a charter today off Port Kembla. Fished a few reefs bottom bashing and got a nice mixed back of Mowies, Pigfish, Wrasse and sweep, aswell as the unfavourable Bakers (one of them was freakin HUGE!) and one Chinaman Leatherjacket. The biggest Mowie went 42cm and the other one went about 35cm. Didnt measure the pigfish but we got 4 in total, think we boated 6 or more sweep but only kept 2, Zac got a nice Wrasse. It was pretty tough going for the first few reefs until we went deeper out to 100m+ that we started geting into slightly better and more regular fish. After about lunchtime we trolled around the islands and we trolled up some rats, at one stage we had a trriple hookup on them ranging from 55-60cm. We found a patch of them and jigged a few times. Ed got a nice Bonnie on a christmas tree and after I swapped over to one myself I never went back to HB's ... lol Eddie got the only keeper Kingie jigging (65 on the nose ...), Zac got into a couple, I got 3 on the new TLD25. Had some fun jigging and trolling Rats. Went back to the ramp @ 1:30pm and cleaned the fish. Realized I left scaler and knife @ home so had to share a knife to scale and gut the catch In all we took home 20+ fish and threw a few back in the drink, and used some as fresh slabs. Sorry lads laptop @ work no piccies yet, will post Monday morning I promise.

WTF! Thats a mini sub! What a horse!

Hi All, Wondering what other Raiders plans are for the weekend? Me ... Off on a charter on the reefs near Port Kembla with a few mates. We wil be targeting Red's, Kingies and any other reefie willing to take slab of fresh yakka and slimey or even a livie. Will post a report when I get home Lets hope the fish gods are good to all of us (6 in total) ...

Nath, high tide was at 7:30 last night, so I am guessing you got him in the first coupla hours of the run out. It was a big High tide for full moon phase @ 1.35m. Still a great catch all the same not discounting your effort, just correcting the tide thats all mate. Its hard to tell tide sometimes as in some locations the eddie give a "false guage" on what the current is doing, there is a spot I fish and on the run in the current runs the other direction due to the amount of structure in the area, its an easy mistake to make. We will have to hook up hit Avoca with Ray and Pete over Xmas and NY I am planning a few overnighters when am not working- I'll PM you date and time when I have decided on tides and moon phase we want to be in good stead to nail and Beach Jewie. Chat soon mate

Mate you wanted one for AGES, now you got your first. STOKED all round for you nathan Once you get them 3kg+ you want them all the time, so addictive fishing for Jewies, and so rewarding when you catch your own bait then capitalize on it with a nice Jewie ... Bet he tasted great!

Great to hear the Pigs are still makin a showing up around Norah. Can be a very dangerous place, grew up on Central Coast and my Dad used to fish Norah Head for Jewies, Red's and Taylor Can be a great place when it fires, today sounds like it was one of those days

Mate thats a great read! Kinda reminiscent of some times past for me where I have lost good jewies to structure. BIG ones will try anything to ping you, lol next time you will know when to turn them, and thats all part of the learning curve. Am so looking forwards to the next isntallment with you holding the 10kg+ model that dusted you.

I had some left overs for lunch today, just plain on a roll with the ol Ranch and gee it was great- even better next day of you reheat them in the microwave (just dont let them go rubbery) ... thats what inspired me to write up the recipe. Guess you could use any herbs you like: Basil Chilli Oregano Spring Onion the possibilities are endless. Get out there an experiment with em, they go down a treat! The only requirement is a nice cold ale (such as a Coopers or even better a Wahoo) Mmmmmm......

Great thinkin Roberta, I got 2 kiddies both are under 3 and both LOVE Bananas Sounds like a small slice of heaven if you ask me, and as I dont eat eneough fruit Im going to try and get into them myself- I reckon they would be good for on charters aswell if they are kept nice and cool with dry ice I presume... Might give the Mango a wizz too, thanks for the tips.

Great Rat matey- I remember mine on a charter- somehow I nailed 5 in a day, 3 came in from trolling, the better ones (still rats and undersized) were trolled up on metal slices. 2 Others came in bottom bashing with pillie chunks. Gee they put up a fight even for 60-63cm ... (just 2cm short I was, lol) Fantastic report I will be off Port Kembla this weekend on a charter- I sure hope there are some of his big brothers on the reefs aswell as some nice big Red's

Silstar and Wilson make great composite rods with quality Fuji guides. I got a Slstar Crystal Powertip 10' in the 10-15kg range and its a great rod for Beach and Rock applications, I have it coupled with an ABU7000C3 Overhead reel and 20lb Platypus Pre-test Mono. Have used same rod with Penn 285s Overheads and also with ABU Seascape 30 Overhead and no problems with any of them, can cast a mile and further than most guys using spin sticks. My Alvey on the other hand outcasts all other rods and reels every tie hands down! Good luck with the purchase mate

Ladies and Gents, I made my first batch of fish cakes on the weekend and I wanted to share the recipe with you all, so here goes: Ingredients: 1 whole large fish 3 potatoes a few spigs of Rosemary 2 Shallots Bread Rolls Ranch Dressing Lemon wedges Green Salad Method: 1. Grab your favourite fish (I used a Sambo that needed to be cooked) 2. Fillet and debone the fish 3. Cut out the blood line 4. chuck the fish into a mincer and make into a paste 5. Chuck in 2 or 3 large potatoes in the microwave oven for 5mins until they are cooked 6. Mash up the Potoatoes 7. Grab some sprigs of Rosemary and 2 fresh shallots (chopped) 8. Bung everything into a bowl and mix in well together 9. Ball up the mix to make up 4 or 6 patties 10. drop in some flour 11. Shallow fry until golder brown and fish is cooked in middle Serving: Split the Bread rolls down the centre Place a single fish cake top with Ranch Dressing and the juice from a lemon wedge Add Salad as desired EAT! YUMMO!- sorry dont have any piccies of the result but its FANTASTIC!!!!!