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ohhhh, yep, of course! sorry

still had to be a 30cm though? right? right?

hey mate, nice wall of text, bit hard on teh eyes to read it all! a few paragraphs won't hurt your cause at all! nice pictures though!!!

great work! so you are pulling them on the Penn Slammer reel? 560 or 760? thanks

in terms of a Fisheries Officers right to confiscate equipment - the legal Regulations, not any publication... I have emailed DPI for 100% clarification regarding 'possession' as it seems this term only appears in the guidelines, not the law...

not sure what 'legislation' you are referring to? the legislation i just posted, shows the words i got from fisheries is same as the regulations... it is the DPI website and DPI publications that are worded differently! indicating the story may have been relayed incorrectly! (and there was only ONE old man in the OP...)

OK, whilst I was satisfied with my response from fisheries, i kept digging (slow morning at work) this is the ACTUAL NSW regulation: clause 46: http://corrigan.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/fmr2010339/s46.html whole thing in PDF: http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/sessionalview/sessional/sr/2010-475.pdf so now the debate might be - what constitutes "USE"

that is weird, I just looked that stuff up, and found this: Defences for possession of fishing equipment in marine park sanctuary zones so yeah, the fisheries guys musta got that one wrong? or the 'story' got changed?

this concerned me greatly - so I just called fisheries, and the guy said unless it is rigged and ready to fish, it is not really considered as part of the possession count - only rigged gear is counted... he said you could have your pelagic gear, your SP gear and your handlines all on board, as long as only 4 were rigged, you are OK... he said commonsense prevailed... EDIT: beaten by bump73 yeah, sounds like your mates got done by a grumpy officer?

you can talk Mr salted pilchard!!!

bloody legend! that is EPIC! great stuff man (no need to stress abt the poddies now the gun bait is tailor!)

oh right, yeah - the tail looks heaps whiting - the head is hard to see from the picture...

Hi! did the 'seapike' look anything like this: nice flatty from the beach though!

that's a bloody big bass!!!

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries/recreational/saltwater/sw-species/poddy-mullet

bloody ripper mate! congrats on 89cm of jewie goodness! would have been an epic battle on such light gear!

nice EP, and a big bream! well done in this wind!

thnaks both, RIG: well we went out and the ezi-rig was tangled a few more times compared to my mates paternoster rigs, but there was pretty heavy shore dump sets every 1-2 minutes, so tangles were inevitable... next time i will try both 8-10in dropper line (sacrificial size, say 15lb?) from the ezi-rig and also a normal swivel based paternoster like SCOTTYB said... HOOKS: the hooks i used were Mustard 8/0 'big reds' and 8/0 'hoodlems' i liked the hoodlems as they are smaller and not offset, the tail stinger hook sat really nice in the skin of the yakkas we caught... SHOCK LEADER: so if i was casting a 3oz star sinker - the shock leader should be 30lbs? or do you count the sinker weight + the bait weight when determining shock leader size? ALBRIGHTS: and my albrights didnt fail this time either! no problems casting - but you can hear the knot hitting the guides... but regardless, i will try to persevere with leaning the slim beauty or FG - in the comfort of the lounge room! RESULTS: nothing was biting (totally nothing), so after 3 hours of watching beautiful sunrise we went back to our rail bridge spot and hooked into some 35+ breams!

from what ive read, burleying when 'jewie hunting' helps attract the smaller fish, and hence the predators follow... so i guess all i am saying is that you dont burley for jewies, you burley for their food source, and hence why sharks are an obvious outcome? plus i doubt sharks would be going for large jewies? so wont scare the jewfish away?? (all from what i have read) would love more info from actual 'jewie hunters'

or down at Gerroa? if Gerroa - off the northern rock platform - but forecast is for dangerous conditions over Easter!!!!

n00b with a 12ft Silstar and Penn 560L going to beach for early morning session, my first time with this gear on the beach and first time using live baits for big fish (maybe Jewies), main line on the Penn is 300yards of 20lb Fins PRT braid, attached via albright knot to yo-zuri 20lb fluorocarbon shock leader of about 15ft.. i will terminate the shock leader with ball bearing swivel and an 'ezi-rig' attached to a 3 or 4oz star or snapper sinker (depends on the swell action) from the swivel i will run abt 50cm of 50lb fluoro leader to a snelled pair of 8/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hooks (or size 5/0 depending on bait we catch) questions: is the 20lb main - 20lb shock - 50lb trace line ratings OK/too small? if i have had a few of my albrights fail, is there a more reliable knot to join the main braid to the shock leader? is the running ez-rig sinker the best option? or a paternoster maybe? is 50cm leader enough/too much? are the 8/0's too big for 15cm livies? (proble herring/yakka's) are the octopus hooks the best, or live bait circle hooks better? do lumo beads make any difference? where would they go? thanks for any feedback on this proposed rig & set-up!