Jocler

Scratchies article here my be of help to you: http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=75391 J

You could always make up a 4 wheeled trolley, something similar to a furniture removalist dolly using pneumatic tyres. Have to be pretty heavy though to counteract the tyres buoyancy. J

The finished product looks good. We will keep quiet about the journey but can see myself doing something similar. J

So today, we got out on the water. Did some fishing along Silver Beach, then went over to the hot water outlet off the oil wharf but the squid and small reddies kept stealing the bait and I didn't have a squid jig on me. Went over to Moll Point but it was packed so did some drifts in Yarra Bay. I was watching a guy in a kayak and as he came past I asked him how he was going, he answered that the water was still to cold so I headed over near Towra Point and the water was 21.6 so started drifting there. Picked up some flathead and then caught a huge Flatty. All on prawns I might add and mostly coming from drifting about 20 metres inside the yellow bouy marked "High Voltage" on the eastern side or Towra Quickly took a pic and returned her to the water. My brag mat was somehow with my squid jigs so not sure on length but she filled my environet. J

I got back to the ramp today to a bit of mayhem. The SES guys had rolled their boat not far from the ramp at Bonna Point and were being helped out by maritime rescue who towed it to the ramp. That Noreaster played havoc. After waiting about an hour to use the ramp, I went up to get my car which was surrounded by police. When I got in, they said "well that isn't the vehicle then" and proceeded to another car. They later told me they were looking for the car and trailer belonging to the guys that hit the rocks. After seeing the boat on the news, I am pretty sure it launched just before me. We were all just heading out for a days fishing. J

Botany Bay seems to always have blue swimmers around. Try the weedbeds around Towra and off the groynes at Kurnell. Best times though are summer. J

If you give that to your missus, you might find you wake to the sound of an electric pump and hard to breathe. J

Hank, Definitely in when you are feeling up to it. J

Yep well done youngster. Karma grant you tight lines. J

Paikea, Even a bad days fishing is better than a day at work. Not good you missed out on the fish but I am betting a great time was had by all. J

Darwin would also be my choice as well. J

I have a Bigland VS5500. I bought it off ebay. It uses rolls or bags but I prefer rolls simply because you are not limited by size then, the bag can be as long as you like. I make a lot of bacons and hams as a hobby and this unit was a cheapy and hasn't given me an ounce of trouble. It is a rebadged Luvelo unit. J

Best bet is in the weed beds straight in front of the groynes along the beach front. Put them in out of casting range and keep your eyes on them if you can. They tend to get raided on the weekends. J

Steve, I enjoyed the read. Well done for even doing it all, especially by yourself. J

I went up to the Bonna Point ramp on Sunday morning. I took along a couple of old chunky but unused life vests that came with the boat. I swapped them out for the new auto inflating 150 type of life vest at $60.00 each. These will just become extras on the boat and take up a lot less room but well worth the money. J

Just a couple of points "A licence be required to operate any powered registered vessel, rather than any powered vessel operated at 10 knots or more as is now the case. Registration is required for vessels with an engine of 4kW or more and 5.5m or more in length" This basically means that even your deckie, driving the boat off the trailer, now needs a license under this scheme. Also, the people that hire out houseboats or cruisers, now need a license. Surely that is going to affect their businesses fairly substantially. If your boat license is combined with your road license, if you lose your license at any time does this mean you lose both licenses. Also does this infer common laws across the states for both boating and road licensing? J

There is a real problem of mange in wild wombats. There are places on the web you can report the wombat and they will go out, catch it and treat it. The problem is not many people report them so it continues to spread through the wild population. J

Welcome Angela, As a newcomer myself, the forum offers much to the fishing addicted with a great bunch of people. On another note, what breed of chicken do you keep? J

The best solution is to invite her/them along. I am actually lucky, she has always enjoyed fishing, I make sure she is fully involved, if she makes the choice to not come along then that decision is hers and I have to find someone else to go with. It is usually her though that checks out the weather and tides and lets me know when it is a good time to go out.....hell she will even drive over to pick up the bait whilst I get the boat ready.....hang on....maybe she is trying to get rid of me! I have learnt over the years, if you make it sound like you will be disappointed if she doesn't come along....extra bonus points and usually a promise of "maybe next time" J

You really do have to wonder about people sometimes. What sort of joy would they get out of doing something like that? J

Just beautiful J

Strangely enough, I do carry a medical kit on board the boat but never thought of it for fish type accidents. I put it there to cope with things like flying hooks/lures or any sort of boating injury that we may come across. J

Cream, No, the stink pipes entrance is at the end of Sir Joseph Banks Drive. Half way down that road at the end of the chain wire fence of the refinery there is a track off to the left, you can either walk along that fence line and you will hit Tabbigai or you can park at the whale watching area in the National Park and walk south along the cliff face to the same place. There used to be houses built into the cliff face on the right hand side of the ravine and you can see the ruins. At the bottom of the ravine is some large triangular blocks, I was always told that they were tank/landing barge traps Interesting side note: If you stop at the end of Sir Joseph Banks Drive and walk up the hill in front of you, there is a WWII gun emplacement in amongst the dunes or what is left of it. J

So Dave, what are the chances of a copy of the suck up letter? J PS Nice fishing by both of you.

Please count me in J