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Our lines were untouched after about 9:00. Squishy boated 2 to save the team from a donut. She was asleep, woke up - caught a hairtail and went back to bed!

Good on you guys, I felt cold just watching you paddle past! Been quiet here for a few hours now. Fingers crossed for a midnight bite!

Just packed the boat, organised the plan of attack and leaving at first light. Poor boat was full of water from the rain

Have the messages been sent yet?I haven't recieved anything.

SGFC had a facebook post congratulating someone on their catch yesterday. The photo was a big YFT, don't know where it was caught though.

We had our first frost this morning. 3°C. Hopefully the forcast stays as nice as it looks now with sunshine predicted the whole weekend!

Forget what you do when you catch a fish, what do you do when you're appendages have turned blue from frostbite!

Leave one for me

You need to have fish around for it to look like that I used to think my cheap elite 4x was the same, then I actually drove over a school of fish and the screen came to life. I've played with a few settings to try and get it to perform better, what I basically found was that 'auto' is useless. I see more fish on 200khz than I do on chirp mode. I've got it set up like this now, it allows me to fish deep and shallow without playing with settings too much, I've got my screen split into 3. Top left: 80khz Top right: 200khz Bottom: Chirp I find this gives me the best results as I can usually see things on the 200 that chirp doesn't show and I can sort of look at the 3 and get a better indication of whats really going on instead of just assuming nothing is under the boat. Another trick I was told was to ramp the sensitivity up so you're just starting to get noise on the screen. Sure the picture isn't as pretty but you'll see fish light up a lot more

Looks fishy to me!

REALLY!? Thats crazy, would have been amazing to see. Did it swim like an eel?

A VSR will do this for you automatically. It's a relay that switches at preset voltages - so when it detects 11v it opens and then closes when it detects 14v for example. Basically this means you have a primary battery that's receiving the charge first, once it's at a charged state it switches to top up the secondary battery.

How can you tell? its all coated with a black resin

Good to see the cold snap has brought them in, the reports were scarce before this weekend!

Hi Norm! Look forward to saying hi again - feel free to call in for some hot water, we'll have the kettle going for you We're taking the little boat up with us as well, just wanted somewhere warm to sleep and somewhere to cook toast in the morning! Not looking forward to packing!

How nice are those ALPS rollers too

I've seen the Tiagra Ultra in the flesh - great looking rod! it has new ALPS rollers that are recessed into their frames. Which means you can run braid through them as they can't get jammed down the side. If I had some spare cash I'd grab one but the fiscally responsible person i'm in a relationship with told me no.

Forget the stubby coolers, order some mittens!!! You guys are preparing ridiculously early! I'll pack the boat the night before, leave half my gear at home and get blind drunk missing every hairtail strike. You guys are terrible at this fishing thing!

I spent $40 on a little freezer for the shed. It's got 3 bonito in it, one yakka and a few squid heads now. Saved me a fortune in bait!

We've been pulling in bonito off the heads at botany the last few weeks. Very late for Bonnies, but I won't complain

Theres been good kingfish at the peak.... thats about it really.

I've got the kodachi with a 5000fj stradic. I use it for absolutely everything now, you'll love your setup!

Goodluck out there, still hearing Marlin reports out wide! I think we've got a bit of time before tuna show up but I hope for your sake I'm wrong!

Not sure I believe that. Waters still not right for YFT and still no other reports around.

I'll be out Saturday and maybe Monday. Monday's swell is a bit so-so.