Toilor

Great report there BilI. Let me know if you ever need crew, any day is fine.

If anyone out there has a spare Berkley 3B Diving Dog in their collection and is willing to part with it pls message me. Happy to pay or swap. Really looking for the BITZA coloured pattern but will take anything to complete my collection. For some reason I borrowed the one in the photo from my own collection but an undersized Tailor took it from me.......devastated!!!

I've heard that the red rock cod is a relative of the stone fish and if he gets you properly it is very painful and you are not likely to enjoy the rest of your days fishing! They can lie in wait for a fair few hours then flick just as you go to clean them but well worth the effort imo

Took the rod in to the tackle shop and tried all the above reels and found the saltist balanced the best, combined with a great price incl line and a few lures couldn't resist. 1st trip was a bit of a disaster with a 10cm yakka jagged on a 40 grm knight but the reel cast well and retrieved smoothly. Did notice that on flipping the bail after cast, line tended to lay over the spool occasionally so I'll have to check that each cast or potentially have a loop cause a knot.

Cheers gentlemen for your replies. Thinking I'll take the rod into the local tackle shop and whack a bioM and gosa on and see which one balances best. I'd like to try a Salina or Cedros but no Tackle shops seem to stock them which is a bit disappointing.

After 15 years of using Tss4's on 4 wrap Wilson rods I have decided to enter the 21st century and move to braid. I will be fishing 4 to 6 inch plastics, stickbaits and 40 to 65 grm metals on 30lb braid. I need a reel with a fast retrieve that can handle life on the rocks, under $400. I fish at least a couple of times a week so it will cop a fair flogging but I do look after my gear. I've purchased the Lox iridium 12210 rated 6 to 10 kg with casting weight of 60 to 100grm. Really keen to hear what fishos are using and recommending. Thank you in advance, Toilor.

Cheers guys great Id. The pic on the national museum site is a fish in a cormorants beak that doesn't look much like this little guy but searching Heteroclinus roseus much better pics and positive Id imo

Daughter caught this fella on chicken in amongst rock and kelp. Not the best pics I know but I didn't handle him at all so perfect release. Thanks in advance, Toilor

Onto my 5th spool of 4kg gliss in 2 years. I use it on 2 setups with 6lb or 9lb fluro leader via fg knot which has rarely failed. Using mainly soft plastics and un/lightly weighted baits gliss has braid-like lack of stretch so you feel every bump and it floats well which is handy. It feels like i can cast 30 percent further with gliss which I reckon has definitely improved my results. I've caught a fair few rainbow trout, bream, blackfish, trevally, snapper and flathead in rough terrain and lost a few but never one of those devastating unexplained mysterious line partings on good fish. It frays lightly after 12 hours or so use but doesn't seem to affect its strength in my experience. Very rarely tangles once you get the right balance between overfill and underfill of the spool which I find hard as when spooling up 150 mtr of gliss it takes up as much space as 40mtr of 8lb mono.

Great informative report and top fish there fella!

Great chat topic, obviously something many of us consider. I've been using chicken thigh fillet frozen in approx 200 grm lots (wrapped in scrap paper) that I give to the dog if I don't use it.

Yellowbelly for sure. They do look a bit different when caught from catchments that flow into Lake Eyre as opposed to the ones from the Murray Catchment. It would be interesting to know how long the stocks have been separated?

Trip of a lifetime!!!

More snapper being caught inshore than I can remember, anyone else noticed this?

With the Bonnies taking a well earned holiday I am forced to try my hand at other species. Around 4pm I threw a few light rods and some bread in the back if the car and down to a small jetty in the hope of a few gardies for bait supply. Rigged the daughter up for gar and small sp for me. Unhooking a small bream on the gar rod and a 47cm flat chap eats the sp duly landed and dinners sorted. Sort out bream and back in with sp, straight on you little beauty. Get him in close and see he's bigger than the last and may test the 6lb leader dead lifting the fish up. Hmmmm knew I should have brought the net, oh well bucket it is. If you have ever used a bucket as a net you know it fills with water and weighs a ton and is very hard to manoeuvre. Short story long DD is up to the task despite Flat chap going mental and spraying water everywhere, working together we hoist bucket and flathead onto jetty and high fives all round. Fish goes 60cm and provides delicious dinner. As a bait collecting mission its a disaster but a great trip all the same. The fish in the photo with fist pump is 60cm and next pic is 47cm.

Classic catch!!!

That time during a decent fight is what I call "reel time". Enjoy every moment of the "reel time" as it is the culmination of all the time and effort spent purchasing, preparing, driving, walking etc.

Always called them Butter bream. Ive caught them from Cairns to St Georges Basin

Nice surprise that!!!

Good mate who lives near Gladstone always had 200lb handline setup with 12/0 and would only use it if we caught a 20cm plus Moses Perch for live bait. Caught some big Cod, Shovelnose lost Barra, Sharks etc. One day in 6 metres with bait set straight down line goes off followed by Dolphin cartwheeling literally over the boat thankfully pulling the hook in the kaos. Sufficiently traumatised he has never done it again. Be careful as you never know what you might hook up to.

I also use the twisted version as per Welsters YouTube vid

To be honest I'm not that fussy as long as it's fresh I'll eat it. The sweep was white and moist and as good as the Mowie and trevally imho. I did catch some black sole around 40cm while prawning on a recent trip to Mallacoota and they were close to inedible. Not a fan of various southern wrasse either as I find them mushy. Some of my more controversial favourites include Pike and Yakkas.

Still hurling lures at Bonnies and Kings but finding the bowling shoulder starting to suffer a bit with repetitive cast / retrieve. Ive been squirrelling away all my bonnie offcuts and salting them before bagging up and freezing. Using a few old paternoster rigs left over from previous boat trips in combo with 2/0 circles and sinker to suit. After much testing in my mates "den" we have come to the conclusion that the old style dropper knot breaks about 50 % line strength whereas kiwi loop is close to 100% so that's what I use. Anyways I managed this Mowie which is first for me as well as a 35cm Trev and good sized sweep all released into hot oil for dinner last night.