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Will. Not sure what you mean with " thick tires " . The rust at rear of the trailer will not matter for the drive home, make sure the tyres are properly inflated and are NOT perished. What I mean by that is have a look around the tyres and make sure they are not all cracked up and still feel like rubber. If the tyres are starting to feel/look like leather, than the trip may be a bit much for them, try and take a spare, if you don't have a spare I would more than likely have one here that would match whatever the type fitted, brooker should be HG Holden pattern, with 5 studs IF it's the rims without studs, I still should have a spare to help you out, PM me for address. Try and keep your speed to around 80 k's max, and stop about every 10/15 minutes and feel the hubs to see IF they are getting hot, IF they are too hot to hold your hand on them for 10 seconds, you have problems, if they are cool it's likely you could go faster. Good luck and take some photos of the boat and show us. Frank

Maori wrass or ( butchers you know whats ) along with many of the other wrasses are quiet good eating, they have a tough gamey taste but if that's all your catching a feed of them is still a good feed. Personally I would rate them pretty well on par with trevally and better than sweep, everyones taste is different, take a few home and try them. With all fish don't over cook them. Frank

Good read and photos, It's been 20 years since I fished the lakes and your report makes me want to go and spend a few hours there again to renew some old memorys. Frank

Geoff. Measure the axle from end of thread to end of thread IF it's 5'10" ( 1780mm ) I have one here with brake brackets welded on you can have, 50mm square solid axle. If it's the right length I could bring it up for you and have that BBQ we spoke about some time ago. You should have my email, let me know. I am not fit enough these days to fit it for you but I could at least supply the axle ( free of charge ) . Frank aka Nimrod.

Well done looks like an early season AGAIN for the hairtail, hope they hang around a while this year. The last 2 years they have arrived early and by June they are all but up and gone. Frank

Fab1 sounds like the way to go to have a #1 day for your birthday, congrats on the catch and well done for sharing your catch with one not as successful as yourself. That bloke will remember your good will and perhas do the same one day for someone and snowballs from there. Frank

That is a fine fish young fella, any fisho would be proud to catch that one. Frank

Not a lot to report unfortunately. Arrived 10am Friday and the weather was on the turn, by 12 noon it was blowing 40 knots by 2pm the rain had joined the wind and it was coming in sideways straight across the lake which was churning it to a state where a surf board was more appropriate than a fishing line. The rain only lasted about 1 hour but the wind was relentless and lasted well into the night, I didn't even bother to pitch the tent, just slept in the back of the wagon. Saturday morning the wind had slowed down to about 10-15 knots, there was still whitecaps in the lake but it was settling down. By 4pm it was calm enough to launch the boat and go fishing. Might as well kept the boat on the trailer, by 6.30 the wind was up again about 25 knots and that was it for me, slowly pushed back to the camp site and prepared tea. Didn't bother going out again, put the boat back on the trailer and headed home. All in all I will remain doing this trip as the company is worth it. Just might leave the boat home next time and just sit back and enjoy the view. Frank

This week end coming in case anyone will be in the area, I will be camped down by the water at Gindigah Bay, driving red Commodore wagon. Come and say HI. Frank

I will probably join you lot this year and get to meet some of you. I am going up for the week end of 17th 18th and 19 June on a houseboat with some friends so maybe able to post a report if anything about or not. I fish for Hairtail every year for the past 40 odd years the past 11 years in Houseboat before that I would freeze in an open boat, sometimes lucky sometimes not. Hope this year is a good as last year was. Frank

There are huge Travelly haunting Bermagui harbour at the moment, you probably don't want to travel that far but IF they are there they are at other similar locations closer. Frank

Hi guys, my name is Frank and I have been around a while, anyhow I am heading up to lake Stclair on 18th March for a few days Bass fishing and general lazing about. I will be in my bass boat named " NIMROD " it's a quintrex 4.9m jon boat that I have decked out for fishing the lakes. Anyone up there at this time and see me come and say hello. Cheers Frank