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Unfortunately I think you will have to either remove or cut your bow rail ZMK.
I've given a lot of though to this with my boat but i havent managed to work out how it could be done without either blocking my anchor hatch or my hatch to poke my head up out the front
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I've got the kick ass pie oven in my boat after upgrading from the black box style. Its awesome on the long days trolling around. Not much we haven't put through mine
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Many a slow day has been saved with a dirty great river carp or euro session.
Biggest euro i've ever seen myself was 12kg. The old man found it floating dead against the bank in Burrinjuck
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I think i've mentioned on here before that you can sometimes increase the amount of time you are in the zone by deploying the sea anchor as the dollies will happily swim along under it
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I find the squid and gar fish come in even on my overhead lights when we're getting bait early in the morning.
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Good fish
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I've replaced them in a TLD recently. Not overly difficult. Not sure how similar the internals of a tiagra and a tld are though. In my experience if you send a reel to Dunphy/Shimano it'll cost you about $100 and its money well spent
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3 hours ago, Fun2fish said:
Hi I had to get a new trailer a few years ago and wasn't sure about weight so got a braked one.now I wish I had of done weighbridge to see if I needed brakes as cost of reform has doubled + need inspection every year .I put a post up recently about pads falling apart even though trailer only about 3 years old worth checking anyway
Have a look at Kodak brake components. They cost me a small fortune but the pads are 3 years old and going strong
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I used to just grab squid around the neck and give them a good squeeze to dispatch them until I had one some how slide back far enough to take a bite out of the webbing between my thumb and finger
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Flow coat is best sprayed IMO
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I've not long been through this process where i ground out about 90% of the spider cracks in my gelcoat using a dremel. The worst part is the grinding out is the easiest bit. I used a bog filler that you just buy as all the spider cracks are above waterline. From there it was a lot of sanding. I intended to re gelcoat the boat to pretty it up a bit so I sanded from gunnel rubber to chine.
I took the worst advice since D day and rolled the flow coat on. The pitting you are talking about is the orange peal affect. It is unsightly and the only way to remove it is to wait for the flowcoat to go off totally which depending on your mix and ambient temperature may take weeks. Once this is done use the finest sand paper you can get away with as using an aggressive sandpaper actually makes things worse. When sanding away the orange peal you are going to remove the shiny coating from the flow coat. As a result you are going to need to wet sand and cut and polish to gain the best looking result for your boat.
Flowcoat hates other flowcoat so if there is anywhere you have not sanded well enough the flowcoat will fail and will peal off. I know this all too well and it has caused me no end of stress. What im saying is you are best to take it back to glass if you wish to proceed with flowcoat.
When my wrap eventually fails ill be going with 2 pack paint
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I've done surprisingly well on flathead drifting along the beach between callala bay and red rock in water where you can see the bottom.
Find rocky outcrops for reds and the middle ground produces all types of fish
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Amazing how cold it can get on the water at night. Only takes the slightest breeze and it can be freezing
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18 hours ago, PaddyT said:
A few things to help with trolling spreads-if you cant turn sharply and i mean sharply you are going to miss opportunities-case in point last year out on the shelf i spotted a nice blue finning down current in front of the boat- spun 90 and got the lures in front of his face and got the bite- dropped him 30 seconds later but thats another issue- i would still maintain that without riggers you are better off with less lures in the water- as for getting more bits from micro dollies on the FAD -i would say thats neither here more there- a lot of the time a " dead" running skirt like a bullet or a PAkula Uzi run way out the back in clear water will get bites from smaller fish when other lures are ignored. I would still say that to miss less fish you will need someway of eliminating the dropback on your current set up- a tag line is my suggestion. Final comment-i do often run a minnow in the spread-usually a Halco laserpro and its always in the long corner position. its their when im in wahoo or mackeral country and seems to get the bites rather than them chewing my nice skirts-they will also catch tuna.
A little off topic but last year we were running a pretty standard marlin spread on the way to the shelf we done a couple quick laps of the fad. in the Short corner I had a 14 inch pakula wombat i think, long corner was a large sprocket in evil, long rigger was a medium sprocket in lumo, short rigger a small purple cup face probably pakula to i think and then on the shotgun a smallish bullet style. We could see the dollies coming flying through the spread and grabbing the large sprocket everytime. They were cruising straight past 3 other lures that i would have thought they would be more interested in to grab an oversize lure for that particular area.
Was interesting to see
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Sometimes the turn can induce a strike as the lures action changes. You'll also be pretty safe the way you are if you run cup face and bullet style lures. If you start putting swimmers and plungers in the mix than there may be issues.
A mate of mine runs a deep diver on the shotgun and has a crazy success rate finding random yellowfin with it. When i've tried it i always find it results in tangles
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16 hours ago, PaddyT said:
got ya on that one but as far as i can see Zoran is trying to run 5 lures with no outriggers which to me is pushing the proverbial uphill- anyway he needs a tag line return - that drop back is an issue
I can certainly see what you're saying. I'm not sure how much more spread we get running tag lines than what he is getting with the rod at 90 degrees. Going in a straight line would be fine but if the time comes where you are needing to turn tight thats where you really need the spread
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53 minutes ago, PaddyT said:
Dropback could be a problem on strike-why dont you just run the rod from the rocket launcher? 5 lures is over kill in general , by the time you position them correctly its rarely worth the trouble. Good rule of thumb in a small boat is crew +1- so 2 POB=3 lures etc. I do have outriggers on my boat but the best use for them is trolling skipbaits. Anyway to solve your return issues you need a tagline setup-this will also solve the dropback issue
Nothing like seeing an angry marlin come flying into the spread before dropping back on the shotgun only to look up and see the line around the tip.............. bad times.
Not to mention getting a loaded 15kg outfit out of the rocket launcher in my my old boat was tough enough let alone this one
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I've got one in my boat. Great investment for those long days trolling around when the entertainment levels are low
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I like the idea of the stainless wire running up the back of the anchor rather than chain but i have exactly zero confidence in those clips holding should i ever desperately need them to
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Good solution to an ever present problem.
I dont anchor a lot but rather than changing over anchors all the time from reef to sand i just run a plow anchor
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Is dry storage an option for you guys somewhere around Sydney? For smaller boats possibly even a storage king shed or similar
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First tip of any bait jig is to cut every second hook off. This will save you a lot of stress in the long run especially when catching slimies in deeper water. Second tip use a way over the top sinker. You do that to keep the line tight and stop the little so and so from tangling it all up.
I wouldn't bother using one from shore i think that'll be more trouble than its worth. I always had good success with a blackfish float, two hooks beneath it and chicken breast with plenty of burley as a kid
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On 8/7/2020 at 3:46 PM, Plumb said:
Just got this little number her name is "seascout" shes a 22.5 ft custom , runs on a 4 Cylinder Perkins diesel, top speed of about 8 knots. 😁 shes pretty much an empty canvas that I'll fit out for fishing whilst trying to maintain the look.
That's a cracker of a tub mate. Be a great fishing platform all be it very slow. She'd be pretty economical for a days trolling to id imagine.
I'd have to move the steering wheel across to the other side though
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They're no better anywhere in the Crookhaven river these days either. Even in my lifetime they have become less and less shy of humans. I've lost a couple of mowies off the table to them over the years. Doesn't seem to matter how many times you shoo them away they are straight back
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Little blacks certainly put on a show. Good to see you get a few numbers on the board