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Hard to tell in that light but it seems a bit too solid set and blunt in the nose for a bronzie. Baby bull?

and run a trip rope on it. I've near found myself over the side a couple of times when fishing alone. Not so bad if you've got someone with you and can back up to it

For those playing at home a sneaky little trick when drifting near the fad is to put your sea anchor out and cube with pilchard. You'd be surprised how quickly the fish will move in under your boat and sea anchor with the constant trail and you can just keep drifting away on your own away from the other boats

I've been searching for a decent knife to clean sharks and am yet to find one. I have found the red handled rapala knives which are as cheap as chips to be excellent for most main stream fish. When it comes to skinning and boning fish out most of the blokes who do it for a living will tell you their knives are at their best just before they're stuffed. If you know someone who works in a co-op sometimes you can buy their old knives off them which are still good enough for us rec fishos to use.

She has come to the party with the refund. We'll fish the jess sams and maybe looking at bermi later

How does it look down there now John? Our AirBNB host is not playing the game and will not cancel our reservation

I second fish ranger. Willy weather got us far too many times 😂

I've heard they are worse than a fortesque

Yes!!! Many fuel filters these days are very similar. I've just replaced the housing on mine and chosen a filter with a larger canister. Water in fuel is a pain in the proverbial. I actually got this one really cheap at a shop on special i think it was about $35 down from 90 odd

We were all packed and ready to head to Bermi for the bluewater classic. About 930 last night the committee made the tough decision to cancel the comp as the fires had kicked off again down that way. It was going to be a struggle for us to get down there with road closures etc. A real shame as the community could really use the cash influx and its our favourite tournament

Generally when we haven't had rain for a long time and the rivers run clear the squid will quite happily move into them as the shallow water makes easy hunting for them not to mention all the lights etc attracting baitfish

You'll find he means Blue marlin.

We've always eaten mowies and for many years i preferred them to snapper. As others have said the gut lining is its biggest downfall as it seems to release an iodine taste through the fish. If you can while knock the guts out of it straight away and give it a good brush out. We always skinned the mowies, cut them into bite size pieces and shallow fry with a nice beer batter

They do however make for excellent hard wearing bait

It's a personal choice mate and the rules are the rules. Personally i don't keep flathead over 70cm's and do tend to encourage those i fish with to do the same. Convinced my grandfather to let a 73cm fish go and he still hasnt forgiven me 3 or 4 years later lol For the record ive only ever had to make the decision once with an 83cm model

Probably depends on if you plan on putting tuna in them. Not many use stripies for live bait now. Not like the old days where that was the go to method for the South Coast blacks. I reckon if you put two tubes side by side at 4" would be spot on and will fit better on the gunnels of pretty much any boat

We see here in this video the dangers of not securing eskies and the like. From personal experience an esky flying across the deck can cause plenty of pain

When i finish doing everything else that needs done to my boat im going to go with a set of the swingers outrigger bases

Weed is a fact of flathead trolling im afraid. I've always found trolling with the current to assist with minimizing the amount of weed. I also have a theory that in fast flowing water flathead lay facing into the current so they can see the lure coming from further away rather than being spooked by it coming up their tails

The tiny herring looking fish are most likely hardie heads and are also very good flathead bait

Coming back through Crookhaven heads about two years ago i had about 25 knots of North easterly wind up my arse pushing against a run out tide and about 2.5m swell. The wave i was riding the back of decided to die and as is the want of that bar i had another coming up my rear end, i powered out of the ditch to climb the next wave only to find a surfer under my bow. I had no option but to swing hard and bury the nose of the boat forcing us into a partial broach. Needless to say a lot of expletives were fired out from under the had top at the idiot in the bar on his surfboard 🤬

For me it in this case its the colour, shape of the nose, the eye and shape of the top lobe on the tail

Looks like either a bronzy or possibly a dusky

In the last couple of years i've seen Bermi get pretty ordinary. Its all to do with the direction of the swell there. If it comes from a certain direction it will break well wide of the actually opening and roll all the way across and slam into the main rock wall. Not a pretty place to be when you get cut off by some clown who then decides to stop mid way 🤬

Trust me when i say this............ smart fisherman don't own boats. They have friends that own boats 🤣