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The average boat buyer is not told these things when a boat is purchased even from a dealer- I was unaware of the chain stamping and have been a boat owner for 30 years- will go home and check and right now am betting that my chain - supplied by a well known trailer builder by a reputable dealer from new is not stamped- will be in cardiac ward of nearest hospital if it is! If trailer builders dont follow the regs what hope has the average boater got. Thanks for that bit of info BTW

Plenty of reef in the 30-40 m area off Black Head that holds trag, snaps and a few pearlies

And who checked the ratings on the chain? Thats why this rule is a nonsense

Just reverse the spool- no need to replace until its really worn out!, the colour fade is no biggie, ive got power pro thats 5-6 years old and gets hammered and its still fine- also had Fireline on a small Stradic 2500 thats over 8 years off age - reversed - and im only just thinking of replacing it - but that spool of line has caught dozens of boonies/salmon/dollies/rats etc, reeel mainly gets used for bait jigging these days so until I actually feel that the line is failing im not going to change it- remember that unlike Nylon, PE based lines are not rapidly degraded by UV light

Just for next time if you dunk a reel DO NOT WIND THE HANDLE- this grabs water, sand and other muck and starts pushing it into the gears and starts the corrosion process. The reel needs to be completely dissassembled, degreased and dried out before rebuild. If you are not comfortable with this send it to Shimano and get a quote on the rebuild (it wont be cheap) but Shimano will do the job properly. Just on the WD 40 thing- its not an oil -WaterDispplacement 40 but it is an excellent degreaser.

bait presentation- you can feed the worm up the hook and line so it looks nice and natural

Duralac on everything- dont forget even having two different grades of aluminium will potentially cause dissimilar metal corrosion. Nylon sleeves on fittings can be a help too- but its bloody hard to completely overcome.

there are beachworms

Should be plenty of spotties and school mackeral in the bay at the beacons and possibly busting up at this time of the year

The bite was on the edge, I was too crook with a head cold to fish Sunday but there were beaks and some good dollies in the 90fathom area- somes days you are too wide, some days you aint wide enough! I generally find that area between the waverider and the 70fathom line to be a desert- if im pushing north from the 12mile its usually tracking along in 70-80 fathoms

Correct- inspections required every 12months no matter the age

Thats a fair call Fab , still reckon 2yrs old trailers should be exempted

Simple- there are so many poorly maintained , crappy , rusted out boat trailers that the RMS wants them all inspected - I do think they could exempt ones less than 3 years old though.

Dollies can be like that- generally a good tactic is to start the day with lures and when the fish wise up (which they will with boat traffic etc) then switch to your livies- I reckon when a boat turns up with livies and starts fishing them first it will shut the lure bite down, just use yakkas next time- catching live squid to catch a couple of barely legal rat dollies is a bit too much effort for my mind!

Yep thats the one

Good luck with that request! i will make the following observation though- last Sat there were about 15 boats on the Nth Syd FAD- catching undersize dollies, 3 km's away at the waverider there were 2 boats catching undersize dollies, and later there were no boats catching undersize dollies - So all I can suggest is go for a drive and have a look- its amazing how some folk stick to a spot like the nearly useless Nth Syd FAD when 2 km away there is a better spot with much less traffic- anyway thats the only spot im giving up for free!

Get two 6 inch cupfaced type lures- Pakula cockroach on one line, zipper on the other- set the cockroach about 15 m behind the transom, set the zipper about 20 M back, drive round and round in circles at 6-7 knots until you get a bite- choose areas holding bait- Longie, the Peak, The whale- should still be fish their this weekend- Im at work and tied up with swim meets this weekend but may get out Sunday- fish should still be around-OR- catch slimies, bridle rig and drive round the same areas at idle- they are just a fish like any other (only bigger, faster and more fun)

Ok I run 2 Lowrance head units , a radio , live bait pump , 2 bilges etc . Battery one used on the way out , battery 2 is used on the way home - so half the day on one, half on the other

There is the odd larger sized black in close at the moment- mate got a 80-90kg fish on Sat in the same depth we were fishing but off Barranjoey- but give it a crack - you can only get wiped out!!

For livebait for marlin we use 100lb leader , lures I usually use 150lb for my smaller lures, 200-250lb for the bigger ones, we were only fishing lures on Saturday

Nice little bite going on off Sydney yesterday we went 2-1-1 with a small striped for my mate Henk- his first and missed a small black. Bite was in 30-40 m of water inside the close FAD off Nth head and up to Longie- bait was really starting to thicken up when the change came through and belted the hell out of us.Seemed to be plenty of action North and South of us too all along the 20 fathom line . First beak for 2018- more to come laterIMG_0934.MOV

no probs

Can I ask a question- why do you rely on a site like WW? They simply suck their information from either the BOM or worse overseas weather forecasts- the BOM hasnt put out wave forecasts that far in advance so how would WW know whats going on?Dont trust those sites

Also known as madfish

Berley - start mushing up a small amount of bread and feed it into the water in small amounts- watch what comes up- give it 30 minutes- if no go -move