noelm
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Whiting have been pretty scarce almost everywhere this year, I fish for them regularly in both river and beach, they are still there, but very slow, Sussex will be OK if you put in the time to get worms or Nippers and fish right.
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Big old Ray probably.
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It's fine for sinkers, but doubling line flies in the face of light leader producing more bites, especially in hard fish areas, but as I said, it's a personal thing, what works for you is what you use.
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On 2/19/2019 at 1:55 PM, New Signing said:
I tend to use the 'lazy' patternoster rig with two droppers. When the leatherjacket aren't in plague proportions I will forgo the bait on the top hook and instead use a 5-6" gulp curl tail and unweighted hook to suit, if the leatherjacket are around this is an expensive exercise and i avoid it. I find that with flathead my better fish come on that top hook.
I prefer fish baits to squid when it comes to flathead but do like squid for over the reef.
I rarely net flathead these days instead preferring to lift them over the side from the rod. As a result the full length of my rig is probably only the length of my rod with the droppers approximately 30cm long and far enough apart that they dont tangle one another.
When fishing deeper water using a running sinker rig will only cause you tangles unless you intend on dropping the rig ridiculously slowly.
Where possible i prefer to use half pound snapper leads but because my hard top acts as a kite even with my giant sea anchor out i find myself predominantly using 3/4 pound leads.
For all my bottom fishing gear i tend to use braid and have a glow bead above a snap swivel for a couple of reasons. The glow bead protects the rod tip eyelet from the snap swivel being wound into it and by using a snap swivel you remove the line twist and when i comes time to head for home it is just a simple matter of unclipping the rig and throwing it in the rubbish bucket for disposal back at the ramp. I tend to use 8kg (roughly 20lb) leader. What this does mean is that i tend to lose any sharks hooked on the bottom that in years gone by we may have caught but it does provide a noticeable increase in bites using the lighter leader.
What yowie said about flathead being great bait for flathead is 100% correct but is technically illegal for those playing at home
It doesn't make sense that you say you get a noticeable increase in bites using the lighter leader, yet you use the "lazy" loop system that doubles the line thickness for little increase in line strength, but, fishing is a confidence thing, fish however you feel comfortable, we all vary in techniques and most get results, especially on Flathead.
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Is the boat painted?
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Just go and buy a cheap plastic hand line spool, and wind it onto that, it will only take a short while, or if you're lucky, you will find one with a solid centre with kind of spokes, you can put that in a battery drill using a bolt and nut to hold it, I have one I keep for just that purpose, works a treat.
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OK, that's the first mistake, fish will hang around structure, they will be close to jetties, rock walls, small feeder creeks and sand banks, concentrate in those sort of areas, fish right up on the sand flats with Nippers or worms on a rising tide, and look for drains running off the sand banks as the tide drops, they are prime Flathead locations, what size line and sinker?
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There is a million possibilities, first off, what size line are you using, are you standing on the shore and casting as far as you can, are you fishing flats or channels, is anyone else catching anything, the answer to some of those questions might help.
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Sorry, didn't see the post above.
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Just for fun, connect the trailer, then adjust the bolt right down to see if the noise stops (of course you will have to turn it back out again to unhook it) but it might just be interesting as a test before putting bags and rag and stuff on the ball.
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Best not to use anything as a "headlight" just legal navigation lights and a good hand help spotlight only used when close to things, once your eyes become accustomed to the night (night vision) you will be fine.
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Quite a few Cobia are caught down here in the summer, as are Spangled Emperor and Sampson fish.
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12 hours ago, kingie chaser said:
Yeh & what happened when the year 2000 rolled around?????
Nothing, the world didn't explode & humanity didn't descend into kaos 😅
Sure some electrical equipment with calendars is preset with a set date stamp but doesn't mean they will cease to function after that date rolls around.
Eg, if its a digital clock it will still tell the time but wont give you the right date.
What do you think might have happened to the millions of people who get paid electronically according to date? how about banks with time/day locks? all the ATM equipment that relies on date stamped transactions? all the Credit card transactions? sure the end consumer didn't see anything wrong, nothing to see here, but, I can assure you, a lot of work went on for months before to make sure the world didn't explode, your home computer is in the "who cares" category, but big enterprise, it was an "issue"
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Almost all fish jumping around lakes and rivers here are Mullet, they might be just big fat ones.
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I was working in IT at a University, and I can tell you it was a big deal, most people didn't know what was involved, nothing blew up, so nothing happened was the thought, but, behind the scenes lots of stuff went on. This GPS "thing" is not new, it happened 20 years ago, but GPS wasn't a big deal then to average people, but it is a common device now, so the impact might be big to some, to most they won't even know anything happened, OH, and to answer the original post, I don't know how to do what you want, a quick google might find something.
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Certainly not a Mako.
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Yep, correct, but the difference with this is the satellite interaction, it may amount to nothing, most won't have a GPS that old, I am not trying to tell you the sky is falling, just a simple heads up to find out if your unit is OK, take it as you will.
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I think it's April 6th, most older GPS units will reach their "roll over" date, it should only affect older units, probably 10 years old or more, how many of these are still in service? don't know, but I know there are definitely some, if you do a google it will explain why, and some manufacturers have a list of models, most there is a "workaround" but the real date will probably be wrong,but the device should still function. It comes about by how the GPS "chip" stores the current date, this is predetermined electronically to coincide with satellite locations, this date format was finite (20 years I believe) and that lapses this year.
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Lots of GPS units are in for a surprise, kind of like the computer Y2K "event" GPS units are going to kind of expire soon, most new units will be OK, but some of the older ones are in trouble.
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I kind of doubt it makes any difference who is in power, they just blame each other.
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Drummer fishermen tend to be "specialists" kind of like Blackfishermen, there is always incidental bycatch when fishing for other species, but to be successful, you need to target them, and doing that kind of diminishes other species possibilities, so as such, they are not often fished for.
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I also catch them all year when conditions allow, can't say I have noticed a decline in numbers caught, but then, I am not a real flash Drummer fisherman either, or the amount I see when diving, I saw a really big one just the other day when I was Cray diving.
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Stingrays are a far better bait for Sharks off the beach than Eels.
Sussex inlet
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Kind of strange hey? I don't really know what's different this year, but it certainly is, too much rain, not enough rain? too hot, too cold? even on the beach there has been next to none, that said, there seemed to be more really big ones, but no "school size" ones.