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good haul, odd seeing snapper on the top half of stockton. generally get them around the williamstown entrance and further south near the wreck

The way it’s done at the bait shops is abit differnt than the conventional way I guess, but it dose yield good quality salted baits. The bunnings pool salt in 10kg bags is the way to go. - find a tub that’s properly sized and lay a 1cm layer of salt on the bottom, - place all your fillets/fish baits in, you don’t need to put salt inbetween the layers. - pour a good 3 to 5cm thick layer of salt ontop of your bait - fill the container up with water until the water is just covering the top of the bait not the salt, you’ll find the salt just start to fall into the water - wait a few mins you’ll find most of the salt will ether dissolve or fall into the tub - place another 3-5cm layer if needed, or top it up if you can see the water/bait - store in a shady area. It dosnt smell Your bait will be ready in a day if you used enough salt, if you didn’t use enough it’ll take 2 days. You can reuse the left over salt once you take you’re bait out and drain the water. The water/left over juice makes for a good burley. If your salting beachworms just place them in metho for 2 minutes.

Don’t get them there. You can get herring and the odd mullet but that’s it. Easiest place for them are the wharfs throughout the hacking at night. Yowie, Wally’s and Cronulla ferry being the better ones

my dads work friend told me of catches on Monday, he was heading out on Thursday so ill be keen to know how he went when i see him next

you could tow it up there and see if you can leave it at a caravan park, do the tele and then pick up the boat to do whatever boat activities you need to, this would allow you to also get a decent boat for the salties

pretty bs sinbin. how good was AD's try after 14~ mths in rehab after the 3rd acl. wow.

Atleast we win with the most players sinbinned so far this season

dont need to remind me how bad the tigs were last night. it hurts 🤣

I should also add, I'm not going to bother redoing the gelcoat on the hull, instead ill flip the boat over when i get the trailer fixed up and give it a clean and polish. Id like to do re gelcote the blue section though as i think colour matching the blue might be very difficult. if it can be done ill defiantly just leave it and gelcoat the patches. A anchor well at the front will also be difficult due to the corrugation detail in the front white section and there's also 2 supporting brackets on the underside there so I'm abit lost on how to tackle that as of now, but that's still quite a ways ahead

Gave the boat abit of a clean a couple days ago and also removed the old boat controls, steering cables, old fixings, rod holders etc & today I removed the 2 bench seats and began sanding back the old paint and glass on the floor. Tomorrow ill finish off sanding the floor, clean and reseal the floor and possibly patch all the small holes where rod holders and other crap screwed into. the benches despite being bare wood were in ok condition and the floor seems in good condition too. Might drill a small 3mm hole in the transom to confirm if its good or not but from all assessments so far it looks to be in good nick. I also picked up some new marine ply to install the new benches and a small box section for the 25l fuel tank & battery in the future. Id like to move the steering into the centre but the only thing holding that back is how id go about mounting the motor controls. Sourcing a windshield looks to be a royal pain in the rear too. -

Gday raiders! I have acquired a new boat, its a steber craft, a quick google shows it probably is a bever. I picked the bad boy up for free of a mate this afternoon who's had the boat for 10 years and its been used a hand full of times and stored under a carport. and besides it being a freebie it doesn't need that much work by the looks of it. Some basic specs, - fibreglass hull - Motor is a 25hp Johnson looks in very good condition & clean as, probably going to throw it on market place and get a 4 stroke 15/20hp - Transom is stiff like a tree - floors were apparently re glassed in 2015 & feel hard - Steering cables, and controls seem a bit flimsy I'd, like to completely refurbish the boat and make it like new and add some modifications to it a brief list of stuff I've thought of so far: - sanding the hull + new paint - a small windshield at the front - electrics (sounder, new nav lights, deck lights - relocate to a centre console at the front - carpet/rubber floor mats, - bait board & a esky - new motor I'd be curious on getting a opinion from those veteran boat owners who have done up plenty of boats in the past at what they would do to it & what they think of it, is it a good hull? etc. It'll be a fishing boat and mostly used with 1 other person, If anyone would like the kayak with a paddle, any anchors (theres 4 of them) or the motor let me know!

When I was in south aus beach fishing I saw some cattle bones in the 50-60cm range washed up. Absolute tanks. To see one that size in Sydney is mind boggling

Now to catch some fish once the swell dies back. speaking of sensor surfs i bought 3 older model 15ft 10-20kg (red rods) for 300$ each on special. Down from 450. 1 for me and other two for a mate each. Same tackle store has 10ft ones on special for 275 or 250

I’m a tigers fan too, since 2004 we are still here! Ihave hope for good this year, but I say that just about every year

That’s some serious damage, I’d be questioning if I hooked onto the Loch Ness monster