Kiwi Dan

Iive had that before as well Mike. A refrigerated 20ft container of packed mussels shipping from NZ to Australia back in 98. The freezer broke while in transit and the container got returned to NZ unopened. Those mussles were well baked by the time they got back to NZ after 2 trips at sea. The container got taken straight to the tip for emptying but had to be cleaned and fumigated by MAF. When we opened this container in the yard it shut down ALL 7 of the surrounding buisness for the day. People hurling at there desks etc from the smell, it was the worst thing i have ever smelt in my life!

the brother & father inlaws 5 shelf freezer plug came out of its socket in the downstairs laundry somehow once. Pilchards, left over yakkas, prawns, fish heads, prawn shells you name it all defrosted in the middle of summer just gone. After 2 days they went down stairs and nearly puked. The smell was that bad the BIL duck taped the edges of the laundry door.

For sure Steve, id love to bag you about the Roosters all day mate. lol, although the way the Eagles are going I have nothing to brag about!! Stewy With Steve we could fill Billfisher.

Ill step up to the plate and be a captain if you need one Stewy. i'm in plus i have 4 definite pirates/anglers as well.

Great fish off the rocks mate, 2cm short of the big one. Well done.

Solid effort, well done mate.

Well done lads.

Those are the best trips, the last minute spur of the moment!! Well done, awesome fish.

nice jew mate, well done.

Especially if you are anchored in the harbor somewhere and I big cruiser or ferry hammers past you. As the back of your boat goes down you may end up getting a heap of water from the next wave filling up the container and pushing all your fish out as well.

Hi guys, Just a couple questions if people dont mind answering. I want to give the fad a go, do you think it would be okay for me to get there in my 15ft centre console with 40hp on the back. Obviously ill be only going in the right conditions etc How much longer is the FAD out there and how much longer do the dollies normally hang around for? Is it wise to have a livie down deep on my downrigger as im drifting past the fad? Id like to head to the nearest FAD outside of Sydney heads, how many kms is it from there? Any help would be appreciated.

solid effort mate.

Hello mate, i havent read all the replies but are you going to put a lid on it? If you hit a reasonable wave you dont want your bait jumping out.

Ive said it once before in another thread and ill say it again. Go to Croatia!! God dam love the place!!

Sorry to stick the boot in when your already down but I think you'll find your final tally was joe 7 , FISH3, shark 1, me finally1 Sounds like a good day out though, well done lads.

Well done mate, you dominate the big king reports!

Hello mods/admin, Ive had a thought, beleive me it doesnt happen much. I was just wondering if there had ever been any thought behind having some kind of SMS update section linked to Fishraider somehow. Something similar to Facebook where you can update your status from your mobile phone etc. But for raider a section where people who are actually out fishing could send current quick/short messages to the site telling others whats going on. For example I could be out on the water fishing Nth Head and a massive school of salmon and kings were smashing up for an hour and if I was able to send an SMS to a number linked to the site which would then post that detail. When ever im about to head out I always check raider to see the latest news and having this might help people out a little. Or for anyone thinking about heading out for a quick arvo fish after work this might also assist them, say if anyone was down at Clifton land based and nothing was happening and sent an SMS through to the site, people might decide that they can cross that off the list and try somewhere else. I have no idea what costs are involved, what behind the scenes type work there is to be done, how many people would use something like this both providing info and checking the info. Im merely just putting it out there as a suggestion and thinking out loud. I know phones can access the internet anyway so people could post a quick report like that but not everyone has new phones and can get onto the net etc - a 25c text message would be much easier.

Thats a cracker, well done

well done mate.

well done mate, i didnt think you were able to catch kings any smaller then 95cms! lol

OnAKing, He doesnt say that he kept anything other then the 66cm fish mate. Well done fisherboy.

Yeah mate, Ended up getting a few squid at the spit and more out at Nth Head. Even brought some home for a change. The prop and hub ended up costing 205 in total and the bolt was another 30, it works well now though. So do you think with the motor not starting it was because of too much fuel?

Hello raiders, I went out on for a session Friday afternoon/Night. Everything was going along like normal but at about 10pm my motor wouldnt start for some reason. There was plenty of fuel, the battery was fully charged and it was turning over but it wouldnt start. Everytime I turned it over a lot of black smoke would come out and a couple times it would run for a couple of seconds, cough and splutter a bit and then cut out. So I drifted back from the Spit and tied off to a mooring, I thought I may have flooded it or something. I left it for a about 20 minutes then tried again, it ran for about 30 seconds and then conked out again. I lifted the lid and changed a spark plug, I didnt think this was the issue though because it was still turning over like normal. I then continued squidding for an hour and tried it again. I tried starting it about 5 times and a whole lot of black smoke kept coming out then after about the 6th go it coughed and spluttered and then start running. I let it run for about 3 minutes and turned it off. I fired it up again and she started again coughed and spluttered and then seemed fine. I shut it off one more time and then turned it over and it started straight away with no issues no stuttering so I untied and headed back to the Spit. It was about 2am now but from then on I never had another issue all day until I got out at 2pm. SO I was trying to figure out what went wrong. Once I got home I realized I used 2 different brands of 2 stroke oil in my mix by accident and what was left of 1 of the containers was probably 6 months since it was last used. Do you think this was the issue? Maybe old dirty oil? Any help would be appreciated.

well done mate, ill be looking to get into some of that action tomorrow and Saturday.

well done mate, those fish sure look tasty cooked up.