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2 hours ago, rickmarlin62 said:
The locked half blood knot is a very strong effective knot a tip is to go thru eye twice as once locked in place it generally stops the knot from travelling round the eye and into the gap where it joins to hook often causing breakage or even slipping off i lost a monster red last year from this cause i was slack n tied hook on quickly with only once thru eye
Ah, twice through the eye of the hook when line is first passed through it. Interesting. The Improved Locked Blood Knot then. 👍
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37 minutes ago, Berleyguts said:
Yep. Locked half blood knot. I used to use it all the time. Then my eyesight up close started to fail and I learnt the Uni Knot. I seem to find it easier to tie by feel. Similar knot strength.
Uni is great too. Use a back to back uni to tie my leaders to the main all the time. Great method. Tried the one I use on hooks to join the main and leader and it broke consistently under line rating at the join, way under. Was lousy. The hook or jig knot, in my Picasso, same knot, had/has no effect on line strength used to connect the line to a hook, but used to join lines to lines is a failure and I'd never ever recommend it. For hooks and jigs, 100%, line to line never.
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50 minutes ago, DerekD said:
Going to be picky here - I don't think it is the half blood knot. I actually think it is the "locked" half blood knot as he has put the tip of the line through the second loop he created to create the lock.
Details... details.... details
43 minutes ago, 61 crusher said:Second that definitely a locked blood knot
Yes guys. The tip goes through the bottom loop and through the top loop, two loops. Awesome knot. Tried the one years ago where it just goes through the one bottom one and under extreme pressure it would pull undone and you'd see a wiggly pig tail end bit that pulled through it all. Never ever had the awesome pictured, 😁, one pull through ever. And under mad pressure on heavy line I've had hooks straighten and often line break above the knot or perhaps should say in just random places. That as far as I'm concerned shows its a good qaulity knot to use and why I've stuck with it. Yep, had it on occasion break at it but thats in the very low % of times, often nowhere near it. Very, very confident in its use. 👍 Cool, locked Blood Knot it is.
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3 hours ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
The @TAZ and anyone else interested- look in our Links area for the knots link.
To stop me from drawing more weird knot pictures? Just wait till one day I do one of my fish ones! 😋
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The wind knots I was told were wind knots, the ones on spinning reels, nearly always resulted for me with overloaded spools. Line coming off too freely, just virtually peeling off itself when the cast hold was released.
Im pretty new to bait casters, had overheads and Abu in the past but not the newer type till recent times. I wasn't happy with the casting performance I was getting from my Daiwa Fuego, practiced and practiced, bit better but getting over runs and no great distance to write home about. Then a bloke said to me one day "mate you have too much line on it" Im thinking no there's not its just full and not over done. He then told me to look from the front where the line comes through the reels line guide and is the line coming through unhindered around the bottom two thirds to half area of the guide? Could I see the top of the line level on the spool in that area? My line level was right up the top of eye, it may have even just been coming through the top 1 /5 or 1/4 part of it. He said there was too much friction not enough free movement. Was like the eye was smaller than it really is in use. So I dropped the backing line right off so when I looked the line level was easy in the middle part of the eye. Wow, my casting improved from being less than my spin reel to matching and at times beating it easy. I now can easily cast a softy on a 1/4 ounce jig head further than I was getting on a 1/2 and my overruns greatly reduced. Again my issues were an over full spool. My spool on the Fuego may now look like its a bit under done line wise but it casts now great.
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3 hours ago, anthman said:
Hi all, brief report here. Went out just past between north and south head. Lots of tiny bait fish getting busted by slimies. They were moving mainly between the north head half of the space between north and south head. Some real stonkers caught on 20g slow jigs and 21 g halco Twistys. No bonito , Tailor or kingies amongst them (that I could catch/see!) . Hung around Balmoral jetty for an hour or so, no big kingies insight (maybe Ive been fooled? ). Finished with lots of slimies which will be filleted and salted for bait and a nice tailor for dinner.
Not the best day, not the worst day. But either way, still a day on the water (and not working!).
It's all good fun catching anything I reckon. 👍
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I dont even know the name of the knot I use but it holds extremely well. My Dad taught it to me as a kid. Line through the eye, hold the tag end and line, twist the hook six,seven times min then put the end through the line loop near the eye, now bring it up and through the line loop up the top, wet with some spit and pull tight. Never undoes, high knot strength too. Used it all my fishing life and never let me down.
Anyone know the name of it? Feel free to laugh at my artwork, I'm no Picasso. 😁
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6 hours ago, nbdshroom said:
G'day guys, what an eventful fishing session! 😃 I only wanted to go there and try to catch that big bass that dusted me in my previous attempt up at the lake at Parramatta.
The session got going when I decided to hit the shaded patches along the shoreline and came tight to the first bass of the day. Good little scrap from a feisty little fish which managed to spike me and release itself all in the same motion! It definitely went wrong there and it was a sign of (bad) things to come...
Shortly after, I got stuck into another model a bit further up. Another good specimen in close right at the end of a rocky drop but that was about as good at got before it turned bad...
What happened next, I tried to step onto the leading rock to release the fish and I had a big stack right into the water! Ouch! It was pretty funny in hindsight and luckily no one saw me haha. 😂
Luckily I was okay and able to continue the session!
I guess I'll just have to work on my releasing techniques for next time. Thanks for reading! 😎
Haha, reminds me of when I was a kid fishing at a place called Wildwood in Vic. Hooked a nice trout using a small bubble float with a grasshopper suspended a foot below it (killer rig) fish took it but didn't notice the broken guide. Line caught on it and broke. So I see a float bob bob bob away out into the pool in the river/creek (upper reaches of the maribyrnong) Am I gonna watch it go away? No way, I dive in, grab the float and line and with each pull or lunge of the trout I stretch my arm out to take the shock. Few minutes later I land a 3 lb brown, good fish for that place and have this story to tell to this day. Getting wet for a fish is always worth it. Nobody saw me but I'll never forget that fish.
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Hi mate. Know nothing about that place but is that temperature you mention the temp at the deepest where fish would go in the hot times or surface temp? Because in most lakes when it heats up they head for deeper cooler waters and often shut down.
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On 11/17/2019 at 5:46 PM, 61 crusher said:
Bummer about the car & photos, looks like it was a good sized brown, they taste great smoked
Yeah mate, the worst was not having the car picture really. I stopped mid road to get a quick picture as there was nowhere to pull over properly, saw a ute a bit back, took the pic, planted the foot, turbo kicks and im off. All good. Get home, go to show the misses and the fish pic and Subaru growing out of a stump are not there! But I saw them and heard the click. Dirty as on not having the car one. Looked so funny. But it may be worse. Just yesterday went past a bush speed camera in a bishi on the roadside. No worries, my dashcam is on, shows my speed as 100k spot on. Hit the save, no worries. Get home and check it and the sd card has crapped itself and not recorded anything. Just hope the mongrel didn't falsely ping me as I have now no evidence.
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I had an Alpha a number of years ago and caught plenty of trout on it. The fish dont know what rod and reel you use. And I have been seriously considering getting another for the back of the car just recently myself.
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Ok, so I lost my picture of the actual fish when I caught it, 5lb brown, along with a crashed stolen car mounted on a tree stump. Got deleted somehow that days pictures. But all not lost, just add the tail section which was eaten baked, and head, binned, and use your imagination. 😁
Just now smoked with some Tasmanian oak chips and about to be eaten. Caught on a 3" green gulp minnow grub and 1/8 jig head.
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1 hour ago, hookerbruce said:
Fished the sand flats in the macleay yesterdays afterwards for me I did really well on whiting. Nothing compared to the snapper at Port Stephens.
Fished from the shore as only a short trip and couldn't be bothered launching the boat..
Fished unweighted nippers on 1 and 2 kg outfits for about 3hrs near the bottom of the tide. Never caught so many whiting over 35cm in a single outing. . Going to give them another try tomorrow
Top effort and feed mate.
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8 hours ago, Scratchie said:
G’day raiders,
Where do I start????
Ok, so Monday. Woodsy and I were going to head out so I went and checked the weather. Conditions were forecast fishable but I looked at the ocean and it wasn’t right, so we canned it. Made plans to look at Friday! I had another mate and raider @tyrone07 keen as well. So we plan to get out today but Tyrone decides to bring up his boat with a mate and thought we could have a little Comp to keep us focused. The only problem is he only made it half way due to a collapsed wheel bearing! Poor bastard! 😫
Well that’s not stopping me and woodsy from going, so off we went. Collected a few livies that were very picky. Great conditions and we hit our mark. A few drifts nothing! Plenty of bait showing, good water (maybe to clear) good drift but no takers! Reset the drift and finally woodsy comes up tight! A nice panny for the box. Another boat turns up and anchors on our drift so time to move.
Well, we pull up and there’s a stack of kings under our boat. Great fun on the snapper gear but all rats and basically just wasting our time. So we venture on closer to structure and get a good drift going. Plenty of bait on the sounder and then showering the surface. To be honest, I can’t recall every fish in order but they started chewing and chewing hard! We both lost some really really good fish and landed some nice takers too! Although I did manage to catch whiskers but a few of his brothers were to good for us!
Packed up by 1030 and left them biting! Another great day out in Port Stephens!
Cheers scratchie!!!
Hot damn, that things not far of being a Rhino! Awesome fish!
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Good one, if I get a feed to me its mission accomplished. That is mission accomplished. 👍
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Over the past few years I've heard of just about everything getting caught in Vic waters. Times are changing.
https://vfa.vic.gov.au/education/featured/teachers-resource/climate-change-fishing-change
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Think every reddie fisherman has caught them this size.
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38 minutes ago, dirvin21 said:
I've now evacuated, the fire took an unexpected turn and is only a few km's from home so made the decision to get out early
Gee mate, hope your family & friends all escape unharmed.
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19 hours ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
A very big thanks to any of our fishraiders who have been out fighting fires over the last few weeks.
The pictures and videos shown on TV and social media depict the ferocity and relentlessness of the fires. Absolutely frightening vision.
I have been listening to the Emergency channels Mid North Coast and am blown away by the comms management. Professional and so well managed.
We have family members in Old Bar, Taree, Tuncurry and Forster. The work of the firies saved swordies sister’s house today at Old Bar/Wallabi Point.
Thanks and take a well earned rest fellas and gals.
They're hero's that's for sure. Still grim too. My mate in Qld just told me his daughter and kids were just evacuated as a massive fire front was approaching their home. The footage from some of these fires are terrifying. Hope no more lives get lost and anyone here near or in them is safe.
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Good stuff.
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Gee, that petrol bits the worst I reckon. Heard of someone not long back filling their car that just has a 40 litre thereabouts tank and the pump read 60.
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On 11/4/2019 at 11:41 AM, T_Bert83 said:
@TAZ I was back home in Western Vic recently and it's great to see how green it was with rivers flowing looking healthy a stark contrast to the country I had to drive through getting there.
I hope lack of oxygen levels don't become an issue. I've seen the local rivers get pretty ugly in times of drought and the fish survive somehow so hopefully that is the case again. Seeing the recent fish kills on the news has me more concerned this time around though.
Hi mate, yeah we have it ok here at the moment. Never seen so many native plants in flower in the same year as I have this year. Haven't been out fishing for a few weeks but a drive around the areas the other day to take the misses out and most waters looked really good from Ballarat to Bridgewater. Everything's been against me fishing in the past month but by hook or by crook im going next week.
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Keep seeing on the tv how grim it is in other states. Here's hoping you guys get the rain you need. 👍
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I liked that. 👍
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Knots for soft plastics
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Yep, I remember Dick Lewers. He was a legend mate. 👍