slothparade

Definitely sounds like the trip of a life time. What sort of trailer did you use? And how did you avoid bending the chassis or doing any major damage? Did you end up bracing the trailer? Pre packing hubs and bearings is definitely an extremely smart idea. Did you match the trailer wheels and tires to your cars? Just so that you could use your spares on the trailer or car? Good thing guards aren't the most important 😆. Yeah the dust, goodness, I still remember around oombulgari, the dust was ridiculous. These trips last a life time, I can't wait for the day that I finally can go back to the Kimberley. Might need to disagree with you about that, barra might slightly be tastier than threadfin. But very close though. We really wanted to do the Frenchman's track as well, but maybe next time. Thanks for the great advice, much appreciated. Definitely good to hear from someone whose actually done the trip.

Definitely a good idea, plan is to drop into familys property and pick up a much larger boat to head off shore. There's also plenty of land based opportunities if a boat doesn't work. But yeah crocs have been on our minds. Thanks

Most likely behind one of the 79s. Definitely have, and am very appreciative of their advice.

Thankyou. Do you believe that using a smaller boat in the small creeks would be safe enough? If you don't mind, what size range should we be looking at? To explain our plan a bit more, our plan is to head up through old tele track, and get right to the top of cape, while fishing the small creeks. Then our group splits up, mates head down the west coast while partner and I drop into the property and pick up the larger (8m) boat to head offshore with. Thanks very much.

Don't have to warn me twice about crocs. Mate lost his leg to a big one. They used to come up and sun bake on the beach all the time. It's definitely surprising the puddles they manage to disappear in. Most of the time you'd never guess that there was one in there. Thanks for the advice, what about just in the smaller creeks? Have family up there with a much larger proper off shore boat, so that's sorted, not keen on towing an 8m boat around 😂. Thanks.

After a lot of thinking, were looking at the possibility of towing a tinny up to Cape York and completing the old tele track. Looking for advice as to what sort of tinny would be best suited for this. Obviously want something relatively small and light, thinking a small 5 HP motor. Any model suggestions would be much appreciated. Also any advice as well would be much appreciated. Guessing were going to have to reinforce the trailer quite a bit as well, so have taken that into account. Did look at the possibility of a roof top tinny, but really didn't want to put so much weight high up. Thanks

Right in the middle of the wash. That's where you usually get large bream. We recently had a trip and caught 11 bream that were all around the 36cm mark. Just fished the wash, about 1m in from the sand bar with a running ball sinker and a 2/0 hook

id be going in the wash next to the red arrow. 8 lbs mono with a ball sinker and a 2/0 circle hook with pippi or beach worm

4500 Penn slammer hs will pair nicely. I tried a Saragosa 6000 on a Penn prevails 6-12 kg and it didn't feel the best, prefered the slammer for the prevail. The 6500 slammer fits really well on a 10-20kg rod

Just wondering how do you get the 2 hook rig to not tangle?

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No, I find it perfect, we caught 20+ bream on them not long ago, granted they were all large though. Just double checked, they are the mustard demon light gauge circle hook 2/0 in a yellow, blue and white packaging. They're perfect with pippi, beach worms or even prawns.

Follow the stealth fisha kayaks, they're the locals and know where the fish are. And yeah head out to the left towards narrabeen point, anywhere along there. In saying that, there's not many snapper getting around there at the moment

Thanks, much appreciated. The main reason for wanting to put a 105 axel on is so that I can run my wheels, then have 3 in the trailer with a tool box and spares. Funny enough I actually do have spare trialing arms, upper control and panhards 😂. Could do a triangulated 4 linked trailer 😆. Funny you mention crab walking, just had a mate drop in, he had just installed a 5" lift in the patrol without any of the arms, wondering why it wouldn't drive straight at all 🤣. What if I were to use a 79 series rear axle which is leaf spring? Can get my hands on one very cheap and easy, but it also runs the same hubs. Actually unrelated question, but when towing a large boat, 7.8m bar crusher, with a 5" lifted cruiser we've had some issues of it sitting on a ridiculous angle. Obviously there's airbags, but they affect flex, so is there any way to make it sit a bit more flat? Or is it just a better Idea to use mine which is a couple inches lower and sits flat?

Long story short, I have a box trailer with leaf suspension and a 50 year old Holden axel. I also have a braced 105 series diff (axel) laying around gathering dust. I was wondering how hard it would be to coil covert the trailer using the cruiser axel? Im guessing that I could weld on some spring towers and grab some trialing arm mounts as well? Optionally would it be better to do dual axles? But clearance with the tires could be a problem as I want to put my larger tires on the trailer (37s). Secondly, does anyone know the rules regarding guards for a trailer? Do the same rules apply that the tires must be covered by the guards? Finally, are beadlocks allowed on trailers, I know there not legal on a vehicle but does that also apply to trailers?