slothparade

thanks for picking that up, that would be on my end, been a while since ive done any math just want to forget about hsc lol. no hard feelings, appreciate you picking up on my error

Yeah, couldn't agree more. Tried to break it down to be pretty simple. There's to many variables to properly predict the time it will take for your battery to charge. Sorry I was meant to say that the numbers are basically theoretical and under controlled conditions, as there is way to many factors affecting everything.

Sorry for the confusion, been a while since I've don't any math. The 0.3 is 30% of 180 because lead acid stop releasing energy (running your electronics) at about 30% of total battery life. 30% of 180 is 54, so 180-54 is 136. 130 (remaining Amps in battery from 'flat' divided by 15 which is the rate at the battery charges. Hope this helps. Sorry again

Just so we know are you trying to make one of these?

Your never run a batter completely flat, sorry just wanted to make sure. I'm pretty sure for lithium ion, the lowest it lets you go to is 15-20% of it's capacity and for lead acid I think it's like 30-40%. Someone probably knows the exact figures, I just know a rough estimate For your battery your probably looking at: 0.3 x 180 = 54 that's your from 'flat' start point Then at a constant 15 Amps per hour would be 136/15 = 8.4 hours +- a bit due to battery health, resistance ect. These calculations are relying on ideal scenarios.

Pretty sure it's cat food soaked with bread.

Peir 2 and peir 8 are ok but need a particular burley

Thanks, pretty sure the lock on the side shows it's secure to. Also be aware of pay id scams, I've lost a large amount of money to one.

What's stopping you from drilling a hole on a bottle cork, running some fishing line through that and tieing it onto of the notches in the hand line? It will get in the way a bit but you will get used to it. Just make the line short enough, or just make a look knot which you run through something on the kayak so it secures your handling to the kayak. I do it with my tools when kayaking in surf, works well. Just make the line long enough to give yourself some working room without getting in twh way. Can send pics if needed

Won't be because it's a cheap reel, U use cheap reels now and again with braid and that never happens. Only experience I've had that something remotely like that happened was when I over spooled my reel.

Everything is weird at the moment. Couple of weeks ago, the break were on fire, usually never see or hear of anyone catching anything, instead they were everywhere. Also the mullet have basically disappeared, they're usually a plague, but recently been very quiet. The Jewish have been extremely quiet as well. What's even stranger is the rays have all but disappeared usually see multiple but last few times lucky to see 1 or 2. What's even weirder is that the sharks were around not that long ago, not in large numbers but they were around, now nothing at all. It's a bit concerning that everything is changing so much, let's just hope this is a one off

I have the same issue on my car. I'd say that the battery has had it, guessing it's a lead acid? The power usage on your motor shouldn't be that bad through. Have you checked you don't have anything else wired to it? Have a look at the draw from the motor then add a bit for conditions, that should be an indicator of how long your battery should last. Leave a bit of wiggle room but if it's significantly different, (lasted a lot less than it should have) that will indicate you have a did battery. How old is the battery? They loose a bit of amp hours each charge, might also indicate you need a new battery. Hope this helps, probably not the worst idea to talk to a store as mentioned before

Yeah Walsh bay can be ok. There's a school of kings that regularly live around the piers. I use 50 lbs braid and 50 lbs fluro, for kings. For trevs much lighter. Around the sides, there are squid, really slowly bring the lure back, personally didn't have much success but they are there, there's also yakkas there, but need burely. 1 st time there was broken off by something big, second time someone next to me pulls out a 10 kg bonito. The king's are weird there, best bait is live prawns though 👍

will do, sorry not been feeling well hence not been active. the hayfever has really been getting to me

heres how i use my lure setups Bait caster: - usually on kayak where precission casting required, great when casting into mangroves, pylons, trees, rocks ect - great for chucking 'heavier' lures I absolutely love my biatcaster though the learning curve wasn't easy but it is one of my most used setups In the other hand for light things like bream I use a nasci on a dawia td, pretty nice and fun to use though I tend to loose more gear when casting into snags for heavy lures, i use a slammer or a penn battle as the baitcaster is suited to hardbodies, like 10-25g not large stick baits ect as your new, id be going a spin setup probably a sienna 2500 on a catana rod or simillar, will be quite light and should be easy to learn and not cost an arm and a leg. also buy second hand, so when you go to upgrade you can hopefully make some money back if not gain money, as for technique, look for bustups, bait schools, snags and edges and drop offs. I not any where near as experinced as others but i do enjoy doing a bit of lure fishing now and again and had great sucess, just recently caught a bream on a lure which ranked in the top 3 of the largest bream ive ever caught

From a bit of research the rod appears to be from the 50s-70s and the reel looks to be from the 60s-80s

Does anyone know of anyone who is interested in collecting vintage gear?

Happy to pull part my reel and send you a vid if you are still having problems

Could you upload some more pics. Looks like the spring is out through. From memory there should be a notch and a little slot. I've circled the parts I'm talking about.

Looking for a shark fishing buddy, no experience needed, no gear needed as I'm happy to lend gear. Im pretty flexible, Sydney based. Just let me know if your interested. Also seeing if anyone would be interested in coming on Friday/ weekend to palm beach or something

Part 2: Headed out early and noticed something break the surface near the boat ramp, paddled out and chucked a mullet vibe and landed a healthy large bream around 30 cm. Released and headed off to get the pots. Arrived at where the pots were meant to be and was scratching my head thinking I just have marked the GPS coordinates wrong, anyways paddle around a bit more and eventually find one ages away from where I left it, definitely been messed with and a little while later I found my other pot. The baits were missing, completely disappeared, guessing the work of crabs but unfortunately they were nicked. Just great full that my pots weren't stolen. Went back and explored the mangroves and removed some abandoned traps, hanging in trees, half buried ECT, no tags or anything so I just removed them and chucked them, I just want to make it clear they were derp in mangroves, falling apart, no float/ tags ECT, so yeah obviously dumped pots. Also did remove some rubbish as well, just trying to keep the system a bit cleaner.

Yeah, waters hit or miss. Down the river it's kinda muddy and murky, but up to the first bay it was literally crystal clear, keep heading up and it get worse, it's not the most murky but yeah, you can see about half a meter to a meter. Checking the pots tomorrow but it's a new spot. It's completely not accessable by boat and you have to be careful with the sand bars. By the looks of it, it was relatively untouched. Anyways it's not the easiest to lug pots up there so yep.

Nah, can't eat crustations, she'll fish from hawkes burry at the moment. I don't know about crabs. Ah, thanks. I was pretty suppised, never seen a bream jump like that.