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There are also a few small hammerheads around the runways.

At night the water is a totally different world. Scout out the area/s you intend to fish at night, the day before. use your way points on your sounder or chartplotter to create a way to your fishing spots and add 2way point close to each other for anchoring up. If the tide is coming in it would be a good idea to let out a heap of anchor rope. check the hight of the tide and let out another meter or so of rope. Make sure all lights work and carry extra batteries for the torche and globes. Cheers Snooze

1. self raising flower 2. teaspoon butter 3. 1-2 pillies or a can of sardines 4. cup of water mix well together It will sink very slowly unweighted but the key is to flatern it on the hook. and you have a gun bait for bream and yakkas. hope it helps Cheers Snooze

Doctors Order’s 06/03/10 It’s been a about a months since I’ve hit the water. Work has been busy and the weather has not been playing nice. Not being able to be on the water was starting to get to me and I’d think that fishing would have been the Doctors Order’s. Friday had just finished for me and was excited that I new I was going to go for a fish, I got home and packed everything, checking all the gear and retying all traces that looked like they need to and loaded the boat ready for Saturday. It was a late start in Botany Bay a few things came up and didn’t manage to get out there till 12noon but non-the less it was still good to hit the water once again. Launched from Kyeemagh and headed straight to the markers to see if any kings where willing to play, threw a few plastics and surface lures but it was not to be, the water didn’t look to clear and we left it at that. We headed over to our next spot and anchored up, sent down a good mix of burley and waited for the fun to start. It didn’t take long for the action to begin and the bream where all around the boat we could see them on the sounder, but most that came up were undersize and went back in the drink. I was using 8lb mono and had a feeling that the mono might have been putting the bigger models off and lucky I had 6lb handline on board thanks to the kids as they use that to catch there yakkas with. Down went the 6lb line and with in an instant the line pulled tight and the fish was trying to make its freedom, pulling and giving line it became a tug of war, the fish gave up the fight and was landed, a nice yellow fin bream was the first to hit our esky full of ice, we kept a few for the dinner table and we left the rest bitting. Our next spot was the oyster leases throwing power baits around, managing few good whiting for the dinner table once again. It was getting late in the arvo at this time and decide to drift for flathead just of Dolls Point, we pickup on flathead and a legal snapper in 3.5m of water I was stoked. It was great day out just what the doctor would have ordered. Cheers Snooze

You will attrack fish at the jetty with burley, but they wont stay if there isnt enough structure for them to hide from preditors and the currents, but you will most certanly train the birds. Cheers Snooze

Hi Jeckt It shouldent be a problem so as long you dont overweight the rod with to heavy sinkers, Usually the rod should provide you with max casting weight. If not then commen sense should be used. Matching the line to the reel is not a problem as the reel has the line ratings on it. For example a 2500 reel would have a line rating like 6lb-200m/8lb-140m/10lb-120m, all you have to do is choose which line. Also the rod tells you the KG's that its rated like 2-4kg, If we convert kg to lb then a 2-4kg rod is 5lb-9lb but the tackle companies use 6lb-10lb which is just a little over. So know we can say that a 2-4kg rod should be matches to 2500 type reel or a reel of 6lb-10lb. This should bring the best performance from your reel and rod. Setting drag to reels is a little tricky and debatable but the comen rule is 1/3 of the breaking strain of the line, so 10lb line would be set at 3.5-4lb drag. Hope i havent confused you even more. Cheers Snooze

Hi, The thread that you provided is a good place to start. One rule i live by is keep your bait combo as a bait combo and a spin/plastics combo as that. If you have the dough to spend then a 2-4kgs fast tapper plastic rod reel will do all of the fish spieces you intend to catch, a 4-8kgs bait combo should be suficant for the beach/rocks. The most critical facter here would be to match the line rating to the reel and rod. As you may have noticed i fish very light, i use to fish heavy but iv'e found that i fish better lighter and making sure the drag settings are correct. By my experiance i find the harder you pull against a fish the harder the fish pulls so a good drag setting is also critical. Every fisherman fishe's differently, they have there own style and one that you will develop in time. Cheers Snooze

None, as far as im aware the yammies are made to run normal unleaded. Cheers Snooze

Ethonal draws water from the atmosphire, if you use E10 you must not leave any fuel in the tank, you have to consider the fact that ethanol burns dry and 2 strokes like it wet. if you want problems then E10 is the go. Cheers Snooze

This should clear things up, straight from the horses mouth. http://www.maritime.nsw.gov.au/rec_boating/boatingsafety.html Cheers Snooze

I was going to go but other commitments have come. would have been good, maybe might have had a chance.

If you intend to use braid then that is what you should be using because the feel will be totally different to mono and adjusting to it again is only going to frustrate you. Casting lures and soft plastics with braid is excellent, you feel so much more, and when you get enough practice you will be able to define what are snags compared to bites and so forth. I also have an abu garcia rod matched with a shimano corvalus cv400 for about $200 when they came out, but i don't use it that much for casting but more for live baiting and floating, i think the shimano cruxis CRX200 should be a nice reel. I prefer eggbeaters for spinning. Even the experts get birds nest so don't kick your self to hard on the back side, just keep the wind blowing at your back and cast with the wind, practice makes perfect. Both system have their advantages/disadvantages, but it just comes down to personal preference. There should be enough info here you to decide. Good Luck with it. Cheers Snooze.

Hit some channel markers with some pencil poppers for some kingies. Cheers Snooze

Red Rock Crab The Red Rock Crab is also known as the Red Bait Crab. Red Rock Crabs are found living around the weed and in crevices on the rocks and ledges at the water level or just below the surface, when disturbed will move away with great speed to the nearest cover or crevice. The Red Rock Crab grows to 10cm occasionally larger crabs are seen their body colour is either red or reddish brown with lighter reddish orange bumps and margins on the carapace, legs and claws which also have a dense coat of short hairs. Red Rock Crabs are found from Queensland around the southern coastline to Western Australia. The Red Rock Crab is regarded by many as Australia's finest crab bait that can be used from the rocks. It has a very hard shell and is also one of the meatiest of the small crabs we see on the rocks. Blue Groper, Estuary Cod, Morwong and Drummer all favor Red Rock Crab. Red Rock Crabs can be collected at low tide around the rocks using a small barbed spear to pull them from the crevices they hide in. Alternatively you can collect by hand however Red Rock Crabs are extremely fast and agile in their natural environment and collecting can take some time. If you can find them in a area which has safe small washes you can pin them as a wave rolls over the rock they are feeding on, or hunt them in to a crevice and pull them out if possible try not to damage while collecting in this way because a handful of legs will not serve you well as bait compared to the whole crab. Red Rock Crabs have a very hard shell and trying to push a hook through can be dangerous to yourself and most likely kill the crab fairly fast, if you intend to use them as live bait the easiest way is to remove the lower leg and passing hook through and back out the lower body and fished under a float to stop the crab finding its way back in to a crevice which you would lose the bait and rig along with it. Other methods are to cut the crab in to pieces remove the shell and legs cut the body in half and thread it on to your hook this is a better way of presenting Red Rock Crab as bait for Bream, Morwong or Snapper. I'm with you on the spelling thou. we all make mistakes. Cheers Snooze