anthony f

I have found out i need a spring pin removal tool to get the gear lever shaft apart, how to make a easy job had mercury!!

Does any one know how to correctly remove the pin to separate the gear lever so I can remove the lower housing Thanks ant P.S. Don't know how to load a picture off the phone.

There are all sorts of fishing opportunities in Yamba, and my best advice would be to visit the 2 tackle stores and talk to them. There is also a booklet of fishing Yamba with spot marked and I can tell you these spot and info are pretty good advice. Good luck

Fishing involves being an optimist, so I hope the one dangling from the end of my rod at the moment is going to be the one

Thanks, better do the right thing and give you a bit more information.The jewie comes from the rocks at Yamba which is home, it took a large Bozo grub. The barra took a 10 year old B52 which is purpose to be gold but is more white than anything due to missing paint. The toga was on a spinner bait and both come from Corroboree Billabong, a spectacular place to fish. I would recommend to any one going to the NT to take some spinner baits and in heavy wire, I found them very effective and they are not something you readily find in the well stocked tackle stores up there. Here a couple of shots at the billabong which can be very busy and I imagine only getting busier as they where sealing the road in, it offers some great viewing as well as fishing.

Like the title says. My job is not high paying, not glamorous and most of the time hard work. On the up side I get to meet a lot of great people and now spend the busy season on the far north coast and then the dry season in Darwin. Caravan parks got to love them, me and my boat enjoy both places and I am looking forward to next season up north after a 4 month learning experience this year Home And Away Sorry couldn,t help myself

I don,t know if any of you have read anything about the history of the brisbaine river but there was talk of the great silver fish in there when it had a visibility of 30 -50m not 2 inches. Global warming MY BEHIND

Sounds good would you mind telling me the brand so I can look. cheers Ant

Hi mate, although I haven,t fished wooli for a while I can tell you it is a beautiful spot you will be able to fish some flats for usual estuary fish, the wall fish well for ludrick at times as well as jew and tailor. The beachs would well be worth a look at as would the surround headland which will require a short drive. When fishing the rock areas of the river and walls you can also factor mangrove jack into the equation.

Just one other thing that was pointed out to me. The stylish life jacket will have a service date on them, and if they don,t maritimes will take it what they should be serviced every 12 months other wise your in the wrong. The officer told me that he hadn,t seen one with a longer term than a year with some costing $100 to service and to look carefully at what I buy if I didn,t want a nasty bill each year

Yep these are the new ones I was talking about, they apparently don,t really come into force in a finable way until Nov. 2011. this is when fines will start being dished out. One such piece of silliness I was talking about for example is. All people under 12 have to wear a jacket (fair enough) but over 12 no, if you are on the boat with some-one in between 12-18 they DON,T have to wear a jacket but you do as you are not in the company of another adult and classed as being alone, go figure that piece of brilliance out.

Haven,t been on the site for ages but some-times you feel like saying some-thing. Well I am sure this topic may have been discussed before but today the new laws where pointed out to me by the maritime boat. Yes I am all for safety but most of the reasoning I got in reality was stupidity. These laws are good and bad and how long do the sensible have to pay for the stupid. Who makes the the laws and what do they base their outcomes on? Just another way to raise a bit of money as far as I am concerned.

Thanks for your in-put. The car is a commodore station wagon and the boats a 4.2 side console and the trip starts from the Yamba. The screen on the console will defiantly be coming off to reduce wind resistance, would not of thought of that, anthony

I am heart broken as I have to go to Darwin for the dry season for work ( NOT ) I am going to try and make this a yearly advent and seeing this will be the first time I am at odds to whether to take the boat or just make it a re-con mission. I was wondering if any-body would have a clue to what % does towing raise your fuel bill as I have really never taken notice before and does any-body have any advice or tips for such a trip cheers Anthony

Thank you very much Dogtooth, yep it is 2.6 petrol and that was exactly the sort of advice I needed. Cheers Anthony.

Just after a little advice. My problem being I have an old 90 ng pajero in need of a replacement carby. It is propbably impossible to get a replacement and beleive me I have tried. I have be told a early 90,s navaras would go or to fit it with a holley. Considering this car has been around the clock the later might be a bit on the costly side and the first suggeston I am uncertain on. Any thoughts out there? As it is much loved and does its job and get me to the ramp and beach. thanks

Well thanks for the wishes. I am no expert and the are a lot of cast between fish, there are some guns that know how to reduce that number but they have fished for them by this method for years. Darren Borg was a gun at it and has a shallow running fat cigar shape lure he use to put out in life before breaming. The better ones I know like to use big Bill,s Bug and constantly catch fish on them. Mr. Rob the river is the Clarence and the rocks in the Iluka/Yamba area are good for it and I wish my vintage was 11 years younger.

Just wondering after reading all this stuff on jew on plastic which is mostly boat and river related(also school jew or soapies). So who here gives or is fanaticle about throwing lures off rocks for them. This is a pastime of mine and I am just wondering what you are using? The condition I know with swell, plenty of white water and bait. E.G tailor,blackies or mullet.

Well thanks fellas even though we don,t know each other. Cracker of a day here on the far north coast and friday is my saturday. Started out with a surf, have plan to jump onto the clarence later and have a throw then maybe, just maybe, O.K more than likely 1 or 4 of these

Well that read is a sign of the time with plastic making up about 100% of the reply and yes they do catch flatty. I personally like to also throw hard bodies and have had great success with. Gold Bombers The $4.00 gold frenzy Jackel style lure and Rio,s Prawns These 3 have accounted for more fish over 80cm than the plastics which I have use most of the mentioned(except the gulps as I have a person issue with them) and in the long run last a whole lot longer and cost you less.

I reckon any bit of water on the whole NSW coast with access to salt water will hold a bass but from the mid north coast up is gods country. Just wondering if this area that you fished jewhunter is between M,bar and Uki? Looks that way to me.

I had a gold fish that looked exactly like that. It started out light orange and then for some reason lost all it pigmentation and it was virtually see-through. It was a couple of years old but was the first to go to the great fish bowl in the sky before I noticed we had filter problems.

ARRR now I know why my house and every thing in it is out of square

At times I find 1 set of trebles is able to hold about 20 other lures. If you are going to use this method just make sure you group your lures, all poppers, all divers etc together. Some-times they mate and you find one you can,t remember having! but with this set-up you also need a lot of patients

Gee wizz Dusky me old mate, lucky hat, special C&R cloth and silver fox shads. For god sake don,t walk under any ladders or cross the path of a black cat, you may never catch a big girl again!