Berleyguts

This one.

I once won a subscription prize from Fishing World - a week on Lord Howe Island with 4 days gamefishing. I went on that trip 2 weeks before my wedding. My fiancé/wife didn’t want to go. That was the last serious fishing trip I had - 31 years ago! 🤷‍♂️😂😂

They liked the selfie with the dolly I caught at the FAD. That was tricky taking that - the boat was really bouncing around that day! 😂

So, Shimano Australia had a Facebook competition where they asked us to post a fishing selfie and they’d award a prize pack to the best 10. I got a message to get my details and said they’ll send me a package. 😎 I don’t suppose it will include a Stella…? 🤷‍♂️😂

Good luck with it. The surgery techniques are a lot less intrusive these days. I didn’t feel any pain from my hernia but after the op there was some bruising. It hurt the most when my mates came to visit me and made me laugh! 😂

Good stuff, Rick. Yeah, I think it’s about time I soaked a bait, too. I feel less guilty about a short session down the road than I do going out in the boat for several hours. Will have to check the tide chart. 🤔 I just got a negative Covid result back a few minutes ago, so I can step out of iso after a possible exposure at work.

Inguinal or umbilical? When I was about 20 I had an inguinal one. I lived with it for months - kept pushing it in and out! 😂 Didn’t really feel any pain but I was too scared to see a doctor about it because I thought they’d have to remove a nut! 😂 I misread my mum’s medical encyclopaedia- this was before Dr Google. I didn’t need a truss or anything. Eventually had it fixed on December 8, 1980, the day John Lennon was killed, that’s why I remember it. I had an umbilical hernia for a few years but just assumed I’d put on so much weight that my innie had become an outtie! 😂 I got that repaired in 2019. I was only in overnight for that one. It’s worth getting it done, especially if you have private health cover.

Are you short sighted or long sighted? I had laser surgery several years ago to correct my distance vision. Now I’m better than 20/20 and it was pleasing to be able to wear whatever sunnies I wanted. But then, old age kicked in and I need to pop glasses on to read. So, when fishing, I use Barz Optics with the little magnifiers in the bottom (mine are +1.5)… best of both worlds.

What weight? Economy Air via Australia Post to NZ for 2kg, would cost $31.60 but standard Air is faster and only about $4 more. You can calculate different options on the Australia Post website.

I’m currently decluttering in preparation for when we move house in a few weeks. I was going through my collection of songs and chord charts I’d written down over the years and throwing out the paper copies of the ones I’ve managed to get into electronic format so far. I found these lyrics I penned to the tune of “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?” by The Angels. I can’t remember when I wrote it but I know I typed it up on my Mum’s typewriter… it must have been the early 80s. I know it was the early 80s because I referred to a Mister Twister. I can vaguely remember singing it around a campfire… probably at an ANSA convention somewhere. I must have been having trouble catching fish back then… not much has changed, I guess! 🤷‍♂️😂😂 PS. There are some other draft lyrics scribbled around the side. They became a different, country song. Pretty corny. 😂

Got a COVIDSafe delivery today from a mask wearing Scratchie 😎 and my Fishraider stickers are now adorning Sea Miner, or as Scratchie called her, The Ornament! 😂 Thanks Jeff!

They look pretty schmick! 😎 How would they go storing fully rigged rods and reels? Including game reels?

I replace line when it gets too low on the spool to cast efficiently. I tend to buy my mono (Platypus Pretest) in 1000m spools, so I can usually fill 2 smaller reels with it but not the game reels, which use 600-700m. I keep what’s left but I can’t really use it as leader material because I use flouro line (not flourocarbon - the yellow flouro). I basically just use it for a 50-100cm breakaway line between braid and leader to meet ANSA regs. I have a bunch of spools of braid with not enough left on them to fill a reel, or even provide a decent top shot, so I guess that will have to go to waste. 🤷‍♂️

My wife would be happy if I only had 14 reels! I have 15 rigged rods in vertical storage, a couple sitting in the corner, 5 long rigged rods in overhead storage and a half dozen or more reels (spares) in a storage box. You can’t play golf with only one club! 😉 I’m about to move house and downsizing to only a single garage from a huge double garage, 3 large storage rooms/workshops under the house and 2 garden sheds. I’m currently looking for ideas for vertical or horizontal storage of fully rigged rods in a confined space. It also has to look schmick to please the missus…🤔

Thanks for all the updates, Donna. I had my second AstraZeneca shot yesterday and I now have my digital vaccination certificate. Stay safe everyone.

Thanks Zoran, I’m going to have a crack at it tomorrow. I’m pretty sure the nuts aren’t nyloc. I’d like spare u bolts in case I stuff it up but we’re out of stock at Bunnings where I work and Repco and SCA are online shopping only due to lockdown. Due to lockdown, I’m not fishing anyway - I just need to get it sorted before we move house in 6 weeks, so I’ve got plenty of time!

Lol. I was hoping to cut the bolts without taking them off but it looks like the top front one might be a little close to the winch post. 🤷‍♂️😂

No, there’s really no room to move it back. The shaft hits on the bolts anyway, so I’ll have to cut them.

Thanks Zoran, Of course, I just sold my angle grinders as I’m trying to clear out the house for when we move. 🤷‍♂️ I’ll have to borrow my son’s I guess! 😂 And screw the nuts out to deburr the thread, too, right?

Hi Fishraider brains trust! I changed my jockey wheel over today. I had one of those ratchet wheels to help me move the boat around but as I’m no longer on a sloping site I don’t need it, so it was time for a change. That and the fact that the wheel dropped down on the last trip to the ramp and flat spotted the tyre! 😂😂 So, I fitted the new wheel but the shaft is closer to the drawbar than the old one and it catches on the u-bolts when I try to swing it up. If I can’t get shorter u-bolts, is the solution to reverse the bolts so the nuts are on the other side of the drawbar and put a piece of gal plate between the drawbar and the nuts? Thus is coming from the nut operating the spanner. 😂 TIA.

This is my setup. I think it’s a 20mm female to male threaded poly elbow (from Bunnings). I cut the male part off at 45° and screwed the mesh screen on to that. Works well for me - gets plenty of water through. Only time I had a problem was when I got a lot of water into it and a small yakka got stuck in the overflow pipe. Quickly fixed though.

I use metres for depth, nautical miles for distance and knots for speed.

I had the same problem. If I did a lot of motoring around, I’d lose live baits. I lost the lot one day on a trip to the Port Stephens FAD. After that I fitted a poly elbow, with the downward pointing part cut off at approx. 45°, with the strainer fitted over that. You’ll find a thread somewhere on FR about this. Haven’t had a problem since (although I haven’t been to the FAD since) and so I think it’s getting plenty of water flow at speed (pump turned off). I’ll take a photo soon and post it.

You’re welcome, Jeff. 😂 Broughton’s definitely outside the 10km radius from my home! I might have a land based flick down the end of the road… but I really need to be clearing out the garage, two sheds and the under house storage before we move out next month… all that stuff certainly isn’t going to fit in the new house! 😮 Was planning a garage sale but can’t really have that now… looks like it’s skip time. 😂 Still glad to be living where I do. 🙏

It had to happen. 🤷‍♂️ I think I jinxed it… booked a few days off, hoping I’d finally get a fishing trip in. Oh well… back to cleaning up around the house! Can’t go to the tip, though. 🤔 😂 Stay safe, Raiders!