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7 hours ago, wrxhoon1 said:
Swing drawbars are legal in Australia. Years ago Imported a trailer that had one ( Karavan brand, it was part of the Brunswick corporation ). The swing was welded on but I can't see why a bolted one would be different. She had hydraulic brakes with flexi brake lines, they don't use cable brakes in USA, it worked well.
I think Felk trailers on lake Macquarie fit them to some of their boat trailers with cable brakes. You may have to disengage the cable in order to swing it.
Good luck in house hunting, I can't remember a worse time to buy a house then again I can't remember a better time to sell. The state government are the biggest winners with stamp duty and land tax.
I don't know about PS but in my area (Hills in Sydney) everything goes to auction.
Thanks @wrxhoon1 (my son would rather have a Silvia 😂😂). I’ll look into that if necessary. It’s certainly a great time to sell here in Port Stephens and yes, pretty much everything goes to auction. We were going to auction but accepted an offer yesterday and we hadn’t even gone live yet. Our agent found the buyer from her database. We’ve made an offer on a smaller place, hoping to buy before it goes to auction - just playing the waiting game at the moment. So stressful! 😂
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Get ‘em everywhere up around Wisemans Ferry. Bloody ugly, slimy things. You can have ‘em! 😂
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On 7/21/2018 at 10:20 AM, zmk1962 said:
A lot of space is lost to the trailer draw bar. You may consider a foldable design and get back 1+m in length.
There are DIY kits out there eg
Cheers
Zoran
I did a search for “folding drawbar” and this appeared! Thanks Zoran. 🙏
Does anyone know how this mod impacts on trailer brakes (cable)?
We are looking at selling our house (with its special boat port 😩) to downsize to a smaller, low maintenance property in the area - getting old you know! Chances are that the place we choose won’t have side access for the boat, so the folding drawbar might be the option, but I need to be sure the brakes will still be functional. I would get someone local to do the mod.
Any ideas?
My other option if we make enough by downsizing the house is to buy a bigger boat and put it on one of the local marinas! 😂 I’m not sure I can convince the missus of that, though! 😂
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11 hours ago, campr said:
I hold the ANSA 2kg record for Cobia. A little tacker only about 2kg but interestingly caught at Narooma at the entrance to Wagonga Inlet. This is the furthest south I have heard of them being caught. Ron
You must have knocked off Kevin Lee’s (I think it was) record, Ron. 😎 I remember he caught one on 2kg while spinning for flathead in Swansea Channel at the annual St George Sportfishing Club flathead day. I watched down on half a dozen cobia chasing baitfish in Pittwater from the grounds of the Newport Arms Hotel while enjoying a work lunch and beer once.
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8 hours ago, Remote River Man said:
Just wondering what everybody does in regard to handy, easily accessible, safe storage of their fishing gaffs aboard. Any photos of your setup welcome! Also, does anyone also bother carrying a boat hook pole?
Mine sits in 2 tube clips under the port side gunwhale, above my rod locker. Easy enough to grab when fishing solo and gaffing my own fish.
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16 hours ago, Bowler Bob said:
Hi all,
Currently living and working in Singapore, as the Casino Surveillance Director at Resorts World at Sentosa.
Will be returning to Australia in November (subject to COVID and border permissions). In the final stages of buying a house in Sunrise Lifestyle Village at Port Stephens where I will semi-retire. My brother-in-law is driving up from Sydney to have a look at the complex next week as it's obviously not an option for my wife and I to get there ourselves and we will be purchasing sight unseen. We have a site on hold and subject to a good report back from brother-in-law, it will be deposit down and start building for a late year finish.
I'm a keen lawn bowler, although it's been a bit difficult here in Singapore, so will be looking at a good club to join and get back into it. Soldiers Point and Nelson Bay look to be the closest choices and I'm leaning towards Soldiers Point. Happy to hear thoughts of any bowlers on this board.
I've always really enjoyed fishing, but chances have been few and far between over the years. This will change when I retire and I intend to buy my first boat and hit the waters at Port Stephens. Looking at a Quintrex Cruiseabout 540 Pro at this stage. The bowrider appeals as I'm sure the grandkids will be keen to visit and I can get the funding okay from the Minister for War and Finances for a boat she can enjoy rather than a straight fishing boat. If I'm not on the right track here, I'm all ears. I won't be looking at a boat until I'm back home, so very early in the thoughts.
I'm currently digesting all the great information on this site and will continue to lurk before I move back to Oz at which time I will become a much more active member of the Fishraider community.
I'm also a keen follower of AFL, my bowls will tell you who I follow...
Looking forward to meeting some of the inmates here who fish Port Stephens.
Take care,
Bob
Welcome to Fishraider, Bob! My wife is from Singapore. We were supposed to be there this month for a family reunion. Thanks COVID. 😡 We live in Port Stephens. Currently at Corlette. I don’t bowl but I’ve had a beer or two at both Nelson Bay and Soldiers Point bowlos. 😉 The view from the Crows Nest room at Nelson Bay is spectacular. I played at a few open mics there. Soldiers Point is handy to us and we are members there. I don’t know much about Sunrise.
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3 hours ago, campr said:
She didn't stop me I was fishing mid week with only a few boats out. She was probably bored and was up for a chat. Ron
Maybe she was checking you out, Ron. 😉
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Fixed mount, for sure. Better range. A hand held battery might run flat. I have my radio on all the time so I can listen for announcements by Marine Rescue, general chatter etc. With a hand held, I’d be tempted to turn it off to conserve battery. Carry one as a backup if you like. And don’t forget your EPIRB!
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I can fit 8 in the rod holders mounted on my side console. (The rod holders are those alloy ones most guys put on their bull bars for beach fishing). Because I can fit 8, I usually fill it, plus 1 or 2 more rods and a couple of hand lines in the port side rod locker.
I can carry less out of gamefishing season and I will usually leave the 15 and sometimes the 10kg outfit out and just carry the 6kg outfit, just in case. Then I’ll carry 2 spin sticks for snapper plastics fishing; 2 for bottom bashing; a bait jig rod (just bought a new Sabiki rod); and a light or ultra light spin stick for flicking small metals at bonito and salmon, or if I duck back inside to spin for flathead or bream. I like having duplicates to save time re-rigging if I bust off or get a bad tangle when fishing solo (which is most of the time). 🤷♂️ If I’ve got the wife and/or son on board, the rods are shared
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Great stuff, Jeff!
Hey! You know I get Wednesday off one week and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off the next week, right?😉😂 And I’m actually in a position to fish more often now, especially if my wife hears that you wanted company fishing… she doesn’t like to see people disappointed! 😉😂
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Nah... I think @Scratchieuses 7 inch Zman jerk shads. 😉
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On 5/31/2021 at 10:00 PM, TunaSickle said:
The guitar thing made me laugh haha. I have two also plus a similar rod count!
I only have 3 guitars. I definitely need more! There has been discussion in my band about which keys to do our songs in. I’m the lead singer and, as a baritone, I sometimes need to change the key to suit my voice. When discussing a couple of songs to try and which key, I said, “I’ll put a capo on and work it out”. One of the band members (lead guitarist) suggested using a capo was not a good idea, as it can throw the tuning out when you take the capo off for the next song. “Ah!”, I replied. “But I retune with the capo on and again when I change it... but what really makes sense, is to have different guitars tuned appropriately for each scenario... capo on a particular fret/alternate tunings etc.”. It was agreed that this makes sense... so I figured I need one guitar for each of the 12 major keys, plus 1 for Dropped D tuning, 1 for DADGAD tuning, 1 each for Open G, Open E and Open A (for starters), 1 for half-step down, 1 for whole step down and so on. And then there’s the acoustic guitars... oh... and the 12 string guitars... 😂
I’m sure any guitarists out there would understand! 😂😂
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Nice stuff, Rick. The Turon is pretty nice country. 😎
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42 minutes ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
You better be
(on behalf of MrsBerleyguts)
Just to clarify, my last post was completely serious. The others were just me mucking around! 🙊
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3 hours ago, dmck said:
SO... ask why she has so many shoes/dresses/jewellery/lipsticks/perfumes when she isnt trying to attract a mate anymore.......... or is she?
PS make sure your health insurance is up to date first....
She doesn’t. She is very much a minimalist. She looks beautiful without makeup and always has. She gets rid of things she no longer uses but hasn’t got rid of me yet… thankfully!😂 I’m a very lucky man. 😍
I was just making a light hearted post to break the monotony while I’m down in Sydney for a few days visiting my elderly Mum and we’re apart.
Everyone knows I’m just joking around, right?! 😂😎
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6 hours ago, GoingFishing said:
Perhaps what she meant Baz is "you have too many rods comparatively with how often you actually go fishing" 🤣
Yes, I actually tried saying something along those lines in my justification statement. 😂😂 She’ll probably never understand it but she’ll have to live with it. 😂
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6 hours ago, kingie chaser said:
Blimey, firstly to being given to many choirs to be able to go fishing 🤔........ then gripped about having to many rods for the limited amount of time your allowed to go fishing
I'd be buying as many rods as possible, at least in the divorce settlement you should get half of them depending on how good her lawyer is 🤣
Or, she’ll sell them for what I told her I paid for them! 😂😂
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16 minutes ago, frankS said:
Maybe you should go into the bathroom and open a few cupboards and ask why so many bottles of cream, jells etc not to mention her dressing table with all the different types of make up.
Some women have heaps some not much, same as men with fishing gear.
Personally I think the amount of rods I have is in excess sometimes but then again there's a nice outfit down the local tackle shop that wants to live with me.
Frank
She’s actually very much a minimalist... and she doesn’t own much makeup. She looks absolutely beautiful without it. 😍🤷♂️
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On 5/25/2021 at 7:20 PM, PaddyT said:
Where you fishing? Nth Coast an 8 ft rod is the way to go, if you are fishing JB and the sandstone then honestly a standard game rod will do the job-also a Talica 16 is probably a bit low on line capacity for 15kg mono. Jump onto Rodwerks (Adelaide rod building supplies ) and see what they have-they were the Calstar agent in Oz
I agree with Paddy. Up north an 8ft rod is the go and down on the JB ledges a standard game rod is fine. The Talica 16 is designed for 8kg line class (mono). If you put 15kg on it, you might be undergunned and probably spooled in no time. Back in the day, most LBG fishos I knew used Penn International 30s for 20lb (10kg) class and 50s for 30lb (15kg) line class.
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So, my wife and I were about to go out in the car the other day. She stood there looking at my rod wall in the garage. I could hear her brain ticking over. I sensed the silent muttering under her breath. I could almost see her head shake and the steam coming out of her ears. She said, “I can’t understand why anyone would need 15 fishing rods!”.
So, without mentioning the fly rod, 2 x estuary luderick rods, 2 x side cast beach/rock rods (light & heavy), 2 x spinning beach/rock rods (light & heavy), that were in the room under the house behind the garage, I proceeded to explain...
”Well... there’s the 6kg, 10kg, 15kg game outfits (no 24kg or heavier outfits yet); 2 x light snapper rods with 20lb braid for flicking soft plastics and hard bodied lures; 2 x other rods with 20lb braid for drifting for flathead etc; the Sabiki rod rigged with bait jigs for catching slimies and yakkas;” (I let her think I’d always had that... it helps to stick a few fish scales on the blank or grips 😉 ...), “an old 4-6kg spin stick rigged with mono; 4 x light/ultra light spinning rods (2 with braid, 2 with mono) for fishing in the estuary, chasing bass or trout, or fun light tackle spinning for salmon, tailor and bonito around the offshore islands etc.; a light baitcaster rod; and that last one’s waiting for me to replace the tip runner. AND... don’t forget that, although I can only use a few rods at a time, I need enough with me to cover all opportunities and if you and/or our son come out in the boat, we’ll need enough rods with us so that we can all fish at the same time. We are a family after all!”
She just continued to shake her head and I don’t think she was convinced. 🤷♂️
She should be grateful I only have 3 guitars...
... at the moment! 😂
So, whaddya reckon, Raiders? How many rods are enough? How many do you have???
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On 5/25/2021 at 1:41 PM, savit said:
Ok. For those with low batteries (but still near boat) - get a power bank 🤣
I actually have a 12v accessories port and 2 USB ports in the boat but sometimes the USB ports play up and the battery still drains. Might be my cable. Might be the connection. 🤷♂️
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1 hour ago, savit said:
For those with low batteries (but still near PC) or just without the App - here is another (Web-link) option:
https://deckee.com/maps#12/-37.836/144.9835
Then type the username in 'where to' bar whoever your wish to find.
Results:
https://deckee.com/maps/marker/summary/storyMarker/602df856c88397001508f480#14/-32.5982/152.3253
https://deckee.com/maps/marker/summary/storyMarker/6079324c1b217400158a8b4f#14/-30.7043/152.92
https://deckee.com/maps/marker/summary/storyMarker/60a5d6215656210015685074#14/-33.9586/151.198
That’s great, thanks... but you know I meant while out in the boat, right? 😂
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11 hours ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
Thanks for all that info, Donna (and others). I think I’ll be able to figure it out now. I must admit, I wanted to find @Scratchieon the app the other week when I knew he was out the same day as me... I was going to follow him! 😂😂 I couldn’t figure it out and I went home fishless! 🤷♂️😂 The only issue I have with using my phone all the time for the Marine Rescue app, Navionics and now Deckee, is battery life! 😂
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On 5/22/2021 at 11:13 AM, Maccam said:
Hi all, new member based out of Port Stephens. I've been fishing pretty much for anything and everything for 50 years, but like the rest, still have heaps to learn every time I head out. Pretty sure this forum will help with that too.
I fish mainly for snapper in the winter and trout or bass in the summer, and 99.9% of the time with lure/fly.
Look forward to making a contribution here. Cheers Mat
Welcome to Fishraider, Mat. I’ve replied to your PM and I’m sure we can tee up a trip soon. 😏
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(on behalf of MrsBerleyguts)
Restrictions to fishing
in Fishing Chat
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I’m not even in lockdown in Port Stephens and I’m still not fishing! We just lay low. If Health NSW was to contact trace me, they would find I mainly just went to work at Bunnings, my local supermarket, my local servo and 1 or 2 local cafes or restaurants a week for takeaway only. My wife works from home and hardly gets out at all. It’s pretty much been like that for roughly 15 months. We have family locked down in Sydney and have to suffice with video calls. My wife’s 90 year old uncle lives alone and is getting quite frail and his own kids can’t see him - they drop care packages at the door.
Please stay at home, people, if you can. Get vaccinated, if you can, and stay safe!