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Posts posted by Hooky.
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i fish the rich mid north coast waters up off the crowdy head
Good stuff Basserman.
My brother usually fishes out of Crowdy. Has a 520 Formosa with a 90 4stroke on the back......Suzuki I think.
He's been getting some good hauls of snapper off Crowdy on his last few outings.
Hopefully something is still biting for when I make my visits north this summer.
cheers
Hooky
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Happy Birthday to you all.
All the best for your 50th Donna............
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It sure is nice dealing with professionals.
Cheers Stewy
I'm hearin' ya there Stewy.
I have 15 hours up so my next one is a 50 hour service which will most likely be at around Christmas time.
cheers
Hooky
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Hey Stewy
Does Huey do services on Stacers with F60C's on the back?
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G'day all
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was always under the belief that the only beach south of the Newcastle region that you could legally drive on and obtain a permit or other for, was the Kurnell area?
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Yep, I wandered over there today.
Definately some great campers and Winnebagos'.
I'll stick with the tent and roof rack awning I have.....for now!!!
All I came away with was two new trivetts for my 4.5qt and 12qt camp ovens and a new oven bag for my 12qt oven.
No real savings on anything, as one would expect, but a c'van and camping show is always worth going to even just for the browse and the chance to get some ideas for "making" instead of "buying.
None the less, it was "free" entry.
cheers
Hooky
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Well done
Gotto love those big early season bass
Hooky where are you
I'm here!!
Where are you?
Nice work fella's.
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Fishing the Georges on friday with a mate in his Triton Then watching three codes of football for the rest of the weekend
In other words you are basically doing nothing for all of the long weekend.
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Make sure you read it all properly because some limits also include "in possession" limits.
This is critical for if you go camping or similar and want to take some home for the freezer........you don't want to have any over the "in possession" limit stored in the "Waeco" or esky.
cheers
Hooky
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Yep, both are mine.
You will have to drop in and introduce yourself.
Cheers
Greg
Yep, might do that when I get a chance.
I thought someone from Fishraider might have something to do with it, I saw the sticker on the boat out the front.
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Seems the water in the Georges, as well as being cleaner has started to warm up.
Simon
G'day Simon
I was getting readings of between 17.5 and 17.8 degrees at Mickeys Point just up from Alfords Point bridge today between 1pm and 2.30pm.
cheers
Hooky
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Nothing wrong with the lake or the fish, it's still a bit too early to be fishing Lyell seriously.
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That's the one I "hear" on the odd occasion at work.
You must be close by?
There is a boat with a fishraider sticker on it that is parked next door to Sureflo.......yours by any chance?
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I'm just curious guys, once you pay online how do you get the license?
Do you just print out a receipt from the computer and carry that around?
Thanks
G'day zrealist
You print out the online receipt which is given when you pay and this is used as your temporary licence.
Then, like mine, wait 3 - 4 days and you get the official licence in the mail.
cheers
Hooky
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No excuses for not been able to buy one either.
Updated mine on the fisheries website on the weekend and it took all of 60 seconds to do and since I wasn't getting it from a tackle shop it saved me lots of money at the same time and saved some poor tackle shop owner his valuable time where he could be serving someone who wants to buy tackle instead of something of no value to him like a licence.
OR
cheers
Hooky
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G'day Donna
Could you please put my name on the list...........thankyou.
cheers
Hooky
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G'day Pete
If you are using Firefox as your browser, it's just a matter of getting the "DownloadHelper" add-on and you can save most if not any YouTube vid there is.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
Then just get the flv player and you're in business.
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Hooky
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I'd be interested, pending further info and suitability.
cheers
Hooky
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I might try and get up to Lyell tomorrow Paul, will take a few happy snaps for you if I do. It does look as though Lake Lyell is dropping again from water being pumped into Thommos. Which is good for Thommos but I wanted Lyell up myself!
Hopefully a little of the rain that passed through will keep the Cox's flowing ok.
Cheers
Windy
G'day Matt
Thanks for the offer of pics but curiosity got the better of me and I went for a drive up to Lyell today, just got back.
No fishing just looking. Went and checked out where I used to live and work many moons ago (Lithgow Small Arms Factory).
Anyways, spoke to the caretakers' mother and she was saying that D.E are pumping out a heap of water on a daily basis and it is noticable every day. Other than that she said all was quiet on the fishing front.
It was quite windy when I was there and the wind was swirling around in most of the protected bays that I looked at. Air temp was about 8 degrees and the wind chill factor must have been about zero.
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Hooky the gates to the temp ramp are still closed, water looking good it was clear to well above farmers creek, no green slime at all but the fishing really hot and cold at the moment
Cheers zook, thanks for that bit of info.
I personally don't bother fishing Lyell in July/early to mid August for the reason you mentioned, too hot and cold. Unlike the weather, just cold but that's the best thing about it.
Actually whilst I sit here and type I'm keen to drive there and back just for something to do.
cheers
Hooky
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G'day all
I don't suppose if any of you are heading to Lake Lyell soon, or even this weekend, you may be able to take some pics of the water level at the moment?
Just a few shots of different areas and especially the ramp and wall area and maybe up where the temporary ramp is situated and the other ramp and pontoon around in the bay up from it.
I haven't ventured out there since the water levels have risen and probably won't get there for another 5 - 6 weeks or so.
It's a big ask, I know, but much appreciated if at all possible.
cheers
Hooky
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I just got back from a fruitless session at Lyell. Saw all of 2 fish all day, neither were particularly interested in anything. I did not see anything caught and all the boats looked as though they doughnutted too! I did hear that a 4kg Brown got caught yesterday.
Water is up at about 58% and with a bit of luck it will stay up this high and I see that TCD is coming back up (21%), my bet is water is being pumped from Lyell into TCD.
Cheers
Windy
Give it another six weeks Matt and the browns and rainbows will be jumping in the boat and at your feet.
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Thanks Stewy. Some boating/engine threads that show some merit and good info are nearly always swayed the wrong way by some people. Happens everywhere nowadays.This thread started off as a query about 4 strokes quietness and has now gone back to the Etec motor pros and cons.
Get it back on track or this thread will be removed
This is becoming very tiresome.
Swordfisherman
I basically want to know what is the quietest engine out the exhaust for trolling duties.
Thanks guys.
G'day Roylo, not sure which is the quietest engine for trolling duties.
For trolling duties I have never had a problem due to noise.
I've been trolling up trout for around 20 years and all my previous tinnies have had old noisy two strokes and they haven't scared the fish away.
I've noted fish on my sounder in two metres of water and still captured them as my lures tracked across them at around 20 metres behind my motor.
I think the real issue for me nowadays is just to have a quiet motor to make things more peaceful when I'm trolling. So much better to be able to listen the radio/stereo and have a decent conversation when there is less motor noise.
Let's not forget though, it really doesn't matter what motor you have on when you are travelling at WOT. The wind, the motor and the water smacking the boat is just as noisy as an old two stroke.
cheers
Hooky
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G'day Reefhunter
C-Map link........... http://www.c-map.com.au/
Contact number top right of the page.
I rang them and asked heaps of questions and I'm glad I did otherwise I would have been ripped off due to my marine dealer not knowing there was an update of cards around the same time I purchased my C-Map card.
The card changes were a big win for the consumer as far as more info goes.
Give 'em a ring and they will tell you everything you want and need to know.
I have the C-Map Max NT #M-AU-005.
http://chartcatalogue.c-map.no/quickref_pl...?quickrefID=OCE
and covers all this......... http://chartcatalogue.c-map.no/chartlistin...E&us_crtr=0
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Hooky