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yeh i run dual downriggers and mine is setup diffrent to the above photo i have my downriggers on swivel mounts at the back of the boat with my stainless steel rod holders about 50cm in front of the riggers i choose to mount them at the very back of the boat as this gives them less chance of getting wrapped around my prop never had any problems ill post some photos tonight

haha i wish

went and bought a tachyon Helmet Camera uses SDMC memory cards so i can stick a 32gb card in there and record 8hrs of good quality footage or 16 hrs of average footage with around 11hrs of battery life the camera is fully waterproof to around 10mtrs so can be used for diving too comes with a remote control and all that jazz im going to mount the camera at the front of my boat so when we head out fising we can record the days activity's i did this last weekend when downrigging for kings using my little digital camera and the results where great i now have the footage on my phone and its great when sitting around doing nothing i can whip out my phone and watch footage of me battling kings for only $250 its a good little add-on to my boat ill post some videos once i get it out on the water two thumbs up

just get a phone with a biggger screen i can create posts take photos with my phone camera and post those pics all from the phone on the boat works a treat

i must say i love my Shimano Jigwrex they have a model in PE5,PE6,PE8 i have the s605 which is 6'0" rated to 300gm jiggs and PE5 i run 50lb on it as Big-Banana said running 80lb on a PE8 rod if you connect to some thing big enough its going to pull you in im not a small guy im 6"4 and i think i would even struggle holding onto the rod when fully loaded up and in all reality i dont think your ever going to need all that power

and if you no the area of water your fishing in only 10mtrs deep change the Range Depth to 10mtrs this helps keep every thing on the screen that needs to be there

nice work mate a kings a king well done

to get a fish arch like they show you on the box the fish needs to be sitting directly under your transducer and not moving if the fish is swimming under your boat its only going to be under your transducer for a short peroid of time and you wont get the fish arch shape but only 1/4 arches or 1/2 arches you might want to go pickup a book on how sounders work it will help you work out how to get the most out of your sounder

you sure do put the time in mate im sure your big jew is just around the corner i just got back from a fish couldnt get any livies only ended up with 4 yakkers 1 was a monster off to our spot setup the downriggers ended up turning the 3 small yakkers into 3 kings and the big yakka didnt get touched was prob too big good way to spend the afternoon

in the general area around trawleys water is around 30mtrs going to explore new grounds this weekend need to repair my broken seat first tho

you must be made of money russ the only lures ill throw at taylor are cheap $7 metals have had alot of luck with them with the taylor they dont seem to mind the cheap ones

yeah was great fun this was yesturday and yeh was closer to the headland below is a snapshot of some of the footage of my first jigged kingie caught on my new setup using shimano saragosa 18000 and shimano jigwrex s605 rod great setup these little kings are no match at all for it but i rather fish big incase the big ones jump on mate is also hooked onto a nice little king on my spinfisher combo using a white shimano lucanus jig im going to setup my camera better so tomorrow ill try get some more footage all fish are around the 60cm mark

yeh i have a garmin and have the upgrade card for that and most of the time i have all the fancy shit turned off too much crap on the screen with a small screen you only want the information you need not pretty 3d diagrams

yeh i much rather be catching rat kings all day then catching lots of bream,flat head 98% of my catches go to my bros mrs its all about the screaming reels for me im sick i no

same thing i do most weekends try to pull a big kingie off the reefs will it be my weekend will soon see

had a RDO so me and a mate hitup a few reefs outside pittwater yesturday was surposed to be a early start but some how i have lost one of my bungs so we had to wait till the shop opened to go and get a new bung (i now carry spares) after stocking up on bait at west head we headed off in search of kings couldn't find any big ones but there were alot of rats out there was catching them on live yakkas on the downriggers,Lucanus jiggs, and 250gm jiggs no fish for the table but a lot of fun with around 20fish caught between us all around the size in the photo below also got some video action of the day which ill will post a little later on was a great day on the water after looking over my videos ive worked out i swear way too much ha so most of the videos come with a R18 rating so i wont bother posting them and too lazy to remove the audio

haha what popper is that i want one looks nice and chunky

using a flashy jig is best as this acts as a attractant or if you have no jiggs just some snapper sinkers

yeh go a 2500 with 8-10lb braid with leader matching to what your fishing

but theres no kingfish in there

rats can be a pain in the arse at times we had 50cm rats smashing 10-20cm yakkas on the weekend planning on using poppers on thur to try lure the big ones up if you have a school of rats with some big ones mixed in i think its just luck to get a big one the little rats will just smash any thing they see

with jiggs stick to the cheap ones the cheap ones fall to the bottom just as fast as the expesnive ones when leather jackets chew threw your line

for only $50 more i would pick the more powerful transducer

cheers john looks like im off to the tackle shop again

yeh no guru but i have a few diffrent Halco Roostas seen them being used in quite a few kingie dvds i have and those guys seem to no what there on about