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Good catch capn.

Rotator cuff = not nice. My brother gave up a promising career in pro rugby in the UK thanks to his shoulders. Certainly I think that rods are poorly designed when it comes to end use. It generally doesn't effect me until I hook up but pressure on the wrists is one thing I hate. In the rod or the reel hand it seems to happen the same. Generally only on good fish, long fights etc. I guess that these wont help you that much but the z-grip and custom handles from REEL COLOR in USA look lke the siznit for heavy tackle. Just like a bycep curl at the gym, any one used one. www.reelcolors.com

I Love a tail hooked fish. Though a 15 kg mack is better than a 150 kg blue.

I have spent the last 3 days doing 3000 km in the ute. Sydney - Adeaide via woop woop and back. I know where i would have rather been. Good catch on the trevors. They are my favourite fish and i swear they fight harder than kings for there size. About 4 years ago we were fishing chocolate water in the harbour when the big trevors came up our trail near Balls Head. The biggest was 58 cm, smalest 44 cm. Stripped 4 lb line like you would not beleive and that same week we heard of a 70cm plus in the Pittwater. Pure grunt. Insane sashimi.

Had salmon around the boat on they way out from the mooring, didnt bother. When they are feeding small try halco 1.5g metal spinners on bream rods. You will loose some to straightened hooks and need to replace the hook after each fish but worked for me when i used to chase them alot up on Pittawater. German matey loves it, he has worked out squidding now and contributed 3 on sunday. He is a bit spoilt with the good luck. He understands its all in the squid. My normal fishing buddy is furious as he went out the night before and didn't respond to his wake up call. Might have a go on the trevors next.

Jumped on the boat at 7.30 am and headed up the harbour. Tried for squid for 1 hour before finding 4 little ones. Straight to the spot and managed 3 fish. Kept 1 and threw back a keeper and a rat. Did get smoked once. Back home by 10.30 and pumped. Here is my german mate with the keeper, he released a bigger one.

Good stuff. They are the king of baits. Just dont let them bite you. We fished the harbour for squid for 3 hours on Thursday before we found a patch and pulled 4. We then had 4 kingfish bites in 15 minutes and caught 2 keepers. Backhome by 10 am.

We tried for 3 hours yesterday arvo around the high tide with out a take. They are definately around. I find that squiding can become alot harder in the summer months. The extended calm periods in autumn and winter let you see the followers better. Also allows better shots at the friends that come up with hooked squid. About 50% of my strikes are blind and the other 50% are squid that I have spotted or attracted before capture. Also like to use the dropper rigs with squid jigs outside around reefs. Big big squid. Every time I chuck out a squid jig from land I seem to get one. Hop in the boat with a plan to fish and it goes down to 50% of the time.

Never cooked a drummer, but with fish you have to keep the pan hot or the fish will dry out. A good flour coating will create a skin aswel to trap moisturel. When you go to a chinese take out joint and you have the stir fry beef and black bean, the beef has been soaked for a couple of hours in corn starch and cold water. That is how a chinese restaurant serves up the most tender beef that in reality is probobally from one of the cheapest cuts out here. I have no idea if corn starch will work with fish.

I hooked a sail on a dive trip off Lembongan. Other than that just skip jack. I chartered a big boat (30 foot inboard wood) waste of money. I did see a school of 5 or so good size y/fin while diving at Lembongan and the currents between the 2 islands looks very fishy. WE brought our own lures , halcos, rapalas, smaller skirts. Sorry cant help you more.

Netic I figure that. The spot is hardly secret but certainly not well known at the same time. Its the sort of spot you just drive by and dont pay 2 much attention to but at the same time think that it looks awfully fishy. Spongy I could only see the drops for land not canoe but I have hawkeyes and it looked like either 6 inch stick baits or squid strips.

Was walking the dog when I saw some downrigging going on. Watched for like 5 secs and there was a hookup and a rat came in and released. Put the rigger down again go 5 meters and hook up. I sprinted home and grabbed the canoe and went out for a sticky beak. As I got there another fish was on the line which was released. They didn't put the rigger out again unfortunately, as I thought I was in for a show. (Perhaps thinking that I was a fisho on recon and they didn't want me to figure out there secret). They tossed some plastics around for a little while. I asked them if they were hitting the slugo's , they replied yes and promptly put there rods away and left (there suscpicions had been confirmed, I was a fishing spy). I congratulated them on a top session before they left. I feel kind of bad for intruding on there session but I have fished this particular spot for quite some time in excactly the same manor (although for the last 2 years have been in Adelaide). My best king is 87 cm from here . My boat is in the shop today and hopefully I will be on them 2 by the end of the week. The kings are out there....

Hi I went island hopping with my GF in the Solomon islands in July. It was unreal. I went fishing maybe 12 days out of 21. Mostly afternoon trolling sessions. The makies were every where. Would normally get 6 - 10 makies in our 2 hour sessions, on 2 days we only got 1. Most were between 10-15 kg. Caught rainbow runners, yfin to 10 kg and got busted up by coral trout and gt's chucking poppers when land based. Heaps and heaps of agressive sharks, they stole alot of poppers and would chases them right to my feet. 2 places I can recommend. Zipolo Habu resort at Lola Island. It got a write up in todays Sun Herald (the article was writen and published originally over a year ago). This place is very comfortable and the food is excellent however the fishing is a little over priced. I give it 3 and a half stars, it has a fantastic location on a incredible lagoon, surf in season, incredible food (chilli mudcrab / grilled cray fish / ruby snapper/ mackeral sashimi)and chances ae you will have the island all to your self ( we did). Zipolo Habu Resort is nothing though compared to Tetepare Island. This place is wild. The largest uninhabitaed island in the pacific ocean. The inhbabitants left 200 years or so ago after an out break of disease. The island became taboo. Never logged this island is one of the true wonders of the pacific. With no permanent residents, a small research station , visiting scientists, part time rangers from neighboring islands. It has a massive coral lagoon that is protected from fishing, (catch and release alowed) it has 20 times more fish and large ones than other lagoons that i swam in. They have a pet barracooda 5 feet long that you can hand feed off the jetty. At tetepare they have All fishing was done in a bannana boat about 4 feet wide and 12 feet long with a 15 hp 2 stroke. They had a bigger boat ( 6 metre tinny with 40 tohatsu) but it was used for fefrrying the local island children who were over for July school holidays. We were there in july which is trade wind times and tetepare gets them pretty bad. They can bring in some pretty shit weather, we had 2 dead calm days , 2 days where you couldnt see your hand because it rained so much and a week of 10-15 knot se trade that was fine for fishing. I beleive that the trades stop in oct and the surf starts in november, I counted what looked to be 9 left hand point breaks over 1 1/2 hours of trolling. November there is also very little rain. I was told that febuary it often rained for 3 weeks straight. I give this place 6 stars, it is not flash, infact its very basic. It is cheap like 30 aud p/p/n including meals (you supply fish), you bring your own fuel I brought 60 litres. Bring some herbs, spices, vegetables and seasoning as they are much apreciated in this very remote corner of the sols. The food is local islander style not western style. The people are welcoming, every guest has there own personal ranger who accompanies them at all times to look after them and see if you need any thing or show you some thing , take you on a walk. This is included in the tarrif. You arrive at this place at awe of the forrest and the sound of the birds as you drive past on the boat. When you leave you cant help but feel stoked that you had the chance to spend some time there. Tetepare is a 3-4 hour banana boat ride accross open water from munda. We could only contact tetepare via ships radio as they dont have a phone but it was well worth it. plus you can catch hump headed parrot fish in 2 meters of water on poppers only 30 seconds from the wharf.