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if anything the needle roller bearing should be oiled with bearing oil some people use bushing oil instead hope that helps mick

nice way to spend a few hours can i ask how much meat is on a shark that size are you sharing it friends does the flesh freeze well also are you letting the bait be your weight ie. no sinker to your bait and let it roll in the waves or is it weighted to the sea floor sorry for picking your brain but if you dont ask you'll never know cheers mick

great consolation prize that's a fantastic catch in anyone's language mick

jeez that looks painful hope you took the fish home if it was size i myself try to get the hooks out all the time but sometimes you are likely to kill the fish in the process a company should create small version of long side cutters just to cut the hook of jig heads in the gill area then again a fish de-hooker could get a hook thats deep but safe to remove cheers mick

congrats nathan and fisher doi even though the fish were in hiding you had a trouble free day with effort comes the payoff a good fish in the bag well done fellas cheers mick

yeh the line roller on saltist the bearing /bushing is just plastic they should have had the decency to install a ball bearing for the price that they go for the one extra bearing would cost to diawa what about a $2 installed really disappointed when i opened it up also i was casting 80 grams too the line had got caught on the guides now and again but im tieing a slim beauty on the leader which is small i will take on board all comments and preventative measures and look at that video thanks fellas cheers mick

i'll definitely give the line some tension periodically before retrieving im quite sure my spool has the correct amount on line on it but heres a pic any how (note) theres 60lb jinki leader on there too and thanks heaps fellas for your quick replies cheers mick

i might be a little late but happy birthday fellas hope you had a good day :1happybday: cheers mick

hey raiders well on my past few outings of tossing lures off the stones one of which was today wind was blowing quite a bit i got an air knot the braid is rovex varios braid its not stiff like some other braids but i get an air knot at least once an outing todays was about 15 metres from the leader the rod is a penn big game surf 10 footer , reel is saltist 4500 i doubt its the rod or reel unless the line is not rifling though the guides correctly as the rod has 6 guides including the tip im thinking its could be the braid but its brand new its 30lb by the way im seriously thinking of trying a high end mono line also i use a slim beauty as my leader knot any thought raiders cheers mick

cracking feed of squid there mate bodies to eat and heads for bait the best of both worlds mick

very ingenious sign that one my wife says i can buy a boat but she knows i have no where to put the dang thing mick

thanks for the birthday wishes fellas i've got the day off thanks to the weather but an not fishing haven't in quite some time now thanks again raiders cheers mick

well done mate awesome effort on that gear cheers mick

wow nice find thanks for the share cheers mick

saw many people keeping undersize fish at clifton gardens on sat night/ sunday morn small fish comes up goes straight in to the bucket not to be seen again . seems fisheries were tipped off why dont they patrol some of the fish markets at any rate at least action was taken

i'd say its hooked you need a hook to jag a fish regardless either way the fish was caught there are plenty of blackies running up and down the breakwall cheers mick

i will hodgey . just to let you's know i caught the tarwhine using a lift and drop method more like a plastic and the blackie on a straight retrieve had a few other bumps but failed to hook up the tarwhine will tomorrow/mondays dinner yum thanks for your comments raiders cheers mick

well done nathan and johnny seems your plans worked out to some success beteer to have had go ago at it than not at all cheers mick

hay raiders i had been doing some work in morisset close to lake macquarie and had been fishing dora creek mouth for bream and others species caught alot of under size fish and one legal bream lived to fight an other day any how decided to fish swansea on thursday the 25th with just lures for tailor and here is the result was fun spinning but better when hooked the tarwhine it when 37cms and weighted a little over a kilo i managed to get my catch bag caught i a rock crevice which led me run down the breakwall to the bushes to find a large curved stick took me a good 20 mins to get the fish and catch bag out but its was well worth it spoke to a few locals one particular fello targets jew for sport only his best was 27kg but has seen a 40kg caught he fishes for them 6 days a week i was goob smaked we had a good yarn great fella he was using live trevally as bait as yakkas were hard to come by and scored a blackie too i let the blackie go but kept the tarwhine which smashed my pb by over 15 cms woohoo and a first on both counts for the tarwhine and blackie on lure i tried swansea bridge at 7am after i left the breakwall with poppers first cast 3 to 5 metres away see a large swirl cast close to same area but the fist cast must have spooked it the fish was gone through poppers for about 20mins and gave up any that was my arvo at swansea cheers mick

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glad your back donna and that you recovered well regards mick

fin nor offshore series seems to be a heavy duty reel all steel body too 27 kg drag on 6500 to 9500 models when and if my penn 760 dies im gonna try them at $200 its worth at look cheers mick

give it a go was there on thursday arvo caught 3 good size bream and dropped a monster mullet as it bent the hook at my feet cheers mick

ive got two live liners 540 and the 760 more than happy with them caught a king on the 760 it had no problems at all i got mine for 150 each so at that price its a steal i dont have a boat so i can't comment on their usage in bottom bashing but they are strong as or you could grab the fin nor offshore series being only $50 more with a hellova lot more drag cheers mick

im going to morriset for some work this week and as keen fisho an taking rods just want to know if anyone can give me advice or would like company on a arvo cheers mick