Cannon85

If your chasing barra up the creeks dont forget to take a stack of repellent and the strong stuff to midgie bites can ruin a good trip trust me. you'll still get bitten buy them but if you dont have the repellent you will be scratching like mad for a while.. just my 2 cents but have fun mate awsome place for a holiday even better place to live i think thats why im moving up there in a couple of months

Im heading down but not taking the boat unfortunatley good luck in the comp fellas hope many a barrel come over the gunnel for you

Hello all i guess this isnt really a standard question for sydney boaters but i am looking to get a stone gaurd for my trailer as i a moving up to the NT and dont want to destroy the Paint job on my boat ive had a look around the internets and cant find anything that looks sturdy enough to do the job up north. anybody have any ideas ????

Nice 1 Ray im moving up to the territory soon and will hopefully get time off work to enter next year. hopefully get a bit of practice in first. Well done cannon

I have only crossed a a few times the first time in a 5.2 Center console with a 90hp on the back goind out is the easy bit IMO it's the coming back in when your a bit tired and sore from fighting the kings all day. but it was a bit scary the first time as we were towards the end of the run out tide and a bit of a swell running i felt like i needed more power because when we got to where the waves were starting to turn into wash i didnt have enough throttle to over power the outgoing tide and swell. but with a bit of trim adjustment and crossed fingers we made it in ok. the 2nd time in my new rig 6.2 hard top barcrusher with 175hp it was a nice calm day and just scooted over the bar as the coditions were really good that day high tide low wind hardly any swell and a very un eventfull crossing the other couple of times have been somewhere inbetween both of these situations and not a real problem for the new rig. but yeah the first time was fine going out and scary coming back in as the boat i was driving i feel needed more power for the crossing and the conditions wernt ideal but by no means as bad as they can get down there. hope this helps cannon

Hi all i have a quick question for some sparky orientated people. i have a 3 battery system on my boat #1 & #2 run the main electronics stuff like lighting radios fish finder and starting these are on the standard isolator switch set up I.E. 1 or 2 or 1+2 or off. #3 is dedicated fridge battery wired up to a 12v outlet all 3 charge off the donk (175hp Etek) while running and #1 & #2 have a solar set up to trickle feed while at anchor or on the drift. now for the question is there a battery charging regulator fit for marine purpose that will allow the solar pannels to trickle feed all 3 batteries? i was told by the dealer that these did not exist but find that hard to believe as i think i have seen them for 4wd before. so to sum up is it possible to have a regulator to charge 3 batterys as required via the 2 different inputs (Donk + Solar) i do have a ctek charger to top up the mains and aux at home but am worried the fridge battery will die on a prolonged trip at anchor long winded but i hope i have worded my question correctly cheers

Yeah i got 3 x blue hella underwater lights on the back of my barcrusher they work well for attracting yakkas and squid at night dont really need to burley as much but it speeds up the process if you do

Went out on my first mission today. left the ramp about 0600 stopped in at west head for some livies saw plenty but got none in the tank. so up anchor and out we go, motored out to about 150m then set the spread of 2 x SBL's and teaser. headed out to about 500m mark it was about 1100 by now and we got a hit but it was over before it even began continued trolling around till about 1500 before we headed back for the ramp. found some nice blue water varied from 24.3 up to 25.8c. my theory for the missed hook up was probably my fault for backing off the throttle to quicly with the excitment of the reel screaming it's brains out. which brings me to a question What to do when you do get a hit besides not freak out? i think what im asking is the what is the "procedure" for a hook up i think i saw the flash of a marlin when the strike occured but cant be to sure as the anticipation and excitment meters went into overload cheers guys had a good day either way and was extreemly happy to even get a hit on my first run out wide only got me more excited for another run

Nice work mate definatley faired better then i did

Not to much to report from down south. headed down wednsday night got out about 10 am thursday found some live yakkas. no good on the squid front. set off for the FAD towed some xraps right up close to the Fad and saw some rat kings around but no takers so on with a livie sent it down for a couple of drifts for nothing. saw a stack of slimies (i think) they were jumping out in front of the boat in around 110m of water out from the bay towed the xraps around the school for abit and nothing again livie down again nothing. set of a bit further south down towards tuross heads into about 50m of water looked for bait found none. had a bottom bash for nothing but rock cod and wrasse. then the weather started to close in so back to the ramp and home to clean up the boat then the rain started and didnt really stop untill sunday so didnt bother heading out again.

i would hope the 2nd repair was covered if it was the dealers fault. i have a 175 etec with about 45 trouble free hrs on it the only time i had an over heat alarm was the first time i flushed i didnt cover the pickups at the front of the leg switched off immeaditaly found a male threaded tap fitting screwed that in and all good ever since pretty good on the juice to

anybody know any more info about this just had a quick search and found this link http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fishermen-rescued-after-trawler-washes-up-on-rocks-20130219-2eo2r.html

hey mate im heading down this weekend, the weather doesnt look the best but if i get out ill let you know how i go cannon

What do the fish trap bouys look like?? just the standard white or like the fad bouys?

thanks guys work has changed my plans again but hopefully head down on wed night staying in batemans bay then get down to narooma friday or saturday weather dependent will try and pick up a few yakkas before heading over the bar and out to the island and into some kings ill keep an eye out for you barcrusher 610 i will be in a red barcrusher 670ht feel free to say gday if you see us

anybody know where i can get some livebait (squid, yakkas or slimies) around narooma/ montague island ? heading down for the weekend for some kingie action any advice would be good cheers

looks good and functions well 10/10 good job all involved

hey rebss from what i remember of my GRP course done a few years back now. if you want the smooth and shiny finish you cant really avoid the sandpaper and wet dry and cut and polish and then buff sounds like alot of work but it all depends on the scale your doing it on if it is a large area get your self a cheap orbital sander and use a higher grit paper to reduce the risk of taking to much off and having to re apply your flow coat hope this helps

Thanks for the help guys i got the sbl 12" chrome teaser so basicaly it needs to be put out after i set the spread up and just in the back of the white water of the boat and tied off to a solid point of the boat with coated wire so it doesnt get pinched by a shark thank you all for your help

i havent tried it as sashimi yet however tastes pretty good on the bbq with a bit of s&p and a touch of chilli with lemon wedge to serve

Hello all Havent really posted before but here goes on the water at 0730 departed from parsley bay dropped 2 Xrap 30's (silver and a redhead) over the back and began to troll round barrenjoey head down towards longreef in about 30 m of water at about 21 - 22degC. Found a bit of surface action off whale beach threw some blades at it but no joy, so we continued on our way down to longreef about 5 mins later ZZZZZZZZZZZ we were on pulled in the second line and played the fish up to the boat wich was a strange fight went hard to start for a minute or so then nothing almost like we lost the fish untill we saw colour under the boat it gave a few kicks then easy into the net and on board while i was unhooking the fish it looked like we had someones blue line wrapped around the bib of the lure untill i saw the bubble attached to the end of it god dam blue bottles any way could that account for the burst of energy at the start then absolutley nothing for the rest of the fight???? blue bottle delt with we measure up the nice 70cm Bonnie. out go the lures again and we do a couple of laps of where we picked up the fist fish (the headland just south of whale beach) and nothing so we continue down the coast towards longy and the next headland along just south of avalon same again ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ this fish fought well all the way to the boat got it onboard de hooked and on the measure went 73cm we were pretty happy at this point a PB for my deckie and 2 nice fish one on each lure so we continued with the same theory did a couple of laps nothing and on our way south again. It was pretty quite untill just of long reef we were on again this time with a smaller model of about 40cm happy with our haul of bonnies we decided to go out and bottom bash for a bit by the time we moved out to deeper water the wind started to pick up and by the time we got our rods rigged up we decided it was probably not worth hanging around to see if it died off so we motored back up into palm beach basin to try out my new investment an el cheapo gas stove wacked some snags in the pan and BTW so much better eating sausage sangas on a boat we decided that it couldent get much better so back to the ramp and home cleaned the boat and catch had a few all in all a lazy day on the water with a good feed to result sorry but no photos were taken of the catch as we were to keen to get it in our bellys

Hey guys looking to head out to longy on saturday and sunday with some inexperienced fishos aboard and want to put them onto some fish. any news or tips for the area? we will be fishing from my boat and im hoping i can wake them up early enough to give the kingies a go but but failing that will be just bottom bashing cheers

in my experience on a first boat the way rides and handels is a big factor but not as big as a reliable donk last thing you want is to be stuck out there with the kids and the donk doesnt start trust me i dont have kids but my mates act like they are still and it can be really frustrating to say the least. you have a general idea of what you want so take a few out for a test run and see what you think of the hull design, fising room, room for your ski gear and then if your happy with that get the motor inspected by a reliable mechanic before you buy if possible (DONT TAKE THE OWNERS WORD FOR IT) I.E. Huey and see what he thinks ultimatley you will find that the boat will not be ideal for all purposes or you will only use it for say fishing and then you can make a better informed decision on your next boat any way sorry for the rant but take it from me once burnt twice shy check and double check and then get a second opinion

Hello All i recently bought a couple of lure packs from scent blazer and recieved the free teaser wich all seems to be off top notch quality and am extremly happy with my question is probably extreeeeeeeemly stupid one but here goes how exactly does every one run there teasers IE do you run it on a seperate rod with no lure attached or lure attached behind or infront of the teaser or just on a heavy hand line type set up? I am an absolute novice when it comes to game fishing and still need to get geared up with some heavier outfits for it before i head out there and start draggin lures round. targeting anything that will hit the lure just trying to ask some people in the know about the basics before i inevidibly head out and do it all wrong any way LOL cheers in advance

Man it seems like every time i got out someone on this site gets onto the fish and i wind up with nothing! i went out today with my bro flicked squid jigs for a bit for 1 tiny squid. tried soft plastics nothing cut up the squid nothing. trolled for a bit nothing i guess it's because you guys caught all the fish hehe anyway good day on the water and beats workin great catch guys what general area were you in ????