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  1. Hi WiCKID, There is a lot of confusion over trickle chargers but it is certainly true that correctly used they will prolong the life of your battery. There are two types ( Trickle Chargers and Float Chargers) and although they are not the same they are often referred to as the same thing. Float chargers come with electronics that cycle the charger on and off when the battery is fully charged. This is a good alternative if you are going to have the charger connected to the battery for a long period. Trickle Chargers are similar to float chargers in that they provide a slow, steady stream of low-current to charge the battery. Trickle chargers, however, do not automatically turn off when the battery is fully charged and can cause over charging. They are much cheaper than float chargers. I did a bit of product research online and found this website. http://batterytender.com/products/solar.html They are not local but you can buy online from ebay. This looks the goods. It has a solar panel and it is regulated to make sure it doesn't over charge. Remember that this is all about battery maintenance and increasing battery life. Float chargers will take an awful long time to charge a flat battery. The 15 watt job would take a 4 days of good sun to return a typical marine battery to full charge. Charging the battery is the job of your outboard's alternator and if you get a flat battery then I would advise using a conventional battery charger. Hope this helps. Jim
  2. Reminds me of the Austin Powers line... I used to think you were crazy, but now I can see your nuts!
  3. I thinks this is good advice. I would add the wharf at Rose bay to that list for a smaller average sized yakka.
  4. You can't help but love a report with a story! Well done on the Jewie. Cheers Jim
  5. Fantastic Pic. The frog looks surprisingly relaxed I thought! Cheers Jim
  6. I just figured out what you mean by this. Presumably you cant verify a record with out an official weigh in on a dead fish? Cheers Jim
  7. At the end of the day the fish ( or the squid) decide what they are going to do and until we understand them completely it will all be unpredictable. ... I think I like it that way. Cheers Jim
  8. I reckon, Poor bugger didn't even get the time to digest his meal! Cheers Jim
  9. LOL.... The last supper, Aint that the truth
  10. Yes, It has been a great season for kings. I will target them all through the winter as they can be much bigger if not far and few between. Didn't find any of those frigates you were talking about though... saw a little surface action around Garden Island while I was finding a place out of the wind later in the day but I didn't hook up to identify. Cheers Jim
  11. Nice one, Full of surprises this city of ours hey
  12. Thanks Mate. I think the "fishy" fish is the thing. I like a fish that you can eat with at the most salt, pepper and lemon juice. Having said that I wont let a fish go to waste so next time its baked tailor with asian herbs for me! Cheers
  13. Took to the harbour early Friday morning. Got up a little later that intended so I headed straight for Clifton Gardens to get some yakkas for bait. There were plenty there although they were all a bit too big for my liking. I checked out wedding cakes with the sounder but there were no signs of the Kings I was looking for. I headed over to the sticks and there were a few fish on the sounder but nothing like a few weeks ago. Water temperature was close to 23 degrees. There was a breeze from the NE and it was about half way to the top of the tide. I have a Minn Kota I-Pilot so I just motor up to the position I want , which is generally 20 to 30 meters on the up current side of the marker and press the Spot Lock button. I love this feature. I like to make sure that my position is such that if I do burley ( which I don't when I am targeting kings) the trail heads straight at the marker. Its interesting how close to the structure fish are and I find if the burley trail misses the target is is much slower to have an impact. It was just on dawn. I rigged up a live yakka on 15Kg Rod spooled with 20Kg braid and a 30 Kg leader terminated in a extra strong Hoodlum live bait hook. I tossed it close to the markers and waited. ... and waited and waited. Nothing much happened so I tossed a 7 inch jerkshad at the marker ( about a hundred times in various colours and with various retrieves) with no response. I pulled the livey in and took another spin around the marker. The sounder showed a lot of fish but fairly close to the bottom, not big enough for kings and not where you would expect to see them in the water column. There were a few larger shapes amongst them so I got back to my original position, put a fresh yakka back out (thinking at he was a little too big for the hook) and dropped a piece of squid down on a bream hook. A this point I noticed the yakka was looking a bit panicky. I am sure you live baiters know what I mean, the rod tip starts moving erratically and constantly rather than the occasional relatively steady pull . Well, just at this point something crashes the surface off to my left a few seconds later bends over my 15kg rig. I have the drag set very high so the kingies cant take me by surprise and head back into the structure. At the same time this squid bait goes off and I go from 30 minutes of dead silence to a double hookup. I pick up the live bait rig and there is reasonable weight on it but its not a kingfish.... its staying too high in the water and just doesn't have the muscle. After a relatively short battle I lifted him in the boat. It was a 50cm tailor. He was caught in through the mouth and up through the eye socket but I thought he would be ok so I released him. Grabed the other rod it was undersized trevally. He went back in the drink. After having tailor smash my live baits for the next half hour I changed to a pilchard on ganged hooks, caught and released a few more and then they went off the bite. The trevs didn't get any bigger but I must have caught 20 or so of them. I was burleying by this stage and a rat king came up the burley trail so I threw the livey back out again and after about 10 minutes it went off. I didn't give him any chance to wrap me around the structure and quickly got him to the surface. He spat the yakka out at the last minute but I wasn't that fussed as this was a very undersized king. The wind and chop were increasing so I headed off and tried a few other more sheltered spots. Saw some dolphins off Georges Head. That was pretty cool. Only kept 1 tailor (because it was badly gill hooked and would have died) for a feed which I put into my smoker when I got home. Pretty much the only way to cook tailor as far as I am concerned as they are a pretty ordinary fish. When I filleted that tailor I could see the remains of the yakka in his stomach. It makes and interesting pic. Had a great day exploring the habour and catching a few fish but judging by the catch we are most definitely heading into Winter. Cheers Jim
  14. OK, Sounds like fisheries are as uncertain as the rest of us. I will run with the " bit that catches the fish" as the definition of rigged. Thanks Jim
  15. Yes, I agree, my experience falls outside the chart too. I can't really vouch either way for the chart but I do know that properly conducted experiments are often at odds with personal experience. Scientists say that personal experience is subjective and not evidence based. Practitioners ( like us fisho's) say that the scientific tests are missing something because the results don't always gel. Buggered if I know... if it works if works but there does seem to be some consensus on the pink colour as the most likely to work. Cheers Jim
  16. LOL ... I wonder if we talked to the same guy?
  17. Thanks, I rang the Fisheries department and confirmed the rules once and for all. No more that 4 Rods rigged and in use or in possession at one time per person. Rigged means line through the runners and terminated ( a swivel counts) Fisheries guy was pretty cool about the whole thing... said the rules were made at a time fisho's didn't have purpose built gear like Sabiki rods and every rigged rod was destined for simultaneous use. To stop people just pulling a rod out of the water when the fisheries guy turned up and saying " I wasn't using that one" they just extended it to " rigged rods or hand lines in possession". The rules are a little out dated but designed to limit the actual number of lines in the water. He said ... look, if a fisheries guy turns up and you are clearly not using all your gear and you don't pack attitude and your boat isn't a floating safety and fish pillaging indiscretion he will just give a quick warning on the fly. Personally, I don't like breaking the rules so I will work around it. The Sabiki is an interesting one as unrigging and re rigging is a drama. hmm....maybe I'll just take the risk.
  18. OK. I might be a bit guilty of that. I tend to follow the format of other fishing reports which have a story like feel and I find that interesting. I like to hear the detail and the process and the thoughts of other fisho's as it gives you a better insight to the person behind the post. Personally, and this is just me (but it could be others) I would be reluctant to ask for very specific information from anybody unless I have made some effort to show I was interested in their experience rather than just what useful information they could give me. Even then I would give some before I ever asked for any. I use the fishing reports as an indication of what is around and generally that's enough to apply your own knowledge and figure it out. I think everybody to some degree protects the present knowledge and the knowledge they have gained over the years as some sort of mark of respect for what it took to achieve in the first place. When that knowledge is passed on it is usually most freely passed on to those who are going to appreciate it. Just my thoughts. Cheers Jim
  19. Hi Linc, I have one. I use it when the yakkas/slimeys are all fired up and leaping on the jigs. Sometimes you have to bait the jigs up to get the yakkas to take them... seems to defeat the purpose a little I think and this is why many people just swear by a handline. You know what yakkas are like, sometimes they are hesitant to take a bait... when they are like this I use a handline because you get a better feel. When the baitfish start to get active I use the Sabiki and catch two or three or more at a time with no problems. The fly's don't get caught in the carpet but they will rust pretty quickly if you don't give them a rinse as the rods hold the moisture in and creates a humid atmosphere. Apparently the rods come either for an overhead or an eggbeater reel. The reel mount is closer to the entry point on the butt on the rod on the overhead model. This is the one I bought although i didn't know at the time. I just used a cheap 35 Diawa overhead. Just like any other gear they are a great tool in the right circumstances but they are not ideal in all situations. Personally, I wouldn't be without one... but I love my toys! Cheers Jim
  20. Hi Fishraiders, I have a mate who is a marine biologist and did some work cephalopods At first it was thought that squid were color blind because they do not have the "cone" receptors in their eyes which most vertebrates (like us) use to determine colour. They then discovered ( amongst other things) that squid for example are highly sensitive to polarized light which we can't detect. Different colored light is polarised differently so they are confident that this is the way squid determine colour. They just use a different system than our eyes do. Bats are a good example of using different systems. We use light reflected off surfaces, captured by our eyes and then processed by our brain to build a three dimensional image of the world. Bats use sound waves reflected back off surfaces, captured by their ears and processed by their brain to build a three dimensional image of the world. It is firmly believed by the scientific community that Squid use visible light like we do to build a three dimensional world and polarized light to add the colour. That is how it was explained to me. Also, as a matter of interest because of the structure of their eyes they have no blind spot, so they should be able to see those squid jigs anywhere! Below is the official Yamashita guide to the best colours for the conditions. This is apparently done on actual scientific trials and interestingly it suggests that the pinks are the best all round jig. This fits in with what many believe through their own experience. Cheers Jim
  21. Great effort and a great read. Keep the rods in the car and take every opportunity you can ... love it! Cheers
  22. I bought a $300 job from Ebay and it does a job but it has its shortcomings. It doesn't cover the motor or the motor well so I have to hose it down to prevent leaves accumulating and staining the boat finish It sags in two spots and rain pools in those spots so I have to bail the water out after rain. It is water proof but after 6 months I can see the signs of some seepage through the cover if the water is left there for a few days. There are a lot of tie down straps... takes me too long to get the thing off an on when I am in hurry to go fishing! Certainly the custom boat cover would be a set and forget thing. Certainly, a customer cover looks easier to put on/remove Certainly my boat is worth the investment. Hmmmmm......BOAT .... Bring On Another Thousand Cheers Jim
  23. I don't believe this is a problem if you don't fish with them all at one time. These are the rules A maximum of four rods or lines can be used by any one person at any one time. If any rods or lines are left unattended, they must be clearly marked with the fisher’s name and address or name and boat registration number. A maximum of three hooks or three gangs of hooks can be attached per line. A gang of hooks should have no more than five hooks. One line may have six single hooks with a lure attached to be used by the method of hand jigging only. A maximum of three treble hooks can be attached to a lure. I purpose rig so I don't have to change tackle not so I can fish with lots of rods at the same time. I mainly fish for Jewies and Kings... rarely have more than two rods in at any one time. I also mostly catch and release anyway. Cheers Jim
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