Rob81

I find sometimes you get quiet a few yakkas busting up inside the harbours or rivers. But ive also seen then bust up in coastal rocks but thats along the side with large groups of slimies. That Caramelised dish is good for the species of fish youre unsure how to cook, but Ive seen almost any species used for it. Its also preference way of cooking stingrays for some of my mates. I think with yakkas, its something you can keep simple, sprinkle some salt and shallow panfry them. Some people like to put a light coat of flour but I see it as a very simple breakfast fish type dish.

My wife is always asking for a fish to "steam", as pelagics aren't ideal for this. But like Noelm, she has more a preference towards using Barra for this dish, unless I come home with a snapper. One thing I find a little different to your method, besides the use of a mircowave, is what my wife would do, and I've seen many others do this same thing, is add the garnish (mainly shallots) at the end fresh, and then heat up oil (ideally really hot) and then pour that over the garnish/fish. You get this sizzle over it and sometimes I think that makes a fair bit of a difference. PS: I learnt, about 13 odd years back when I met my wife, that the trolley thing is more a western thing, so they tend to do that in Australia or America more, than they would in Asia. I don't think I've seen the trolleys being used in HK before.

Vanquishes are grey market reels here. So theyre not as easily obtainable compared to stradics or vanfords where you can easily walk into a store and find one. yeah in the light game range 10g isnt much and wont have any affect. All the best with making a decision.

The Stradic Ci4+ should be phasing out, and the Vanford F filling that void. The way I look at the Vanford, its somewhat a hybrid between the Stradic Ci4 & Vanquish (JDM reel). The concept is more towards the Finesse light duty range, so I wouldnt really compare either 2 reels against the FL, where it is built for a slightly heavier duty type role. I own both Vanquish and Stradic Ci4+, but was excited when they came up with the Vanford, but as I have no reasoning for that reel, I hadnt purchased one. If Id had to chose one between the two, I'd go Vanford as it should feel like a cheap version of the Vanquish. Low interia and ultra smooth for finesse/light type applications. Regarding weight, it is roughly 10g lighter, however sometimes too light can be a nuisance as finding the right rod to balance it when can be a pain. I find this is most so the case for the larger size reels in that light range.

Ajing is quiet fun once you get into it. But it does come with a risk, I've once almost got spooled by a palm size snapper. The yakkas they get over in Japan grow much bigger than the ones we get over here, but on ultra light gear, the yakkas over here can still be a challenge. As for that herring, I am not too sure on exact species, I just remember that when I held it, the scales fall off very easily, and the nearby jewfishermen love them to use for bait.

I personally don't think its going to be all that great. The idea is good, but in practice I am not soo sure. To take off, you need one good kick, but that is on flat land, and ramps are not flat, they're on an angle, so going up may take a few kicks. Also coming downhill can be dangerous, cause there is an opportunity the ground is wet and you'll be on a downhill angle, combined with your own weight, if you brake too hard you can flip it or fall side ways. Possibility of a bit of gravel rash. If you stop slowly this could work, but all depends how slippery that ramp would be. The effort it takes to remove the scooter from car/boat, assemble it (just flipping the handles up and then locking it in), and then doing this in reverse every single time outweights the effort it takes to walk to and from the car (obviously depending how far you've parked) There are children versions, but they're not designed for the avg weight of an adult. So you may come down the ramp, but not make it up the ramp. For some it may seem with all worth it, but personally its not for me to use it in that manner for these reasons mentioned.

Law is law at the end of the day. The officers job is to enforce that, irrelevant of what we think. Pretty sure I hear fines of $2k plus as it breaches roughly 4 laws.

To start the motors you just need to get it 5km/h, which is basically a simple light kick off. The issue is the angle of the ramp/hill. The more steep the more struggle you're going to get with one. And as mentioned above, arent legal yet. You can use them freely on your own private property, but not on public grounds. In saying that, police officers dont go chasing you unless you give them a reason to do so. Eg. riding like an idiot around people. Some scooters handle more angles better than others, and it is actually written into the specs for most. So that would be something to consider when looking. Also, another factor I consider is weight of device, cause youre going to want to lug this in and out of the car/boat. Decent ones are roughly 12kgs, but usually more power/capacity, they would be heavier.

On a spin reel, if its windy, the wind pulls out extra line after the lure/bait hits the water. Just need to close your bail quick enough and then wind some line back, I like to hold the line up a little to add a little tension. I am unsure what other way there is for 40m line coming out of a 30m cast on a spin reel. Over spooled wont throw out extra line.

Doesnt sound like youre doing something wrong, but in locations inland a bit, you could try without a sinker. Doesnt sound like you need to cast far anyways. Without the sinker allows your baited hook to appear more natural with the flow and when fish takes the bait.

Honestly, I would just bring my squid gear only in that situation. Very limited time to fish, cant be sure if I could fish. Squid gear takes little space, light weight and easy to lug around, so you can be a lot more mobile in an unknown environment. The squid down there is a lot more fun and have a far high probability of finding, especially that you mention you're chance is in the evening. Also looking at google maps in satellite view, the weed patches are easy to find. Too many advantages, only thing I would say, is that, not everyone is into squiding so I am not sure if its your thing.

Could be some kind of goby.

If its for your own personal records, then this is you're own definition of "Landed" (which may vary depending on circumstance eg. kayak vs beach). If you cheat, the only person you are cheating is yourself. For me, there is no sense of accomplishment if I do that to myself. On top of that, I like to take measurements of my achievements. I cannot do that unless it is landed. I can only speculate a length and/or weight, which means I will never know if I have broken any previous records or set any new records for the species.

For more current model reels, carbon washers are only for heavy duty reels and felt for light reels. Light reels arent designed to take on jobs of heavy duty reels, even though they might be able to, it is not its intended purpose. Carbon drags will increase the drag pressure on smaller reels, so where the drag might normally fail or not handle fish using felt drags, something else would fail in its place. I personally rather replace felt washers over gears or clutch assembly in the reel. I would only suggest if you do have a more recent reel, that did come with felt and you wanted to replace it with carbon, to not full lock up drag whilst fighting fish, if you want to extend the life of your reel. I cant say too much about much older reels, as back then, I never really opened up a reel to see what was inside.

Yeah I find the line is the worst thing on those combos. Usually comes with mono, and has way too much memory on it, so you spend half your time fixing birdnest and its not worth the headache. Basically any line you buy after, would be better. Mono is fairly cheap, so you can get some decent ones at low cost, braid has a large variety but you're ok with low-mid end ranges to use with it. Just be sure to pack it on tight. Personally I use braid more, but if you bought a big spool setup and don't want to spend too much on braid, you could get a 150m spool braid (jbraid or something) and then put some cheap mono underneath it.

My only recommendation, is if you buy a Big W or K-mart special combo and it comes with line, change the line. Rest of the gear should handle what you want, is just the line is usually really crap. You can stick on half decent mono or get low-mid end braid (like j-braid), and it'll make all the difference.

Run longer leader if you want to run braid. It really depends on location tbh, as some rock ledges there is no, or not much structure out there to worry about. Regarding safety, I always say, shoes are the most important. Must be able to grip as much as possible and comfortable. Remember, your feet is doing the main job of preventing you from going in to the water. Cleats, you can get slip on cleats, if you want something cheap, you can look on online markets stores, look up "fishing cleats" or "snow cleats" (something most people probably don't think to look into), but both have similar purposes. However, I've been using a set from a brand called Eisen, I am only on my second pair but my first pair had lasted a fair while. Just remember to wash them if you're walking in the salt water on the ledges. For PFD, there's plenty out there, but all depends on your budget. I went a little extreme as I rockfish as often as I can and I was looking for something very comfortable to maneuver and cast, but also safe at the same time. So I went with a brand called Crewsaver, paid a little more for the model I have, but since I've had it, I will say I do not regret my spend. IMO, I'd rather spend a little more on my safety gear than I would on my fishing gear. And as above with washing cleats, maintenance of all of your safety gear is just as important as your fishing gear... Unless its just my OCD kicking forcing me to do these things

There are heaps of options of weird, tacky but sometimes useful tool for ISO fishermen. Just because they are tools marketed to that type of fishing, doesn't mean you couldn't use it for others. But I've not found a 1 tool to rule them all type of thing. Its usually a couple of few different tools and try to keep this on the minimum as I don't want a tackle bag looking more like a tool box than a tackle bag.

Cheap option is treble covers and a hairclip. (My house is full of girls so plenty of clips). Use hairclip to hold lure onto rod. I think I consider is cheap cause there's plenty of hairclips lying around my house, unsure as to the price of a hairclip if I were to go out and buy one.

Tether your setup to the rails for added security.

Yes, this is the exact issue I have with my dataset. But over time, it'll all make sense and worth it.

Yeah understood. Will be interesting to see what it all looks like in a couple years time to see any form of trends. My data I believe still needs a couple more years to get anything greatly useful out of it (as I tend to fish in various places). But I am in no rush to fill it in, but I do like to go back here and there to see what I do have written down.

Also, 50 trips isnt much info, unless you are fishing the one location that entire time.

Like you, I've done the same, google documents. I spent a fair bit of time prior to creating my own form/data to test a few apps but at the end, I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. I started off with basic info, but more than what you had above, but over time the amount of data grew. I log all session, including session where I did not catch anything, and the reasoning for this, was primarily cause I do a lot of landbased fishing off rocks. This info helps a lot as I log details of the behavior of the water/wind in different conditions for the exact location. Things I log: The usual forecast info (tide, height of tide, wind, moon, start/end) What the water is actually doing at the location, eg how strong current, amount of wash, comfort levels, clarity What the wind is actually doing, was this workable or how annoying it was (as sometimes you can hide from high winds in some locations), which way was it physically blowing at location Species caught (size/weight) and time From the above information, I create custom data points/graphs, that then shows me roughly what time of year, for what area do I manage to do ok for what species. Also I add in anomalies in within seasons as notes, harder to use in graphs, but something you can read over the years. The above, combined with my own custom google map for marks/location, so I know exactly where was what caught and conditions. Also, with this, you can add further location based info/notes, such as rock type, comfortability, height of ledge. (This would be for places newly explored or location you hardly go to) I am at the stage where I am not sure, if I enjoy gathering the data or actually fishing. But it does make it a little more interesting. As for photo of species caught, that is captured by the phone automatically anyways and so you can run your photo apps search function for that. Nothing wrong with many apps, but I just found I wanted a little bit of this and that for too many apps and this allows me to narrow down what I use and customisation.

Seen them used in WA pages as well. For Demerals off a boat. Tried a similar one many years back, think it was called a rock hopper, but snagged it landbased fishing before I got a chance to give it a proper opinion.