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It’s painted with epoxy enamel mate. I have used it alot before repainting a few tinnys and another trailer. Holds up very well and does not chip easily.

Hey raiders. I feel like sometimes we focus so much on our boats, buying them mods and toys, that we forget about our trailers that carry our boats around. With lockdown putting the brakes on my boating I am giving the trailer a full overhaul. Dropped into the local tyre shop where they supplied me a bunch of old ones and proceeded to drop the boat onto stacked tyres in the garage. Completely stripped her down and have ordered new hubs, bearings, some new rollers, reflectors, new lights, jockey wheel, and some black Sunraysia rims. Took the wire brush drill attachment and went to town on the old girl (1993) for a solid weekend removing any surface rust and flaky bits. A good dose of rust converter and a soapy bath and she was ready to paint. Etch primed and top coated the trailer has a new lease on life. One last coat today and will start to reassemble. Now I can get back to buying the boat new toys knowing she is been carried in style.

Thanks bob, I am meeting up with a mate from the central coast and was also eyeing off the patonga pub for a beer and a meal after. Looks like a great spot to sit and look out over the bay!

Thanks mate. Yeah I saw there is no pontoon, will be all good.

Hi raiders, I’m looking at launching out of dark point ramp, patonga later this week. Will be in a quinine 475 bayhunter. I will be heading offshore and just want to conserve fuel by launching closer to the heads. Has anyone used this ramp before? Any dramas with tide levels? Thanks in advance

Hit the water with @dlvbwon Saturday at the civilised hour of 3pm. (He does not like the early starts too much). We filled the tank with lollipop livies and headed to the fads. Only micro Dollies around and not eating out baits so threw some plastics and hooked/landed one but they were hard to tempt. With a load of livies on board we headed to long reef and set up a burley trail. Every bait that went down got smacked and we boated around 12 fish, landing one legal and losing a few as I moved to the lighter gear. We emptied the livie tank as quick as we had filled it and stripped the last 2 large yakka to get a few more hook ups. By catch included some decent snapper, with a good one dropped at the boat. We pulled up around 8 and a great run back to the ramp. washed the gear at home and repacked for a morning session on the stones. I have been struggling to get a decent king in the boat lately and saw some bigger ones come across the ledges so I was in the spot before first light. I love spinning gar and was rewarded for my efforts with a fat 80 model. The only fish landed from the ledge that morning. Great to have a close quarters battle with a fighter! Photo added in post below. Tight lines

Launched at rosebay yesterday at 5 am to the forecast 20knot southerly but no rain so that’s a win. Picked up a few squid along the eastern suburbs beaches. Yakkas were plentiful although a touch larger than the desired lollipop size. After loading up on bait we had wanted to try inside north head but unfavourable conditions forced us back inside the harbour. We dropped livies at all the usual places working our way down towards Taronga zoo and some of the more western islands. Marked large schools of bait, some holding fish but could not get a strike. Schools of busting fish kept us busy everywhere we went, ranging from finicky tailor to large mack tuna that gave us a great run on the 10lb gear. Great to have the harbour to yourself for a change!

Loads of flatties in there, good bream and Jew also. Try walking down the banks along the golf course.

I have only really ever caught big pj sharks at this spot.

Was chucking sinking stickbaits. Quite windy/ choppy today. No surface action.

After landing a few rats and getting dusted by a hoodie yesterday I couldn’t help but have another crack at it today. Looks like the kings are starting to fire from the stones after what has been a slow start for me this year. Maybe it’s because I have not had as many rock sessions as usual but it was nice to get some legal fish after being plagued by rats in the harbour. Hoping the weather behaves for a bit longer!