Heff

One day later I ended up buying the "Shakespeare Slingshot" 7 ft carbon 4 piece, for less than half the cost of the Berkley Nomadic. Can't wait to give it a run!

I'm looking or advice from anyone who owns a Berkley Nomadic NMS761. I want to fly to my next fishing destination and have been looking at multi section rods that can pack in a suitcase.

I also was told that a good recipe is to three quarter fill a pot with water and add soup veggies (carrots, celery, onion etc) and a house brick. Bring to the boil and add the longtoms, and simmer for three hours. Take out the longtoms and throw away, and enjoy the veggies and house brick!!

While on a recent fishing trip to Laurieton NSW I caught and released about 6 long thin fish (ave 60cms long) with very sharp teeth in a long snout. I think I have identified them as "Barred Longtoms". Has anyone had experience catching these and are they edible? I caught them on nippers.

Regretfully the fishing trip is now over. (8-15 May). What a great week. Pippies galore on Dunbogan beach which were great bait along with worms for whiting and big snowy bream. Only trouble was the seas were pounding the beach most days which made it difficult to cast out past the wash. There is a beach on the Southside near the break wall called "pilot beach". The beach adjacent to that facing the sea was very worthwhile. Worth sussing it out at low tide as there are a lot of rocks to the southern end that disguise themselves and strip tackle at high tide, but it gets protected from the Sou Easters. I'm not much into estuary fishing so just loved working the 'beach rod' and picking up big fish. Biggest fish I bagged were a 1.75 kg snowy bream and a 450mm whiting, both on Dunbogan beach on pippies harvested there. It was at a time when the wash wasn't too bad and the gutter was visible and castable, which was rare! Hey! But that's fishing. I'll be back!!

Thanks Garry, That's a whole lot of valuable info. We have a house on Dunbogan so will do a bit in that area. I rang the boat shed and seems to be under new management, and don't stock live worms any more. If I see the two 80 year olds worming I'll mention you. Might even be able to purchase a few worms!! Regards Heff

Thanks boys, that's very helpful. Don't think that area has had anywhere near the rain down south so hopefully the water won't be too fresh. My brother has a kayak so he should be able to get into some very shallow areas. We were originally booked into Tea Gardens, where we have been going for the last two years. That area will be 'catfish' territory for weeks.

I'm off to Laurieton with two rello's for a week's estuary fishing from Friday 8th May. Can anyone with experience in this area assist with where to fish (including beach) and what to use etc?