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Pauafritta

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  1. I have the Demon Blood 72MH with a Saragosa 10000 and love it. Have caught Kings off the boat and break wall. I have found it a bit short when off the rocks as it is hard to get over the oysters and lost a couple of fish. I watched someone with the Demonblood 962 bring in a 110cm Kingie off the rocks that same day easily.
  2. Thanks paddy. If anyone has a charter lined up and someone pulls out, let me know and i may be able to fill the spot.
  3. Im keen to get on to some of these fish this season. How close to shore do they usually come off Sydney? Are there any good charters people have been on they would recommend? I don't mind heading down south for a weekend to get on to them.
  4. I caught a 90cm Kingfish last week and the drag was very jerky, so I decided to open the reel to have a look and maybe grease it. I have 2 of these reels and have noticed inside they are different. One of the reels is missing a cog on the main rod that holds the spool. Not sure how it could have come it, maybe from factory? One reel has the cog and a washer and the other reel just has the washer. How important is the cog? If it is needed where do you get new ones? Photo of the cog below.
  5. I would be keen to join and meet a few raiders and have a few laughs
  6. The live bait tank was plumbed in at the quintrex factory. The pickup is very low on the stern. I had assumed it didn't pump as forward momentum would create an air pocket at the intake.
  7. Good tips. Next time I wont overload the tank as it is fairly small.
  8. We are regular visitors to Forster and were recently up there for 2 weeks. The weather was not the best with large swells and annoying wind as a result from the Cyclone in Queensland. We did however manage to get some fishing in and a number of “firsts”. With bad weather we were confined to the lake so I took my 4 year old out to look for dolphins. I had just purchased 2 crab traps on special a day earlier and we dropped them further up the lake while we went Dolphin hunting. Having found and followed the dolphins for a while he soon got bored and we dropped a line over. He caught 2 small flathead in 10 minutes and we were done for the day. They were his first ever fish and he was super excited to get 2 fish to Dads 0. We went back to check the crab traps which were only in the water for 2 hours so expectations were low. We were very surprised to find our first ever Blue Swimmer Crab and a large Bream. We let the Bream go and kept the crab for dinner. I had a few goes at throwing lures off the breakwall and managed to get my first breakwall Kingie. Without a net or gaff I was very lucky to land it. I think it was a legal fish but wasn’t totally sure as I had left the brag mat on the boat, so it was released back to grow a bit. With 1 day to go the weather had improved I took the opportunity to head out past the bar. I stopped to pick up some livies and every time I put 3 hooks down I would pull up 3 slimies. With 15 livies on board I headed off for my solo mission out to the FAD 16km offshore. It was a bit bumpy in my 5m bowrider but it felt safe. After a long slow trip I arrived at the FAD to find 1 other boat and discovered half of my live baits had perished. I assume due to the fact the water stops pumping if the boat is moving. I quickly setup up a live bait and within 30 seconds was taken by a good size Mahi Mahi, which was the first ever off my boat. It was great fun, even on my heavier 50lb setup. I used all the livebaits and had landed 3 legal Mahi Mahi, with the biggest at 82cm. I released a number of smaller fish as well. I even put some of the dead baits down and these were smashed off the surface by the smaller Mahi Mahi. With the livebaits all gone and having created a burly trail with my breakfast in the swell I headed home. If I wasn’t so sick I would have stayed to throw a few lures, but was happy with the fish I had in the boat and was back at the ramp about 9am. Even though there was not a lot of fishing done it was great to get a few.
  9. I have a quintrex bowrider 510 with an etec 90. Great for the family and have also had it at the fad off Forster. It's small enough to launch by myself and great for the wife and kids. Also towed biscuits off the back. It's very dry unless you get a strong cross wind but that hasn't happened often as I just adjust the trim and angle.
  10. Awesome! I'm heading to Denarau in May and keen to get out for action like this
  11. Has anyone on here used one of the GPS trackers. I have been reading reviews on fleabay and Hamazon and there are a lot of bad reviews. In particular was after one with a self contained battery and no monthly contract. Will then put a cheap prepaid Sim in.
  12. Does anyone have a recommendation on a charter for SBT out of Sydney? Or if anyone takes there own boat I would happily pay for fuel and would be satisfied been the deck hand and watch you pull one in.
  13. Nice haul there. I would still be tempted to throw a lure at busting tuna so well done sticking to your plan.
  14. What a fantastic weekend! We plan on heading to Forster a lot more so this is great encouragement.
  15. I have a Quintrex bowrider which i think is great all round . Its 5m, light and I drive it on the trailer and just lean over the front to hook it on. It's great with the family in the bay and get offshore when it's not too rough.
  16. I will be going to Orange for Easter and want to know if anyone would suggest a good guide or charter ( not flyfishing) for one of the dams or rivers. I plan to leave my boat at home so am hoping there are good options for a Murray cod or other fish with a guide or from shore.
  17. I have seen a few shops selling worms dyed bright red recently
  18. Just watched the news story on TV on this. They said the pollution is caused by firemen training at the airport and the foam going into the water.
  19. Thanks for the tips. I have got the battery out of the boat and will leave it on the charger and see what it does. The MX 5.0 does have a setting for bigger batteries so it should work.
  20. The battery is only a year old and would have only been flat a week
  21. I have left my battery switched on and it is completely flat. I can switch to the secondary battery and start the boat as this should be fully charged. I park my boat on the street and getting the flat battery out to charge it is extremely difficult and I'm not sure the MX5 motorbike battery charger would do the job. So, if i took the boat on the water, using the secondary battery to start it, will running the motor charge up the flat battery? or do i just need to suck it up, buy a new charger and extract the battery from the boat?
  22. 2 goals for me. Catch a kingfish on my new downrigger and make it out to the FAD.
  23. Thanks for the advice. Braid has been ordered and wire stripped.
  24. The wire on my downrigger has jumped off and jammed the spool. According to online videos the only way to get the spool off is to strip the spool but I cannot as it is jammed and I cannot move it. Any suggestions on how to fix it it anyone that can do this in sydney?
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