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Thanks for all the suggestions, whatever I come up with will be interesting no doubt.

Hey Raiders, Looking for a way to take my dog with me rock fishing and I've been putting my brain's energy towards MacGyvering a way to tether him securely while I'm fishing. So far the best option I've come up with is a rock climbing "friend" which is basically a tether point you can insert in a rock crack which will expand to lock in the crack. Only drama here is the price as they start at over $100 and I'd assume they wouldn't be designed to stand up to salt water. Does anyone out there have a suggestion? Thanks, SD

Sound like the big fella is getting the frames and heads now. Thanks raiders

Hey raiders, I remember as a young boy seeing my great-grandfather feed his dog fish frames. The dog would devour bream and whiting frames (guts removed) and loved them. One time he had a rock cod die on the hook so he gutted it and Barry ate the entire fish. Apparently pop had been doing this his whole life with every dog he ever had. I always assumed this was a terrible idea and the bones could potentially get stuck in the dogs throat but it never did Barry any harm. Does anyone out there know if feeding fish to dogs is dangerous? SD

5-20g cast weight? My rod for the light jig heads is 1-3kg, 10ft, graphite, 6lb braid. Is you spool full of braid? You start to lose cast distance pretty quick of the spools not full.

Nepean River Reserve Menangle Rd, Menangle NSW 2563 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9yBa9NQLoGQrJWmg7 Plenty of bass in the stretch of the river accessible from here mate. When it warms up a bit you'll catch heaps around sunrise. Don't muck about with the weirs, easy to end up drowned.

It's all part of the lure game challenge mate. Sometimes you can move to somewhere better, sometimes a more aggressive action will keep it away from the bottom and the weed beds, sometimes there is just so much weed floating around that fishing lures is near impossible. You can persist and still catch fish but its harder. You can usually feel when you've hooked some weed, just quickly wind in and try again.

The young fella has some skills! Wish I could sing or play guitar like that. Hopefully car prices return to a reasonable level soon for him.

Those splash prawns are very handy, they seems to be very popular with plenty of yummy species.

A soft plastic destroying menace is what that is.

About the size of a shovel I'd imagine 😂

Hey Raiders, I'm on the hunt for some waders that can take a fair bit of punishment and not cost a fortune. They need to be steel/safety toe and be tough, ideally ripstop or similar. Struggling to find a suitable option. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it! SD

I swear marina/wharf fish are smarter. Hire a boat and have a flick next to the oyster leases in coolongolook river.

Flatties hit the plastics when you lift you rod, lifting the lure up from the bottom. Bream hit the plastics whilst they are sinking. Bream want the plastic to look like its naturally floating around / slowly sinking. Bream like a bit of structure like oyster leases, moored boats, wharfs, mangroves. For flatties I use heavier jigheads (1/4) with a big hook and a 3" plastics. For bream I use the lightest practical jighead (1/16 or 1/20) with a small hook and a smaller plastic. I use my 6lb setup for bream. Both like a plastic with a good wriggly tail action. Technique for both the same. Cast, let plastic sink to the bottom, lift rod, lower rod, wind up slack, allow to sink, repeat. For bream I keep my finger on my braid so I can feel the bites/know when it hits the bottom. Hard to go past the nuclear chicken grub tail plastics. Good luck.

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