DaveW

I've done roughly 50000 k's in the past couple of years with my Durahubs. Topped them up with a tiny amount of oil once about a year ago and they've never given me any issues at all, can't rate them highly enough.

I love this one for medium range rain forecasts - hasn't steered me wrong yet WXMaps

I've got Diawa Revros 2006's on all mine they fit pretty nice. I had some Quantums that didn't fit well but taped the ends of the reel seats and they came up nice and tight.

Missed this one - been a bit slack I've got custom grips on all mine, dual cork with a timber insert as below. The only different one is the 'rod wrap' that sits directly onto the cork. I quite like it but it is a freaky feeling when it flexes to a big fish! This rod is a loaner from Ian.................. that I've managed to hold onto for 3 or so years It's a very lucky one and has pulled 3 Bream over 2kgs.

Hi Top Breamer Since your question was about Bream Busters Ian will build whatever you want in terms of guides - my personal preference is for a Silicon Titanium stripper and tip with REC guides in between No one other than Ian knows where the blanks are custom built for him and to his specifications. There's VERY few australian rod builders that get their blanks purpose built for our conditions, most are doing their best with blanks designed for the overseas market, or general purpose. Not that there is anything wrong with that, there are some very gifted builders out there. My advice would be to play with plenty of different styles from as many companies as you can before outlaying the folding stuff - a custom rod certainly isn't cheap. My favorite is the Ultra Finesse, nothing casts light weights further Hope this helps.

Hi Ryhno, There's a gentleman just outside of Penrith who does a lot of caravan and RV repair work (and built my boat trailer). Not sure if he can do what you want but wouldn't hurt to call tell him Dave Welfare sent you: Mobile RV Repairs (Steve) 0407 480 591 Mods I have no affiliation with this company just a satisfied customer if it is against site policy please remove. Cheers, Dave

Howdy There are Bass in there but VERY few and far between. I have also caught a handful of EP's over the years but again pretty scarce. If you were kayaking you can go a long way past the bridge (pretty much to the highway), but not much further in the average boat. On the left it's just a big shallow flat. Plenty of old timers sit on it for Flathead and do OK.

I spent three days down there last week with the family (we have a holiday house at Fishermans Paradise). In the lake proper, basically if you drift with deep jigged plastics along shorelines in the 10-20ft range you will catch as many Flathead as you want - my 4yo daughter got her first fish doing this and I can guarantee there wasn't much finesse involved I targeted Bream with lures around rocky points and had a ball releasing a heap of good fish. Conjola Creek has plenty of snag dwelling Bream, there are some very big resident fish that are a handful to stop. With the stopping of the professional netters the lake just keeps getting better Hope this helps.

That one's commonly known as the 'Frikken Hell' fish, which coincidentally happens to be the last words of most people who see one in the flesh

This is what's going in mine - you can get them pretty much anywhere online: Poly Planar MP3 Kit Supposedly bullet proof - just plug in your I-Pod and go

I was looking at the same option a while back, looked at tons of hulls and kept coming back to the Haines 1600/1700 series (some of them are 's' models). I even think the mechanic at Yabby marine has/had one for sale. Very nice hull, fairly stable for that kind of boat and goes like the clappers........... I want another way, but for around $15K or so (and a LOT of hard work) you'd have a beast that would compete with the best of them.

I'm in with the family for a day out - as long as there's no other event conflicts............ the Mrs is the social diary

I've got one of those Heddon's with the bizarre tail..........don't think I've ever used it.... Go the Flopy! In box, I think one went for $80 on greedbay not so long ago

Yammy was doing a pilot program for it a couple of years back - I had the offer of it getting done for nothing but never got around to gettting it done. It's offered as an option by quite a few dealers now, no idea about the cost though. My opinion - it should be free and compulsory for all manufacturers

Here you go B: NSW Pro Bream Forster was a great weekend - even with the wind Buz and I still had a pretty good time of it......... A big congrats to Craig Greenaway for the win in his first tournament as a boater, must have been the lucky boat