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Thanks Mal. I think they look awesome, although my wife refers to them as 'pound dogs' LOL

Hey Malcom, what breed is Maggie? I have soft spot for scruffy faced dogs

Gus looks like a great fishing companion too!

Bud light clothing drive:

you will be in tears watching this :woohoo:

LOL at the goose vid!

Hey mate I'm looking at camping in noosa in a couple of weeks time. How would you rate the campsite there?

pinkey wrote:

haha i remember going into charltons a while back and they showd me your horse thready on their computer.

Probably the same thready Wes has got posted at BCF Ippy:P

Wes: I don't blame the boys for getting scared with the gaff. I wouldn't gaff 2m of green shark either!

wesfish wrote:

80kg+ bully on 3kg pretest fought for an hour but lost in the end!!

My goodness! :laugh: That is seriously outgunned! Would have been a hell of a fight. Do you reckon you were making progress, or was she just playing with you?

fishing-mavericks wrote:

it's the opposite to what you're asking, but my brother once caught a whiting on a whole pilchard using triple ganged 5/0 hooks. The pillie was bigger than the whiting so we're not quite sure how it happened... :silly:

Maybe it was mating season and poor little whiting didn't know his abilities :laugh:

aww he's got a little coat on lol

Actually that story was in the QT (with a pic) just before that girl got that big one up North. I was going to scan it in and post it on hear, but apparently there was a competition on the back and my dear mother posted it LOL:blink:

EDIT: mmm I think it was the Logan or even Noosa (I remember thinking I've heard of them in there before), but I'm guessing I've just forgotten and it was the same fish

not sure dude, never really considered it!!! I would much rather thready a few on a hook and catching some tasty whiting:)

black jew apparently grow super fast, over a metre in the first year

Feral: our most common bony size is 5-6 inches and we hook em with a single hook about 3/4 down the back OR at the ventral fin. For the big guys I would like to use two hooks, one just past the shoulder and the other in the 3/4 spot again. The big baits that worked well (wells sorta!) for us a couple of weeks back were unfortuently only rigged on singles (didn't have anything else! ) which sucked for hookup. Got huge runs but no baconB) I have since made rigs with 2x10/0 which was used with eel strips (couldn't get any decent livies) during the night a while back with Terry. The eel scored three sharks at least and two of these rigs got biten off through the wire:pinch: . At least the rig is proven!

AH surface eel! surface eel! make sure you have the point, barb and a nice amount of gape sticking through a juicy strip of fillet. Make sure you take some old rags with you to wipe your hands off after baiting up:sick: I am sure you have leaned what eel is like by now thoughB)

PS - for each trip you go on, please make a new report:silly:

AH congrats on your first shark its a big achievement if you knew how much effort and sharkless trips I put in to crack my first shark lol:pinch: I have learned a lot since and fair a lot better now when the bities are in seasonB)

If there is one piece of advice I can give you is experiment. We are constantly trying different rigs, method of rigging baits, depth fished, hook pattern etc. About your problem with your floats, try adding a large free running sinker above the float. The sinker will anchor the rig so the float and bait stays put on the surface. You can then add smaller sinkers below the float and by modifying the trace length can set the depth that you want to fish;) Even better attach sinker to mainline via a free running swivel and a foot or so of line that is lighter than you mainline. If you get snagged, you will only loose your sinker:cheer:

Don't be scared to fish the surface during the day, given that most the river is pretty murky. Big strips of eel and big livies will work a treat. The bigger the livie on the surface the better. A foot long bony bream will pull my float under for a bit, go for a swim and pop back up to the surface repeatedly. It must be like one of those big Maccas signs for sharks!

I hope to read about plenty more of your shark encounters in the future!