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Feral

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    Morayfield
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    Queensland
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    Australia
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    4506
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    46 years old
    Wife & 3 kids
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    Fishing
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    salad dodger

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  • Favourite Bait
    shrimp
  • Favourite Lure
    Stump Jumper
  • Fish You Target
    Cod
  • Best Catch
    Murray Cod

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  • Boat Name
    Silver Bullet
  • Boat Type
    Motor Boat with Trailer
    Kayak
    Canoe
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    Yes

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  1. Great for Bullies, so many they commercially fish them there.
  2. Barra Classics and Scorpions are all I use for barra. Its just getting the colour, depth and size that works on the day! Those two you have got - Gold and Guns N Roses by the sound of it are good starts. If your after a few more lures have a look at Foxies on line site, they quite often have the scorpions and barra classic on sale for $10 each, unfortunately not at the moment! I got half a dozen scorpions a couple of weeks ago off them.
  3. Barra have no teeth, but they have 2 sharp boney gill rackers each side that will cut braid like a hot knife through butter (and you if you handle the fish incorrectly) I generally use 40lb flouro, although last trip I upgraded to 60lb, as the 40lb had gone hard and the knots were showing signs of slipping (the 40lb was 2 years old, the 60lb new) Ferg used Platypus low stretch mono. If your fishing over weed banks I have seen 80lb gray fireline used as a leader, it cuts through the weed, the normal leader just hooks it up.
  4. That setup is more than good enough. The only time you would want bigger is for impoundment barra in heavy timber, then you want a broom stick with somewhere between 50 and 80lb braid. The reason for that is you need to skull drag the barra out, if it takes any sort of drag your gone. 3000 series is big enough, as Brian said seen metre plus barra landed on one no worries. Had to back up on a 110cm model last trip for insurance, but I think that was just Ray being slow to get the rod out of the holder and apply the hurt!
  5. The trapss are good where you cant use a cast net, also keep kids amused.
  6. Feral

    Funnies 2

    You gotta love Bill!
  7. Probably put him out of business. New boat ramps are not cheap, (Last one I was involved with building was $50k and that's a few ears ago now), not to mention getting it past the greenies and the EPA. unlikely WH&S would ever let him reopen the old ramp, its been a mess for a long time now. New more sensible legislation is in the pipeline, but not due until December 2011.
  8. I suspect it is because the height movement is to much for the height of the spool. It means extra line is built up at each end. I reckon if the spools were a mm or so taller it would not be a problem.
  9. Fixing for the particular set of line is easy enough, if tedious. Wind most of the line off, certainly well below where you think you will use it to. Then just build a little hump in the line in the middle of the spool by manually winding it on.When you think the hump is high enough, just wind the rest on, hopefully if you judged well it will be pretty right. With a baitcaster you do this by winding it so that you go one full pass over the centre of the reel until you have passed the edge back to the centre, then pulling the line off against the drag until the bit at the edge has come off. Unfortunately with a spinning reel the line lay setup is way to rapid to do that (in changing over the height of the spool), so its a by hand job. Much easier to do it in the backing material which is usually thicker! Doesn't look like it needs much, so be worth doing.
  10. Feral

    cleaning

    Dunno, assuming its an alloy hull, so a decent acid wash is out of the question, have you tried that CLR stuff? Otherwise its elbow grease and a scrapper.
  11. Also be aware, the Bias bloke was not correct in the amps that motor draws, the watersnakes draw less than the minnkotta's. Polyphonic had a 44lb on his, behind a 30 amp fuse . It did use to blow 20 amp fuses (which is what the boat yard fitted) but we upped them to the biggest we could buy in Gin Gin,being 30's and the 30's held.(they got hot, but held)
  12. The bloke from Bias is pretty much on the money. If you use a car battery, it might last 3 or 4 trips before being totally stuffed, if your lucky. Car batteries are not meant to be discharged like deep cycle batteries are. A 100 amp hour battery would probably last you half a day, the car battery an hour or two.
  13. Kev, weights over 750kilo will be braked trailers which tend to be a bit bigger, slightly longer draw bars etc. But it is specifically related to design of the trailer, how far in front of the boat the hitch is.
  14. Strewth, I have 50lb braid on my light gear. Dont think I'll bother straining the old brain, dont quite think I qualify!
  15. Kreel - got a trim issue there!
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