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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!
  16. Kev, the secret is to buy an old hull that does not have a builders plate, and therefore no manufacturers recommended engine size. Then you can put as big a motor as you like on the boat. (Short of it sinking).
  17. Feral

    70cm Bass

    StevenM wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble, but legal length is to the tip, not the fork.
  18. Feral

    70cm Bass

    No, mind you I know someone took a photo of a 50plus bream the other day and I have not seen the photo of that yet
  19. Strewth, did not realise someone had dug up this old thread! Reelchippy, you can measure them (the bearings), but for the life of me I cant remember what they are, I know the ford ones are bigger, if Ray spots the thread he can put the relevant measurements up no sweat. You can also drop a set of verniers across the studs, the PCD for holden hubs is smaller, but it is possible to get boat trailer hubs with holden stud patterns and ford bearings and visa versa(ford bearings take a higher load, but you might want to keep the stud pattern holden to match spares / car etc, no ideas why you would go the other way). Have not come across this, but I have seen it advertised by the specialist trailer shops.
  20. The rumour tells me Ray has a new dog.
  21. Was that a $25 pillie Cowfish sorry couldn't resist.
  22. Lotsa chrome \"woolworths\" man made reef in there! Some good wheelie bin snags near that pipeline to - the bass love those!
  23. 6lb mono, Plastics - kokoda mad shads in 50mm orange work well in there. Hard bodies, and minnow around the 60 - 70mm mark diving to 2m (no more, its shallow). But plastics are easier lots of weed beds at differing depths. Park at the lakes and work your way upstream, follow the bike track. Its stocked with Bass. I used to put my small tinnie in next to the bridge and head upstream to just past the footbridge. There is a pipe over the river there that stops you going any further.
  24. Woody, the marine seals make it hard to spin the wheel,they cause a lot of drag. with just the hub, you would probably find it stops almost immediately after you let go. If your worried, feel the hub immediately after going for a drive, it should feel no more than slightly warm.
  25. Dont do UD's Drove a UD tipper in Western Queensland for a few years for mate. What is it, 20 nuts to get an inner drive wheel off? seemed like a hundred everytime I had to do it, and driving on Cockies roads, it was often!
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