jon

2 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Bring on the Rain!!! not the cyclones please haha. 

Specifically please don't have a cyclone;

October 20 to 23

and November 23 to 27

is October your Fraser trip 

Princess Charlotte bay has a few good spots to hide out of the wind in between where you camp on the beach and Normanby river. One of them is called no name creek and you can hide up there and chase plenty of Barra jacks and muddies

Yeah what ever you used to have that got 4km per litre will near impossible to match with a 535 bar crusher. I’ve got a 6m centre cab and get any where from 1.4 up to 2.0 km depending on weather and how I’m driving and this generally Considered as pretty economical for my size boat 

Unfortunately after all my research I’m struggling to find a true 125 or 135 that will fit in side the Engel box as it’s internals will only accommodate 330L x 180w X 238H. I have found many labelled as 135 but the weight calcs brings them down to around 110 ish.

1 hour ago, Ed. said:

What brand is your 125AH battery?

If it’s the ones I spoke to the guy about it’s an NPP

3 minutes ago, benno573 said:

this is roughly correct for AGM batteries.  my 125AH is about 38kg.  the badged 110aH i got from Peter @ Battery Value on Friday I think weighs in at 32kg so just a smidge under the 0.3/AH.

Yeah sweet. I rang him about the 125 but the only issue is he can’t get one for four weeks and hopefully I’ll be going to Fraser next week so I’ll keep looking. I’ve found a few reasonably priced similar sizes though

1 hour ago, Drop Bear said:

What gauge wire do you use?

It depends how hook shy they are. Often only forty lb they can still bite through this though

16 hours ago, SoldierCrab said:

I'm new to fishing in Australia. In America almost everyone uses at least one treble hook when trolling or suspending live bait for mackerel. I never see anyone use them in Australia except with lures. Are they Allowed to be used on baitfish? I can't find any information online, but i noticed bcf sells a pre-made leader with 1 treble hook and it made me curious.

It’s actually really common in Australia all around the country to use a treble hook at the tail end of a bait and a j hook through the nose especially when floating or trolling Livies. We call it a stinger. It is most commonly used for the exact purposes you talked of, chasing mackerel it is 100% legal. I always have a few light gauge single strand wire rigs with treble stingers made up when the mackerel are about

53 minutes ago, benno573 said:

hey mate,

just fact checked myself here.  

Company was placed into adminstration 24/3/2020.  they continued trading under administration, then entered into a deed of company arrangement.  the DOCA fininshed 20/8/2020 and the company was returned to the control of the directors.

so they did go into administration but were able to trade out of it.

@jon - IMO worth spending a few extra $$ to get a few more AH if you can - just one less thing to think about while you are out and about.

Yeah cheers mate the current director of that company has a string of lawsuits against him in regards to warranty claims amongst other things. Not worth risking on the odd chance I get a lemon from the get go.

your right about the extra Ah. it’s no point skimping once I’ve already spent heaps on the box. The plan is to put the maximum ah that will physically fit in the box

180w x 330l x 238h.

ive been told buy a few solar/battery experts that any thing under 0.3kg per Ah is false advertising. Ie a 135 Ah battery should weigh just over 40kg. And 110 ah about 33 kg so anything that is multiple kg’s less than is probably less than what they claim it to be. Does anyone out there agree or disagree with using the 0.3kg equation as guide to measure Ah of agm batteries.                   ( obviously casing quality will differ the weight but shouldn’t be say buy a couple of kgs. Is what ive been told)

15 minutes ago, Ed. said:

As far as I know Aussie batteries has still been trading under it's name for about 9 years that I know of, but if the owner has other businesses that have had name changes then that is not a good sign at all!

Thanks mate I appreciate your input. 

Cheers Benno And Nog I’ll give him a call and see what he’s got that’s a good price for a 110ah. I looked a bit further the owner of Aussie batteries has had six different companies in a few years and all have gone bust then pop up again under a new name.

How long did you get out of your batteries In General?

5 hours ago, Ed. said:

The only AGM batteries I have ever used are the Giant Power brand from Aussie Batteries  up at Warana Qld. They don't seem too bad, and I only buy them on special which they do fairly often. I have used the 135A and the 150A ones. The 150A is a big battery and weighs about 41Kg, (150.0 AH/7.50A, 20hr,1.80V/cell,25°C) The last time I checked the 150A was upgraded to become a 160A. Whether or not they are better than other brands I couldn't say as I have only bought a couple over the last 8 years or so. They have a 1 year replacement warranty and another 4 years pro-rata.

Yeah I was this close to buying one as they now do a 140 which I can get for $267. Until I came across a fair amount of rubbish reviews about quality and no help with the warranties. Problem is I don’t know if it is for this particular model or not.

Hi all I’m looking to buy a deep cycle gel agm battery for an up coming trip. It’s to be placed in an Engel series 2 battery box. Purely for running fridge camp lights etc. I’m after one in the 110-140 ah rating I’ve been doing a heap of research and have found a lot of the batteries labelled as 135 or 140 are really actually rated to 110ah. If any one on here has any recommendations on deep cycle agm batteries let me know cheers in advance

2 hours ago, Towknee said:

Hamish,

If your Dad is willing to drive to Deagon. You can have the one in my shed.

Bought it a year ago off gumtree to make it into a fishing trailer. Haven’t done anything with it, so might as well give it to someone who can get some use from it. 
 

Nice work mate, I reckon he’ll give it plenty of use!

17 hours ago, benno573 said:

I had a brown about 1.5m long decide to join me on the kayak one day - I did not care for it.

shame about the crabs but good to have a shake down in the new tub.

Yeah can’t imagine I’d be too impressed by that one either

3 hours ago, Do$tylz said:

WTF? I hope some kneecaps got some touching up.

Still smashing the deep waters Sef?

If I only ever found out who did it. Was a long time ago now tho. Yeah still getting out there man just not as much as I’d like too. Have been going ok when I do manage to get out though

Yeah Hamish is right it’s a bit early in the season unless you just want to target a few for bait then you can get them all year round just not in huge numbers . We need some good rain in the coming months or the season won’t be so great

2 minutes ago, benno573 said:

You had a PlayStation in your boat???

Haha nah mate they just did the lot. Including a hot water system ( uninstalled)

57 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

do ps3 games work in ps4 machines?

Dunno Robbie, they stole my PlayStation when they stole my boat

Nice report Hamish, those salmon can be a real pain to crack sometimes but keep at it you’ll nab another one soon. This is a good time of year for them so hopefully a few more will pop up for you

Wow what a cracking snapper Ted, or dom I should say looks like a quality day out on the water well done lads