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If all goes well, it looks like there may be a slight chance that the missus and I could be out boating on Sunday. It has been that long since we went out that I may have forgotten how to fish. I wonder if I can catch anything with 5 month old bait?
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What, no duct tape?
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New engine
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Personally if I had a suitable large sized boat to fit that much horsepower I also would opt for 2 x 200's or 2 x 250's max. the extra cash I would save would pay for about 10 years fuel, also where could you take it to open it up and use that much horsepower anyway, glassed out days are very few and far between and most times you would push it to even drive at 30 knots. I would rather have the safety of twin motors than one rather big one. My last boat was a 26ft with a 425HP inboard sterndrive setup, it could do over 40knots, in the 4 years I owned it, I hit that speed once, just to see
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Is this flat head safe too eat?
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On the one that I had you could also apparently winch the anchor up by hand too, it came with a star shaped winch handle which you could use to release the clutch or use it in the opposite direction to winch the chain up using the gearing of the winch, I say apparently because I never had the need to try it so can't say for certain. It had a Capstan and a Gypsy on it to do chain and rope.
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Is this flat head safe too eat?
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Is this flat head safe too eat?
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I also wouldn't eat it, obviously infected with some sort of parasitic worm.
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I don't know about all anchor winches as I have only ever added one to a boat of mine, but the one I put one had a clutch which you could release and the anchor would free fall down without power.
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The Ugly Stiks are a composite of GRP and carbon however they are built to what's called the Howald Process, whereby there are groups of strands of Glass fibers wrapped in a spiral pattern going up the blank like a coiled spring, more graphite fibers angled like a mesh over the core, then more layers of longitudinal fiberglass fibers over the lot. The coil gives it its bendy and almost unbreakable nature and the other fibers give it its stiffness and keep it all together. The tip is solid glass so overall it is pretty robust. As far as I know they are the only rod that has this design and ha
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I am under the impression that he may have weighed it as there was a reference in the newspaper article to his scales not being certified for record keeping so therefore approximately 70Kg, but either way, I think that most of us would be ecstatic even catching one half that size. It was a top effort as I think that he may have been out there fishing solo.
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Don't know if anyone here was aware, but a guy caught an approx 70Kg GT off the top of Morton Island about a week or two ago, 1.7m long, he was fishing in his 15ft Polycraft. It was in the local newspaper so thought I would share. This is one fish he will never forget!
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The length of the rod has only a little bit to do with what the rod is rated for (within reason), but more on how it was designed and built, for example, I have an Ugly Stik that is 5'6" and is a 4-6kg rod, I also have another 5'6" Ugly stik and that one is rated for 37Kg and could possibly also handle a 60Kg class reel on it, you would need a large fish on it just to see the tip move and you wouldn't even see a Whiting bite on it. You won't find a long rod in that class rating as leverage would be working against you. So rods are designed to suit a purpose and a particular type of fishing w
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As others have said, it depends on what you expect to catch, if you are after flathead, small to medium snapper and that sort, a 2500 size will do fine, if you are fishing Phillip Island pier and Tooradin jetty and expect larger fish than you may be better off with the 3000 and 4-6kg, the stronger the setup the less sensitive it will be, so get a setup to suit the species and size you expect to catch, in other words there is no point having a 24kg setup to catch Whiting and no point in using a Whiting setup to try to catch 60kg fish. Most of us have separate setups to suit a targeted ra
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More sensitivity and is able to have a lower casting weight, here is a couple of links to those youtube videos I mentioned.
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As far as I know the GX2 has a sanded blank and the Gold has the traditional finish on the rod. Not sure if there is any other manufacturing differences in between those two, incidentally the ugly stick can survive a class rating once or twice what there are rated for, plenty of silly Youtube videos of guys trying to bust them, some succeed but they had put them to extremes before they broke like using a very heavy line and attaching them to a go cart etc., not your normal use for a fishing rod!
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queensland Brisbane River Session #84 [MY Type of Picturesque Party!]
Ed. replied to AUS-BNE-FISHO's topic in Freshwater
When I lived in WA I used to fish off the South Fremantle Moles for Herring and Garfish about every second day or so, there would be huge schools of them, the Garfish there were much longer than the ones you caught (at least double the size) but I used to use a mixture of bread crumbs which had water, fish oil and a drop or two of aniseed oil, that mixture was pressed into a small wire cage, a trace of 6lb line (50-60cm) with a tiny suicide hook with a bit of cut prawn for the bait and attached to the cage, which was then attached to the 10lb mono mainline, that was in the days when I fished -
Hope you get well soon, keep an eye out for infections, marine cuts can get nasty, I would have gone to the doc straight away to get them cleaned and dressed as I have had a few myself.
