Another Wazza

Did you find some Bex cleaning out the shed?, they stopped selling that stuff down here in the late 70’s, and as for the line down, yes, yes I do need to get a line down, it’s been ages since I wet a line, the wind down here has been horrible lately, Hahahaha

I think I know what’s going on here, @Angry51was cleaning out his shed and stumbled upon some old school powdered milk, the packaging & label are quite tatty and impossible to read as it’s been in there for 30+ years, being the frugal bushy that he is, he’s trying to work out just what brand it is so he can jump online and bring up the MSDS, that way he can ascertain if it’s still good to use in his cuppa, or his breakfast, Hahahaha, My only advice to you @Angry51is it’s not worth the risk, treat yourself to some brand new powder.

There’s no apparently about it Brian, if you Google “best boat in the world”, it will always be your mates boat, Hahahaha

41% success rate huh, haha, oh your a hard taskmaster Hamish, I can only guess that if you landed a legal Squire that percentage would’ve increased to at least 60?, Hahahaha, nice work though

Top report Hamish, nice work on the Cod, and that is a very nice muddy indeed.

Where are the pics @Rebel?, I struggle with text

That was a cracking Fingermark, and to think it was swimming around before IPhone’s were invented is astounding

By the looks of it, I’ll go 17

Most shops will price match if you ask them, providing who they’re matching is legit and still has said item in stock, failing that, get your haggle on, they love it

Oh @GregOug, only the cool kids were invited, haha

All depends how much you want to spend really, any Shimano reel 10000 size & up or Daiwa’s equivalent will do, definitely get 80lb braid and use some 100-120lb leader, that should see you in with a chance.

I do like your version @Angry51 a mix of grey hair lacking sanity = Grazy you might’ve started something here?

Ohhhhh thanks Kat, although if your only as old as you feel, somedays I’m pretty ancient.

That little thing was so cool

Nice work, you don’t get days that good out there very often, good to see you both capitalised.

Thanks @kmcrosby78, I was extremely happy with my efforts yesterday, and have quite a few tasty fillets now. There were a couple of boats there, but they weren’t too close to me so I was able to bring the fish around and use my back to hide what was going on, being solo celebrations were kept to a minimum and there wasn’t any hold up for the photo to blow my cover, they would’ve heard some pretty loud ordinary language coming from me after getting railed though, they might just think I suffer from Tourette’s?

Yep, I didn’t find too many though, your right, they’re a stunning fish, it’s kind of like eating a Macaw parrot when you know you should be eating chicken haha

It’ll probably pull me overboard!, I should think about putting on some extra weight haha, just like fishing the shallows you need a bit of luck on your side to land them I reckon.

I set myself a little goal for this summer, and that was to hopefully land a decent sized Tuskie, with my L plates on I started fishing the reef around the bay islands and was having some degree of success, it’s unforgiving territory and I’ve probably lost more fish than I’ve stopped. Still keen to tangle with the larger models I sucked it up and went fishing on the weekend, it felt naughty and wrong as I have become spoilt doing week day trips lately, anyway the plan was to launch around 4:30 and be back no later than 11 to avoid a chaotic boat ramp, first up I was going to see if I could locate some Jew before targeting the Tuskies, after sounding around for half an hour or more to no avail I gave up and set off. Upon arriving at the spot I did a few drifts flicking a plastic for 2 small squire and a small Maori Cod, with that out of my system I began focusing on the Tuskies, not long after the first drop I hooked up to a nice fish that went 4.5kg The second drop saw me peak a touch too early, big swing no ding, I think I might have ripped it back out of his mouth, 3rd drop saw me connected to this one slightly smaller but still great fun, the fourth drop had me hooked onto a much larger specimen which buckled me over and proceed to return to his home oblivious of my locked drag, it’s definitely true, these things pull like freight trains!, happy with the 2 in the box I made my way back in before 10am only stopping for a quick flick here and there for no result. As far as Tuskies go these are really only pups, but I feel I’m on my P plates now, fingers crossed one day I might get my opens.

Nice work Hamish, and nice scenery too, irrespective of size you acquired the target species, like you said, a fun way to spend a couple of hours

Wow!, $750 is more than double what I paid to have one fitted, I’d be dodging that bloke

Nice fish Brian, it was always only a matter of time before you were graced by a legal specimen. When you sent me the pic of it in the net today, I initially thought he was a little tacker around 60 or so, I failed to realise the sheer size of your butterfly catching net

Hey there @mzaakir, both those reels are pretty good for the price point, you won’t go wrong with either of them

Good report Bretto, and good to see there actually is some law enforcement in regards to 6kt & go slow zones, I have seen blatant disregard for it and often wondered if anything ever gets done about it.

Nice work Jono!, that’s a quality toga