Long Jetty - Work Begins.

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by drew 2 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:45 pm

Hope you got plenty of firewood till summer then mate :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by rb85 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:49 pm

Great news for land based anglers the long jetty is a nice old FAD

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by Basti » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:29 am

any idea of estimated completion date? is it going to be another mornington-esqe saga?

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Post by 4liters » Fri Jul 21, 2017 5:56 am

Basti wrote:is it going to be another mornington-esqe saga?
Probably. I heard they've put in a big order of coat hangers and gaffer tape to hang 3 ton concrete wave blockers from
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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by drewb » Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:51 am

4liters wrote:
Basti wrote:is it going to be another mornington-esqe saga?
Probably. I heard they've put in a big order of coat hangers and gaffer tape to hang 3 ton concrete wave blockers from
Mornington pier might have held together better if they had used gaffer tape...

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by Kenle » Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:00 am

Is that port welshpool long pier? Its been out of bounds for years

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by Brett » Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:28 pm

Kenle wrote:Is that port welshpool long pier? Its been out of bounds for years

Yes it is, they have received the funding to repair it.

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by Brett » Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:13 pm

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by bilby » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:43 pm

Will this structure ultimately give landbased anglers access to large snapper?

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Re: Long Jetty - Work Begins.

Post by Brett » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:48 pm

bilby wrote:Will this structure ultimately give landbased anglers access to large snapper?

I'd be thinking Kingfish would be a more noteworthy catch.

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