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I'm more concern about the use of baitcast for piers. I hope the baitcast reel is saltwater ready? Also, I think it's easier with spin in an open water casting from piers. No need to worry about potential birdnest, can cast as far and as hard possible, windy or not. To me baitcast is more for accura...

A good rod and reel is worth spending extra for. Cheaper ones still do the job ofcourse, but you cannot beat the feel of a good reel and the sensitivity and action of a nice blank. Yup, took me a while and a leap of faith to spend $$ on better gear. I don't have crazy expensive gear but yes, even a...

Great video mate.
My favourite fishing has to be clearwater Cod fishing, watching them race out from their hiding spots and smashing a surface lure. The only Cod fishing that beats it, is wading the skinny clearwater creeks up that way.

They will have to get up at 3:30 am to get to your green stick Dennis. This was outside my local fish shop

Might be time to start a worm farm, hope snappers and whiting like earth worms. That's how they do it in cartoons so must be real

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:28 pm

yakkas can live for up to 15 years apparently.....

Not these ones haha

Went out this morning around 9am with my neighbour.launched at Point richards having plenty of squid,whiting and flathead we decided to try for gummies. We headed over to the old channel and anchored up and got some berley going. We knew it would be slow and we would have to fish through a lot of ru...

I finished work earlier than expected today and happened to have a rod in my car, so I dashed down the river at 5.30 and bang, first cast got a bass. I lost 2 others tonight

I’m spewing I didn’t go pick up some for bait. Pillies going through the roof they reckon

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 09, 2022 7:11 pm

heyy,
at bennalla and i caught a 47.5 Murray cod on corn and a Handline. I was targeting carp. also it had small red growths on it and iv read that's a disease.
any way was my first cod.

tight lines,
fisho999

Congrats on your first cod!
Cheers