We used to catch painted Crays every now and then on live baits at cherubs on the other side of Moreton. It is a green zone now. Also manta rays on the Livies as well. Strange days. Nice. Did you ever eat one (the crays not Mantas lol)? If so did they taste OK? Gee I've been slack on this forum. So...

You'll know if you hook a fingermark - they are red and go hard. Definitely not the same animal.

Moses perch are good chewing - they head out to the reefs and get a bit bigger.

Even though you are so far offshore, you are still in 'partially smooth' waters in Platypus Bay so no epirb requirement. Feb is Low pressure season so watch the weather. Fraser has a VHF repeater and a bay full of boats - VMR466 broadcasts weather reports as well. Personally I wouldn't like to have ...

The only issue with inox is it eats natural rubber. Older stradic handles, Garmin sounder plug covers and the like disintegrate after a while - ask me how I know ;) . Apart from that it is all good and should be sprayed madly on everything like pliers, grips rods reels etc after each trip.

Indian is a green zone for part of the year. I don't know anybody who has fished it twice. There are local tigers which are very inquisitive around there. Towing lures for pelagics behind a paddle boat shuts down a few options in my opinion. If I had that boat I'd head over to the short beach just n...

We used to catch painted Crays every now and then on live baits at cherubs on the other side of Moreton. It is a green zone now. Also manta rays on the Livies as well. Strange days.

I don't know how all this translates to yak based fishing, but the reason we use SL12's on lures in comps is for a quick release. The tag goes in and one reef on the leader and the SL12 straightens and releases - zero fish handling and fast resets. They are fine enough to penetrate without too much ...

Batteries dont need to be kept in waterproof bags. Just strap it in. It really is a bit huge for a kayak though.

Nice one. Dont get caught with it by fisheries though, for those of us old enough to remember, jag fishing has been outlawed for years and you've inadvertently built a jag hook haha. Memories of my childhood as a pier rat in Hervey Bay chasing the mullet schools with jags just came flooding back.

Rules are rules. He wasnt following them. I'd follow it up.

Yeah as the guys have mentioned above - frequent access means the screw type and the Twist and Stowe type work a bit better. Yeah ok. My main experience with the screw type is on my Kaskazi and I find it more fiddly than the pop on Kajak Sports hatch. Maybe it is just a cheap/poor version. Hard to ...

Dennist, any reason no one who makes fishing kayaks uses the pop on hatches that all the sea kayaks have (e.g. Valley, Kajak Sports)? e.g. http://www.kajaksport.fi/products/hatches Those things are old proven technology, never leak and never pop off. I don't recall ever seeing a 'proper' sea kayak ...

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Most marine shops will have aqualather. It's biodegradable.

Not the first time I've heard of a salty mistaking a kayaker as a potential love interest or another male as appears to have happened here. It is spring.....

Dinger wrote:800 mtrs of jetty & he couldnt find a gap with no one fishing ?

Haha, probably not during school hols. Pier rats everywhere. Who knows, maybe the old bugger can't swim. Is that the point of the post? That he didn't go out to miss them? That's what I'm asking.