Fishing

[Beil]

Awesome thats dedication.
When i get around to taking the boat out again you're more than welcome to tag along.
Problem is atm can't even catch/keep any squid for a while until rhey recover from the algal bloom. Snapper have been banned for years.
Hopefully the gulf recovers soon. Miss those early mornings on the water.

Ive never had any luck with squid from the jetty, so I never target them, so I'm probably in the minority of fishos who weren't too bummed by the ban (the stock death from the algae i didnt like because, well, the algae fucked our whole coast and that's not good).

I'd definitely be keen to jump aboard, that'd be awesome.
Mine and my wife's talk about a boat has been put on hold for a few years (this happened literally last week ).

 

[Goonie Goat]

Have hear software chicken frames for crab bait. But not for fish.
Would probably stay on the hook better than cockles!

Yeah it stays on the hook super well, I think I was using size 8 longshank but its been a while. Like you've said before fishing is way better in a boat but running around the sand flats is good when you're not constantly getting foot cramps ..

 

[Beil]

Yeah it stays on the hook super well, I think I was using size 8 longshank but its been a while. Like you've said before fishing is way better in a boat but running around the sand flats is good when you're not constantly getting foot cramps ..

You definitely get a work out on the beach.
I just hate the weed, even not catching anything is fine when you're out there just getting away, but when your lugging up heavy weed tangles it gets old real quick.
Last time me and my dad went out, the weed was that bad he couldn't hack it with his back... so he just sat on the Esky all day drinking, watching me struggle back and forth lol

 

[Beil]

Tonight's dinner. Thai red curry with the salmon.
Wife can't hack heat, so theres one measly tablespoon of red chilli paste in there instead of 3.
Going to make my own next time and limit the chilli so at least I can get more flavour without having to think on the fly tonight, and use dried Kashmiri chilli's to get the red colour and limit the heat for the missus!

 

[Gazza]

Green muscles are very good if you can get your hands on them.

 

[Beil]

With Xmas coming up I've been asked what I'd like.

Ive been putting off finishing off my fishing rod and reel collection with a heavy duty surf rod simply due to the cost.
Whilst not the extreme $1k+ reel, I'm asking the family (parents, inlaws etc who never know what to get) to chip in for the below combo.
Shimano Bait Runner D 1200 reel & Shimano Exvance 1463XH 20-30kg rod. Coupled with 400m of 50lb braid and the mulloway and shark beach missions should be dope. With a good easterly wind next trip im wanting to try some ballooning.

Should tie in nicely with my current stock of Shimano:
Taipan 762 snapper 6-10kg rod (rock fishing to cast decent weights in swell)
Izalus 6102SP-L 2-5kg rod (light jetty)
Izalus 902SP-H rod (beach lures/light paternoster)
Nasci 4000 XG with 20lb braid
Second 4000 XG with 20lb braid
Then there's some cheap 2500 & 3000 FGs for the missus and daughter when they come.

 

[Roo]

Finally got out with the old boy and killed a few. Only 2 grunter the first day. He got both of them.

Second day, 3 grunter I only got one. Still happy though, he nailed a monster Slatey Bream first up, ran like it was trash first up, then the head shakes started. Up beside the boat looked like a nice Grunter. Gave him a good workout and had to have a chuckle to the fishing gods.

He caught the same 6 foot leopard shark twice. Here I am getting told to get the sinker from its mouth because they cost 2.50 each… first one broke the hook, second we cut the trace… both sinkers retrieved

 

[Beil]

Early morning to go to Sellicks in the morning.
Missus has her sister sleeping over. Rigs are done (made some i didnt need as I already had plenty of spare paternosters... so my only job is prepping the rest of their night and the morning when I'm not here lol (ground more than I needed to so enjoy the joints girls).

 

[Billygoat]

is that bit of tobacco in it?

 

[Beil]

is that bit of tobacco in it?

Just a bit, yes. The bit near the roach is 100% baccy, because it tastes like shit anyways so just put it out then.
Photo actually makes it look like heaps in the joint at the front tbh, but it was like 2 ciggys in 4.6g of bud

 

[Billygoat]

Even when i was a 2 x 30 pack of Winnie greys a day smoker, i never smoked with spin. never really understood it, it destroys the entire flavour of the canna.

I always thought it was a thing to make it go a bit further when tobacco was actually cheap. nowdays, its probably more expensive per gram.

 

[Beil]

Definitely more expensive per gram, even when buying untaxed, and 100% when smoking home grown.
It's a holdover from when I smoked, I never really enjoyed a straight canna smoke, it was always smoother for me with tobacco (I did smoke back then anyways)... and back then yeah it did make it go further, especially in joints which burn and waste at the same time and i started off smoking soapbar anyways (think shit contaminated hash) ... and I only smoked joints, never pipes or bongs (which didn't include mix when I did on the odd occasion.
Horse for courses I guess.

 

[Billygoat]

have you tried a vape? you can really taste the flavour.

 

[Beil]

have you tried a vape? you can really taste the flavour.

The missus has, she still prefers a joint that she can sit with and chill, tale a puff whej ever like a dart.
She could still do that with a vape I know... but she's the one smoking it so she can do what ever she wants lol.
She'll have a raw cone to do in between, but she never really got a feeling for the vape .