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goughi

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    Tired old father of 3 ingrates
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  1. Thanks for the great photos, nice to see the Pied Oystercatcher. We have a related but different species here in Australia. They love the surf beaches and always remind me of fishing Fraser Island.
  2. Sorry to hijack the thread a little, but where would you all place the Saragosa 8000 in this comparison? Use would be surf and rock and offshore boat based.
  3. That's a serious piece of good engineering, well done.
  4. Don't all those anecdotal reports say something to us all? As NOAA reported http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2011/13 'The year 2011 tied with 1997 as the 11th warmest year since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature over global land and ocean surfaces was 0.51°C (0.92°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). This marks the 35th consecutive year (since 1976) that the yearly global temperature was above the 20th century average. The warmest years on record were 2010 and 2005, which were 0.64°C (1.15°F) above average. Including 2011, all eleven years in the 21st century so far (2001–2011) rank among the 13 warmest in the 132-year period of record. Only one year during the 20th century, 1998, was warmer than 2011." The deniers will obfuscate and dissemble about data but you can’t hide the truth that glaciers are melting, plant’s and animal’s seasons and ranges are changing, the arctic ice is shrinking. . Some will argue that the changes are benign or that they don’t matter, do you really believe that? They will say that the sun or some other superficially likely factor is causing it, but nothing can explain the change other than CO2. And where has the CO2 come from? Volcanoes? The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory at http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html advises “Globally, volcanoes on land and under the sea release a total of about 200 million tonnes of CO2 annually. This seems like a huge amount of CO2, but a visit to the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) website (http://cdiac.ornl.gov/) helps anyone armed with a handheld calculator and a high school chemistry text put the volcanic CO2 tally into perspective. Because while 200 million tonnes of CO2 is large, the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes. Thus, not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value.”
  5. I just bought a small boat and was looking for advice on livebait tank setups, many thanks for some good information and ideas. Of course being in the Southern Hemiphere, I should plumb it to circulate the other way around, LOL
  6. Australians are like New Zealanders, generally right handed fishers use right hand wind spinners, must be because we're in the Southern hemisphere. I always use left hand wind spinning reels. In creeks and estuaries with light line lure casting-cast with right hand and can turn reel to close bail with left hand to prevent overcast into mangroves or to start retrieval without having to change hands. . On the beach or offshore I use my stronger right hand to hold the long rod or to pump and lift fish, the weaker left is fine for winding. I believe that you shouldn't try to winch up a heavy fish and lead with a spinner, much better to pump and wind. Some right handers pick up my rod and can't wind left handed-they think in a lefty.
  7. Thank you eaglesfanguy, a really important post, particularly for those of us who go boating and fihing with our kids
  8. Heh Aligator do you belong to the Lyndon LaRouche movement too? It was Prince phillip tat let all those pythons loose to punish the USA for the War of Independence wasn't it?
  9. This brings a few issues to mind. Firstly, I was always skeptical about the survival of released fish, particularly with a hook stuck in its throat. I suspected that it was a self serving bit of self deception. Secondly, the experimental design for catch and release survival studies is often dodgy in that the period of time the dehooked fish is retained is too short to reveal the real death rate and even where the fish are retained for an extended period they are not subject to the competition or predation pressures that may take them out if they were in the wild. That is, the injuries they are carrying may make them less fit. The study referred to in this thread is interesting but would the survival rates be the same if the fish were competing for prey with uninjured fish? Thirdly, people's capacity to reject the blatantly obvious, even when it is supported by rigorous science, if it conflicts with some deeply held belief, is astonishing. This is the basis of many fisheries management debates. I have been involved over many years in formal Fisheries Management Advisory Committees and have witnessed both commercial and recreational fishers attack scientists who, with the very best intentions and the best available information, called into question the sustainability of stocks or impacts of fishing on non-target species. For example, have a look at this link http://www.sacf.org.au/news-and-events-sydney-aquarium/sacf-news/88-nsw-government-fails-grey-nurse-sharks In the Grey Nurse Shark debate the fishing interest groups argued that there were lots more GNSs in some mythical and cryptic offshore population and that there was no evidence that fishing was killing any sharks. This despite dead GNS regularly washing up with embedded hooks, fishing line trailing from mouths and anus, etc.
  10. Alan Season's greetings and many thanks for your great reel reviews. I would also like to see a review of the Shimano Albrid surf reel.
  11. I'm off (on the internet) to buy some bucktail jigs and a copy of your book!
  12. goughi

    alvey reels

    Forgot to mention that the smaller the Alvey spool the worse the line twist problem for the same length of cast-more coils off the spool for the same length cast. Use as big a reel as possible, minimum 650 for the surf with 7" better.
  13. goughi

    alvey reels

    Baing a Queenslander I have used Alvey reels for over 40 years and for bait fishing they are unsurpassed. You get sand on the reel you just wash it out in the surf, I am still using my fathers 6.5 inch alvey from the 1960s and it has not had any new parts in that time. They are also virtually unbreakable even when you fall down on them on the rocks. However, for spinning I have used threadline (spinning ) reels. Alveys work OK for low speed spinning e.g.plastics. The issue is that when high speed spinning the pressure (tension) on the swivel increases friction to the point that the line does not have enough torque to spin the swivel, so you build up more and more line twist with each cast, Similarly, braid would be an absolute nightmare as it is so limp and thin it would be unable to release line twist by spinning the swivel. While I haven't tried braid on my Alveys I know people who have and they confirm that it doesn't work at all well. Because I want to try braid for surf/rock fishing, I am in the process of acquiring a surf spinning rod. The Alvey rig will still be on the beach/rocks with me to cast unweighted pilchards (sardines ) at tailor (bluefish).
  14. I have a Salina ii 10000 which I believe is also called a cedros in the US. The reel has only been used as a boat reel fishing for snapper, kingfish, etc, with 40lb braid. It has spent too much time in the upwind rod holder catching spray. It has been a good reel in terms of smooth drag and gears. However, I have had to replace the pinion gear bearing and anti-reverse due to water infiltration, I did the job myself, and while the reel is relatively simple, it was a nerve wracking job to disassemble because the bearings/shafts are a press fit. Parts were dirt cheap, so that wasn't a problem. I would buy another one, but be more careful to protect the reel from salt water spray. There has been no sign of corrosion on the outside of the reel or in the the gearbox of the reel.
  15. Poppy, Thanks for a good series of articles on reading the beach. I live in Queensland Australia, and our high energy white sand surf beaches have similar structure to those you describe. I have also noted that the rips or outfalls are productive for some species. Our beach structure tends to get leveled out by storm surge events and takes some time to re-establish. When these circumstances occur, it's hard to find fish as there is no beach structure to concentrate and hold them. Lower energy bay beaches do not seem to develop the same structure and you need to look for other structure or habitat to hold fish, Our Tailor (your bluefish I believe) tend to hunt along lane 3 because the bait fish hide under the protection of the white water of the bar break. Tailor fishers generally use a lightly weighted whole pichard (sardine) cast into the white water on the outer sandbank and retrieved back into the gutter (slough). However, like all fishing matters, there are endless exceptionsn to the rule. Australian east coast tailor are generally much smaller than your blue fish, average 2 lb with a 6lb specimen considered a real horse. This is probably, at least in part, a result of fishing related mortality. Western Australian fish are bigger on average with more big fish. Our mulloway are a large fish with a similar physical shape, diet and ecology to your stripped bass. Unfortunately, from what I can gather from this site and others, your bass are much more abundant. While we Queenslanders have the advantage of the Great Barrier Reef and some very good tropical estuary fishing our low nutrient surf waters are less productive than yours. Sorry, got off topic on my first post
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