Albright knot
The Albright knot is my goto knot when I am fishing with rods suited to bottom baiting for offshore species.
Stephen Chatterton
Masthead reef 20/6/24
Got a text from from my next door neighbor Tom on Wednesday inviting me out to Masthead on Saturday to target our favourite table fish Red Throat Emperor.
Fishing, my ongoing passion
My most recent fishing project has been the development of a technique that I call Micro Baiting with Vibes. This is turning out to be an exciting type of fishing and I will detail that in a future post.
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My Polycraft 5.3 repairs and upgrades
The reason for this post is twofold. First to give me a record of how all the wiring works on my Polycraft and secondly I hope this post and the wiring diagrams included may be of benefit to anyone setting up a series of complex 12V or 24V electrical systems on their boat.
Fly fishing CQ – my default fly outfit
We are very lucky in Central Queensland in that for most salt water locations there is a range of species you can target. So what is the best fly rod and set up for our coastal and estuary fly fishing options. On any given day fishing our local coastal and estuary waters you will have … Read more
Christmas Island Special – pearl pink
There are a lot of colour combinations of Christmas Island Special (CXI) flies that my mates and I have seen on our various trips to Christmas Island and Aitutaki. Some work sometimes and not others and some work more often than not. The prawn pink coloured and my version of the ring burner he CXI … Read more
Garmin Panoptics – Down View
PANOPTICS DOWNI have set out below a series of photos of all all the screens that you will come across when tuning in your Garmin Sonar to Panoptics Down View Mode. Basically all you have to do is to open each screen/photo on your Garmin Sonar and change your settings to agree with mine. TIPS … Read more
Garmin wiring
There are three wiring circuits in my 5.3 meter Polycraft centre console boat and each of them runs a separate path to ensure that all the wiring for each of the three circuits does not come in contact with any of the wiring for the other two circuits. The Garmin circuit is as shown in … Read more
Garmin panoptics
Garmin panoptics is a step up from the sonar/transducer fish finding sonar that comes with most Garmin and other brand sonar systems. They all pretty well these days provide you with side scan, forward scan and traditional scan (or their equivalent but by other names for each other brand0. The step up from the three … Read more