Albright knot
The Albright knot is my goto knot when I am fishing with rods suited to bottom baiting for offshore species.
General articles
Garmin Panoptics – Forward scan
I 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 Perspective 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 TO KEEP … Read more
Garmin Panoptics / Live scope – Perspective mode
The is the best ever (and least expensive) upgrade that I have made to my Garmin Panoptics set up.
POLYCRAFT 5.3m WIRING CIRCUITS
Have a look at the some of the reasons behind the conflicts and step by step repairs I made to each of my Polycraft’s electric circuits.
Knots – FG knot how to tie
Since I perfected this tie of the FG knot I have not suffered a failure of the knot and it has accounted for heaps of big barra.
Check list – emergency kit
I keep my emergency kit in a small orange zip lock bag. It does have just enough first aid items to get by but most of the content are items you may need in an emergency.
Colour pallet
These are the colours that I use when making my own soft plastics and also favor if I am buying production soft plastics.
Knots – Chatto’s snelled front stinger knot for flies & lures
This is a process that I have developed over the last year or so to mount a stinger hook in front of big soft plastics that I fish in low light or in dirty water. I am confident that this process will be fantastic for adding a stinger to a fly.
Adding lead to a “weedless” AKA “worm” type hook
Weight can be added to a fly in many different ways and they effect how the fly sinks and swims also in many different ways. This is how I add weight to weedless / worm hook when I am going to use the fly to make a fly similar to my Scrounger fly.
Calendar – Central Qld species
Food source [months] Fly * Dark Side suggestions Bream [10] [10] [20] [30] [40] [50] [50] [40] [30] [20] [20] [10] FLY Mud prawn PET shell prawn Mutant clouser DARK SIDE Flathead [50] [40] [30] [20] [20] [20] [20] [20] [20] [30] [40] [50] Articulated swimmer Mutant clouser Mud prawn Pregnant prawn Articulated sinking flashy … Read more