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Posted by: salty fil Aug 18 2008, 01:22 AM

Well fellas, after 8 long weeks i finally got my new trailer.

The thing shi7s all over my old one. It feels twice as heavy!

Got it on Saturday and tried it out on Sunday.

Launched out at Palm Beach and punched through a decent swell to Newport.

When i got there i decided to not anchor and go to a spot about 9 and a half km out ive never been to.

I punched in the marks and headed out there in a blowing west, south wester.

Coming to the spot i saw a big boat up ahead, and low and behold he was anchored in my bloody spot!!!

Central Coast Fishing Charters were the buggers!

Sounded out a little bump further NE and anchored up there.

Didnt stay long cause as soon as my lead hit the bottom it was greeted by the leatherjackets!

NOT HAPPY!!!

Pulled up anchor and headed back inside. Alot of work considering i was doing it solo.

Ended up catching rubbish fish and headed back to the ramp to see how the boat went back on.

Piece of piss! Cant wait to try it out at Long Reef to give it the real test....

Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus Aug 18 2008, 01:34 AM

Hey phil

Were the Red Rollers on SPECIAL ??????????

You've got enough of them

Posted by: Bees Knees Aug 18 2008, 01:43 AM

Good news on the trailer Salty..

But roughly a 20km round trip doesn't sound like fun. How far is long reef from BJ? I thought that was about 9km? or is that your spot?

Posted by: Phil Aug 18 2008, 01:46 AM

Count your rollers if KK's about

Posted by: salty fil Aug 18 2008, 01:49 AM

Mate, i told him i dont want him to cut any corners anywhere.

I wanted him to build me a trailer that he would build for himself.

He knows how hard this particular ramp can be on boats and trailers so i decided to go overkill so i wouldnt have any problems.

I couldve gone abit cheaper but thought if i was going to spend that much i may as well go all out.

The only thing i didnt get was stainless steel pins in the rollers. No good for me those.

But i did get him to throw in a 10-1 heavy duty winch due to it being completed 5 weeks late.

I can use that instead of the electric when i launch at the conventional ramps.

It also slides into the bracket mount easily so i can swap the two over as easy as lighting a cigarette.

Posted by: salty fil Aug 18 2008, 01:53 AM

Nah didnt mean Long Reef Bees.

I didnt even head that way.

The spot i meant was Esmeraldas. You may know it. Ive never had the chance to fish it. Sunday was the first day i ventured out there.

I didnt even get a looky at the structure there due to the big boat sitting on it.

All i know is that its in about 65 m of the wet stuff.

Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus Aug 18 2008, 02:01 AM

So that's why The CRIM rang me & asked where salty lived

Posted by: Christos Aug 18 2008, 02:23 PM

You went fishing and caught fish but you wanted to catch fish that were not rubbish. I am sorry but fishing is fishing. Does not matter what type of fish. Still fishing.

Posted by: salty fil Aug 18 2008, 11:05 PM

No Christos, i really caught rubbish fish.

Havnt you heard of them before???

They work hard around our oceans to clean up all the scraps left by others.

Amazing little buggers.

Heres a picture of one that i took on the weekend when he jumped on my transom and asked if he could take my empty Mars Bar wrapper off me.

Posted by: salty fil Aug 19 2008, 01:05 AM

Oh, and another thing Christos, If you catch one dont eat it cause they taste like, you guessed it - RUBBISH!!!

Posted by: Christos Aug 19 2008, 01:37 PM

Excccceeeellllent