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+ 1 for having a perve at any Oz fishing website; they all have plenty of long discussions on best polarised glasses. Spotters and MJ very good. Another brand popular with fishos are Makos. In the top brands it is really personal choice of fitting your head shape. Also which colour lense you looking...

Talked to a professional weather fella today, his tip: still crappie weather March and maybe starting to get better in mid April, but more likely May. Said La Nina is definately dying, but La Nina's tradionally hang around til Autumn. His forecast, better weather but not til late Autumn. For what it...

OK I have had it. Let's see what other unexpected dangers lurk within our surfing equipment. CHEST ZIP DISLOCATION: in which you're trying to get out of a chest-zip full wetsuit and in the process suffer a horrendous dislocation of either the shoulder or elbow joint, requiring a rush to hospital an...

The leggie string threat knows no bounds!! _ this one from Surfer mag forums and bloke who wrote it is from somewhere in Oz: My mate lost the end of his finger in a freak accident last weekend. Maybe head high punchy sandy double ups. So he comes up from a fall and as he is pulling his board in, a s...

They are I think holding the railsaver itself, not the loop of cord to the plug. When a wave hits the board their hand slips or is jolted down the railsaver and a finger catches in the cord loop. Then it's blood in the shorebreak. The great legrope digit amputation threat was apparently quite the ta...

Heard of this weirdness before Nick? Another unexpected result of learner boom? When will first lawsuit happen?!?!?!?

Think Marcus' description makes sense. Watched some learners at kiddies yesterday and they were basically dping as Marcus descibed, grabbing their railsavers on their chrisie pressie mals. Had the camera ready but no degloved fingers while I was there!

Don't think it's the actually leggie but the string between leggie railsaver and plug. My neighbour said she was holding the leggie railsaver and at least one finger was also poking through the railsaver string/loop to the plug. Her board twisted as wave caught it, she let go but the finger was stil...

Several weeks ago my neighbour suffered a surf injury which, at the time, I had not heard of before: She was in waist deep water and as a wave came had held onto her board (a mal) by grasping the legrope string and it twisted and caught her finger and broke the tip of one finger bone. Nasty little i...

Groper are in extremely good numbers in NSW, not considered under threat in any way. Alakaboo, saw the aerial pics privately, can't pass em on. Vic Peddemor, DPI shark attack expert, also says they are GNS. Their tail wrists are way thinner than a GWS, they don't have that horizontal fin (sorry forg...

Bean was this a one off snorkel in which you saw zilch, or was it a hundred snorkels when you saw zilch? If it's a hundred then fair enough, if it's one or a couple, you just snorkelled on a dud day, or dud time of day. Been to tropical fish heavens where fishing pressure is zero to miniscule and ye...

Just had a chance to look at some closer stills of the aerial footage of the sharks hassling the fish off Copa yesterday morn. Every single shark in the pics I saw are grey nurses. All of em. Suppose we now need a massive Central Coast marine park to protect these poor noahs. How many GNS left in NS...

What animal kills the most people in Oz each year? Horses. Average 20 deaths a year. The thing that sh!ts me most about noah attack commentry is the often repeated line from those who, understandably, defend them, that "they all only bite once then realise their mistake.'' Utter rubbish. Plenty of r...

Bag and size limits are a joke in NSW. Jewies can be taken long before they reach spawning size. The Fisheries scientists know this, fishos with half a brain know this, so why aren't size limits increased? Cause NSW estuary prawn trawlers (mainly north coast) lobby constantly behind the scenes that ...

Well the accusation is that the salmon schools are displacing the tailor. And anecdotally I agree with that assessment. Not much......about to chase flatties in the river with plastics. NSW Fisheries boffins saying sambos no threat to the tailor either. They be saying bait still abundant and not un...

Thanks Davros, looking at the Campbell Bros site and the fins featured, they have a bit more tip area and seem slightly more uprght than the one which came with board. Will go fin hunting.

Let me know if you ever want to sell it. Guessing that's an endorsement Steve :). Any fishies bitin' your way? Had another wave of southern bluefin tuna smacking trolled minnows last week just south of Steak and Kidney. They are 45kms out though. Moved further S now. Harbour and Manly etc chocka wi...

Just bought a second hand Campbell Bros Bonzer 5 Egg (Egg: the name which makes a fun board legitimate!?!??) at a retailers-doing-it-tough price. 7'2" rounded pin. It's my back in the water board after 10 months plus of sanity challenging dryness thanks to a royally f**ked spine. What can I expect? ...