Planning a few weeks in Thailand early next year, keen to  try out Bungsamran and a few other lakes,

anyone tried BSR or Greenfields?  any tips or recommended guides etc?

would love to land a giant siamese carp.

Hey guys thought I would put up a quick guide on how to easily remove any hidden EXIF data from your photos before uploading so you dont have to worry about accidentally posting GPS points and other info that can be hidden within your images!!

Windows has a built in feature to easily remove all EXIF data while MAC users will need to download some free software to remove the data.

For PC:

1. 

Browse to the folder that holds the images you would like to remove the data for and select the photos. If you have a lot of photos in the folder and would like to select them all easily you can hold Ctrl on the keyboard and press A to quickly select all files in the  folder. If you want to just select particular files you can hold Ctrl and click on each image you want to select. You can also drag a box around them with your mouse any method is fine so long as you're happy that all the photos you want to modify are highlighted.

2. 

Once you are happy you have selected the photos you would like to remove the data from simply right click on one of the photos and select  'Properties' which should be the last option on the menu that pops up when you right click.

At this stage your screen should look something like this:

3.

After clicking 'Properties' you should have a box pop up with several tabs accross the top, you will be on the General tab. What you want to do is click the 'Details' tab and you should see a screen like this listing all the hidden EXIF data on those images:

At the very bottom of the box you can see there's an option in blue to 'Remove properties and personal information'. Click on this and you should get another box that opens looking like this:

From here you have a few options on how to remove the data. You can leave it on the initial setting of 'Create a Copy with all possible Properties removed' and click Ok which will make copies of all the photos in the same folder with no hidden data or you can select 'Remove the following Properties from this File' which will allow you to scroll through the info and remove just certain fields. 

I find the cleanest way is to select 'Remove the following Properties from this File' and then choose 'Select All' in the bottom right corner before clicking 'Ok'. This will remove all hidden info without creating copies of the photos so you're not ending up with doubles of all photos which also removes the risk of accidentally uploading the original images instead of the copy.

And that's it, you're done! You can double check it worked by selecting the 'Properties' of one of the photos, selecting the 'Details' tab and scrolling through the list of info there to make sure the data has been removed.

For MAC users:

Mac users will need to use some software to remove the data, I have found that ImageOptim is a really simple tool to achieve this and is free software. It also has the added benefit of reducing the file size ready for upload to the internet all in one easy hit. 

Just head to imageoptim.com/ and select download. Install and run the program.

To use it all you need to do is drag the photos that you want to remove the EXIF data from into the box and ImageOptim will take care of removing the hidden data and compressing the file size.

The process should look something like this:

Gday All,

Looks like we might finally get out on our charter this week out of freo, been 6 mths in the making.

Just wondering if anyone had been out on one lately and if you got anything decent - was thinking about bringing my own rod with a sneaky jig attached.

Thanks All.

I played footy for the now not so mighty Melbourne football club I love the club but why did it take so long to give neld the sack ???? more hand outs from the AFL required???? I don't think so they need to grow some balls and get a good president and coach they should give neil craig a go or go after woosha or any one with balls and isn't going keep feeding the players on their mummys milk sorry about the vent

 hey guys, 

just wondering if any of yous that have one of these have had dramas with it, i was out the back of two rocks 15nm when it decided to shit itself, backlight went of but could just make out what was on the screen, i turned it off and on but would only last about 2 mins before doing it again, i got my co-ordintes and headed straight in, but on the way it totally flipped out and started flashing and everything,

hopefully itll be on its way back to navico this week but didnt help yesterdays effort!!!

Hi guys,
Stopping overnight in Gero at start of July on our way to Shark Bay. Just wondering if there are any good LB spots around gero we might put a line in? Chasing tailor if possible. Look forward to your replies. Thanks

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my new boat is a stacer northen fisher where the hull joins the gunnel it is not fully seam welded what they do is run a weld for 200mm then leave a section 150mm unwelded then they run another 200mm weld this continues all the was around the boat .My mate who is a high end welding inspector was looking at it on the weekend and tells me to avoid long term grief I should seal the gaps that arnt welded with something like sika flex . I would have thought a good hose down after a trip would solve any future corrosion problems in those spots. Thanks in advance your comments

Im going up to cape Leveque for a couple weeks this holidays, taking a stacer tinny up, gonna hit up the mackies and bait schools. With a bit of light shore action aswell. And possibly some trolling for some sails, if we get one were in for some fun in a 4m tinny.

Any tips or info? Ive never been up there before, got the trolling down pat, but any tips for catching queenies would be greatly appreciated, as we wanna hit up some big un's.

This will be my first opportunity to get my first mack, and my first tuna.

Any help greatly appreciated, I will be posting a long report with pics and maybe some vids when we get back. Im so pumped, ive already watched and read almost everything I can find on Cape Leveque, but there's surprisingly little.

Just curious to see how far you guys can cast with a a spinning reel. And what gear are you using to achieve this.
Cheers

 Hey guys any suggestions on snapper combo for around $400-600? Using it for Cockburn sound ! Any suggestions on what you think is good or what you likewould be appreciated ( bait runner or no bait runner mono or braid line class etc)  I will mainly use it with bait but wouldn't mind flicking a plastic around every now and then. Currently I am using a ugly stick gold 10-15kg and a penn live liner ( it's a cheap combo for the tinnie as it doesn't matter if it gets wet) and 20lb mono.

Hey guys, ive been using the hds now for few months and loving it. Took this pic on my phone for your thoughts. What are we seeing? Is it schooling fish or few bigger fish ect ect... Fished for around 2 hours landing 6 dhuies 5 larger sized sambos and a few smaller species. Was fishing on anchor and sounder lit up as such for majority of time. Cheers in advance

Alan Hawk's latest review is up. 

http://www.alanhawk.com/reviews/cbo.html

Hi All,

Can anyone help me in chasing down who has the old Pacemaker molds these days?

GKS has the 17 footer but I'm really keen to find the bigger ones:

18'trendsetter, 20'vagabond, 21'ranger. Nothing rides quite as good with the same amount of bow flair for keeping dry!

Hi all, 

Long time reader, first time poster.

So after years of land based fishing we have finally brought a boat. Fraser 5.2, shes nothing fancy but will more then do the job!

Have taken her out a few times with mixed results, even got an undersize duey (released ofcourse) but as we are amatuers its very hit / miss.

What i am pretty keen on is gettting into some of the Snapper in cockburn sound, but to be honest i dont know where to start?

Im not asking for any co-ords here or anything, but what is the best way to go about this?

I understand that burley is essential and that timing is important, but from there???

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Cheerz 

hey all

looking for some advice for a new reel to throw medium size poppers around for an exmouth trip

want it to hold 300+ meters of pe4 and cost around $350

salina III 10000, saltist 4500, Biomaster 8000, sustain 10000

anyone got suggestions or experience with these reels?

Is it just me or are there more larger snapper around at the moment.

We were fishing out on our usual mark on the five fathom at the weekend and there seemed to be quite a few good size snapper which i havent seen before, yes the odd small to medium size one, but bigger snapper around the 750mm size. we took our two limit within the hour, then carried on fishing through heaps of trevally, great fun....... also there were no wrasse caught, whats going on??? anyone have any ideas??

Hello all,

I am helping out a mate who is going up to NLB in 3 weeks time. He asked if I could post asking for any heads up to the fishing.

He has a small 12 ft tinny.

Just wondering if the inside of the reef is like Exmouth where snapper are quite prolific.  Is the reef gap very far from shore?

Thanks in advance.

 Hey guys.Was curious to know if anybody has added carbontex washers to a Spheros 14000 before?Im fishing 37kg powerpro through it on a Samurai pop 10 rod.With the reel locked up the original washers are pretty good but feel a few extra kg would be better.Will i get this out of carbontex washer upgrade.Your thoughts would be appreciated.

 Has any one had any trouble with magnesium spin reels? Ive heard some blokes dont wash them with water they use salt away? To my mind i think it just depends on what sort of anti corrosion treatment they use on the magnesium but just keen to hear what you blokes reckon?

I have a new 5.28 stacer c/c with a 80hp 4 stroke yammy on the back fuelled up this morning after going to s.w.b last weekend top up was 55 lts in heavy conditions I am guestamating we did close to 75 to 80 ks last weekend (haven't mastered the gps yet) this was done with I fat bloke and 1 skinny bloke on board total weight plus gear on board would have been 250kgs does it sound reasonable????

took the wife and the young feller (7yrs old) out to try our hand at squiding (inside garden island in about 5m of water) for our first ever time today well couldn't believe it we got nine and three of them were thumpers whole family go inked what away to spend a Sunday morning we all fell about laughing at each other after we all got inked I don't think it gets any better than that but it did some nice young bloke a point peron boat ramp showed us how to clean them when we got back

After a bit of nagging from the wife took the kids down to golden ponds today boy things have changed down there $10 entry for adults even if you dont fish and $5 for kids not that the kids were intending on keeping any fish but was advised that it was $20 per kilo if you wanted to keep any fish (wtf) the kids did catch a couple of small trout the ponds themselves were pretty murky and one looked like a slime pit.

Last time we were down there we did end up buying a bit of fruit and veg but I was too afraid to ask what their price increase was for them wont be going back there again they charge like a wounded bull would have been cheaper to have taken the boat out

With my new job being a 4&1 roster there hasnt been alot of time for fishing, on the week off its been crap!!

so i made a late call thursday to take of to Jurien for a couple of days with my 2 boys Troy & Blake,

quick ring around and had us a nice little duplex to rent for $100p/n,so pack the boat and where gone 3am friday morn.

Straight to the ramp and heading out on first light.

we decided to hit up the wrecks first for some much missed Jigging action.........

first drop were all on, you name it, all the usals are there and their hungry!!!

plenty of sambos, ambers and some pinkys coming from there, jigging bug well and truly scatched.

also forgot to take pics of the amber for the board...DOH

my big mulla at 119cm, going into the record board!!

time to head out deeper and chase the good stuff!

again the fish were on the chew with non stop action, we would of bagged out easily by 9am, but because of the action

most size fish were released chasing bigger!!

Biggest Dhu for Friday going to me @ 84cm

we fished all day to make the fishing time worth while, even to the stage of 60cm Baldys being returned, i thought the day was unreal and couldnt get much better????????

well it did!!

Saturday morn were out on first light again, the plan was to head in the oppersit dirrection and start at the 40-50's, again the fish were on the chew but smaller.

still bagged out easily by 10am, we continued releasing fish chasing bigger and more time on the water.

thought i had made a bad move because it went quiet for a couple of hours and it looked like we were going home with 3 fish at 1pm.

the boys were hounding me to go to the fads...joys of being skipper, i pulled rank and went my way...lol...suckers!!

i think they will agree it was a good move, found some ground and it went off for the next 2 hours.

Pinkys, baldys, dhuys, redthroats, huge skippy all coming over the side on jigs and bait with bait doing 90%of the damage.

we all lost a good fish each with me calling mine for a horse dhuy, seen colour and it was looking BIG!!! and then the hooks pulled&%#$(*&^% i said.

then troy loads up with another good fish, calling it for a big dhuy.....so be it!!

went 104cm and 18kg on some dodgy sacles, no where near as fat as his other one from a while back.

blake got into the biggest pinks going 65cm and he also got dragged by a so called shark for 20mins...lol

his biggest skippy for the day @ 55cm

a differant view of my mulla, you can do some great things with the iphones.

all in all what a great 2 days fishing with my boys, well and truly worth the wait.

now to do it all again in 4 weeks???

cheers ron

 Had good success yesterday bagging out in 3 hours. so we went out again today and got 2 fish one 76 and one 70 ! Only fish for 2 and a bit hours and went in not for lack of effort but we Couldn't bag out ! Also saw a school of about 20 large snapper in the burley trail !

Hi guys anyone catch any tailor over the weekend? managed a good fish on Saturday morning on walk the dog lures.I think Spook started something because I seen heaps of people throwing sticks lol.

 Punched out on Friday on my mates boat through wind chop to be out in the 40 metre mark. We tryed drifting but were moving over the ground far to quickly. My mate took one for the team nad did his utmost to hold me over the ground. What a champion bloke he is as I hooked up and landed my PB baldie. I didn't weigh it but it came in at 60cm. We moved on to another hole and I caught a 52cm Dhuie. The days catch ended up being a sambo, black arse, 2 skippy, flathead, baldie and a dhuie.

I went out the next day with the wife and sister in laws partner. The weather wa a bit better but the sounder wsn't working. Went to my honey hole and landed a 70cm 6.2kg Dhuie. None of the pics do any of the fish justice. We neded up catching 7 dhuies with only the one being size and all of them swimming back down under their own steam.

I was really happy with my two days of fishing as the last month and a half have been crap for me. I haven;t been able to get out due to work commitments and when I could het out the weather was most unkind.

Hey guys & girls,

I have recently purchased a Shimano Biomaster 2500FB spinning reel online, should be arriving with my new rod next week when I fly home for some RnR.

A tad excited about the new purchase , was wondering if anyone has bought one recently and what they think of it? 

Cheers

Tris

does anyone know if jurien fads are still out? and the cords for them, we had the wrong ones today was only 40m where north fad was suposed to be?

 Hey guys is it possible to cut out a badly damaged section of transducer cable and rejoin and solder the wires  back together