Ecogear Mini Tanks

Ravin · #1 05-04-2003, 01:15 AM

I've been giving the Mini Tanks a workout lately & they are going great! Bream love em in all colours but particularly the shrimp / green back model & the smoke/pearl. I have been getting an assortment of fish including flatties & whiting as well. Heres a pic of a anti - tank bream

Mitch · #2 05-04-2003, 03:04 AM

Good work mate, they are great looking little plastics hey. I'm wanting to try out the Baby Squids soon, I think they'd go pretty well down in the lower reaches of our Swan.

Kris · #3 05-04-2003, 03:33 AM

nice close-up ravin

Rdavison · #4 05-04-2003, 03:36 AM

Ravin do you have an affiliation with ecogear? Just that you pic was posted on this website before you posted yours, quite similar?????

http://www.fishraider.com/Ecogear.htm

Riley

Ravin · #5 05-04-2003, 03:43 AM

Yes I have an affiliation with Ecogear as of today & the Fishraider web site is my web site

I'm in the process of updating my profile to reflect this.

Rdavison · #6 05-04-2003, 03:48 AM

Good one ya, sorry if I sounded a little suspicious. Might have to pick up some of those mini tanks. I think the squids may b a little big for our yarra bream though.

Riley

Ravin · #7 05-04-2003, 04:00 AM

No sorry needed its perfectly understandable

Gee you got on to my Ecogear page quick

Its brand new. The little squids go well & any decent bream will take them. I get plenty of small ones them. At times larger soft plastic bait or HB lure will often sort the littlies out from the best fish

adamk · #8 06-04-2003, 09:54 PM

Ken, good to hear that you've started an association with Ecogear. I used the Mini Tanks for the 1st time on Saturday at the Bream Parra Social and mate they are marvellous.

Unfortunately, I dropped the fish about 10cm away from lifting it (left the bluddy net at home).

Well done mate

AdamK

Ravin · #9 06-04-2003, 09:58 PM

Adam at least you got the hook in one anyway & thats the hard part done

I'm a big fan of the Mini tanks

Christopher · #10 13-04-2003, 03:18 AM

Ravin, I thought your picture looked familiar! Lovely website you've got there, and the exact boat that I'd like to buy!

It's good to see at least one other Central Coast dweller here on the forum. You do most of your fishing now in the Broken Bay, Pittwater area, right?

Sigh, if only I had a boat. A mate of mine is looking at buying one, and I pointed him in the direction of the Hornet Wildfisher, is it 475? I think so.

Anyway, all the best, and I really enjoy your site. Some great pics too!

mike_mad_fisho · #11 13-04-2003, 03:31 AM

gday
nice pic ravin , and what do the minitanks represent.
MB

Ravin · #12 13-04-2003, 05:20 AM

I think they represent some little crustacean. Whatever it looks like to them the fish like em. Got 2 nice Grunter on them this morning. Thats Spotted Grunter Bream

Lizardboy · #13 20-04-2003, 09:03 AM

Inspired by Ravins posts, I picked up a pack of mini tanks and they haven't disappointed. I picked up 3 bream in the first session and dropped another along with plenty of hits. I used shrimp/green back with a slow retrieve and the occasional twitch.
How does everyone else like to retrieve them?

Lizard

Ravin · #14 20-04-2003, 02:58 PM

They work well don't they. I gently hop them along the bottom in small steps & VERY slowly. I have an idea for rigging them up differently which I think could be a winner & as soon as the Easter Tourists thin out a bit I'll try it out & post positive results

Of course if the results aren't positive you'll never read another word plus I'll come back & delete all reference to it as well

Christopher its a 445 Wildfisher. I used to fish Broken Bay & that area up until last September. We moved up here to Caloundra & live 1k from the Pumicestone Passage

Beats a 45 minute tow to Pittwater.

Ravin · #15 21-04-2003, 10:31 PM

Hers a pic from the Quintrex site & I have marked tank positions in yellow.