RichieR

I've caught flathead at night on SPs so I dont know why it wouldn't work. I imagine fish hunt be feel and scent in the dark anyway so try some scented gulp spray / S Factor

I caught a Port Jackson off Wanda beach saturday night which I thought was a bit odd

Bad luck with the broken rod - I know how you feel about Clifton Wharf too - it was my local last year after work I would head down there for a quick session and it was always the same. People standing shoulder to shoulder from each other. What finally made me give up there was one night I had a yakka out live - a lady cast her line over mine, reeled it in, pulled up my line - took my yakka off my hook and put it in her bucket. You can only look back now and laugh I guess but I was furious! I have since switched to beach fishing! Bought myself some waders (I hated getting everything covered in sand) and now I have the whole beach to myself - no one trying to cast over my lines, no rocks to trip over, bigger fish to be caught and much more relaxing. Maybe you should give the beach a go! You get everything from whiting, bream, sambos, tarwhine, flathead, jewfish, small sharks, rays even the odd sand crab trying to have a go Anyway, better luck next time!

Try using some 'bait keeper' its like a very fine elastic cotton string, wrap a few turns around the pillie and hooks and your bait will survive until it is eaten or picked apart by crabs.

Wow! What a monster

Who took the photo!?

Keen for a weekend course here!

Has anyone ever modified their lures to make them heavier for land based fishing ? I now the Rapala red head lures are great for tailor / salmon / bonito etc when trolled behind a boat. But has anyone ever tried drilling a hole in one and adding some lead to make them heavier and easier to cast further on the beach ?

Good effort as always Huy. Everyone else just fishes off the wharf! Good to see you have some luck off the rocks.

If you want somewhere productive to try flicking plastics - the beach at Bundenna is where I learnt. I caught my PB flathead there on my 3rd cast. Then went on to catch another 6 - 7 undersize, smaller flathead. Just get a 1/4 jighead, 2" gulp shrimp or a Z-Man grub and walk along the beach slowly 3 or 4 casts then take a few steps to the right. working your way along the beach slowly. I find the Georges land based with plastics to be pretty hit and miss. We will fish a spot for 6 - 8 hours with not a touch at all then all of a sudden, 50 - 60cm Jew or 30 - 40cm flathead will take the bait but not a touch on the plastics.

Sorry, I mean't this coming weekend there WILL be 23 boats crowded around it !

Damn this rain!

That is awesome! This weekend .... 23 boats all crowded around the 45m hole One of the comments was pretty funny: Gary; 1 day ago "And we still cannot find a Plane.."

That's awesome! Never tried spinning metals off the beach. Only rocks. Do you have much luck? What sort of retrieve do you do?

Where did you catch him? The kelp to the left about 30m along the wharf on the left? Or were you down the end of the wharf

That is a really good idea! - You could cast a 200 gram pyramid sinker half way to new zealand and have a livie swiming up and down the length of the line! Very cool idea

It depends how long the rod is and where are you fishing from ? Rocks / beach / boat / shore ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJoqYem0ywQ Basically Bream has a pointier nose and smaller eyes. Tarwhine look like they have run into a wall and they are shocked (big eyed) because of it

You've got to wonder ... what if the Marlin was jumping to get away from a shark!?

Sorry if this is a repost - but : The guy on the left :D

Cheers! I have tried that in the past but found that the hitch just cuts the tail of the prawn off as I cast. This is the circle I use on the beach, I think from memory it is a 5/0 Gamakatsu circle. I threw the packet out

It took the bloody prawn haha. Had a full prawn on a big circle hook - I find it is the only way to keep prawns on the hook in the surf / wash Had a few good hits on the pilchard , I think it was tailor - they were chomping the tails off and missing the hook.

Hi Raiders, I headed down to Wanda beach today in front of Sea Salt restaurant to try beach worming. Got there at 2pm and tried with my new alvey plastic pliers for about 2.5 hours with no luck ... I could find the worms but had trouble getting them to pop their heads up far enough before the next wave came in. Anyway, 4.30 I went to the car and got 2 rods and some pillies and prawns from the bait shop after the taren point bridge. Setup the big rod with a pillie, little rod with prawn, about 1.5 hours after hide tide (which was at about 6.10) I hooked this Tarwhine. It went 42cm on the lie detector!

I was in Thailand recently and I went on one of the Island tour boats that take you to all the famous Island. We pulled up for some snorkeling and the boat operators got out some bananas - broke them into tiny pieces, baited some hand lines and were pulling in what looked like 35cm+ trevs. The bananas were to fed Monkeys at one of the Islands but I couldn't believe how mental the fish were going for banana ? I thought fish hated Banana!?