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Clifton gardens just on sunset I have seen schools of them caught. I think everyone at the wharf that day got one
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It also depends on the tide / time of the month regarding the moon etc. I fish a spot and sometimes get not a bite. Another time I.was there on a Monday night after work and between me and a mate we caught 50 fish! All little and some on bait but still a lot of fun on very light gear.
I was at the spit bridge on Monday night this week, 4 - 5 others there, no one caught a thing and the spit bridge is normally considered a very productive spot. Really does depend on the moon and tides.
My girlfriend is convinced you dont catch anything around full moon because the fish can see more clearly and dont bother with cheap bait and fake food
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I went there one morning about 2 months ago - got there at 5:30am ... Parked my car outside the gate on Captain Cook Drive.
Hiked up the hill - took me about 25 minutes to get there.
Put my bag down - and then a group of 10 blokes rocked up ... the gate opened at 6:00am
There are some suicidal guys that fish there - I watched guys getting smashed by waves and they didnt move.
One guy was sitting on an esky right out on this sharp point sort of rock that sticks out into the water the furthest. Crazy.( Sorry I cant help - I'm new to beach / rock fishing too .. )
Good luck!
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Sorry to hijack thread, but I have been fishing at Maroubra a few times lately too to learn beach fishing - bought a new rod and everything - problem is I cant find the gutters.
Is there anywhere where there are commonly gutters ? I have watched countless youtube videos on finding gutters etc but when I get to the beach and have a look - I still cant identify them!I've read they are common near the "corners" or rocky headlands of the beach - is that true or not always ?
I just want to catch bream / tailor / flathead / etcAlso - being new to beach fishing - how do you keep a prawn on the hook so it wont wash off in the surf!?
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Went out tonight fished the groines at Dolls Point - had a few bites on soft plastics and my mate I am teaching caught a nice little bream .. I had some bigger plastics hoping for a big flathead but no takers. Water was pretty murky ..
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I personally release all flathead I catch over 60cm - I did some reading in the past and here is my reason for doing so.
A flathead that grows to 1m has taken between 15 and 17 YEARS to get to that size.
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/375878/Dusky-Flathead.pdf
For me to take such an old, important fish - a large breeder that has produced probably hundreds of young and has been around for 15 - 17 years just for a feed or two doesnt seem right to me when flathead are so easy to catch. I'd rather take a photo and let her go and keep fishing for some smaller models for dinner.
When you look at Jewfish or Kingfish that grow to the same size in 5 - 7 years, it doesn't even compare to me.
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/375969/Yellowtail-Kingfish.pdf
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/375919/Mulloway.pdf
I cant argue with the rules - it is legal to take Flathead over 70cm - But I personally will never do it because letting them live means more to me than a single feed.Anyway, that is my reason - I would be curious to hear what others have to say.
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Fishing is getting so technologically advanced haha
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Cheers scratchie ya legend. I think I have the jewfish tactics thread memorized! I grew up fishing but since I read that thread have dedicated 90% of all of my fishing to catching jewies I've spent hours teaching my self to catch mullet and now squid. The only time I think I hooked one was off narrabeen beach with a fresh slab of tailor. First cast with the Jew outfit about half an hour before high tide at 9pm a couple of days before a full moon and I put my rod in a 50mm PVC pipe rid holder I had cut at about 60cm with 40cm of the pipe dug in. I turned around only about 1 minute after I cast while hooking up another rod and saw 2 big bumps so I stood up and then the rod absolutely buckled over and flipped the holder out of the sand and my rod scooted along the sand to the water faster than I could run. And I'm not a slow sprinter! I watched it scoot over the top of te water through the waves in the moonlight and then disappear. I still don't know what was more devistating. Not knowing what it was, the fact it could have been my first jewy and a descent one at that! Or the fact I lost $600 worth of practically brand new gear! My thoughts were either a shark or jewie. What you guys think?
I now use 1.2m worth of pipe and belt it almost all the way in with a rubber mallet and I never forget to set the drag.
Thats a scary thought .. I might have to make my rod holders longer I think
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Those 2 photos side by side look so funny - it looks like you are taking a photo of yourself using the fish as a camera
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I think the jewfish is more of a prized fish catch as, I believe, they are much harder to come by. If the season is right for kings and you've got the bait, chances are you'll get one. If the weather, the moon, the tide and the bait is right for a jewfish, you have a good chance of coming home empty handed.
Hahaha
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Put the sun screen on before you start fishing and wash it off your hands before you set off!
Nothing worse than trying to tie a knot of stick some mono through the eye of a hook with sun screen on your hands
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What can we do !?
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Yeah - I have noticed they are EVERYWHERE at the moment also - I was out in Botany bay 2 weekends ago - we caught about 13 of them within half an hour using a bait rig for yellow tail - also around Clifton there were HEAPS of them. Saw someone burley with raw chicken breast and there would have been 30+ come out of nowhere to demolish it.
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Nice reel too by the way!
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What type of jig head do you use in the grubs? Everything I have tried sticks out too far from the body of the SP and I ALWAYS miss hook ups. i get non stop bites but no hook ups.
Could you take a photo of a jighead you use and how you present a grub on it??
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I managed to get out and caught a 9cm bream and nothing else! Looking at the moon phase etc it wasnt a good day for fishing anyway but I just wanted to swim and flick some plastics to escape the heat.
Anyone else have a go?
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I have an android samsung galaxy s2 phone and I have downloaded a few apps, One is a fishing efficiency calender, another is a moon phase app and a tides app and I check fishraider daily and I have to say the reports are matching the efficiency readings this app is giving out!
It said Tuesday would be a shocker . . if anyone is interested I can post up some screen shots to show what I mean and what it shows.
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Went to Stanwell last night, day after new moon, high tide at 10:30ish PM.
Got there very late, about 11:00pm .. still good to be near the water, was hoping for a jew off the beach though I am new to beach fishing so still learning how to cast my new 10' rod.
After about an hour of nothing I handed my mate a little bream setup and got him casting in close for a bream or something little, He cast out started to walk back up to the rod holders and yelled out to me 'Somethings wrong with this rod.... I cast out and the line hasnt stopped yet' (he was on to a monster) .. I took the rod, felt the weight of this thing tearing off line zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz handed it back to him and said 'its a fish! Fight it!' but it was all over, wound in a straightened hook that 2 weeks ago landed a 1.6 kilo salmon ... Im calling jewfish, big salmon or shark?
There were some other guys fishing more to the right of us in line with the light from the surf xlub who caught a 1.2m wobbygong and we packed up and left at 4:00am.
Good night to be out but no catch.
We were using old pilchards, bloodworm SPs, 5" jerk shads and stinky prawns
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Found this, hope it is of some use to someone!
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That bream would have put up a fight!
Awesome catch
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I tried for 6 hours on Saturday on boat harbour beach for whiting using gulp beach worm and just kept getting flathead, a couple of guys around me got some good whiting. I think I was fishing too deep by the replies above..
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I use the TT jigheads with Gulp! plastics and have never had one come off or come lose.
I think they are the headlock type you are talking about. I am yet to try the Z-man plastics - but I was in BCF the other day and watched the little in store video demo and they looked pretty cool!
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I was on Maroubra beach with pillies on gang hooks .. Brought a few back in that were biten in half - looked like good bites but probably crabs. Also tried prawns and SPs - nothing.
There was electric blue plankton lighting up the waves though - that was pretty cool!
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Forgive my knowledge on the topic .. that first pic is that a small blade or a hard body lure ?
How far can you cast something like that ? and do you let it sit and retrieve it slowly or is it more of a jerk and wait, jerk and wait retrieve ?
Nice work! Is that bream jumping in the group photo where it looks to be blury ?
New to lure fishing without much success!
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Leather jacket 100%.
Little ones 10 - 15cm in length.