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fished smiths creek for no hairtail on the 7th it was cold
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[went to arno bay on late april to may and caught a 21 lb snapper on 8ft rod and 8lb braid and they fight hard on light gear.baznjack caught a 18 lb snapper on 7 ft bream rod and 6 lb braid
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went out on friday and headed striaght to coasters retreat to pick up some lives.
pick up a boy and started the burley. we could not get any lives.then your bream rods are going off
pick up a 70cm king and could not get any more to the boat as they were busting off on every thing in the area.had a great time with 6lb braide and 9lb leader
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thanks boys
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if you buy the map for upper hawkesbury boating and fishing they show on the map how many public mooring in each area
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are you fishing inside or out side the winds blow up at about 11.00 am
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my boat has legs for 10 years the only problem was the uni joints were rusting because the blow were spit and let the salt water in.tou need to keep on top off the legs.otherwise i have not any problem with them
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could you take me off the list plus friend as we will be fishing up the coast
thanks
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put me down plus one more
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here my boat formula 4000
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there is a new one on the macket and he good reports.can only be install on glass and allum boats so far.when they can be install on woodon boats i will be installing 2 off yo cover my boat
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i like to thank everyone.i like to thank greg for his knowlege which he past on.got the wife interest in soft plastics which her hand does not smell of bate.thanks agrain everyone
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All added Digger and its great to see your wife attending as well
Please dont be shy,this is for everyone from the very basics to more advanced for regular users of SPs.
Everyone will get some new found knowlege.
Regards Swordfisherman
thanks digger
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[i would like to add my wife and jonesy and baznjack
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put me down as i only fish with bait and want to have a go at plastics
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[as you know byon is going with thunder for the social
could i just radio in when i go past the bay i with that many boats up there i donot think i will get up there
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Hi Everyone.
After an awefull result in the Hawkesbury on Saturday and Sunday and not catching anything generally considered to be worthwhile catching, I thought I'd post up a no fish report so as to keep you informed about the fishing situation in the best jewfish spots that I know of from the bridges to the mouth areas which are all good deepwater spots where other good fish can be caught as well.
I can only say that I fish with a good variety of baits and always spread a number of rods and give myself and others with me the best chances. I have fished the downriver sections from the bridges to the mouth for a good while this season and am also in the position to receive reliable reports from upriver fisherman as well. I reported back my results on the weekend and was informed that they as well as others have caught school size jewfish between Marlo and Wiseman's in the past week. My friends also agreed that the mouth areas and the bridges haven't been producing as good as they are known to, with the exception of a large number of small soapies which were still being caught up to six weeks ago and, although being caught in big numbers throughout the system the small soapies suddenly disappeared.
As to the weekend, I had a phone call on Friday to do a session from mid afternoon on Saturday till mid day on Sunday with a friend Italian Sam, in Sam's well set up older model Carribean. Sam's opinion was that we give the mouth area another chance and we agreed to perhaps fish a little way into Cowan unless things didn't work out on the Flint and Steel side by the early run out, before we both fish much further upriver until my friends see or hear of results coming in between the bridges and the mouth.
After getting our bait in Pittwater, we planned to fish F&S on the run in tide and the last half of the run out was to be just upstream from Jerusalem, which is fair enough for jew coming in from the outside or the more popular Juno side if the F&S side is not firing.
The live bait result was zero. We didn't lose a bait on our bait jigs despite using well prepared burley, to anything else not even pickers or baitfish at any depth in the same location which had produced a large number of big slimy mackeral up high and several small to medium size yellowtail down deep during a session I had with Digger on the previous weekend. We fished at the same spot at the same part of the run in tide, only this weekend the run in tide was during the mid afternoon, whereas on the previous weekend the same part of the tide fell during the mid morning.
We had to buy our local squid and could only get extra large squid which still gave us a good number of baits by dividing the oversize heads down the centre into two halves, each half head having one eye, which makes the half heads, with part of the tube left on and divided entrails attached a very attractive weeping bait.
To do this I leave on a couple of inches of the tube, and attach each half head to the divided tube section by passing the bottom hook thru the top of the part of the tube and turning the hook back thru the eye to face the tail end, with the barb of the hook just showing thru the eye of the squid. The top hook secures the entrails to the bottom part of the cut off tube.
We cut the remaining tube section into long narrow skinned strips and also skinned and pinned the flaps together to make them into longer baits, and use two hook rigs which Sam and I prefer for all of our jewfish baits.
I was also able to salvage a couple of slimies and garfish that I had from last weekend's sessionn after my freezer iced up and ruined the thawing out process for the rest of the bait making it only fit for mincing up for bottom burley. I also had a couple of bought blackfish to fillet that I had ready for a cancelled mid week session in the Hacking and Sam brought several left over tailer and had solid WA pilchards as well.
After leaving the baitfish grounds empty handed, we anchored up to fish the rest of the run in tide in the sandy section just behind the deeper section between F&S reef and the red marker at the entrance of Cowan. From there we fished on for two hours of the run out tide, after relocating to the edge of the deepwater that drops down into F&S reef on the Broken Bay side, IE the opposite side to where we fish the deepwater that drops into the main reef during a run in tide.
We were only troubled by rubbish occasionally which were of such a small variety that our baits were hardly damaged. It was so quiet at F&S that we decided to give the remainder of the run out which we had planned to fish Cowan near Jerusalum Bay a miss.
We decided to fish the run out in close at Juno Point. There were two boats level with one another and dead square right opposite the green marker at Juno Point and too far up river and too wide in my opinion to take advantage of the point itself and the run out tide. A third boat anchored in a better location downriver from the other boats but again wide of the closest run to the point along the sandy deepwater section, which has always fished best at Juno whereas the outside section while still a chance is more flathead country and fishes quite well for flathead in the summer months.
We anchored about 300 yards downriver from Juno just behind the deep section that runs from Walker Point towards the side of Lion Island where the jew come in to intercept baitfish coming around Juno and going inside Walker Beach and into Patonga as they usually do at night.
We caught absolutely nothing at Juno Point using an assortment of bait and saw no action at all from the three boats lined up square off the point after the closest boat to us had moved and made a line of three alongside the other boats.
We decided to move on and fish at Wobby for the rest of the run out and got nothing else other than about half a dozen eels.
We moved to a prime spot at the rail bridge at 2.30AM and after all but freezing in the early hours and not losing a single bait in near seven hours of fishing the prime run in tide and the stillwater, Sam and I called it a day.
It would pay those fishing the hairtail social to put on extra layers of clothes. Although there was hardly a breeze and the conditions were calm on Saturday Night, after about 11pm pm it became so cold that Sam and I agreed that we have never felt so cold on the Hawkesbury River.
We were rugged up well and still shivering and the awefull fishing Sam and I experienced does not speak well for the lower Hawkesbury at the moment.
I hope the fishing gets better for everybody and mysef included on the Hairtail weekend.
Cheers
jewgaffer
[hi jewgaffer
as with your last post when you were on my boat we only caught that flathead but had a graet time and the knowlege tou have with jew fishing has enlighten me
thanks digger
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G'day Digger ,
I have added your merry crew , no probs with registering , just call past the Mother Ship ( location will be provided well in advance , ) and you can register on the Friday evening !!
Ross
thank you
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could you put digger,jewgatterand baznjack and two other the only problom is that we can not reg as the boat is 43ft long and we are going out on friday night
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it is a good spot to co fishing
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when fishing 2 weeks ago and the swell was about 3m at a place call the swallows.there was only about 15 boats out that day.
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Digger, you buy cartridges for different areas I take it?
How much are they and how big an area?
Cheers
if you look at bias,they have the prices.
the one which i have is standard port jackson to lakes entrance @$259
it shows all point, depht. reefs and danger points
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Anyone familiar with C-maps....for the maritime marine
and any opinions....?
Point the curser anywhere on the screen ( a submerged reef for example ) and it gives you the GPS coordinates
i have a raymarnie with c map i find it very close the mark
my c map cover from sydney to lakes in vic
hawkesbury/pittwater 16/3/13
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is that a hailtail in the 1st picture