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Had awesome pictures the sea is bubbling but have no idea how to download video, any help with this??

Check this out, the sea is alive! Captured the day of the challenge.

Hi.First time poster. Headed out of port stephens on the weekend for the pirtek challenge. And what a cracking day it was with the weather really turning it on to support this great cause. Armed with some local knowledge and gps marks to go, i headed first to bait station behind cabbage tree to collect the all important bait. Then straight to broughton island we went in search of some kings and snapper. Out went the balloon float once we hit the sisters and the boys started to bottom bash. Hooked up to a few squire and some reef fish but nothing worth mentioning. We were about to change locations when bang, off went the float, yippee we in. After the next 15 minutes or so was a quessing game, was it a kingy or not. We soon found out it was a 6.5kg bonito that was the problem. Great more bait. So we headed off to do a bit of trolling with no luck. Then we started to tackle the other marks we were given. First 2kg snapper, sweet now we have dinner, next mark 70cm kingy, sweet something to go with dinner, then the young fella with us caught a 60cm flatty, awesome entree. It went quiet then for a couple of hours but as we persisted the sea came alive, there were thousands of bait fish hitting the surface in dramtic fashion so up came the rods and out came the lures. We continued to troll for a about an hour but only managed 6 small bonito but what a site to see. We then hit our usual flatty spot without success. All in all was a great day on the water with 11 different species boated and a good feed to take home. the local knowledge is definately where the fish are!! Hopefully many more posts to come, with pictures!!!!!

nice work jocco gotta get me some of them,im sure there's plenty in there over a meter, just a matter of gettn through the weed.

lyells a hit and miss game at the moment and always has been as for the fish going over the spillway unlikely

great fish in prime condition.

agreed tailor

didn't they ban trawlers from the hawkesbury accept prawn trawlers?

yep fished wb sun night for three but dropped seven havent quiet masted it yet not bad for first attempt all were around 1 m and counted 9 boats ,think ive got the hairtail bug there is an art about it thats for sure,how can something so evil looking be so gentle pics to come

me and the boys have got our hands a house boat this time cant wait

nice cow secho they taste awesome,did you get her on a hb or livie

top dollies there squizzy,the swell looked like it wasn't helping much.

G,day fellow raiders long time no post but i think this one is worthy.My mats jeff rang me up on wedensday and said lets go marlin fishing of sydney as the water was a lovely 24.4 degress,so come 3:30 am on saturday we met up at his mate keirans house.Which had a kick ass boat with all goodies on it.Set from botany bay around 5:00 am, tried to get some bonito on the way to the first fad without any luck.So the captain decided to put out the outriggers with skirts on,mean while jeff and i had a line each with a couple of 4m diving lures(not sure what type).Trolled towards 12 mile reef when all of a sudden i see a dollie break the surface launching out of the water and my rod starts screaming,I picked it up and it was on 15 minutes later i had this beauty on board. Trolled around for a bit longer till the wind picked up and started to head for shore.Picked up 6 skipjacks on the way back to the ramp. The dollie went a meter thirty five and weighed 9 kg. Thanks to Jeff and Keiran for the top day.

fished the classic in very hot conditions,only managed a pike eel,40cm flattie,stingray and a shovel nose ray.winner was a 13.7 kg jew followed by a 12.8 kg jew followed by a 5 kg jew,biggest flattie was 2.5 kg.better tides this year but considering last years winner was a 17 kg jew the fish just wernt out still had fun

top lizzard champ looks bigger than 87 good to her released well done mate

who could pass up a whiting mmmm nice flattie guys

top fish champ cant resist a tailor fillet maybe your mate should use 2 big hooks next time just in case

They certainly are, if pike eels were a target species i would of done allright

Great fish jeff looked even bigger at the weigh in,pitty about the rain,also fished in the classic was pretty quiet on the river(fish wise) plenty of boats,bar point was like a parking lot didnt bother going to the bridges.Only got a few keeper flatties myself great fun but cant wait till next year.

top fish jewie jim good on you,and good on kiwi for showing him the ropes,im sure he will keen to go fishing all the time after that

my apologies,the jew was 96 cm not 93 and went about 12 kilos, my mate read the post and said i short changed him,still a beauty

Hi all, My mate went out Friday night and caught this 93 cm resident 'Jew'. He caught somewhere around Bar Point in the early hours of Saturday morning, tide was last of the run out. The Jew was caught on a fresh tailor fillet. He seems get one like this every second outing. Said I would post it for him in exchange for a couple of fillets, fair deal.

nice lizard there buster must be warming up

witch lagoon is that anth 1