James P

Hi all, I am up in Queensland for a long awaited holiay for the week and went out for a days offshore fishing. WE left at 5 30 and back at 4 on a nice catamaran with twin 250hp. We went out and floated some pilchards out and i pulled in a 117 cm mackeral, my first ever and so so much fun ,and gret fighting also. then we went out to some reefs and pulled in heaps of tailor and trevally, my best tailor was 54cm which was fun. Also pulled in a one metre reef shark and they are very fun and fight very well. I am, hopefully going on another charter (recommended by Jewnut) i will post pics next week, Cheers All

Hey mate, I have caught a few kingies lately around north head, i troll 5 inch minnows deep diving and have had solid hook ups around North Head and Bluefish Point with also salmon hook ups. I also hooked onto a few in a school near north head last week just castiong small metal lures at them but they were good size and buste d me off, they were there early but then went I agree with the trolling, i have a had a lot of success doing it this way, and a lot of fun. Good luck tomorrow mate, if nothing is on fish bluefish point, some good trevally around there still.

Ripper fish mate, heading out early tomorrow morning, if the kingies arent on i might give them ago, bigger than my best bream by far, Top effort

to the site, I was using one 5inch metal slice and a two inch metal slice, dobroyd head is infested with tailor at the moment, good fun. Any thing metal works, the soft plastics do to but they will rip them to absolute shreds with a touch of those teeth. try there next time. Good luck

Hey Bung, They have had forecasts for storms quite a bit lately and a lot have been right but last night it was for isolated drizzlewit hthe chance of a storm in the west. It rained so hard you could hardly see and the lightning and thunder was every two seconds, i meant that when there is going to be a big storm they usually put out a metropolitan storm warning which wasnt there. But then again this weather lately has been very spontanious and i guess it was not too hard to tell by looking at the skies, but after 10 hours of work i was probably blinded by the excitement of a fish, Cheers

Took the boat out yesterday arvo with my mate after work. The reports said moderate wind but we thought it would be fine, However once we got there we were greated by a howling relentless north easter so the idea of getting kingfish at wedding cake island flopped over and we went for a drift. We were using my favourite anchovees for bait and pulled up heaps of little snapper and flatheads and then my mate lost a ripper tailor right near the boat with a net 5cm away from him, it would have been an easy 55cm. then we went for a troll around dobroyd head for a million little tailor whic hwas lots of fun. My friend omce again hooked onto two really nice tailor and one which would have been 60cm on a 5inch metal slug. It did a huge jump in grabbing distance and we could see the hooks dislodge right in our faces, then the other two biggies were lost near the boat, the ones we landed were in between 25 to 35 cm but at that size we just let them all go. then we went to the spit at about 9ish and we had just started the drift when in one second the temperature dropped a good 8degrees, it was so crazy and we were both like hmmm, we lookedcastle cove way to notice bolt after bolt of lightning and so we decided to speed away as fast as the 30hp would take us only to be greated by torrential rain one second later and the tinnie and us copped it all. Getting the boat on the trailer was interesting in 2m visibility at roseville, then ddriving was even more interesting with almost no visibility, we were all going 35 over the roseville bridge which is an 80 zone. All in all an interesting time. I hope to go out after work again today but i am gonna check the weather a little bit closer. The Bureau of meteorology has proven itself wrong day after day lately, especially with the storms. Cheers

Hey mate, no i havent, were i was fishing it ws about 70 feet deep with a really strong current so by the time the bait with a big sinker got down it was already 20m to one side the boat whcih ruled sp's out (i think) Othger than salmon i havent caught anything on sp's, i have tried to no success with them i really need to try them more often with all these reports. I might have to catch up with someone who knows for a land based session some time because some of the fish you are catching on sp's sound very nice.

Hi All, I am off to paradise waters ( near surfers paradise) for the week next week for a relaxing holiday and i was just wondering if someone could recommend a charter for some deep sea fishing for half or a whole day. Last time i went i went on one which was good fun but i have no idea who it was as it was a few years back. Thanks

Hey Mate, Dont worry i was in the same boat as you, I went to chatswood bait and tackle in the morning and said wats good for flatties and he went over and plonked them in front of me, i didnt know either, they are like blue bait only bigger, about 3 or 4 inches long, go to your local tackle shop and ask them because they really did work on every drop down!!! good luck

Hi All, Went out after work on saturday to try for some kingies because that beautiful sun came out, However when we got to the heads the North East wind was relentless making it hard to troll so i we just went up and down from north head to the yellow marker, Unfortunately no Kingies but picked up a woppa salmon, and also got a bit keen and snagged my favourite deep diving lure when i went a bit too close to the rocks Then i went for a drift and picked up a heap of flathead on anchovies between the heads however mainly undersized and all released however they did scoff the anchovies the second it touched the bottom. We also got a tropical looking flathead( i think) which had cool wings looking things on it. Anyways cant wait for the winds to ease, its good to see the rain though!!!

WOW, Well done mate it sounds like u must have had a fantastic time, I went out also and only caught a salmon and some flatheads, I wish i had thought of going down to the wedding cake marker!!!!

Hi Phill, What a great effort!!!! If you go out often on Firdays we should try to go out one morning on the one boat instead of both going out solo we can just take one boat which would cut costs and probably be a lot easier than navigating a boat and pulling in fish solo. Once again Top Effort Mate!!!

Hey Phill I think i may have seen u trolling out past north head in the morning. It was a newish centre console boat. Maybe the school was Kingies, it would explain why they were so timid and it was right near were i got my first one Hmmm i will have to pay more attention to the suface activity next time It was hard to tell though with all the ripples from the wind.

Hey Phill, You were not on a boat with a red top on it. The only boats your size was one with a red top or a green with double engines one or a big greyish one ( i am not familiar with all the names of the types of boats) with double engines, Did u pick up 5 kingies, Thats a very good effort, And the kingie is going on the BBQ tonight with the family. The way these small ones fight i cant imagine how exciting a 75cm plus kingie would be. If this southerly coming through tomorrow isnt to strong i might try again early sunday. There was also a big school of salmon out the heads which no one seemed to bother with. Go the discount bin

Good Morning All, Hit the roseville ramp at 4 30 this morning and headed out to the heads. I have never caught a kingie before ( have lost 2) and so last night i went Chatswood bait and tackle and asked what lure i should use for trolling, I picked up a blue and yellow deep diving lure (roughly 5inches) from the reject bin of lures and was told to troll from the Yellow marker around the heads and to Bluefish. So i started trolling and just near north head i saw a boat hooking into some tailor so i thought i would give it a go and started winding in the lure when the rod just stopped, i thought it was snagged untill this thing started charging around like a madman, After a short fight falling all over the boat because i was the only one in it and its only a 4.6m tinnie in the swell i finally landed my first Kingfish, of 62cm, Then kept on trolling around to bluefish, i did a circle then started heading back when BANG off the real goes and i fly to the back of the boat and grab the rod, after a nice little fight i landed a beautiful 68cm Kingie , i was so stoked, then kept trolling back in as petrol was low so i couldnt do too many loops at bluefish. I saw the rod was flicking around a bit so wound it in and there was a 48 cm Srgnt Baker. On the way back the boat was rocking around a lot and i picked up the big fish to put him up in the esky when a wave hit and the fish went bye bye and fell back into the big blue sea but Oh well i didnt mind i was just happy to have caught my first kingies. And hopefully it grows into a big one for next time!!! so i can confrim the kingies are in Sydney Harbour (and that they are topt top fun to catch) Good luck to all over the weekend