[Anyone taken their yak out near clifton gardens?]

G'Day Mark,

CGs is my go to off my kayak. Have been reasonably successful there over the years. This is a great time of the year to chase pelagics around the Bay.

My Kayak is under repairs atm.

PM me.

Anthony

[Need Advice Sydney harbour]

Dude,

I chase Kings from my canoe in summer ,its just getting on the right time for bigger numbers real soon.

You don't need necessarily need a downrigger, relatively light gear will get you by most of the time, very little chance of a close encounter with sharks, there a plenty of methods that don't involve squid and yellowtail.

I live sort of close by Eastwood, I keep it real simple.

PM me if you want to go out.

Boccman

[Time To Hand In My Fishing Licence]

I purchased a brand new boat in August 2003 and have kept it at the marina in Akuna Bay.

The cost and hassle of maintaining the boat (not to mention tackle and bait) now far out way the enjoyment gained fishing Pittwater and the area encompassing West Head, Lion Island, Box Head, Barrenjoey, across to Whale Beach, and sometimes a little further south.

You don’t need to be marine biologist to confirm that fish aren’t there in the numbers anymore. Unfortunately it’s all over and the environment will never improve. To be able to catch reasonable fish you now need to travel to more exotic locations which are not over fished and polluted.

Referencing this site regularly during this time I noted many postings promoting recent catches. Understandably people generally don’t want to advertise the not so good days.

It is my opinion that less than 1% of people catch 90% of the 5% of fish that are left. Most of the people on this site (which is fantastic) fall into the 1%.

It’s a sad sad day.

Breeze

Breeze,

I dig your frustration, Dan was one the money. We need to get more proactive and remind useless authorities of the changes we experience and the current status of our fishing grounds.

I was only talking to fisheries management peolpe on the phone the other day about a similar topic. I'm tired of seeing commercial fishermen pillage and plunder everything that moves in my local estuary. Throwing away dead fish that I would get fined for. They are taking everything they can get their hands on from the breeding grounds of future fish stocks.

Man, my advice, write to these dickheads and let them know, I do and encourage fellow raiders to do the same. Buy out more commercial licences, (afterall our licences have to pay for something) stop commercial fishing in our estuaries.

Here's the address dude:

Director of Fisheries Management

Anthony Hurst (Sydney metro area guy)

PO Box 21 Cronulla 2250

[41cm Bream In Lane Cove River]

Hi Boccman,

Good to see you got the picture sizing sorted out. Lovely fish, bigger than any I've managed to pull out of there.

Good to catch up with you again on the weekend. Saturday was an interesting one at Figtree. No action at first, went nearly an hour before my first hit, then finally got a 33cm bream at 7.30pm. About 8pm someone flicked the switch and I got 6 small flathead between then and 8.30pm when I left them still biting. Don't know how they managed to find the lure in the dark cause I couldn't see it until it hit the rod tip. They were all below legal, but hopefully points the way to a good flathead season.

The bream have been scarce on the sandbank at Figtree of late, I thought the rain may have put them off, but with Riggy's success, maybe they just moved upstream a little to see what the fresh forced out of the mangroves.

Cheers,

Jeff

Cherrs Jeff,

Glad to hear things went off down there (unfortunately after I left!), I put down a deposit on a canoe that I was talking to you about this week ,I want to get a little more mobile, paricularly on the full tides.

See you there again

Anthony

[41cm Bream In Lane Cove River]

nice fish and

where abouts in the LC river did u get it?

Thanks dude, just around from the Fig Tree Bridge

G'day Boccman and Riggy,

Top bream there guys and another to the site. Wow, have you fished plastics long and did it take lots of work to be able to catch bream on them?

Paul

Oh and what sort of retrieve?

Paul,

Recent convert to plastics, although am still doing alittle bait fishing (old habits die hard)

It does take more work, retrieve, was slow and spasmodic

Boccman

[41cm Bream In Lane Cove River]

After trolling through the pages of fishraider for some time and admiring the impressive fish fellow raiders have managed I have patiently waited my turn. Well much to my delight I think I have something to show for my efforts.

This bream was caught last week in the Lane Cove River on SPs . After hammering the lure she went on a series of great runs and after some heart stopping moments was safely landed.

I was stoked!

Boccman