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Hi Where is please WB ?

Hi Baitfish could be poddy mullet, but was srprised nobody raised possibility of herring. These are often found around these bays and are a thinner deaper fish and look like pillies in the water. Best caught with a actively jigged bait jig and top bait if you can get them.

Last Saturday a 6kg Cobia was caught in Woolaware Bay and weighed in ANSA Sydney Convention. So cobe a good chance.

Hi. If your happy with your reel, you can extend your budget by just getting another spool for your 6lb braid. This would give a more $$$s to choose a nice light 9ft graphite/mix rod. I don't fish beach much as I have a boat, except for occasional ANSA cometition. There I use a full graphite 11ft rod I modified from an English carp rod and 1 kg pretest line and fish like salmon up to 3kg are possible. With no reefs about you can fish light off beach as long as the surf and surge aren't too big, as this makes landing them on light geat harder. Good Luck.

I have fished the Hacking for flatys for many years and I find that you will do it tough on lures until the water starts warming up late September to October. They often move further upstream in winter unless a fresh pushes them back down. They are still about if you persist. I have had most luck with paddle tailed shads in shartruse with black back using a sharp double or tripple lift, however with cold water a slower drop/retrieve may be better. Low tide concentrates fish to channels so concentrate on drop-offs with scattered weed patches an advantage. Good luck.

ANSA Rules allow all legal methods, so both bait and lures allowed, (except fly Division of course). For 1kg class I use a number of 2-4 kg rods from 7ft plastics type rods up to 9ft nibble-tips, depending on where I fish. I find real more important as it has to have smooth drags. Currently using 3 Daiwa 2000 Excellers with worked-over drags. There are seperate ANSA NSW and Australian Records kept for sportfishing (all methods), lurecasting, fly fishing game fishing etc, as well as length records. Interestingly if you join ANSA you also get the rights to claim Australian and World IGFA (International Game Fishing Association) Records.

ANSA Rules permit 1.5 x rod length of leader, which can comprise any combo of double/leader/trace, of any breaking strain. So yes, you can have heavy leader to hook for chafing purposes. To combat loss of membership due to people wanting to use braid, the rules now allow a system similar to flyfishing. You can use braid main line with the same rules as above, however you must include a break-away section of at least 500mm of the line class line. This has good and bad points, espeshally with 1kg, as you have little stretch and it's easyer to pop the 1 kg section. I use both metods, flaties were caught with all mono and Jew with 2lb fireline with 1kg pretest breakaway and 12lb vanish leader to hook. By the way, lines used are all pre-tested (like Platypus Pretest) to break under the rated strength. R-C

Hi Raiders. I have read posts for a long time and thought it was time I contributed, however had trouble attaching photos, so post is awful late, but may still interest some. I am a member of St George sportfishing Club and love competing in ANSA competitions using 1kg pretested lines. I have specialised in catching flathead for these comps and have a 1200mm long tank built in the front of my boat so I can release these big girls after weighing them in back at convention centre. My best effort to date was a 4.86kg flathead, which was the NSW record on 1kg line for a few years until bettered last year. This years Sydney convention on weekend around 1/4/2011 was difficult due to strong winds and I could only fish short periods as I had done my back in. Friday I managed one 72cm flatty 2.55kg on 1kg (released) and 6 from 49mm to 58mm kept for a feed. Saturday was a shocker for strong winds. I got one 74cm flatty 2.72kg on 1kg (released) and a 750mm Jew (Mulloway) on 1kg line which at 3.49kg was good enough to win the Estuary Division of the comp. This was my first Jewie on 1kg line and I was absolutely stoked! I also got a 69mm Kingie (on 10kg line) which was my 1st legal out of Port Hacking, but couldn't tease one into taking a fly. Hopefully photos attached: 2.55kg FLATHEAD 2.72 FLATHEAD 2.72 FLATHEAD IN MY FLATTY BOX 3.49 JEWFISH 3.49 JEWFISH AND NEW RAIDER

I think my old sounder was X47, do you have manual ? As a general rule, a discussion I had with Lowrance tech was Turn on backlighting even in day for better visibility Set gain at 80% as a starting point and adjust if too much clutter Run scroll speed fairly fast. Hope this helps.