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    Targetting Flatties (Or Bream) - Central Coast

    in Fishing Chat

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    Thanks for your reply Ray R, appreciate it. I was hoping to do a bit of fishing with my old man this weekend but that didn't work out cause he is newly married/moving (hence busy). Went out myself for a bit on the umina side, however unfortunately waterlogged my phone whilst at it. We actually have a 24ft cat moored off ettalong beach foreshore (Its getting done up and currently in the hardies bay shallows), am REALLY looking forward to going out on a trip in it, so much open area for doing fishing, wide enough to setup numerous deckchairs on the decking. Hopefully that trip will work out real soon - the final touches are going into getting the sail currently. Should fly!

    I'd like to go fishing more often in Sydney but never have anyone to go with usually who enjoys it.

    Shane.

    heaps of us in sydney love our fishing :) but i hear ya sometimes its hard to get people to come along who will stick it out for the times i tend to go out there for :P

    Avoca This Morning

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    G'day buddy, mate I went for an early fish till about 8am, then I went back around for a sit in the last hour of the arvo.

    ah ok i was there with the bangus duo :) on the spinning ledge till around 8 no bonnies :( but i got 8 fat blackfish :)

    Botany Bay Saturday -20-2-10

    in Fishing Reports

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    hey guys, got out early this morning met up with a fellow raider down at kirribilli wharf as he was out catching squid etc.. for the his trip so i decided i would join him n get some for myself, the night was VERY slow managed 2 squid lost the 3rd one TWICE! and also got 2 yakkas kept them in my live tank went home took a nap @ around 5am woke up @ 10am got my boat preped up called my mate to see how he went earlier on in the morning in the harbour and he had no luck :/ so rather than waste more time n driving to the harbour to launch i decided to hit up botany bay as its nice n close, was out on the water by roughly 1pm anchored up @ the breakwall so i could rig everything up and set up the downrigger took about 5-10 minutes i had 3 rods set up differantly so i didnt have to keep trying to change rigs around one had a lure one was for the yakka and one for the squidso started downrigging with the lure first done 3 passes of the breakwall n nothing i could see the kings on the sounder coming up to my lure but they didnt seem interested, so i switched to the squid put on the smaller one first and first troll scored a 63cm rat king put up a decent fight considering i had 80lb braid :/ i thought it would of been bigger, anyway that was my first every botany bay king yay!, and back he went. so put a frozen/dead squid on and went for another pass on the 2nd pass i scored ANOTHER king and again same size but not much of a fight was up n in the boat without taking drag, now i put on my other live squid and did another pass he got chomped in half and missed the hook by 2mm :( .

    Southerly picked up soon after that and the waters were getting rough so i headed over to towra and the oyster leases to try popping for some bream, first cast start reeling in slowly and i hear n see a splash near the lure but he missed :( no hook up wind got even worse so i decided to head back up to the breakwall again with hopes for another king, water was really rough on the way up and said bugger it home time bouncing around botany bay on my way back and i hit a wave i lift off the seat and slam back down and yay i hurt my back :/

    sorry no pics batteries were dead :(

    Wiring Up Gauges

    in The Workshop

    Posted · Edited by DGF

    i see so where can i find these inline fuel meters would any boating store have them ? also i just use the gauge as a rough estimate but if i am going to head offshore i really wanna know how much fuel is there and how much was used etc..

    Specific Bait

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Hi Fellow raiders. I have recently discovered a reef area in middle harbour that holds some kings. I have only fished it twice without much luck. I have managed to watch a boat or 2 near me pull up a king or two. My question is if i'm launching from tunks park at cammeray and fishing middle harbour where can i go to catch squid and yellow tails? As i have only been using frozen squid and pilchards to date with out much luck. Surely if i present them with frsher and live bait i may have a better chance at landing my first kingfish. So any advice would be greatly appreciated as to where i could possibly go and catch this bait.

    under the spit bridge :) i get around 20-30 yakkas there at times + squid just past the spit bridge near the moorings

    Kingfish

    in Adopt a Learner

    Posted · Edited by DGF

    i could take you one Sunday in the right conditions but is there a reason why you haven't ventured out the heads? usually its the easiest way to get heaps of king however i have gotten them in middle harbour so if you like one sunday we can head out n give it a kingfish bash by all means im no pro but ive landed some 20+ kings and i love havn some fun with em :)

    can take my boat if you like shoot me a pm with your number n ill give you a call n let you know if/when i go out im actually thinking about hittin the harbour up this weekend possibly the FADS if the weather holds out.

    but yeh chipping in on fuel would be great :) i have a 5.3 mtr allycraft runabout all ready to fish including a downrigger n live well

    oh and as for bait ill have that covered as long as we can catch live yakkas and squid we will be all good i also have some lures i want to try out on the down rigger too

    i usually leave from tunks park or rose bay though only because i can get live bait easily in either place

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