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how did those glow in the dark jig heads go

awesome trip those kings look tasty i cant wait till i take a trip to NZ my mates over in welly are keen to get out for a fish as well

Cheers Im not gonna give up on it now thinking of taking heavy gear to take it out 65lb braid with 100lb leader possibly Yeh was pretty good yeah i just took a look at your NZ Trip report looks like you had a cracker of a weekend!! well had tied the braid to 80lb mono from the 80lb mono swivel then 60lb fluro with a decent size hook cant remember the size with a LIGHT running sinker to the hook, hooked the crab through the shell on its ass end and droped it down after RayR burley'd up with some Urchins crushed up etc.. Definitely going back to take it out and have some photo's with it!

just gotta moisten the bread up i usually have a small bucket of water and leave slices of bread in it to go all soggy then drain it ( good side of that is i mix a few burley pellets into that water with all the bread etc.. n works for burley too)

i know of that "spot b" im sure most do to be honest haha good catch mate amberjack is a bonus

hrmm i usually have a more productive day on a bad day out in the harbour :/ kings like to take any form of live bait, i launch from tunks n catch live bait at the spit n go out to middle head near the green bouy and chuck the live baits down usually get a king a lot of tailor around there too (the spit can produce bream/kings/flathead/squid as well)

best bait hmm there really isnt a "best" but you can get them on live nippers, fresh prawns, squid strips, chicken breast with parmasan cheese+breadcrumb, Moist bread, dough, worms. at the moment the bream seem to be in slightly deeper water in botany but you can still get a few just look for either weedy bottom areas, structures (mooring,pylons rocky ledges etc..) i can usually get a few near tom uglies bridge casting toward the pylon or off to the left casting just past the weed patches, wharf's produce some decent bream as well could also try the mouth of cooks river or even in cooks river near the boat ramps etc.. next to the airport, also you can try the groins along brighton/ramsgate etc.. (those rocky structures that stick out from the beach) really covered a whole heap of spots for them fish light small ball sinker running to swivel with about 50-80cm trace and your usuall hooks. ive been practicing with lure fishing for bream lately still no success with that so i always leave one rod with bait out as well.

yep definitely a frigate mack they may look similar to mack tuna however mack tuna have 3 black dots under on either side just under/behind is gill frigate macks do not.

where abouts do you get squid i cannot find squid in sydney for shit i usually go jeffery st wharf but only end up with like 2-3 small ones

yeah rock fishing at all times is dangerous however i just want that groper now it was like it was teasing me down there

Yeah they pull really hard i'm thinking of getting some bigger gear for em i guess i tested the strength on my nitro rod haha i don't know how big it would of been but boy did he pull! as for the diver story well divers tough luck i wouldn't hide a fish just to avoid one person have a cry over it end of the day i'm allowed to have one and divers/hohoho's arn't allowed to touch them. but yeh i want to land one now just because i couldn't get it it's going to make me go back again and try get it again n again untill i win!

yeh 2 were lost to snags while untangling another line from my rod :/ and 1 from a crappy knot and other was casted out n leader snapping :/ but yeh all in all had a good time thats what counts

Hey guys, hope you all enjoyed the long weekend I'll start with saturday, left home 6am made our way to Avoca beach for a bonito session, as we arrived saw RayR chasing Bream/Reds and started having a chat and appeared the bonito were not on e tried some squiding for live bait for kings and what not with no luck RayR left to goto work and would soon come back, so started spinning for some bonnies and few chases but no hits lost 4 mack bait lures (very expensive day) still had some fun Ray eventually came back and proposed we try catch a Groper no problem i say so we went rock hopping to catch some red crabs scored a whole heap of them rigged up my saltist was spooled with 30LB braid (little did i know how powerful these were) tied to 80LB with 60LB leader droped in a crab and WHOAA they can PULL! it was down there playing wit the crab crushing it to bits put on another and Ray went back to get something and the groper HOOKED UP! MY GOD THEY ARE DAMN POWERFUL! This thing pulled my around the rocks i tried to fight it but just kept peeling off drag and going toward his lil hidey hole snapped my braid on the rock and GONE! after one big curse i went n rigged up again this time putting my 80LB trace onto my reel taking about 20mtrs of 80LB to try take this groper out he hooked again and took the hook off this time i gave up n went back to spin for bonito chucked on my last mack bait lure Bang first cast mack tuna cast in again and got a bonito cast in again and lost my lure didnt realise my leader was damaged anyway landed 3 fish that day and team bangus arrived for tailor session but my mate wanted to go home so we left. promised my wife i would take her on the boat so monday we got up early hooked up the boat n headed out to botany great day out on the water other than the WIND blowing us in all directions we still managed for 2 flathead 38cm and 41cm and 8 whiting a nice lil meal tonight for dinner i also hooked up onto this MASSIVE porcupine puffer on plastics while chasing flathead i thought i got a chunk of weed got some pics n video of it ill upload later i didnt bother bringing it onto the boat because he swelled up to the size of a BEACHBALL!!

guys if your getting into Airbrushing the best and most reliable airbrush is an Iwata airbrush i use them to paint my RC Car Bodies and other Models etc.. for example: and you can buy a decent iwata airbrush for around $80-100 pm me if your in and around sydney and want to buy one i can point you into the right direction on where to get a good one

Hey guys, im interested in starting to make some of my own small lures divers poppers etc.. anyone know where i can buy the lil eyelets/rings etc.. that the hooks sit on? im going to buy a small pencil lathe for couple hundred or maybe buy somthing bigger online to start turning my own lil poppers and torpedo shaped lures, the bibs wont be too hard as i would just be using stainless bent into shape has anyone seen any online tutorials for this kinda stuff i think would be awesome to turn out my own lure and actually catch fish on it.

well said Personally ive only tried beach fishing twice and i am no good on the beach haha i love rock fishing and fishing from my boat but i also enjoy going up to the river and sittin on the side im happy to wet a line in any way or form

great photos Ray that lamb looks tasty btw hopefully see you this weekend at avoca !!

im starting to think about giving blackie fishing another go too but my methods are differant D: weed on a blacky hook with no sinkers and no float just slack line floating down they end up hooking them selves soon as i see my braid start to straighten up i know they are on and set the hook

waters might be slightly busy although.. if everyone doesnt go out because it might be too busy then it should be nice n empty for me hahah im thinking i might take my boat out in either botany or drive it up to terrigal/gosford but i will also be at the rocks at avoca for a day

haha all this from me wanting to learn to use blades n hardbodies n stuff in the georges

Female Male Crimson banded wrasse n you got your self a female

very nice !! im still chasing my first yellowfin and dolly hopefully on my next trip it will produce!

sunset produced me big bream and snapper around the weedy areas in botany and sand flats produced some nice flattys for me last week

As the title says what's everyone getting up to this weekend. I've still yet to decide exactly what im going to do I'm thinking of taking my boat up to Terrigal n maybe get some kind of accommodation somewhere on the central coast

Happy Bday Stewy !!! :1happybday: Have a great one mate