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2500 will be ample for a 2-5kg stick, lol

You must be stoked with a fish like that, stuff dreams are made of ... Fantastic catch Tight lines Anthony

What a top session Stewy! Someone was watching from above thats for sure... talking about popping the cherry a few very good fish right there Pure class have to say. Tight lines Anthony

Thats gold Alan , and lesson well learned me thinks, lol Good luck with the clean up mate, at least your wife has a good sense of humor Tight lines Anthony

Crackin Reddie buddy!!! Tight lines Anthony

You can hire canoes and stuff from the boat shed, or better still walk the banks and flick some plastics or HB's around ... I hear there are some Bass and EP's up past the weir... I havent tried there though personally... and its a limit of 1 rod per angler... Been meaning to try there myself just am too lazy and too easy for me to go local 5min away from my place... Agree its a nice place, but if you wanna take ya tinnie why not try around East Ryde and up to the M2 overpass- uyour tinnie should get in there no problems, and its not that far from Greenwich ramp... Just a thought Good luck all the same, LCR can be a top spot but hasnt fired for a while (for me at least, lol) Anthony

Nath you took the words right out of my mouth, I didnt want to insinuate that because one has more "power" you have to use it though, lol ... Still I totally agree GET A LICENSE WILL SAVE YOU IN THE FUTURE! Anthony

Mate he is spot-on... Here's the link to Maritime Services Website re: licensing... http://www.maritime.nsw.gov.au/rec_boating/boatingsafety.html I quote from this site: "The speed at which a boat is driven determines whether a person needs to be licensed. Any person who drives a powered vessel for recreational purposes on NSW waters at a speed of 10 knots or more must have a boat driver’s licence. Ten knots is the speed at which most accelerating boats will start to plane – that is rise up and skim on top of the water instead of ploughing through it. The exception is anyone who drives a personal watercraft (PWC) at ANY speed must have a PWC Licence." SO, technically you can have the worlds fastest and biggesty boat- and as long as you drive it @ less then 10 knots you DONT need a license... Anthony

Its illegal to take powered vessels into LCNP, people power only (yaks, canoes OK) and even if you could get a tinnie in there, you wouldnt make it that far up river its too shallow for anything with a motor, lol

Greenwich is the closest ramp to Lane Cove... its 3 bays from my place and I live on Lane Cove River next to Tambourine Bay- Tunks is MILES from away there are also other closer ramps, even Parra River ramps are closer than Tunks... There is a ramp in Lane Cove but its private ramp for Riverview College rowing club...

By all means berley in a big channel can be rewarding, esp if you are anchored up, but if its roaring through (the current that is...) you might need to rethink your berley strategy and employ berley thats going to sink like cubed pillies, chicken strips, fish frames etc. etc... wet sand will help it got to the bottom quicker... Like I said if the current is really ripping along you might be better off locating other structure in surrounding areas (like oyster leases, rocky outcrops, weedbeds, sand flats) and then try there. Really a matter of trial and error- I guess my reply was a bit ambiguous- as you sort of need some current to spread the berley around... no run... no fun... same goes if its too fast... then the berley will be dispersed too quickly and away from you, which is quite pointless as the fish will be drifting with the berley in the direction of the berley itself Sorry if I have confused you from my prior post though

Berley is best deployed when you are stationary (ie. anchored up) The point of drifting is you cover as much area as possible therefore there is no need to berley, but knowing the structure in the area and having the ability to use your fish finder is key to when drifting. Im landbased fisho and I always berley, no matter where I am or what Im targeting- bread is the best berley you can get- use it plain and mix it up with some water, you can also add canned cat food or chook pellets or even offcuts from your bait and chicken and steak can also work. Best if you dont berley in an area where currents are strong as the berley just drifts away with the current, taking it and the fish with it. Hope this helps Anthony

Is this the Tele's way of wishing all the fathers out there a HAPPY FATHERS DAY??? Im going to get a few myself (not that I neeed an excuse to go fishing on fathers day though, lol) Anthony

Mate my grandfather had a 14 foot tiller steer with a 6HP on the back and it got us to where we needed no problems... BUT if you want to get there and back faster then go get a 25 or 30HP, your boat would take likely a MAX of 30 anyhow... I reckon bite the bullet and get a 30HP tiller steer then you can add the bits and pieces like sounder, GPS, you can also get portable nav lights that have suction caps and are easy to use and aid when out @ night. If you want a few contacts I know a few guys who make custom rod holders and stuff like that for boats... flick me a PM I'll send you their details... for a trip out on it when its up and runnin Anthony

NICE 1 Nath & Johnny- great to hear you bagged a few... Last time I checked water temp round my area was down to just above 11 degrees a few weeks ago- very chilly indeed!... Its good the water temp has increased marginally over the last few weeks to above 15 degrees- maybe a promise of better things to come eh! Johnny and I are hittin up the beach next weekend hopefully, so you wanna tag along feel free to organise with myself or Johnny. Tight lines Anthony

Well done more fine Sambo's lads... I made my own rod holder from PVC piping I bought from a hardware store- I use a mallet to whack em into the sand and they dont budge- even under extreme tension on the rod! Rod holders are a beach fisho's most needed piece of equipment- I wouldnt go to ANY beach without mine they stay in my car @ all times and its also handy to take a deck chair with you for those long nights waiting for fish - but they can be a hassle to carry when you already got a bucketload of fish and may require multiple trips to the carpark. This is encouraging for me as Im off up the Central Coast with Johnny next weekend we are hoping to get into a few Sambo's ourselves- they are starting to school up around the heads and should be thick on the beaches within the next month or 6 weeks.

Thats an awesome catch considering the conditions recently Well done a fine feed right there. Tight lines Anthony

Beaut Blue-Nose Roberta! As always a fantastic report from the 'yak... Love it! Tight lines Anthony

Good one Jase on blooding the new combo- it feels great when you know nothing about performance of a new outfit and it stands up nicely like that- I had a similar experience with a new "cheapie" combo a few weeks ago on a legal flattie just round the corner from my place and some just legal taylor... a real buzz and I was very surprized how nice a new combo feels in your hands... time to really break her in now mate... Bring on the summer croc's, whiting and breambo's I reckon... Tight lines Anthony

Its not a star gazer the eyes arent big eneough for it to be one and star gazers heads make up nearly half of their total body length- I'm pretty sure it they call them blenny as per attached piccie (there are different species around but it looks like one for sure) Anthony blenny.bmp

Kingies are always on the move, and they favour reefy areas and tight structure- I know they are fairly migratory as even the offshore fisho's who fish every day can find them @ one spot then go back the next day to same spot and they arent there (for whatever reason...)- one of my mates caught an 82cm model from pretty far up the Parra River late one night while fishing for jew and bream, it took his bream rod and took nearly 30minutes to land on 10lb mono. IN winter though the Kingies are pretty scarce but there are still some great models to be had if you put in the effort and get in early to most spots, but winter time usually slows down they thin out a lot and arent as common a catch as they are in summer. I dont fish regularly for them but I do read other reports from other anglers and know quite a few lads who go far offshore to 12mile and out as far as browns mountain for them- they say exactly that they can be there one day and gone the next- where they go "who knows"... Tight lines Anthony

Late arvo from say 3pm and up till around 8pm fishes best on most of the Nthn Beaches, as does early mornings... also last night was a full moon, I think the beaches shut down during this time Ive never caught anything from the beach on a full moon. A few days prior and after full and new moon are definitely the best time IMO- esp for Taylor and Salmon. Tight lines Anthony

They were put up 10 years ago mate but everything in moderation and be sensible about your catches and what you eat no matter where it is from... since many of those factories have closed down and strict policing of industrial waste is in place the risks are considerably less then they were 10 or more years ago. The problem mainly is that the ferries and river cats stir up a lot of the sediment that contains the dioxins, which baitfish and bottom feeders tend to eat more regularly... so there is an "increased" risk of eating a fish that has dioxins in their blood system, but in reality you would never tell if it did or it didnt- thats where the "dietary guides and moderation" come into play ... All about being sensible... Also you can tell if a Bream has been up in the rivers for a long time by the colour of them, most of the ones I get around Gladesville and lane Cove are bright silver and not been in the system too long- Im confident I am taking the best care I can when I eat from the rivers. Good luck mate, am sure you will find a few good spots to snare a feed when you need to... and worst case scenario is you will need to travel or go to the local fish shop for a fish-fix. Anthony

Hahaha... the Lake has finally given away some of its biggest secrets... and the Diamond Trev is only 1 of many Trevally species that are more @ home in tropical QLD and NT that reside near the hot water outlets... Big Eye Trevally (found up near Cairns) are also residents there but they dont have the size of their Northern cousins- they are merely rats in comparison. The Lake is also home to lots of big angry sharks- Bulls, Tigers, Hammers, Bronzies and even great Whites have been seen in and around the lake- I have had 6/0 gamakatsu's hooks completely straightened up there fishing off my mates house-boat in a single session off Pulbah Island on sunset im not surprized @ all by the size of the sharks nor by the species of fish caught there- but I reckon a 60cm Diamond Trev was a one off. Anthony