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    Bent minnows vs sugar pens

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    On 3/21/2024 at 11:05 AM, Green Hornet said:

    Bugger about losing a couple of expensive lures, l’ve used the Hurricane, Switch 66 bents before with results I reckon that are just as good as the OSP’s, but you can never be sure of something like that. Another thing I do is fish barbless hooks on all my multi-hook lures. I don’t believe I lose any more fish and the bonus is sometimes after a bust off, the fish will “throw” the lure soon after and it will float to the surface.

     

    The other good thing about using barbless hooks is that if you plan to release the fish, you don't mangle its mouth trying to unhook it.

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    Landbased mac tuna

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Jenno what part of town do you live in? When I was on Pittwater on Sunday there was a school of macks busting up off the sandflats at Palm Beach. 

    As an aside - I'd always heard that they were rubbish eating - not the case I presume?

    First ever legal king

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    9 hours ago, motiondave said:

    Awesome stuff. I hope to head that way on Thursday.

    By the way....how much are they charging for parking at Bayview? Last I saw it was $25 or so during summer 😐

    My mate sorted out the parking, I think he said it cost $27.

    First ever legal king

    in Fishing Reports

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    Mate and I hit the ramp at Bayview this morning at about 8am. Headed to West Head for yakkas but they didn't seem to want to play along. Ended up with four, incidentally all some of the smallest yakkas I've ever seen. Then headed to troll around Barrenjoey. Shortly after we started my mate's hard body Rapala was hit - a few minutes later he had a nice bonnie on board. My livie was hit shortly afterwards - pulled up a rat king about 40cm. Kept trolling and my next livie was hit as well - I could feel immediately that this was a more serious fish. Five minutes later I had a 68cm king in the boat. I've been chasing kings on and off for 25 years and have caught plenty - but only ever around 5cm too small to keep. So this was one of the most satisfying fish I've ever caught. We then pulled up another undersize rat and decided to call it a day as the swell and the wind were picking up. Can't wait to get out after kings again.

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    pittwater 9 feb

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by joshGTV

    Been a while between posts, haven't been fishing a lot lately, I suspect that's going to change as last week I finally bought a boat big enough to get offshore. The southerly finally lifted and my mate and I planned to to get out early, catch some yakkas then head out to Long Reef. However electrical gremlins (caused by me) meant that we weren't in the water until 1pm. Went to West Head for yakkas but the wind was blowing pretty hard and it was too rough to head outside. So we decided to drift from the west of Barrenjoey back towards Mackerel Beach and hopefully pick up some flatties on light gear and pillie cubes.

    We started picking up undersize flatties and then my reel started screaming and I was obviously on to something big. Was wishing I was fishing heavier gear than 10lb line and leader but I left the drag fairly loose as it ran and ran. Headshakes told me I was on to a decent jewie. I finally started to turn it around and after about 10 minutes it was on the surface - would have been close to a metre long. Just as I caught sight of it the leader broke at the hook and the fish was lost. Gutted!

    Continued the drift and bagged a decent flattie and a pretty big flounder but it's fair to say they weren't too exciting after the tussle with the jewie. Oh well, he's still out there and I'll be back to chase him another day. Nice to know that there are still big fish out there.

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    Morning on Narrabeen lake

    in Fishing Reports

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    19 minutes ago, Little_Flatty said:

    Didn't use a float, just a pea-sized sinker straight down to a size 4 or 6 circle hook (Can't recall exact size, but it was a mustad demon). Just a piece of peeled prawn as bait. The current was really raging so it is possible it took a while to get down deeper. It was only 1.5m at the deepest anyway.

    Never got bigger models like that at Narrabeen before...only ever got poddies. We had a healthy berley slick going with a hunk of bread in a keepnet. That might have helped things. I think bread worked as bait as well.

    That certainly was an interesting tide. It was quite difficult to work lures on the flats with the strength of the current.

    Yep I found the same

    Just a reminder that your bait can be delicious-Blue Mackrel

    in The Kitchen

    Posted

    On 8/27/2020 at 5:58 PM, savit said:

    Thanks. Any good recipes for yakkas and pufferfish?

    A Vietnamese mate of mine taught me how to make caramelised yakkas, it's a beautiful meal. Layers of gutted and scaled yakkas, each layer sprinkled with a little brown sugar, onion and capsicum, doused in fish sauce then cooked in a covered pot for about ten minutes. Serve on rice.

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    braid for surf casting

    in Fishing Chat

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    1 hour ago, kingie chaser said:

    I love fishing braid but I'm not a fan off the beach.

    Braid tends to get wind knots & overlaps.

    Each to their own.

    Also the stretch in mono comes in handy when bringing a fish in through the surf.

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