Yowie

You would be correct. Regardless, once a little fish is inside that mouth, there is no escape.

My wife received a report of a metre long flattie pulled out of Conjola. I saw the photo of the fish and the fisho holding it. Caught just recently so the report states. Released so it is still swimming about somewhere.

Show offs Basil and Chris. A great bag of reddies, some nice ones in there.

Enough there for a couple of good feeds, nice flatties and a good salmon. The lack of wind and drift gives the spikies time to grab the baits and hook up. When the drift slows to almost nothing, I sometimes drop the rig over, hit the bottom then pull up a few feet immediately. Jig the line up and down a bit just off the bottom. Some spikies will still rise to have a go at the baits, but not always hook up. The larger blue spots will readily swim up to the bait and have a go. More likely to hook them than the spikies. A strip of spikey fillet 6 to 8 cms long can make the spikies less likely to hook up.

Not common, but not unusual. I have found weed chunks inside bream and small reddies. Something different is always good Mike, otherwise fishing would be boring. (only kidding 🤣)

Salmon will feed wherever there are baitfish, and if that is less than 1 metre of water, they will be there. Because of the shallow depth of water, there will be plenty of splashing while chasing the baitfish. Salmon also grub in the sand looking for nippers, worms and other food. I have seen them doing this, also have caught a few in shallow water while fishing nippers for whiting, and on light gear they will power away for some time.

Some fish for your efforts. The whiting and other fish will be moving into the shallow water on the rising tide, so you will need to move up the sandbank as the tide rises. The fish will be looking for soldier crabs or other critters that are in the shallow water as the tide rises.

Appears there are squid about, nice catches. Sounds like you might need 2 batteries - a standard battery for the motor, and a deep cycle one for the lights. The deep cycle battery does not have enough cranking amps to kick over a motor.

Well Mike, I have been picking peas from the garden for the last month, and they will not be used for bait. 🤣 Gave it a go, you pulled up one trev and dusted by something else. Could be at home picking and shelling peas.

A good mixed bag of fish, nice ones in there. Certainly different in the country, compared to the big smoke.

Nice bag of flatties, and, no-one else around you to catch your fish. 😂 Sounds like a prime flattie spot, where they sit along the drop offs, near weed beds, waiting for something to eat. Many people cast way out, but the fish are at your feet. At times, and especially night time, the flatties will be in very shallow water.

Quite often in the battered fish trade, especially in Victoria. Was not into eating shark myself, and can taste it in the fish trade, though in recent years I have eaten gummy shark in the pubs and clubs of Victoria, battered or crumbed, and it is very tasty. It must be properly prepared before eating - catch, kill it, bleed it, remove head and gut, fillet and keep cool.

Thanks Rob. Certainly happy with the red. Carefully cut off the fillets so maximum meat on the fillet, not left on the backbone. Friday night cookup for the red fillets.

Samson or Amberjack? only a young fish. 2nd one could be a Red Dory. Fishing outside, do not always rely on the weather forecast. 😂

Looks like the same *#@^#* trawler.

Flattie fillets tonight, reddie Friday night. A good sized reddie for the Sydney area.

Thank you Isaac.

Thanks Chris, happy with the red. Mate wanted to try for a red spot, so we headed straight out the front, but very little wind or drift for a while, then the wind turned N/E but blew us back towards the shore. Did not go south as the trawler was working down there. It was in 200 foot or more. 4 flatties each so that was enough, though not big ones. Also a number of just unders, both tigers and blue spots, and a million spikeys. Schools of pillies bouncing around, they were chasing 1 to 2 cm baitfish on the surface.

I don't mind the jackets, but not the larger reef ones, as the meat can be a bit tough at times. Bream are just average to me. Tailor under 45cms are good, the larger ones a bit fishy, the just over legal ones not much taste. Whiting up near the top, flatties are good, just a slight variation in tastes for the different species. Reddies around the kilo mark are very nice.

I don't catch many reddies around this size, but it was not going back in. Don't overcook it, and it will be good. 40 to 50cm reddies are probably the best eating size, but the 63cm one I pulled out earlier this year was very good eating.

Son was saying, throw it on the bbq, close the hood and cook away. What I will do is carefully fillet it this morning, so that I get just about all the meat off the bone, then cut the fillets into large pieces and cook it in a large fry pan. Will look up a recipe for some sauce to add to it.

Thanks b.n., very happy with the reddie.

Headed out to Bate Bay this arvo with my mate in his boat. Pulled up a few small flatties, most not much over the limit. Plenty of spikies, so moved out to 200 feet. A couple of whiting bites, but no hook ups. Drifted back to slightly shallower water, and it was little spikies non stop, 2 at a time. Hit the bottom and hooked up to them straight away. Biggest flattie at 41cm. Saw a trawler working a little further out from us, so he may have scooped up a few flatties. At sundown, we anchored near the bombie and burleyed away. Wall to wall under the boat with yakkas, and some big slimies. Dropped baits to the bottom for many pike, but nothing else. I hooked up a big strip of slimey fillet and lobbed it a bit of distance from the boat, no sinker so let it sink naturally. The rod bends over, reel screams as line disappears quickly, and eventually up comes the reddie. 66cms, and happy with that. A while later, hook bitten off by a sharkey critter, so headed home.

Nice mixed bag of fish there Basil, worth the trip out. As for mowies, . Not even worth using for bait. 🤣

Never eaten them at that size, though I find drummer and blackfish a little weedy in taste, so not my favourite fish. As for sports value, great fighters.