Yowie

That's what I did with my first caravan. The current one now has a reversing camera. In a van park, there are always "experts" telling you what to do.

Thank you, happy with a couple of whiting for a change.

Headed out early this morning to the deep water up from Lilli Pilli. Pulled out 2 yakkas, cut them up for bait. A nice jewie pulled out and kept, 2 others released at 71 and 75cm. One on pillies, the other on yakka fillets. Also caught the reddie on yakka. At the bottom of the tide, headed to South West Arm and threw a lure about for nothing. Pumped some nippers and tried a few spots before finding the whiting at Lilli Pilli flats. The fish were scattered, some time between bites. Also pulled out a bream, about 30cm, and a trevally about 40cm, both released. The flattie was found in a deeper hole, hence the dark colour, on the last nipper, then headed for home. With one of the jewies, a little reddie was hanging onto the bait and banging away trying to eat it, it suddenly let go, then a big hit from the jewie. The jewie headed to the surface and I thought it was a big tailor, until it's dorsal and tail fins were breaking the surface, where it stayed until it was netted. Have had the occasional jewie head to the surface to fight it out. Maybe the jewie was trying to grab the reddie. Plenty of bream to be seen in various parts of the channels and flats, many undersized, and a few over 30cm.

He did not see anyone videoing.

Not far away, over the sand banks of Maianbar, I have seen them, after big seas outside, floating along with the rolling clumps of kelp on the run up tide. Seem to swim inside the kelp for protection. Have also found some Fortescues in the kelp clumps.

I was talking to an old mate, that I see quite often on my morning walks (not walking if out fishing ) This morning he saw several hairy chested males yabbering away while one was trying to drive a boat, around the 25 foot mark with a large outboard motor, around the Sylvania ramp. The boat hit the pontoon, another object out on the water, and then it was time to try driving it onto the boat trailer. The boat had an elongated bow for the anchor placement. The boat hit the trailer side arm and did not go onto the trailer. He thinks the trailer was not built for this boat. Back off, then the boat "captain" (more like the deckie on his first trip out) guns the motor a bit faster on the second attempt to drive up the trailer. The boat makes it onto the trailer, but keeps going. The tow vehicle is a BMW SUV, he thinks maybe an X3, looks very new. The boat keeps going, into the back of the BMW, through the rear window, and part way through the roof. Major damage. Much yelling and arm waving in a foreign language. 🤣 He then walked away.

Worth the effort.

Bad luck, but there is always another day.

Another good back of blackfish.

Good work. I can still remember my first jewie, off a wharf, around 1970.

Never mind Scratchie, it just goes that way at times. I have taken blokes out for a fish before, bugger all caught, they give me the funny look (he's taken us to a shit spot 🤣) then returned a few days later by myself to bag out.

If hungry, flatties will rise up to take food, and hopefully lures, though it is best to keep the lure nearer the bottom where the flatties are waiting to ambush anything of value that swims past. Blue spots will follow a hooked fish up from the bottom on occasions to the surface. At times, I have hooked up a small spiky flattie, retrieved it some distance from the bottom then felt a bigger hit on the line, then pulled up a blue spot that has followed up the spiky and grabbed the second bait.

Nice bag of squid there. The Hacking had a few people cruising about, some fishing, and most of the jet skis were going flat out in any depth of water. Scare the shit out of any fish. The strongest wind gust at Kurnell was 26 knots, while we were out there. Not really strong, but when you are drifting in 100 feet of water, I must have had nearly double that line out with a pound snapper lead to hold bottom. Just a bit too hard to fish.

Not as bad as during the week,however, a couple of weeks ago a speed boat was going flat chat from Gymea Bay to Lilli Pilli, back and forth several times, 2 young blokes on board, then from Lilli Pilli to Burraneer Bay and back several times. No care about anyone else on the water.

did not measure the flounder, but about 35cm. The jet skis were zooming through all the main channels,and over the shallow water around Maianbar and behind the ballast heap. Too bad if you wanted to fish for whiting or bream in the shallows.

Mate does not have a sea anchor for his boat, it's a 25 footer cabin style. It was an effort in that wind, but it paid off. Most boats disappeared early, and when we packed up after sunset, not another boat to be seen. The table is at my mate's place, he made it as I kept on telling him it was too hard to clean the fish on the rocky foreshore. Have had a few large rats run past when cleaning the fish, the table is a good height and cleaner than the rocks. Slippery stainless legs so harder for a rat to climb.

Headed out Sunday arvo with a mate, the only time he and I could find spare time. Now I know why I don't fish on weekends, Port Hacking is jammed pack with small boats, big boats and jet skis. A f****** nightmare. Headed out to near Kurnell, and a bit of breeze picked up. It was moving ahead of the rain band, that was not forecast until rather late, the forecast was for light winds to 10 knots. Picked up 2 blue spots, then the wind turned up from near south, more than 20 knots and too hard to drift, so we headed back towards shore, the breeze dropped a fraction so I said, drop here. Still a bit of a fast drift, but we found a few patches of fish here and there, plus a number of just under blue spots and plenty of spikeys. The wind did drop right back, and the current took over, pushing us south. The last flattie came up after sunset, so we packed up and headed home. Enough for a few feeds each, the biggest at 40cm and one nice flounder.

Nice bag of fish, and one good one to top it off.

Heard it before, and read it before, over many years.

Sounds like a good day out, considering the conditions. You mention 20 fish limit. Is that correct? Flatties are a 10 fish per fisho limit.

Some flatties better than none. The chewed flattie looks more like it was eaten by Sammy the Seal, rather than a fish.

Nice box of fish.

I regularly catch double headers with flatties, but it is usually those little spiky flatties. Be careful with those, as the dorsal spines are poisonous and cause an aching sensation for an hour or so if they spike the fingers. I have used a gimbal belt, but that is for my surf rod only. Watching too many fishing shows 😂but at least he is thinking about it.

Another good bag.

Good work there Pickles, better flatties than I could find around Kurnell last week. AND a couple of nice reddies as well.