Yowie

I was happy with that one, and it tasted very nice !!!

Thank you, good size for up river.

Delicious, better flavour than a pannie.

The occasional snapper have been caught up river, but they are not too common.

Great effort there, nice fish.

Could have eaten the yakkas.

Just a matter of keep on trying. Some days the little ones grab the bait before the larger models have a chance. The larger ones will be in shallow water during low light - early morning, late afternoon or cloudy days - then maybe in slightly deeper water outside those times.

That is a good jew, and Sammy the Shark to top it off.

Great fish on light gear. Good work Rev.

Thankyou. Was expecting a jew on the line, much happier with the red.

Unexpected, but very welcome.

Thanks Rah, it was a surprise.

Half way up the Arm.

Cooked up a fillet last night, with a lime sauce. It was very nice, a chunky fillet compared to a pannie.

These are the first squid I have caught in the Hacking this year. They have been very scarce.

Thanks guys. The biggest one I have pulled out from the Hacking.

Headed up South West Arm for something different, and to escape the wind. Plenty of little reddies about, plus a few yakkas for bait. Threw a squid jig towards the shore for the squid. 2 of them hooked themselves when the jig sat on the bottom while I was attending to another line, they both picked up the jig, swam off and hooked up. Put out 1 small live yakka, but it was chewed off. Fray marks on the line, so probably a tailor. The 2nd yakka did not attract anything. Pillies and squid strips no good, but fillets of the yakkas proved better. The reddie in the photo grabbed a fillet from a large yakka, then took off when hooked. Put up a good fight on a handline and snagged me under a rock. I could not budge it so let the pressure off the line and it swam free about a minute later. I did not put much pressure on the line, thinking the line was frayed which it was, and expected to see the silver colour of a nice jew swim up to the boat, but it was red instead. Also caught a just legal reddie and just legal bream earlier on, but they didn't deserve to be in the photo.

Good effort there Ribs. A couple of the muddies look a bit agro.

Good sized bream when they crack the 40cm mark.

Nice work there Scratchie, those tuna would put a bend in the rod. Southerly just hitting southern Sydney now.

A couple of nice feeds there. Were the blue spots in roe? Their roes are usually fat in Spring.

Mum and the gang will eat it as fillets, along with the bream. The reddie fillets come home with me this time. Have not bothered eating pike (the thicker, yellower, stinky ones), though snook fillets are not too bad. It could be a snook. Sometimes can be hard to differentiate some of the thinner pike species with snook, though some fishos call the snook as pike regardless. This one was not stinky at all.

Bigger than normal for the Hacking. Put up a good fight for it's size on a handline, was expecting something bigger.

Thank you.

Headed early to Gunnamatta Bay for a change. Southerly blowing early on, a bit bouncy in the open water along the drop-off. Pulled the pike early in the darkness, thought it was a snook, but it did not have the stinky pike smell. Only managed one yakka, so cut off the fillets, then lengthways to make 4 baits. The 4 baits produced the bream and reddies, after that rather small chinaman jackets turned up and chewed off every bait, so headed for home. The crab grabbed a pillie before the jackets turned up.