Yowie

March 31

Good work there b.n., a few nice fish for the outing. The young bloke is happy.

Had you not caught anything, there was plenty to cook up - cocktail franks, chicken, cheese, shrimps 🤣

March 30

*&^@#*^ green toads. Might have to fish in the Hacking, though I have caught a few of them inside as well.

March 30

Very nice fish, and good eating. Did you measure the size?

March 29

11 hours ago, Larkin said:

Nice catch Dave!
some good eating in that lot.

Trag still about - thought they may have move on by now. I did see some marks on the sounder that looked like them yesterday, but maybe the livies I was using were too large.

enjoy the feed!

Yes Chris, happy with the catch. A couple of feeds each with the trag.Tailor and bonnie fillets salting away for bait. I quite often eat the tailor, but enough trag fillets for a feed instead. Fishing at a reef location that I have spoken to you about previously.

Mate and I have picked up a trag or 2 over the years, but this year they are in numbers like I have never seen before. The largest one at 48cm had a medium sized yakka in it's stomach, the bigger yakkas probably too big to catch and eat.

Had a swim at Wanda on Friday, spoke to a surfer there who happened to be a retired copper, and we talked about the places we worked, then onto fishing. He did a bit of trawler fishing at times and said the trag numbers were always low in the catch, and he was surprised/happy to see the trag about in numbers again. Don't know how long they will stay around.

March 29

Well, you can eat any critter from the sea, just that most of what you caught is not very tasty. :wacko:

A nice jewie was a late bonus.

March 29

1 hour ago, jenno64 said:

Very nice bag Yowie!

The turtle would have been a sight too!

Thank you Rob.

I have seen turtles feeding in the Hacking on sea grasses, but not fish frames.

March 29

A nice session for sure.

You would have been telling a different story if a kingie hooked up. 🤣

March 28

Good sized bonnies about, must be hungry to be attacking your yakkas on the bait line.

A few flatties, and a kingie, will be good for the weekend meals. Good to see some flatties out there.

A long time since the green toads have been about, can be worse than jackets for tackle bite-offs. Last time there was a plague outside, a few turned up near Lilli Pilli and chewed off gear, and they can swim fairly fast for toads.

March 28

More than likely what was happening.

With the larger duskies, I take photos of them then release. The dots, colours, lines are different on all duskies from what I have seen. and act like a fingerprint, so each dusky can later be identified if you so desire, to see if you have re-captured that fish.

March 28

3 hours ago, corro said:

Great haul again Yowie!

Do the trag ever make the way into the system or are they always only ever outside?

Cheers

I caught one in Port Hacking many years, legal size, then nothing until early last year when I pulled up a few over several weeks. Mostly undersized, though a couple just over the size limit.

3 hours ago, Isaac Ct said:

Well done Yowie, very nice bag there.

Good feed again.

Thank you Issac, plenty for the weekend.

2 hours ago, zmk1962 said:

Nicely done Dave. Lots of feeds there - Mrs Yowie will be ecstatic. Now this is more like your usual report - all is good in the world now.
cheers Zoran

Thanks Zoran. Mrs Yowie was happy 🤣 - fish again.

What else do you expect if I go fishing? "Well you could throw them back" Not happening dear. :074:

March 28

Headed out to Bate Bay late yesterday arvo with my mate.

Caught a couple of large slimies, which provided enough strip baits for the night.

First trag not long after anchoring, then an occasional one until semi dark. 4 each, and mate dropped a couple boatside. Biggest at 48cm.

A few tailor started biting after sunset, with a couple being released. Biggest at 45cm. The bonnie was 50cm, and all fish on slimie baits, pillies chewed off by pickers - mados, sweep, yakkas.

I hooked up 2 kingies about 60cm long, and one tried to get into the reef as I could feel the line scrape a rock.

One bait was taken by either a large squid, or cuttlefish. It hooked up and I dragged it almost to the boat before the hook let go. All I could see was a large wide body in semi darkness. An average sized squid grabbed a yakka and hung on so I netted him.

Headed home on full darkness. I was cleaning and filleting the fish at my mate's place, throwing in the skeletons and some good sized bream were feeding on them, could see them with the light from the filleting table. During this, a turtle swam past then stopped, swam up to the skeletons and began feeding on them. It grabbed a skeleton in it's mouth, shook it's head and appeared to be using the front flippers to push the skeleton away while chewing on the meat and guts. Water about 5 foot deep, so we had a good view of this for about 10 minutes, then the turtle swam away.

March 28

Very nice there Zoran, some good fillets off those critters.

March 28

27 minutes ago, Mike Sydney said:

I’ve had trebles become doubles plenty. I still catch with doubles as I’m far too lazy to replace trebles. Figure that if folk often replace with singles I’m not really missing out on much!

Trebles can be harder to remove than doubles.

It appears that doubles are not available, only older stock being sold. I was told that doubles are going out of fashion and not being manufactured anymore.

March 28

3 hours ago, zmk1962 said:

A different report from you for sure mate. Sounds like you had fun even though it wasn’t Bate Bay! Hope the shoulder heels quick. I’ve just had my skin check - 6 buggers frozen off face and nose.

Cheers Z

My shoulder wound has left a scar - just add that to the list of scars.

The trouble with fishing during the day. Reflection of sun from the water is more intense than just a direct hit of sun light standing on land. All fishos need skin checks.

March 28

23 hours ago, Larkin said:

Nice to get away and sounds like your having a good time.

Bummer about the prawns. Maybe try again another night.

It was good to get away, more or less just fun fishing with the others.

The entrance to the lake is shallow, so not much tidal run for prawn movement.

At night off the rock wall, you could shine a light onto the sand just out from the rocks and see many flatties sitting and cruising about, grabbing little fish and prawns - all flatties were just undersize and not interested in our baits anyway.

March 27

Keep at it Mike. No fishing means no fish caught.

March 26

8 minutes ago, mrsswordfisherman said:

Not a bad spot @Yowie

Walk along from the caravan park to the Post Office shop for fish and chips or takeaway.

Plenty of Roos and birds to play with. Bowlo raffles 👏

It was with the new group Donna, RV NSEW.

Plenty to eat without heading to the shop. One fisho who was camping had too many whiting, so he offered me 4, that were gladly accepted - filleted, crumbed and cooked with some chips and salad. :wine:

March 26

1 hour ago, noelm said:

Conjola is a very nice place, my brother lives there and I get down there reasonably often, like most south coast lakes, fishing needs a bit of “sussing out” a kayak/canoe/small boat is an asset, because getting around the shoreline can be challenging at times, even just getting to the other side can mean a decent drive (or swim) that said, holiday fishing is fun and any fish is a bonus when it’s not a “fishing holiday”:

I will take the kayak next time to explore a bit further, though a swim to the nipper beds on the other side was not too hard.

March 26

1 hour ago, Pickles said:

Good one Dave, thanks for the report, Lake Conjola is a beautiful spot. Now I’m a caravan owner, I have still to workout the rod / Tackle / cleaning set up (and the K9 has to come)

Many great spots down south Bob.

I have a tackle box, a bucket with various reels, and a tube for the 2 piece rods that fits across the back seat, though the 2 piece beach rod is too long for that, it sits inside a tube under the van for transport.

March 26

2 hours ago, Little_Flatty said:

Something different from you @Yowie...landbased and weekend fishing! Still, some good fish caught and it looks like a good time was had by all.

I didn't know you had a kayak.

Yes Mike, something different for a change.

Have had the kayak for some time, and it is some time since I used it.

March 26

Very nice there Bob, not many but enough to keep you occupied.

March 26

Travelled there last week with the caravan, and met up with a group of others from the van club. A few keen fishos amongst them. Stayed at the van park nearest the entrance to the lake, fishing was either from the rocks along the river side in front of the park, or from the beach.

First morning to the beach, a couple of salmon caught by others, not me, only pickers taking the pillies.

No fishing that night, however, one of the guys pulled up a couple of bream , and dropped a good one, off the rock wall.

No beach fishing for me the next morning, but a couple of the guys pulled up several salmon, a bream and a trevally from the beach.

That night on the rock wall, a few bite offs from tailor, and only the little ones about 25cm landed. I caught a duck in my line, swam into it and tangled up. Not much of a fight, grabbed it, untangled the line and set it free. One of the guys wanted to take it home and make it pluck-a-duck, into the cooking pot as duck-ah-l-orange. 🤣

Next morning to the beach again. Only one salmon for me, several for the other 2, and 2 large sand mullet on salmon strips on a 3/0 hook. :huh: Something different.

Tried prawning that night, half a dozen tiny prawns, and 2 small garfish. Very little run in the water, and a full moon. Gars kept for bait.

Swam out to the sandbank in the arvo, rod, nipper pump, bucket on a boogie board. Plenty of small whiting and tarwhine on the sand flats, but no legals. One flattie caught off the rock wall, by one of the others. Fished the rock wall later that night, and a 30cm bream on a gar, plus little tailor.

Not too many fish caught up river by the other campers in the park, mainly flatties. The salmon were from 40 to 50cm.

Was going to take my kayak, the doctor advised against it due to an infected wound in my upper arm, so left it at home. Will be heading back there another day, the last time I was there was about 30 years ago. Rather busy on weekends, but a nice place to visit again, week days would be the best.

A good time had by all, wines and bourbons consumed, and 2 large meat trays (steak and chicken) from the bowling club raffle provided plenty for the BBQ.

March 26

Nice dollies there Bob. A few reddies as well (mowies don't count as fish 🤣) It paid off for your trip out, a good effort there.

March 25

15 minutes ago, Mike Sydney said:

I’m not sure but how many tickles until an octopus laughs?

….

Ten tickles.

Catch a rock crab, then hold it out for the occie to take (not a blue ring, just the normal brown ones) and they will swim up and take the crab from your hand, then laugh at the free feed.

March 24

Occies like crabs, so that is why you pulled up a few.

The blue rings are standing out, so he is a bit agro.

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