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Nice bonnies, and good sport at the larger size. A smart idea to study the rocks and swell before fishing in the dark.

Nice work. Surprising how hard the larger mud mullet fight. A bonus good sized bass to top it off.

Very nice bream. Not too many of that size kicking around.

Thanks Basil, the trags are quite good eating. Plenty of trags out there.

Thank you, have not been there for years. Probably just fishing from the shore with the others, and also the beach maybe, though thinking of taking a kayak there for a paddle and a fish.

Nice flatty there Rob, a big head on it, plus a few others pulled up. Always good to try a new spot, cannot remember fishing there myself. Next weekend I will be heading to Lake Conjola for a few nights with the caravan club. A few of the guys are keen fishos, so will give it a go somewhere.

Bread for burley, and for bait, is rather cheap bait and can be effective at times.

Have never pulled up that many trags in the one session. As for the blue spot flatties, only guessing that they have moved further offshore, but that is only a guess. When I drifted 200 feet (60 metres) of water, I found that the tiger flatties were there off Cronulla (though scattered about and mostly undersized). Cannot give a definite answer, other than that has happened before and the blue spots have eventually returned.

Thanks Zoran. Plenty of trags down south, not big ones but nice sized fillets off them. The shoulder scar is infected, now on antibiotics to try and clear it up. The lower back scar is not a problem, healing nicely.

Plenty of dollies there Zoran, at least you had a few keepers in amongst that lot. Good effort on the dollies, but the flatties are rather scarce outside - none at all. Very slow for blue spots down this way, and only small ones. It was like this a few years ago, then eventually picked up again.

That is a good catch of fish in a day, and some nice ones amongst them b.n. Plenty of water flowing in the photos. Great work. Did you keep any for a feed, or all released?

Very nice Chris. A mixed bag of fish, and some good crabs to top it off. Have not seen the trags like this before, and we were fishing a location that I have mentioned to you before. Plenty of yakkas there the other night, only 2 slimies which we pulled up, but they provided all the bait we needed. Did not mention that the night we were out, 2 large commercial fishing boats headed to the shallows near the shoreline, south of Shark Island, just after sundown, lit up the side of the boats with bright spotlights and did what they did. Too far away to see. Both headed out again on full darkness as we were heading home. The boats motored from the Botany Bay area.

Entrees and main meals, very nice.

Just a lucky day with so many swimming about. Did not need many so most were sent back. Bag limit for trags is 5 per fisho.

In the right spot at the right time.

Thank you.

Is that Ar**hole Intelligence? Many humans are too lazy to think for themselves, and why society is failing. Buy a new vehicle - lane departure alert, rear traffic alert, radar distance alert, speed warning alert, etc. Just sit there and let the vehicle warn you of everything you should do, but don't. I had better stop now. 😂

Thank you. 40 feet of water.

Thank you Issac, never hooked so many trags in the one session.

A couple feeds each, plus salting the tailor fillets for bait. The largest tailor was thrashing around on the surface when he bit through 20lb. A circle hook does not stand a chance on the larger tailor, it goes straight down the mouth. A couple of the trags were hooked on circles, but the hook was still down the throat.

Thank you, happy with the catch.

Headed out into Bate Bay late yesterday arvo with my mate in his boat to Spot X. About 1.5 metre swell and not much wind. Anchored and dropped over some burley. Pulled up 2 good sized slimies and never saw another one after that. As it was, those 2 slimies were filleted, cut into strip baits and that was all we needed for bait. Drop a strip over, lift it a little bit off the bottom, then jig it or let the rocking boat move the bait. About an hour before sunset, the trags showed up. One or 2, then a little break, then another couple, then quiet again, the last one biting about half an hour after sunset. We pulled up 19 trags, kept what we needed for a couple of feeds each, and released the rest. From 42 to 48 cm long. In between trags there were reef rubbish fish, and the reddie just over the limit. I also pulled up a kingie about the 60cm mark, then a little while later pulled up another one to the side of the boat, this one past size, however, one last run and the hook pulled. After sunset, a couple of tailor showed up, the biggest one at 43cm. We were bitten off by a couple of them probably near the 50cm mark, the problem of using a single hook. The bites slowed near full darkness, so we headed home.

Nice spotties. A small spottie I caught in the Hacking about 20 years ago was one of the best tasting fish I have caught and eaten. Assume those larger ones are still great on the plate.

Does that mean before 5am, dead awake, or just dead dead. 🤣

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