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15 hours ago, Restyle said:
If you didn’t take all the fish this wouldn’t be a issue. Sharings caring. Anyway, The squid are generally all bait size with a mix of arrows and calis. Get the odd decent Cali which I do sometimes eat. I havnt grown big enough balls yet to take the kayak along oceanic reefs yet for the bigger calls
Transplant these.
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Something to take home rather than nothing - a good feed of fillets from those 3.
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2 hours ago, Restyle said:
seeing i havnt posted a report as of late, i thought i post the pretty fishless day today was. after spending a day re wiring & giving the kayak abit of maintenance i went out this morning into the hacking around yowies haunts in lilli pilli at 5.30am and caught basically nothing. Clearly yowies taken them all and eaten them. theres the usual baby snapper and i caught what looked like a cooked mud crab but was still alive. Absolutely no bait around & almost lifeless. great weather though. not too hot or cold & no wind.
Over the past few weeks theres been plenty of squid on the inshore areas like dolans, lilli pilli and yowie, averaging 7-9 squid a session at the moment so thats a positive
That's not good.
If you keep a few of those squid for the table, there's a feed or 2 there.
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2 hours ago, zmk1962 said:
Well 🤔 it appears you guessed wrong - coz you were one that referred to me as @zoran 🤪 ... but you are correct - I don't worry about many things - especially comparing fish by quantity ... when it's QUALITY that really counts.
Have you got better yet ... or are you dragging your feet again??
Cheers Zoran
Well, let's see, photos prove something, rather than no photos at all.
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Same as Zoran, catch the occasional one drifting off shore for flatties.
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On 3/7/2024 at 12:38 PM, Pickles said:
Nice work Dave- nice mixed bag
Thanks Bob. a couple of feeds in there.
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2 hours ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
Perhaps I can clear this up a little.
When the @ symbol is applied before a members display name a list will start to appear.
When you see the members CORRECT name you can select it and THAT MEMBER will be notified. If you select any other that member will be notified.
The @ symbol is not a quote it is a search for a specific member in the database.
Thank you Donna. I guessed that from trial and error. It will help others, and alleviate Zoran's concerns (not that he worries about too much, except me catching more fish than him)
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Very nice Chris. It certainly is a great size samson for Sydney. Even the small ones put up a fight.
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One flattie for your troubles.
Sea mullet, not usually taken on a hook. Small flies sometimes work.
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Nice jewie there Bob. Sounds like the fish are about.
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2 hours ago, zmk1962 said:
Just thought it may simplify things .... several folks lately have referenced me as @Zoran in their posts ....
Zoran, also @Zoran, Zoran the Fisherman, etc etc. That is how your name pops up at times when others quote you.
I can tell you, there is only one Zoran here. 🤣
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2 hours ago, zmk1962 said:
Tasty catch again Dave ... congrats ... hope everything goes well today. Cheers Z
Cheers
the real "Zoran"
Yes, looked good, 2 more skin cancers cut out. No swimming or beach for 2 weeks.
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3 hours ago, Robbo from Sydney said:
Yet another good feed Yowie. You must live on fish with all you catch!!
A couple of meals a week. Most of my family are not big fish eaters, so they wince a little when I mention "going fishing." 😂
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1 hour ago, Larkin said:
Nice mix of fish Dave!
Shame about loosing the tailor.
Plenty of standard Bonnie’s outside. Other than seeing a couple of watsons scoot by gunnamatta wharf a few weeks back, haven’t seen or read many reports of them around in the numbers like they were last year.
A couple of feeds. Felt like a decent tailor, although only on for a very short time.
Should be bonnies up river - have not yet seen even a frigate.
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15 hours ago, Little_Flatty said:
Nice stuff Dave.
I think this might've been the first time I've observed you using plastics. But maybe I haven't been paying attention! 🤣
Nice couple of feeds.
I have used plastics before, but not very often. Zoran has threatened me before with his plastic bonito, however, I keep my distance when he mentions it. 🤣
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51 minutes ago, Isaac Ct said:
Well done Yowie, a good feed there. Seems like the lack of surface action wasn’t a once of, wierd there wasn’t much around early this morning. Good job with the jewie
Thanks Issac. Thought the jewie was close to size, until I pulled it out and onto the measure mat.
Pillies jumping, but nothing else near me. One rat kingie swimming around the boat at times, but nothing else.
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4 hours ago, jenno64 said:
Nice feed Dave!
The sight of the flatty taking the pilly would have been good see and very nice fillets from that sized fish! I headed out yesterday arvo for a quick whiting bash and got 4 up to 35cm up river. Gunnamatta was covered in weed and Maiainbar didn't have enough water on it.
Thanks Rob, a couple of feeds there. 4 whiting would be a good meal.
I have seen flatties do it before, though not very often. The pillie was some distance from the boat, bouncing along the bottom, so as I retrieved it, it probably attracted the attention of the flattie and it took off to see what was happening. Many people think flatties just sit on the bottom and suck in anything that swims past it's nose, that is not the case.
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Headed out early this morning, up past Lilli Pilli.
Various baits, all attacked by small reddies, though 2 were just over the limit, and the bream as the first fish caught. Also a just over size flounder, too small to keep, and a jewie at 65cm. Nothing on the surface apart from pillies. There should be bonnies and frigates at this time of year, none to be seen anywhere.
No yakkas to be caught. I hooked a solid fish, bit of weight to it then the hooks chewed off almost straight away. I'm guessing a good sized tailor.
As I was heading home on the run out tide, I decided to have a fish on the drift, sitting just off the sand bank near the ballast heap. A soft plastic prawn thrown over the bank, and an unweighted pillie on ganged hooks out in the channel. After a while the smaller flattie grabbed the plastic, but that was the only hit. Spooked 2 other small flatties as I was drifting along, and they swam off.
Decided that was enough, so I wound in the pillie at a bit of speed. When it was near the boat and just under the surface, a brown rocket followed the pillie at speed. It was the larger flattie, it was way off the bottom and obviously hungry. I slowed speed and the flattie slowed speed, and swam around the pillie a couple of times. I jigged the pillie and the flattie swam up to it and away from it, mouth opening and closing a few times. I jigged the pillie right past the flattie's mouth, the mouth opened and the pillie disappeared in one gulp, like being sucked up in a vacuum, the pillie was just inhaled. Interesting to watch the flattie's reaction to the bait.
A bit of a fight by the flattie. When I hauled it up, the 3 ganged hooks holding the pillie were sticking in various parts of the flattie's mouth and not coming out easily, so I decided to keep it, otherwise it would have been released. Headed home after that.
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46 minutes ago, zmk1962 said:
Excellent result Bob. But I must admit with that many squid I’d be tempted to pack up and take that home as the day’s “bag” … delish
cheers Zoran
I'd be keeping half for the plate, Zoran and Bob. Bugger giving them all to the kingies.
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11 hours ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
@Steve0 I have added the NEWSCAST March 2024 into Fisheries News and Politics section this afternoon.
The link provided is not correct. Use this one if you want to have a say.
Thank you Donna. I have had my say.
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Good work again on the thong lure.
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Nice work, good tuition by Derek (especially the boomerang throwing)
Plenty of species. Be very cautious of long toms. As you saw, they can twist their head around to nearly the tail, and if those teeth grab hold, they will not let go.
The blue crab you caught is a soldier crab, do not grow very large, and are good bait as well as nippers, though I would be sticking with the nippers.
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Nice feed there, entree and main feed of fillets. This time of year a few larger tailor will turn up.
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Same for flatties caught off Sydney. The little eels are half decomposed by the time they are spat out, so a bit hard to I.D.
Lower Hawkesbury - long hard day at the office.
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Does that mean before 5am, dead awake, or just dead dead. 🤣