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Hi, I caught a king fish on a size 2.5 natural colour jig while jigging it aggressively in deep water with start pause method. I think I've found a new method for kingfish jigging. It was more fun than pulling in those lazy squid. pongrass18ft

Just curious....the people getting plagued in Catfish numbers are you fishing directly on the bottom? My last trip I was fishing 1 to 1.5m off the bottom and managed to keep the catfish at bay scoring two jewies on whole squid. Hope this helps. pongrass18ft

Congratulations on your catch, good looking size bream. pongrass18ft

Hi bigfella86, Welcome to fishraider . The railbridge in the Hawkesbury River is a top fishing spot to try. One tip with the hawkesbury river if the catfish are in numbers use paternoster style rigs. Keeping your bait off the bottom keeps the catfish numbers down to a minimal. Good luck pongrass18ft

Cracking looking fish. Only ever done a little bit of black fishing but they surely give a good fight on light gear. pongrass18ft

Congratulations on your first jew, the bug only gets worse from here on. Hope to see many more photo's over the coming months pongrass18ft

What a lovely way to end the day. Enter the snapper for fish of the month. Good luck! pongrass18ft

Great catch guys. Conditions out there looked great. Smoked tailor mmmm Chris

Squid are all through the Port Hacking. Concentrate in areas like Gymea Bay, Burraneer Bay right up the end of the bay, Southwest Arm as you are heading in up to the first right hand bend along that side or Port Hacking Heads, Southwest Corner of Jibben Bombora right side of the heads or the Northern side of Shark Island a couple of km's left of the heads. Hope this gives you a start. There are lots more spots which you will find as you are moving around. Good Luck Chris

Hi Scotty, He's showing all the signs of becoming a good fisherman. He's always pulling me into the garage to play with the rods and reels and wanting me to put him in the boat. See you on the water. Regards Chris

No I haven't ever tried that way but next time I get a catch of leatherjacket will give it a try. I usually cut off their heads and skin them before frying. Thanks for the tips, always knew their leathery skin was good for something . Chris

Thanks George, I'm learning from the best (MY DAD). I've now done bream fishing, snapper and trevaley fishing and can't wait to get out on the boat but I'm still a bit too young Kieran

Hi Peter, Nannygai are a delicious eating fish but aren't easy caught these days of size. We fished the Humps 220ft on the drift to 200ft and kept going over the same drift for Snapper which was near a fish trap (less problems this way with leatherjacket). We then headed another 10km down the coast to a reef at 150ft, anchored up and caught the leatherjackets and a Pike 54cm (biggest I've ever seen). We were very lucky as we lost no rigs to the jackets, rigs were made out of heavy duty stainless wire and we were using thin braid main line (they weren't in plague proportions that day). By the way, I enjoy reading your reports you post with Sid. Was speaking to Sid one day while I was doing some work at his neighbour's across from him and he mentioned you guys would be going to Brown's. Have you done that trip yet? If so, did you have any luck? Chris

Hi Citypainter, I love eating the Gemfish too, very tasty. We get our families together and enjoy a really nice fish dinner. I find they are more tastier than the Blue Eye Cod. I'm with you on the bag limit because when you let them go they are dead anyway. Yesterday people were gaffing them off the surface on their way home from Trolling.....we all had a chuckle as we were doing the drops. Good luck next time you go fishing and hopefully see you out there. Chris

Hi Jeff, Thanks. We were really happy with the Snapper as my mate has never caught legal Snapper (over the moon). I love leather jackets so I was happy with those for a feed. Yeah the nannygai was small (23cm). I would have loved to have used him for livebait for a kingie but he had no life left in him. I did catch some lovely nannygai a month ago fishing the Kink area and they were over 30cm each and very tasty. I find the bigger nannygai are in the 200m zone not in close like the Humps. Regards Chris

Late start today, hitting the water at 9:00am. Went for a trawl along the Shelf for fat zero's, saw plenty of bait about and weather was perfect so headed out to Browns after lunch. We managed six large Gemfish caught with slimy Mackerel which I had caught from Sunday's trip. Gemfish were easily caught as the place is thick with them at the moment. Continued trawling with no success but we were still rapped as we all got a feed and enjoyed a perfect day on the water. Chris

Congratulations Tats and Tommy on your catch. Well done. I'm sure you'll enjoy eating it mmmm....yummy. Was it caught on a squid jig or bait? Chris

Hi Mindripper, Lovely catch for the Georges River. I haven't caught Salmon that far up the river before. Well done. Next time you go down to Lambeth Park in the day use blood worms off the walkway near the red channel marker and you will catch all species of fish as it is deep water there. Even Jewfish can be caught there in the day using worms. Let me know how you go. GOOD LUCK!!! Chris (Pongrass18ft)

Hi Dhype, You're right they do stink but no I wasn't wearing gloves, even my mate said they stink but at the time I didn't care I was happy to see one that size, it had teeth on it like a piranha. Chris

Went to the humps with a mate today to try our luck on Snapper. Considering it was only our second time down that way we did ok. Caught five respectable Snapper (34cm-37cm) and lost a good one due to line failure, but as they say "you learn from your mistakes". Also caught a Yellowfin Pike 54cm on bait, it actually look like a small jewfish (from what I can see I think I may hold fishraider record for this species??). Heaps of leatherjackets down that way, kept a few to eat as they're very tasty. Plenty of good size Slimy Mackerel on the bite, which I will be using at Brown's Mountain on Tuesday. Hope other raiders had some luck over the weekend. Attached are some photo's of my catch Chris

Hi Andrew, Excellent feed of gem fish. I had a similar day to yours a few weeks ago except while pulling up my gem fish I had a massive squid eating the neck off my gem fish, I was amazed to see this and the size of it. Tried catching the squid on a jig but all he wanted was the gem fish. We also cubed for hours with no luck too. Let's hope our next trips are more productive with those arm stretching yellowfin. Chris (Pongrass18ft)

Hi Alphabet, I've had days like that. Next time take some livies with you as it can be a total turn around. Good to see the fish are there anyway. Good luck next trip. Pongrass18ft

Hi Fishraiders Took my son out for his first fish today. Went down to Wanda Beach to check out the conditions. Talking to a guy there he said to me "you're wasting you're time as it's too windy". I thought, we're here so may as well give it a try. Armed with pilchards we set off down to the beach for my son's first lesson. Fished from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and we did ok considering the conditions. Ended up catching one Trevalley and one Salmon. Just to see the look on my son's face as I was pulling up the fish was enough for me and the best thing of all is that he gets to eat his own catch as he loves fresh fish. Mission accomplished Sorry about the quality of the photo. Just started posting on fishraider so photo's will improve. Pongrass18ft

Hi Fishraiders Took my son out for his first fish today. Went down to Wanda Beach to check out the conditions. Talking to a guy there he said to me "you're wasting you're time as it's too windy". I thought, we're here so may as well give it a try. Armed with pilchards we set off down to the beach for my son's first lesson. Fished from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and we did ok considering the conditions. Ended up catching one Trevalley and one Salmon. Just to see the look on my son's face as I was pulling up the fish was enough for me and the best thing of all is that he gets to eat his own catch as he loves fresh fish. Mission accomplished Unable to work out how to upload photo to post. Help needed Pongrass18ft