[Great Ocean Road]

Top shots there mate.

What spead did you have the shutter at?

G'day stoney

the shutter speed varied between 30 sec & 2minutes

[Great Ocean Road]

Absolutely fantastic images...what camera/lenes do you have?

G'day Moonset

these shots were taken with a canon 30d & 10-22mm lens.

[Great Ocean Road]

[Great Ocean Road]

g'day raiders

thought i might share some images i captured down in vic on the great ocean road over the last week.

cheers brett

[Some Sunset Pics]

terrific images moonset, love those colours mate

cheers brett

[Lake Mulwala]

Hey bretto, you may want to rephrase that statement,it's partly correct,you pack the camera but whether you put the card in the camera is a different story.

yeah thanks for that dave, it was easier to get a nice fish that day

[Lake Mulwala]

Some great shots there. Fantastic backdrop for landscape photography. And for wetting a line.

What hardware are you using? And how do you keep the boat still long enough to take a pic?

Cheers.

Thanks royboy

at the moment im useing a slr canon 30d. i use my camera on manual eg; the image below was 1/400 sec shutter speed so i had no problem with movement.

[Lake Mulwala]

Love the pictures. Im' trying to get into photography myself as a hobby. Sounds like you had an awesome time with the cod. They are a very beautiful fish. Just love the colours.

thanks glenn, yes it's a terrific hobby or past time mate. i got into photography originally through fishing, snapping our catch some 25 years ago & it grew on me. first thing i pack on a fishing trip is my camera, sometimes getting a nice image is easier than getting a nice fish.

[Lake Mulwala]

awsome pics man the mighty cod

mick

Thanks mick

we got some cod as well, between 2 boats we caught 30 cod with the biggest going 6.5kg or 74cm long

Mate very very nice shots. Looks like you know a thing or two about photography.

thanks for sharing them with us

cheers

b

Thanks b

yes i know a little mate, i checked with admin but im not allowed to post my website unfortunatley.

cheers brett

Top photos of my favourite freshwater haunt. Nice work mate

Hodgey

It's the first time ive been down there Hodgey, it's fantastic for fishing & photography, i will be going back.

G'day Searabbit, beaut pics mate, lovely colours and contrasts,looks like an eerie place, a liquid desert..

Cheers...

G'day Ray

that dead timber makes for eerie images your right mate. i would have like some mist over the lake in the early morning, but the weather was just too good, im going back in july to target some mist (& cod of course)

cheers brett

[Lake Mulwala]

Here's a few pics from my trip down to Mulwala last week.

[Pirtek Fishing Challenge!]

myself & kiwi waynie hit windemere dam, waynie got a 42cm yella on his 2nd cast, before the southerly hit & the barometer plumeted. fished on switching lures all day for a few follows & half hearted hits, i think we were lucky to get that early fish.

[5/4/9 Brooklyn Not A Bite]

hey searabbit. Im heading out from Broklyn tomorrow morning, hoping to catch my first legal jew. Also thinking bout going into the pittwater maybe some kingys about. Have you got any sugestions where i might find a good jew spot?? Going out in a big boat so would love to up stage the boys and take them to the fish!! Going to try catch freah bait before hand so hope that helps to. As i said any help you could give me would be good.

Thanks Em

pm sent

[5/4/9 Brooklyn Not A Bite]

G'day bolts

i reckon it was your bait mate, dont worry about how dirty the water is as jewies love it like that. try to use the freshest squid possible or as you were trying to do, a fresh yakka fillet. also i find the run out tide to be more productive for school jew at least. we caught 7 jewies last wed boat based but if you can get to the deep hole at the rail bridge on the southern side & use fresh bait u will get a jew sooner or later. im heading out for a short session tomorrow because of all the rain weve just had.

Hi Raiders,

Sunday afternoon (4:00pm) I hit Brooklyn (landbased) just downriver from the Railway bridges. Plan was to hit the Marina area and pick up some livies then target Jewfish during the first part of the runout.

That's where the plan came stuck. I berleyed hard with bread only to see picker bream around and no yakkas anywhere to be seen.

So with crappy frozen squid and frozen Hawkesbury prawns I hit the rocks just on the corner as you head towards the railway bridges. High tide was around 5:00pm and I had the squid and prawns out for the next 2 hours with zero bites.

Do you guys think that maybe there was too much fresh in the sytem yesterday and that's why the fish weren't biting or was it the bait that I was using or is there something else that I'm missing. Apart from that it seemed ideal conditions with the turn of the tide right on dusk and fishing a choke point in the river around a red marker.

Back to the drawing board in trying to land my first Jew.

Cheers

[Bobbin Head Monster]

I had a jumper similar to yours that my 75 year old father gave me for xmas years ago, my misses called it fugley (****** ugly)

Good flatty mate, when u bring a flatty up try not to lift his head out of the water till u get him in the net and u wont get the risk of him sawing through your leader. also congrats on your first jewie, dont worry about the size mate a jewies a jewie eh.

cheers brett

[South West Rocks]

G'day Raiders

report from swr from last week goes 2 marlin 20kg & 30kg, 12kg cobia, few small dollies at the fad, hammerhead shark plague, we landed 5 and got bitten off numerous times plus we hooked a northern bluefin that got eaten by sharks, oh yeah also hooked a mako off the gail that jumped 12 foot in the air before escaping.

This was between 3 boats so the fish were few and far between and a coupla long days on the water.

water temp ranged between 26 degrees at the gail to 19.6 degrees at fish rock.

cheers brett

[South West Rocks Photos]

good stuff Peter

A few of these images would look good as monochromes as well mate,

cheers brett

[South West Rocks]

How long you going up searabbit.

G'day osprey525

this weekend 6th to 9th

[South West Rocks]

Hey Bretto,

stop looking at seabreeze because the more look at it the worse the weather will turn, and our weekend there full of high hopes will be down the tube.Just keep positive, flat bar, slight breeze,and a few mates taking there boats up for some hot action.

Dave

Cant help it dave, u know how i love that bar.

[South West Rocks]

Thanks very much for your reports kero, roberta & excalibre. im heading up on friday & now im excited with the good reports you have given me, also just checked seabreeze and it doesnt look too bad, just mid strength nor-easters, hope there right.

cheers brett

[Swr - Part 2]

G'day Stumpy

Mate ive had quite a few hairy moments on the Macleay river bar and no matter how many times i cross it im allways nervous, and a few times i have turned around and not went out. The fishing at swr is sensational and because of this a lot of boaties risk the crossing when maybe they shouldnt. A local once told me you should move up here than you just go out when its safe. If there was a printing company in swr i would move there in a flash, i think i will have to wait till retirement.

Sounds like your crew were lucky to have you skippering as you didnt panic and kept the boat going straight into the wave, dont worry about any damage to your boat mate, you got your precious crew home safley and thats all that matters.

Im heading up there in a coupla weeks and im praying the bars calm. Last year i went up with Kiwi Waynie and it was the worst ive seen it, but we managed to get out every day with a lot of caution, if its that bad this year i wont be going out. Anyway im glad you got through your bad experiance to fish another day.

Cheers Brett

[Fishign South West Rocks]

G'day F1sh3rm4n

Ah this takes me back mate, my 1st trip with some mates to swr was in 91. & like u we couldnt get accomadation around xmas time so we camped at smokey cape beach for $5 to the ranger. We fished at Hat Head and my mate hooked a monster Jew only to lose it just before gaffing when hes small keeper hook straighted out (lesson learnt). Anyway we had a great trip and caught more fish in the river out of my tinnie than we were use to catching & i was hooked. So every year for the last 17 ive been going back, sometimes 3 & 4 times a year, i own a seaworthy boat now and chase marlin, cobes etc & every year i go there seems to be yet another memorable catch.

Thats a great shovelnose capture & thanks for letting me relive some great times through your post.

Next time u go try the breakwall in the mackleay river for Flathead, Bream, Jewfish, Moses Perch, Stingrays, Whiting, Estuary Cod, Tailor, Sharks, Cobia.

Cheers Brett

[South West Rocks]

Thanks for he replies guys, im headin up in a coupla weeks so hopefully it improves.

sml blacks just at coffs sounds good.

cheers brett

[South West Rocks]

G'day Raiders

has anybody been to south west rocks in the last few weeks or heard any reports ? any cobes, marlin, dollies or wahoo about up there at the moment ?

cheers brett

[Wisemans Ferry And Surrounds]

top shots Nick, too bad u didnt get a fish, that first one looked familar, is that mangrove creek just before you head up the hill.

its a great spot, my father & sister own a caravan each at charlies place on mangrove creek. plenty of been had while trying to catch a fish over the years.

[Tongariro Arvo Off]

Absolutely magic shots, Searabbit!! So glad you got into some trout! 22 is amazing! Must be bloody cold there just now - we are having horrible weather here & it feels like the middle of winter again!!!!

With shots like that, you should be able to sell quite a few!

Hard to believe the mountain was blowing its top not that long ago!!

Where is Whalan??

Roberta

whalan is near mt.druitt, i should also add we released 16 of the 22 & also drop another 12 fish, it was my first time to the north island and very happy with our results.