crusher87

Looks like good water might push down.

Has anyone fished Jervis bay recently? It looks like the current is running hard at the moment.

Hi Raiders, What are some the worst boating experiences you've had? Eg size of boat compared to swell wind, bar crossings, launches. I've tried a beach launch at Elizabeth beach near Forster and had waves crash in the back and the boat half full of water with 100 or so people watching/laughing. Very embarrassing at the time!

Went out wide yesterday past the fad to the shelf and trolled north to almark reef. Didn't get one strike all day apart from a few stripies and dollies. The current was running too hard to hold any fish out wide. Today we went to the gibber but the water was only 20.4 then we went east to the 70 fathom line and tried trolling slimies and skip baits but didn't get any marlin. Picked up more stripies and dollies and the water was around 21.5-22. Was anyone else out? Any reports from the carpark?

It's never "fine" to go fishing!

I've heard that mac tuna are gun bait for big kingies that's why I assumed bonito wouldn't be too bad. The only problem is that you need tuna tubes to keep them for any length of time. I'm going to troll small metals around the cliffs and once I get a small tailor, bonito or salmon it's going straight in. We will be using 24kg gear so I hope it's enough!

Has anyone used live bonito as kingfish bait? we are heading to jervis bay after some big kings and thought I might try one. we will be using squid, yakkas, slimies etc

Hi Raiders, I might be heading up to Coffs this thursday for a couple of days fishing for kingies and will try trolling out wider if the weather is good. Water looks good, 23.5 degrees 20km out and there were a few blue and black marlin tagged, possibly a NSW record for a wahoo and dollies caught so its not looking too bad. Has anyone got any advice on what the Coffs canyons are like and if the fishing will be affected by the rain thats expected over the next few days? Thanks guys

That sux. Do you guys think chlorophyl has any effect on fishing?

Hi guys, I've just signed up to a website that gives me sea temperature, currents, topography, altimetry and chlorophyll levels. Just wondering if anyone uses any of these indicators to better their fishing? Or if they can give me a better understanding of how they affect fishing? From what I have read, chlorophyll is a good indicator of phytoplankton and phytoplankton are eaten by slightly larger herbivores called zooplankton, and zooplankton are eaten by krill and some small fish which in turn attract big fish. However high concentrations of chlorophyll suggest dirty water, and from my experience it seems that the fishing is generally poor when the water is murky. Seems to somewhat contradict itself if these assumptions are correct. Altimetry shows sea surface height, or upwellings and downwellings of cool and warm water respectively. Apparently fishing is best between the transition of the two because the upwelling is bringing the nutrient rich water to the surface. Plankton feed on the nutrients which and bait fish feed on plankton etc.. Let me know your thoughts. Crusher

Just wondering if anyone has been out to allmark off port Stephens lately? I heard some guys getting a few kings around 5 to 10kgs 3 weeks ago. They also said they got barracuda but I thought they were a lot further north?? Crusher

Hi Raiders, I'm going to Vanuatu on the 1st of August to do some fishing for about a week. I've got a boat booked for the first 4 days but was keen to get out with my own gear. Just wondering if anyone has been kayak fishing around Efate island and if so how did it go? Cheers

Hi there, Just wondering if anyone knows the best island to go fishing at in Vanuatu? Or if anyone can recommend a charter to use? We are planning on going for a week in August and will be fishing most of the time.

Hi All, Myself and a few mates are going up to cairns in July for a few days then are looking to do about 5 days fishing somewhere up there. We were thinking of going out to swains reef off Gladstone on a charter for a few days or if anyone has any other suggestions I would be keen to hear them?? We have mates on cattle stations in the cape but we won't have the gear to get to the coastline unfortunately as you need four wheelers and plenty camping equipment. Cheers, Crusher

Thanks for all the advice fellas. It's much appreciated! Hopefully get onto something out there. I will let you know how we go.

The myall river has been too dirty lately so we went to bennetts beach and caught 4 decent tailor, 14 thumping bream on yabbies in close and stacks of dart/sweep. I have the pictures on iPhone but can't paste them in.

Going out tomorrow Friday sat and sun so I will hopefully have something good to report. Seems like its very hit and miss out there at the moment, according to guys around port, al mglashan, fishraider etc Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how we should fish and/where we should head? Prob going to try and find a solid temp change somewhere before putting any lures out. I heard the water is still green 15 mile out but apparently there isn't much out wide. We are going in inter club in a few weeks so wouldn't mind a few marlin under our belts between now and then. Any thoughts/reports?

Where is the photo? I think you are lying

Makes me sick!!!

Thanks for the info guys. We have a full week of fishing up there so we will cover some ground. Good to hear there is some activity at the moment. Will hopefully be posting some good pictures! Thanks again

Hi, We are going to port for a week on the 10th of November for a week and I was wondering what the water temp would be like at that time. We have a 45 ft cruiser so we can go fairly wide. Will probably be out 50 to 100km trolling and will also be jigging for kingies in closer. Any insight would be much appreciated. Russell

Hi just wondering if anyone knew any tricks to catching slimies? The other weekend we were at the bait grounds off Forster and we were using a bait jig with small bits of pilchard on it and could only get yakkas. We saw this other boat jigging something and getting heaps. Does anyone know what they would have been using? Going up to port Stephens soon and would love to know how to catch them by then. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks

Went out this morning at 5am and got about 10 yakkas. We then trolled along the cliffs at south head with hard bodies and a skirts. Nothing.... Went back in to the harbour and tried live baiting for an hour but got nothing. Trolled around middle head with some small minnows for tailor or bonitos. Still nothing. Threw some plastics around for flat head and guess what. nothing! There were hardly any schools busting up and the water was still dirty. Effing shit day all round