Penguin

Hi everyone, My two sons have been going on a few soft plastic fishing sessions on their own of late with some good results at times. So last Saturday when my oldest was at the movies with his mates, my 14yr old wanted to go fishing. We had about an hour and a half before sundown so we decided to go out and throw a few plastics around. Now I'm a newbie when it comes to sp's so I was taking advise from my young bloke. We ended up with 5 legal Flatties before darkness set it. The best of them went just shy of 80cm and put up a great fight in shallow water. We released the 3 larger fish and kept the 2 others. I think I like this form of fishing and have to do it again.

Good fish there, and more importantly the kids look pleased. Cheers

Looks tasty.

That's a nice fish, congrats.

Good feed right there. Cheers

Nice fish.

Nice work there converting yakkas into Kings. Cheers

We fished and found them in both. Cheers

3.0 and 3.5 size

On Monday my son and I plus 3 more blokes set out of port Hacking in search of squid. We fished both in and out of the Hacking. We started at 7am and finished around 1pm. We found squid just about everywhere we tried. Landing a total of around 60 squid. We released the majority of them and took home around 20 odd between 5 of us. At one stage we had young kingies swimming around the boat when we were releasing squid. Most of the squid were too big for the Kings to eat so they just swam around looking at them. We baited a couple of squid heads and threw them out. This resulted in two hook ups. One undersize King was landed by one of the guys, and the other busted my son off on his squiding outfit. Here's a few pics.

Great jewy there Donna, a nice one for your first. Cheers

Great result there and nice eating as well I'm sure. Cheers

Good fun by the looks and took home a feed as well, nice. Cheers

Nice Jewy, well done there. Cheers

Well done mate. My boys and I are hooked on squid fishing and eating. Cheers

I have never had much luck with salted pilchards over the years. IQF pillies seem to work the best for me and are a little more tougher than thawed block pillies. I used IQF for bait and frozen block pillies for berley. Cheers

Great catch, I'd be happy with that. Cheers

Great bag of tasty fish there. Cheers

Looks like a Cotton mouth trevally. https://goo.gl/images/A5riyo

Great read, thanks for sharing all that info. Cheers

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Cheers

Hi everyone, My boys and I went out for another fish in the bay on Monday. Our first stop was at the yakka grounds at the end of the breakwall to gather some livies. There were a few small bust ups there and yakkas were hard to come by. I threw an un-weighted pillie tail into one of the bust ups and was on. After a short fight that ended up going around my anchor rope, I pulled in a 67cm King. Straight after this a couple of seals turned up and the bust ups stopped. We decided to head over to the oil wharf and soak some baits. We managed to catch some small trevs and small snapper, and a couple of nice flatties here. As the tide turned we pulled up anchor and re positioned ourselves to the other side of the wharf. After putting the berley pot in the water we hooked 3 bream, two were throw backs and the other went 30cm, another nice flattie also came aboard. After this the trevs moved in and we caught lots of legal ones and turfed a heap back. We got bored of trevs, so a move was made to Molli pt. More trevs were on offer here as well and frankly we were sick of catching the same thing over and over. Luckily for us as the sun started to lower on the horizon, some nice size tailor moved in and the trevs left. We had to change our rigs to gang hooks and whole pillies as we were getting bitten off prior to doing this. On a few occasions when a tailor was bought jumping to the boat some big grey shape would appear below it. No idea what it was but it happened on a few occasions. At one stage I got out my heavy rod with stella 20sw, I tied on an 80lb leader and a large hook, then placed 3 pilchards hooked through the eyes and floated them out. About 10 seconds later I was on to something very heavy and going like a steam train. I had him on for about 5 seconds and then I was bitten clean off. I re-rigged and this time put a 40cm live tailor on the hook. He swam straight down and then he came up toward the surface where the rod buckled over and I had another strong but short run. This time I was bitten off as I was lifting the rod out of the rod holder. Again no idea what it was, maybe a shark. Anyway we probably caught around 20 or so tailor and let most go. They seemed to bite like crazy then go quiet for 5 mins, then bite like crazy again. This went on like this for awhile. We then left them on the chew as we went home. We had a sizeable bag of fish and let a lot more free throughout the day. Our bag was shared amongst our family and some senior citizens from the home next door that always ask me for fish when I'm going out. Here's a few pics.

Great conditions there Scratchie. Great feed of fish to, well done. Cheers

I'd say he is.

Hungry buggers they are. I only wish the seal had taken one of my undersize fish we threw back not a keeper. He sure timed it well. Cheers