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    Soft plastics session

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by 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.

     

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    Squid 5-6-17

    in Fishing Reports

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    On ‎9‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 7:45 PM, jenno64 said:

    Great stuff and some good size amongst them.....were they out over the kelp or in inland bays?

    We fished and found them in both.

     

    Cheers

    Squid 5-6-17

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    Posted · Edited by Penguin

    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.

     

     

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    Salted pilchards

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    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

    Botany bay 24/04/17

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    Posted

    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.

     

     

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    Botany Bay

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    Posted

    10 hours ago, Kingabruz said:

    Nice catch mate. Good to see the bay is fishing well.

     I'm pretty sure I witnessed  the snapper and seal show. Gutted for you. 

    I counted 7 seals on the wall and 4 on the drums. Most I've seen in the bay.

     

    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

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