Penguin

Good advise right there.

In and around yarra bay mate. Thanks for all the kind words everyone.

Spot on. That's correct.

Sounds like you had an eventful day, although frustrating at the same time. cheers

If the yellow jacket and big smile qualify I'll put it in. cheers

Sure does Stewy

Hi everyone, I fished Botany bay with my two sons and a mate of mine last weekend. We set out early morn looking for yakkas at a couple of spots that usually hold them. All we could tease up were baby sweep . Tried a couple of spots for some live squid and ended up with 4 pretty quickly. We noticed that there were bream swimming around our boat at this stage, so we changed over to some baited hooks using peeled prawns, pillie cubes and chicken breast rolled in parmesan cheese. We spent the next few hours catching bream, snapper the odd flatty and tarwhine. There were lots of undersize throwback fish mixed in with the legal fish which kept us busy. When we had enough to feed everyone we decided to pull up stumps and go downrig our squid at the usual kingy haunts. As I was retrieving one of the rods that we had left unattended, I noticed a good weight on it and some head shakes. Then this fish started taking some drag, but was subdued fairly easily. Up came a 70cm Flatty. After the half dozen little ones we returned to the sea, this one was a welcome sight. We downrigged for a couple of hours along the Botany southern headland and all the usual shipping markers in the bay but nothing took a liking to our squid, so they came home with us and ended up in the pan that night with a few fish. The rest of our catch was devided up and eaten the following day by our families. Here's a few pics.

Kingies love cubes on some days, they will pass up all other baits for a pillie cube or peeled prawn free floated down a berley trail. cheers

Nicely done fellas, they are good eating fish. cheers

Great Sambo there

Nicely done on the squid. I love catching and eating them. cheers

They were relentless Donna. I don't think they would have taken no for an answer that day.

Hi everyone, I was sitting at home with my two sons Saturday morning not doing much. At around midday they started pestering me to take them fishing. I caved in and we loaded our gear in car and headed to the local bait shop for some pillies and prawns. We got onto the water at around 2ish and set off for an old spot in the harbour. It was pretty quiet at first with not much happening except undersize snapper picking at our baits. We shifted the boat 30 metres this way and a short time later 30 metres in another direction as the current and wind kept blowing us off our spot. After some furious berleying we started to get some action happening. A bonnie that I was pulling up to the boat was followed by a nice king. I kept the Bonnie in the water at the end of my line to keep the kings interested as now we had two swimming at the back of the boat. The funny thing was they were not interested in any of our offerings except the balls of mashed up bread that we tossed on. After a while the kings seemed to vanish, and our berley attracted a school of garfish. We caught a handful of these along with about a dozen yakkas that we put in the live well. We had a live yakka out for our entire session and it never got touched. We also had live garfish out, and every now and again the rod with the gar would bend and the reel would scream for a few seconds. We some how kept failing to set the hook and our gars would get stolen. Occasionally the kings would return and hit the gars at the back of the boat. Then the Tailor would turn up and hit the gars and leave some of them chopped in half. Then we noticed the kings coming up and taking the half gars. At this point we started to put half pilchards on our hooks and sent them down the berley trail, this worked a treat as we now started to catch a few 42-50cm Tailor and half a doz 63-65 kings. Nothing big but a lot of fun for myself and my boys. I also had another rod out with some whole squid that I had caught a couple of weeks earlier and frozen. Four of these squid resulted in 3 legal kings 66-68cm. One of my boys who was fishing with peeled prawns and a sinker also caught a legal Snapper,a legal Tarwhine and a trio of dusky flatties that were a cm or two undersize. They went back in the drink along with the undersize kings. It was a fun few hours on the harbour with my boys and sure beats sitting at home on the couch watching tv. Heres a few pics.

Good to see you got a few good ones there. cheers

What a great read and a great fish to end off with. Congrats all around.

I know that bloke well, sent me that pic last week, a very nice Dolly.

Well done great result there. cheers

Nice catch there. Plenty of dinners and bait to come. cheers

Good team work under difficult situation, well done. cheers

Very well done

Your killing it on the fishing front Basil. Good on you. Cheers

Nice few feeds there Baz. I'm sure you all enjoyed. cheers

Well done, that's a beauty of a King. cheers

Thanks for sharing your video, it was good watching the action. cheers

Nice eating fish, well done