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great stuff mate, good fun to catch!

Thanks @Yowie, useful bit of information.

well done @Yowie another great feed. where you pump nippers, is that accessible land based without a boat?

What a dream trip, some beautiful fish too. Well done and thanks for sharing

Great stuff mate, a fish to remember! Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic boat @zmk1962, great fit outs. Boat technology has come along way and the creature comforts are next level, well done mate. Looking forward to your reports!

Always good to get out to practice the passion and great job on the flatty!

well done mate, and congrats on blooding the new rod!

Now that is a Bass! Cracker session, well done lads!

Feeling older, but not wiser! Hopefully my boy can be a better fisho than me! @big Neil - Did I mention it was windy?! LOL I nearly lost the brag mat and towel into the water. Will need one of those brag mats that lie flat next time. Thanks @Yowie @Obsessed Fisherman @Little_Flatty @big Neil @bessell1955 for the comments, a fun little session!

Thank you @Rebel @zmk1962 - yes it was a great father and son outing, that's my boy in the photo. I was outside the park, near the weir. There were a few young fishos throwing bread and soft plastics looking for carp too. @Little_Flatty - Thank you! It's got easy access and if there's no fish, the macca's is right around the corner!

A quick mission to find some bass on a Sunday afternoon with the young one. 1 rod, 6lb mono, size 10 hook, fresh worms and a window of 1 hour before we needed to get home. Conditions were super windy but within 10 mins we found a small patch of bass. Nothing of size, but fun to hook up. Largest was about 30cm. Landed 6 bass within 40 minutes, lost about 4. We ran out of worms, so called it a day. Hope to see some bigger ones this summer!

70cm flattie on a handline, great stuff!

Thanks @Bluebenbomb, hopefully it's not a fluke!

great catch and congrats on your retirement and new boat!

Thanks @Isaac Ct @Rebel Definitely good fun on light set up @Isaac Ct

@Little_Flatty I don't target much. I was expecting a bream or bass. This is my first flattie on this setup and I'll give it another go to make sure it's not a fluke!

With about an hour to fill in between picking up the kids, I wandered down to the Georges River off the back of Panania. The task for simple, catch a fish from the shore! Rig: Simple pencil float rig with 6lb braid main line 8lb Flurocarbon with a size 12 hook. Bait: Worms from my worm farm. After getting the float to drift properly, got the first down and it was a decent flathead. I forgot the brag mat so couldn't measure, but she was chunky. Drifted again in a shallower spot and got another flattie. Third drift, and the float goes down after 30 seconds. Drag is screammmming on the old 2500 Symetre. Got busted off a short time later. I didn't have a chance... and I lost my favourite pencil float. By that stage, I decided to pack it in so that I don't forget to pick up the kids. Not bad for a 20-30 minute session. Like Arnold says 'I'll bee backk..'

Thanks for replies everyone. Yes, it looks like a silver biddie, thanks @leonardgid. I haven't caught one of those in soooo long, I forgot what they were! @slothparade - I'll have to bring some heavy gear for those sharks! There were dolphins around in the morning too, which at first glance I thought was a shark. @Little_Flatty Congrats to your little one on catching their first fish and always have the rod ready for a flick, enjoy mate. @Bluebenbomb - steak worked just as good as the prawns for the silver biddies and yakkas.

We took a family trip away up at Soldier's Point and of course the rods were packed. Scoped out the local jetty and it was fun for the kids to hook up on yakkas, small bream, snapper and I think herring (is someone able to tell from the blurry photo below? Caught lots of them) It was very windy Saturday night and Sunday morning. Threw out a live yakka under a float it got harassed but didn't get eaten. I brought the yakka in and it had bite marks on the side, suspect it was an over eager tailor. Threw out a yakka fillet under the float, it got taken down but didn't hook up. Bait used: Servo prawns, left over steak, yakkas Kids had fun and I'll come back better prepared next time. Tight lines

Thanks @masterfisho7 @Bluebenbomb @bessell1955 @Pickles for the comments. Pickles, the bass definitely go alright on 6lb mono!

Thanks @Rebel. Beers are always useful at the end of the day!

Thanks @Isaac Ct, fishing with kids is certainly non stop! It goes something like this: Bait, fish, bait, new hook, bait, bait, fish...repeat!

It's good fun @Little_Flatty and hopefully with summer comes the bigger fish too. Now fly fishing for Bass, wouldn't that be something?

Hey Raiders, took my son for a quick look around the Parra River for some Bass. Sure enough, we found a small pocket of them, although not very big. Lots of fun regardless of size. Caught and released 9 bass, lost a few more too. Caught using worms from our worm farm on small sized hook. Left them biting as we had to go to a kids birthday party. Tight lines all!