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I agree, Bova Compounding at Caringbah for the ET pills, they do work with the worst of motion sickness victims......beware they are Blue in colour so don't get them confused with other blue tablets........but then again, if you do, at least you won't fall overboard whilst having a chunder
hahahahahaha. You funny %%%%%.
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Mate !
The lake itself is a great spot to get a feed itself. Like you said Flatties. Bream, There has been guit a few jew been caught inside the lake itself over the last few months. Great spot for Blue Swimmers. withches hat pots anywhere on the edges of the channel will produce crabs.
I know the entrance to the lake is now a permanent opening but i dont know if i would take a boat out there. I have heard of boats using this entrance to go outside since the new entrance has been made. If i were to do it, i would pick a mid tide to head out out and only head back in on the top of the tide preferably a bit after it starts to run back in. Put it this way. This entrance ( Actually in the new channel entrance to the lake ) on the right conditions is some of the best surf in the area. sshhhh. Ive surfed it at 4-5ft plus in the entrance.
The upside is you can drive 5 mins south and launch from shell harbour. Great spot. Fish it heaps. Lately ive been catching plenty of squid around the quarry loader off bass point. Plenty of flatties, Go out to in line with the end of bass point straight out off the harbour in 35-60 m of water and you will get flatties all day.
Head north from bass point to windang island. Straight out off lake illawarra. If you get yourself just north of windang island, Pretty much in line with windang surf club, in about 32 m of water there is plenty of patchy reef. if you can pick some reef and fish up on your sounder anchor and berly for snapper. Caught plenty here. If you dont have the best sounder just drift until you pick up a pinky or some other reefy fish, then anchor and berly. You will find them this way, i did this before i got my new sounder and gps.
And then you have kingies at the islands off port kambla just to the north of lake illawarra. Let me know if you want to chase kings from port kembla and i will tell you a bit about that too.
Dave
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I use this exact same setup. Tanacom bull with 80lb braid. I got a 15kg Blue eye on the june long weekend. So seems to do fine for me. I Dont fish browns though. Im fishing Between 380 and 450 meters so line capacity is fine. When you hook up dont put the motor up to full speed, Go to about half way and just take your time ( or should i say sit back and have a coffee or three. )
Dave
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Can anyone give me some Advice where i might find co-ordinates for Shellharbour Canyons.
Dave
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Look through some of these older reports. About 1-2 months ago there were some reports of good number of jews been caught at the bridge at windang on plastics. Not tried it but if this is the case i cant see why you couldnt get a decent size jew maybe around the new entrance break walls to the lake Illawarra. ?
Will be interested how you go. Make sure to report back
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Thanks to all for the comments and the tips. I didnt have much hope. Both my son and I are still in shock, and look at the pictures every day. It made my week in Jindy unforgettable.
Your comments about this fish made me and my son even more proud then what we were when we caught it. I still have to finish eating the trout: Made dinner on the day, then in pasta with cream for lunch on monday, then smoked and sandwich today, and to finish another sandwich tomorrow. It is going to be one of those stories I will tell over and over, of course mentioning fishraider that helped me catching this precious fish and moment. (P.S. I smoked it on Sunday )
You better add a trout PB to your list of best captures aye. Its good asset to your captures.
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Nice one mate. Definitely a brook. Thanks for the report. Cant wait to get down there. Especially now.
Dave
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Casting lures from the bank early morning. The trout come into the shallows early morning/first light and feed. Cast blade lures, Celtas and tassies. The longer the day goes on the deeper out they go. Early morning you should be able to see some fish surfacing and cast these areas. Nice spot just around from the snowline park Near turn off to Thredbo called Hatchery bay, you can drive there with picnic tables and toilets and there is heaps of bays and points to walk casting lures. Let us know how you go aye.
Dave
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Stinger hook maybe ?
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Definitly Good Size Taylor.
Big ones will chop through 60lb with ease
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Ive fished batemans a bit. The Durrus area hold alot of quality reds outside. I fish durras alot from a boat but there is a good snapper spot in close. Im not sure if you are staying at Murramarang eco resort but the southern headland of the strech that eco resort is hold quality snapper especially this time of year in close. From this point there is Grasshopper island which is maybe 200 m off the point. If fishing the rocks try and cast straight to the island. There is a gutter that runs through there and you just might get to it. if this fails i fish just south of the island in 20 m which is still inside the island but a bit south. Have a cast around that area and odds are at this time of year you might pick up a reddie.
Dave
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For what you want to do i dont think you have to go to the trouble of needle and rubber band.
For kingies and jewies what i do is.
single hook on the end of leader hooked straight through the nose ( In the mouth out the top of its mouth/ nose ) This lets the bait still swim straight. When fish take a live bait or any fish they generally grab them in there mouth run and then turn the fish/ bait around so its going down there gob head first ( so the dorsal and other spikes push down and not out.
So they could be grabbing them and not getting to swallow before they realise they attatched to a line. Let them run a bit or even until the run stops or fish your livies with some slack line.
But i have had this aswell getting bit and just missing the hook.
all i do is tie a stinger hook straight to the eye of your first hook. hook your first hook as normal through the nose and the stinger hook with slack line through the back of the fish just in front of the tail.
Hope that made sense Dave
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yeh they are not allowed in the marine park either. sounds like you have a good kingy spot. Just keep jigging no matter how much it hurts. Like playing a game of footy you just cant stop. But its nearly not worth jigging if there not on the sounder. Im guessing you got em on the sounder though if you reckon they are there but not biting.
But i fish a reef down at bermagui for kings on the jig and the reef is very small in 60m and moving the boat 10-20m can be the difference between getting them and not getting a bite. Ive taken other blokes with other boats there and they struggle. they cant understand why i hookup and land a kingy and then not bother dropping my jig again. turn around move 20m and then drop again. by the time ive landed 1-2 fish i would be off the school. Sometimes they are thicker and you dont have to move much sometimes they are so tight i need to back up to try to stay in 1 spot.
Dave
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That would be right, one week after i get back from down there and they come on.
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And i imagine the bycatch of this vessel would be much greater than smaller vessels. Imagine how many tuna and marlin , sharks and dolphins would become bycatch chasing these schools around ?
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Top catches fellas. This is great to see. I have always wondered why our water ways up here dont hold the snapper like down south around port phillip bay. hope it keeps improving. I think the fishing is definitly getting better since the fishing license has come in and less commercial fishing has been brought in.
Dave
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Very nice first snapper. They should come easier from here on for you.
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ill pm you a thing or too
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Just wondering did you get the hairtail while fishing from the boat?
It is actually a Ribbon Fish. And we got that while deep droping on the shelf
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Good eaters there
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See if you can find GPS marks for JB canyons or Kiama Canyons. Fairly easy to get your hands on those marks out of books etc. Would definitly be worth a go there.
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Nice work mate. Some nice dinners to come!
How many meters of water were you in when you were targeting the blue eye?
I'm heading down when the weather clears to have a crack myself.
Fished between 350m and 450 m. got him at about 420.
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Went down to bermagui again for the long weekend. fished Fri, Sat, sun
Friday started with me spending way too much money replacing my gear that got knocked off couple of weeks back. First up i wanted to see how the new jigging stick went. Couldnt get a strike from a kingy so had a bit of a bottom bash and managed one morwong, Pretty average
Saturday was a day to remember. The plan was to go and try for some blue eye cod for the first time. My old man was down there too and was planning to go out in his boat aswell but his partner was sick and couldnt go. So me and the old man went out together in my boat. We have been planning on chasing blue eye for some time now but just havnt got around to it. Anyway hit our mark at prob 10:30 after catching yellowtail and squid for bait on the way out.
pretty much first drop and we are on and 45 mins later a 15 Kg Blue eye cod is on the deck. Nothing for the rest of the day.
Sunday we hit the wide mark again. Lost what we are pretty sure to be another solid blue eye to gear faliure after only 100m from the bottom. Landed a Ribbon fish.Old man had had enough so we head back in to 120m and caught some quality reef fish. I land an average snapper we all got our fair share of Jackass Morwong, Flatties and decent size sea perch.
Good to get out fishing with the Old man again after fishing in seperate boats since i got my own.
Dave
We both got picture with Blue eye
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Nice reds you got there mate. I know that reef well and it often produces quality fish like that. I love batemans, so many options.
Good work
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