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At least you had fun mate. Hopefully next time you'll hook onto bigger models. ..addictive fishing! Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

Missing eyeball... Crows I'll bet...If I walk away and leave my fish for 5 min after cleaning the crows are at them in a flash! They go for the eyeballs first...I had one pick up and fly away with my burley scoop because it had bread in it! Damn crows! Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks Harry. Good luck with your session...hope you hook some beasts Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

I have two now.. Both the 650A5 and and the 650 rockhopper with drag, on Alvey beachmaster 13 foot rods. I use the direct wind for drummer in close and have the second out further using a float and ganged hooks for salmon, bonito etc Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

Hehe no problem Harry...charge it to the Medicare I bought my first Alvey just over a year ago after you gave advice on a post I wrote I've pretty much only fished for drummer and groper since! Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

I think the guys are saying kill them straight away instead of putting them in a bucket of water and letting them die slowly. That's what's making them go hard. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

I also use woolies prawns. ..the whole raw banana prawns. Also Cunje if you can get it at low tide. Smallest sinker right down to a strong 2/0 suicide hook on 15 - 20 pound Schneider mono. Burley with soaked white bread, small amounts at regular intervals, concentrate close in to the ledges where there's a lot of white wash. Prepare to get a lot of snags coz youll find they're right in the caves and crevices at your feet - this is where you want to concentrate your fishing. Find a ledge where there's a lot of green weed and Cunje growth with whitewash. If the water is calm and not a lot of whitewash or movement...crack open an urchin and throw it in as berley. .The gropers love it! I find Cunje is #1 bait followed by raw banana prawns. But the other guys are right on the money too with bread and Royal Reds... Don't strike as soon as you feel the "tap, tap"...wait until you feel the line loaded with weight and then give it heaps! Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

If I posted every time I didn't catch anything the guys would need a new server! Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

Kelpfish then maybe? Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

Yeah, Wirrah and cale. But if you're getting these it usually means your fishing in a spot likely to produce drummer. Try (if you're not already doing so) using nothing but a sinker right down to the hook and using peeled prawns or cunji ss bait. Berley with bread soaked in water. Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks Scratchie, it was good! Walking down to the rocks and smelling the ocean and hearing the waves pound the shore after a month out... That's the life! Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

Thanks guys. Those drummer especially the smaller ones always feel like a much bigger fish. I'll be going again tomorrow and hope for more of the same! Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

Hawkwsbass my arms are looking forward to that day! Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk 2

I haven't been able to fish for a month due to the busy Christmas and new year period at work, and I finally got the chance for a couple of days on the rocks this week. Monday was the first day, and I was on the stones just before 6am. High tide was around 9am I think, and usually for me at this spot it's pretty productive to have a line in the water right on first light on a rising tide. Not much wind and a bit of swell. To my disappointment it was very quiet right up until an hour or so after high tide when I started getting a few bites. I was fishing with peeled banana Prawns and bread burley trying to tempt some drummer from their holes. Nothing. When the tide dropped enough I was able to get a couple of cunji to try my luck with. Within a couple of casts. ..bang!! I was on and it had some serious weight and pull. After a rough 30 seconds up came a big fat groper! The rest of the day was pretty quiet but I was glad to be back fishing again. Thursday was the same plan, but I had some cunji left from Monday which I'd frozen, and on my very first cast it got smashed! Up came a nice healthy looking 40cm bream! About an hour after I started feeling that familiar drummer tapping but I couldn't hook up. Then all of a sudden I felt a massive pull and my rod buckled. It caught me a bit by surprise and my line got caught on the handles of my Alvey..but I lifted my rod up enough to keep him out of the caves and freed the line. He darted for every hole he could find...but I got him up in the end. A very fat over 45cm drummer! I managed a leather jacket after that and then packed up and left. A good couple of days in all! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Mate I think a 2500 reel would be well under gunned if you're planning to target drummer. Especially at the lower end of the scale. If you want to get a spinning reel rather than an Alvey, I would probably look at a Penn...tough as and cheap. 20 pound to 30 pound Schneider mono and a longish rod would make a good combo off the rocks. Burly with bread, use strong hooks with sinker right down to the hook and peeled prawns or cunji as bait. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Thanks mate. Looks like the guy should be ok luckily. . When I saw the chopper and a convoy of ambulances I thought someone must have been killed Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Hi Guys, I was wondering if anyone had heard of any incident which happened in the National Park at Kurnell yesterday? I was just packing up and leaving when I saw several ambulances and a police car headed up Cape Solander Drive towards Yena. I also saw a chopper circling above for a while...

Mate have you seen Schwarzenegger lately? Agree with you though, the younger generation will always benefit from the knowledge of their elders. And we'll pass it on to our kids hopefully. .. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

That's nuts Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Great photos there, mate. Well done. I like the close up shot! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Thanks groper. They do pull hard at that size. I bled them straight away and eaten later that night. Removed all the red meat. I don't think they're vile...but they definitely aren't worth all the prep to cook. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Hi Jrakasp, No real reason. Sometimes I find if I dont have a swivel between the float and sinker, the force of the sinker hitting up against the float from casting dislodges the plastic tubing inside the float. Stoppers work, I just didnt have any big enough so they didnt pass through the float with me that day. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Trumpet fish? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Speaking of yakkas...Ive never tried for or caught yakkas before. I actually have a couple of unopened Sabiki rigs I got with a fishing mag. Can I get yakkas using these with tiny bits of pilly pieces off the rocks? Or are they generally only used off jettys and piers and so forth? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile

Thanks fisholb! I'll give those a go.. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II via Tapatalk mobile