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Sounds like a great morning. Yak fishing is certainly hard to beat. Cheers Col.

Wow, thats a thumper. Would have gone off. And as for the others, thats one action packed session. cheers Col.

Sounds awesome... col.

Hi all, I'm heading up to sydney for 10 days on saturday. If anyone is keen to hook up for a sesh during that time, let me know. Staying in Mona Vale but will be mobile and happy to put in for fuel etc. or just meet up for a landbased sesh. cheers col.

Great stuff. 12 wild bass to 37cm, you're going off. Love the piccies too. cheers col.

what a shocker, as you say, hopefully thats it for the year. Col.

Great stuff love chasing schools super fun way to fish. nice salmon, pity the others weren't as keen to play. cheers col.

Sounds like a great day. Don't you just love it when pelagics're up top and going off. Especially if you can keep it to yourself without some numnuts going through the middle and putting them down. Jeez I miss surface bustups... maybe next week. Cheers col.

Well spotted, I reckon it was a cormorant (i can't think of anything else). The slash went right through the body wall and into the abdominal cavity. The fish didn't seem to mind though. Cheers Col.

After dropping and cracking my old pocket box that i use for trout trips I went and scored a new one the other day. I thought some of you might be interested in what I take on a days trout spinning and what I consider a pretty good selection for trout lure fishing. This is by no means all my tackle, just a selection that will cover almost all scenarios I encounter when trouting and will fit in my shirt pocket (summer) or wader pocket. Does anybody else want to share a similar style pocket selection for other fishing styles/species (or their trout version)? The pile consists of: tackle box braid scissors leader 4lb siglon sinking (or 8lb Rio fluro) sp tails: 3" bass minnows pumpkinseed 1" nymphs, camo and yellow/green 2" single tails gingerbeer (or gulps) hat polaroids tape measure camera rod and reel (spooled up with 2lb crystal fireline). add a water bottle and a muesli bar and this is all I need for a days fishing (often the sp tails stay home). The tackle box contents are: HBs 1 sx40 1 rapala f5 1 35mm scorpion 1 attack minnow Spinners 1 vibrax #2 2 colarado blade japanese spinners (brand unknown) 2 jensen insect 3g spinners 1 willow blade japanese spinner (brand unknown) 1 rooster tail spoons skagito spoon 3.4g 1 lureman spoon 1.5g 1 japanese micro spoon 2.9g (brand unknown) 2 acme phoebe 1/12oz (2.5g) 2 wondercast tangos 7g Jigheads squidgy ball head 1.5g (for single tails) squidgy finnesse 0.5g (for single tails) Cobra 1/32oz (for nymphs) Juro 1/22oz (for nymphs) Nitros in #1 or 1/0 (for bass minnows) 1/22, 1/16, 1/8oz Spare hooks trebles for HBs (diaichi 8110 and owner st66) gamakatsu single lure hooks size 4 and 6 (for spoons/spinners). Am I missing anything? Cheers Col.

sounds like pittwater is the place to be. good stuff. col.

Great fish, well done. cheers col.

Hi all, I headed up to the meander river yesterday. The water was a bit coloured from recent rain (at last) and it was raining on and off all day but things looked good. Unfortunately I didn't see a fish for the first 2hrs and decided to just fish up to the spot where I caught my PB river brownie before trying elsewhere. About 20m before I reached that point I finally scored a hit, resulting in a 43cm brown. Heres where it got weird. On my next 2 casts from the same spot I picked up 2 more fish (30 and 43.5cm) and then I got a few more follows and missed hits. This gave me the confidence to continue upstream. However although I saw a couple of fish in the next 2hrs, I didn't score another fish until I stopped to have a flick at the same spot on my way back, picking up another (35cm) and dropping a 50+ that swam up to me after swallowing the lure and spat it at me. The successful spot doesn't look very different to the rest of the river so I don't know what was holding all the fish. Cheers Col. A few underwater shots.

I fished mosman bay (far side of cremorne point) heaps back when I lived locally and there are certainly some nice flatties there. My PB came out of there when it grabbed a chopper tailor that I'd hooked on a little 3cm HB and somehow found the hooks. From time to time trevally turn up (winter) and small tunas (frigates I guess) sometimes round bait up against the wall along with tailor. The Bay in between the two is quite small (this is the one you asked about, I think its called fisher bay or something similar but I'm not sure). I've fished it less but it certainly looks the goods with a nice sandflat and steep dropoff and I have taken tailor, whiting and flatties from there. I imagine it is very similar to mosman bay on a smaller scale. My strangest catch from that bay was a bag of pot I found floating past me whilst I was wading. Again (same with mosman bay) there is a stormwater drain there and I'd be careful about eating fish from there. Cheers Col.

Great report, well done to both of you for persevering (spelling??) pity about the misses but at least you scored in the end. Nice fish too. cheers col.

Great stuff Bankso. Bad luck about the barra but I'm sure you'll get some in the boat next time. I'm very jealous of the toga though, what awesome fish. Cheers col.

Welcome to the site. Great report. Back when I was living in Sydney i fished anderson park bay quite a few times, it certainly can turn it on from time to time. However I was never willing to risk eating anything out of there and i reckon flatties wouldn't be worth the risk. If squid can pick up enough toxins in their 6-8 months of life to make them dodgy, I certainly wouldn't be eating a fish that lives in the sediment with all the crap that falls out of the water column right near a drain. Cheers col.

Brown trout. ps. phone survived. col.

Headed out for an early morning sesh this morning. I initially headed a fair way upstream on the north esk but due the rain last night (first for ages) the river was looking pretty murky so I retreated back to town and fished the lower section. On about my 3rd cast i snagged a favourite lure on the opposite bank. Since I was wearing waders it was no big deal to cross and grab it. Unfortunately the river had risen a bit and was discoloured enough to make seeing the bottom difficult. The upshoot of this is that the front pocket of my waders filled with water flooding my phone in its (supposedly but not in reality) waterproof box. After retrieving my lure and then discovering the phone issue I immediately removed the battery and cards and dried it as best I could and now its just a matter of seeing if it works once completely air dried (probably stuffed though). On with the fishing. Shortly after this episode I managed to cast the same (now costly) favourite lure into a tree over hanging a deep and fast section where it could not be retrieved, bugger. I continued upstream without seeing any action until I came to a little drain at the mouth of which I hooked a real nice fish of about 6lb which just drifted downstream towards me shaking its head until it threw the hooks at my feet. Not happy... Next cast a much smaller fish momentarily hooked up before it too spat the hooks. After this bit of excitement I continued upstream again seeing very little (ie none) action and berating myself for phone and fishing failures. I'd nearly reached my exit point when it happened again. An even bigger fish, this one a lovely silver sea-runner that I'm sure would have topped 10lb grabbed my lure and again refused to run, just drifting towards me and shaking its head, when it finally moved off, the unthinkable happened and my line parted a bit below the leader knot. At this point I decided stuff it (day off but I did have stuff to do), I'm going to stay for a while and try to redeem something out of this session and spent another 90min looping downstream from my entry point and fishing back up without so much as a touch. Probably should have stayed home but its good to know there are some big fish around even if I can't catch them. Cheers col.

Great stuff, onwards and upwards from here on. Cheers Col.

Hi all, Just another trout report. I headed out to the meander river after work yesterday, but ended up doing very little fishing after finding a sheep that was having a very hard time giving birth and consequently heading back to the car to find the land owner and let them know. I only managed a couple of follows and hits after this stuffing around before I lost the light. I headed back this evening to see if the sheep had made it (I assume it had as it wasn't lying dead where I saw it yesterday) and then went for a bit of a fish. My first hookup wasn't long in coming but the little bugger jumped about 2ft in the air and crashed head first into the vertical river bank throwing the hook in the process - bet he had the headache from hell. I also pulled the hooks on the next one though in less spectacular fashion. As darkness fell I finally managed to stay connected to a nice little trout of about 40cm and then in nearly full dark a couple of casts later I picked up another smaller fish at 34cm. Cheers col.

Thanks mate, I'll give those cloths a go, just not sure they'll be absorbent enough is all. Cheers Col.

Great stuff, thats a great bream. Worth the wait I reckon. Cheers col.

Great report on a pretty great day. Not convinced about the water being "warm" though. Cheers Col.

Great going, thats a real nice session. Well done, time for a name change too I reckon. Maybe "oldpro". Cheers col.