Frizzy

I usually fish them about 1-2m under a float. I'd recommend using a dead yakka than pilchards because they will stay on the jig longer. You'll know you've got a squid when you see your float slowly sinking below the waters surface instead of bobbing above the waves. Works pretty well off the rocks and at night.

Probably going to try and have some more fun with soft plastics. Might give the Cooks river a try this time. Good luck to everyone else...

I've always been a bait fisherman but I thought I'd give SP's a try after reading alot of the reports on this site. Went land based in the Lane Cove river where I figured I should at least find a flathead that would be interested in my squidgy. Things started out pretty slowly, after an hour of casting and retrieving I got my first flathead on an SP. Didnt measure him because I wasnt planning on keeping him. He stuck around to keep me company untill I decided to leave and told him to swim off into deeper water with a rock. Next spot I tried was around H&C Bay (I think) First cast between the pylons must have landed right in this flatheads mouth. Not a big fish but another one to the tally. A few casts later and I was on again. It was pulling alot harder and put on a pretty good show for the dog walkers and joggers passing by. My first SP bream!! After the happy snap he was released but I wish I took a pic of him next to something to show how big he was. Had another big hit but the fish spat the hook and mangled my squidgy so I started experimenting with grubs but nothing was interested. Sun went down and it started to get cold so I called it a day.

Ahhh!! I think you mean "The Final Countdown". That was a great movie... If you ever asked yourself "What would happen if an F-14 Tomcat and a Mistsubishi Zero were engaged in aerial combat??"

Probably somewhere landbased in the Parra/Lane Cove rivers trying to get my first fish on plastic.

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I usually find it easier to cast using my hands. Hope your foot gets better though.

I'm jealous! I wish my was as stubborn as yours... actually she is but not when it comes to fishing...

If you were lazy then you could fish for bream and flathead around Pyrmont or Blackwattle bay.

Thats a beautifull looking fish!

Are you going by land or sea?

Thats a great catch of Kings!

Used the whole yakka with a 7/0 through its eye and another one about an inch from its tail.

Just keep at it and you'll get one eventually. I would have chopped up the tailor to get to the jew.

I'm thinking of doing the same. There's going to be some pretty big tides this week.

Thanks Zenman Good luck for tonight! Looking forward to reading your report.

Left home at around 8pm Thursday evening and headed to Port Hacking to pick up some yakkas. We managed to get 20 within an hour then off to Stanwell before the yakkas stopped kicking. 3 yakkas survived the drive. They went into the gutter first and were never heard of again so we started to use the dead ones. They were continuously coming back with their heads missing, tails missing or just mangled however there was so much movement from the waves that we couldnt tell if we were getting bites. By high tide we had gone through half of the yakkas with my friend catching a decent tailor and a shovelnose and me with nothing but a runny nose. Things were starting to look like every other Jewfishing expedition that I have been on for the last 12 years. Had to re-rig after reeling my line in to find that something had taken the bait, a couple of 7/0 hooks and a few cm's of 30lb trace. In went the next yakka but this time I was holding onto the mainline (as you would when fishing with a handreel) because I was starting to get annoyed that we werent getting any runs yet there was something taking our baits. Within 10 minutes I felt something start to swim off with my bait. I let it take about a metre of line and then set the hook and took in a few metres of line by hand just to make sure I had a fish before reeling him in with the rod. I thought I had a biggish tailor untill I dragged him onto the sand as there wasnt much of a fight. It wasnt the 20lb Jew that I have been aspiring to catch all these years but 7lbs of jewfish was alot better than coming home empty handed. Smile says it all...

nice catch of kingies and squid there!

Bad luck mate. But at least you manged to get some action.

Looks like you're on a roll there mate

Please define "exposing yourself"

Bad luck mate. What bait were you using?

Looks like a kelpie.

I'm in if you need a novice deckie