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Perfect article mate.. Just how you taught/showed me. Fish raider and its followers are blessed to have a bloke like yourself teaching the ways of snapper fishing on soft plastics . A wealth of local knowledge and experience that you would only normally get from a chartered trip you are the man, now let's smash some pbs in the coming weeks.. hopefully Paul's record fish haha

Great video and great longtail ,scared me to lol gotta love it one the first drop

Nothing like Jew in your own backyard, even better on plastics 👌

Thanks woodsy heard about your tuna loss. Devo!!

Fingers crossed, can’t wait🤟

Did our annual April trip to Port Stephens in anticipation of catching some jewfish, snapper and possible longtail tuna. We had failed the past two seasons with tuna due to the big down pours we had around the Easter break, so this year decided to go after the second week of the school holidays so history wouldn’t repeat. But what a bad decision it was with guys catching longtail left right and centre from the intel I got from Scratchie . Not all was lost though.. I did a jewfish session on Saturday up in the bay which resulted in two huge Jew which both went 120+cm a new PB for myself😋 both were captured on live slimies an hour either side of the tide change. With so much fish and the new jewfish bag limits we left them biting Then on Monday meet up with @Scratchie who was sick as a dog from a bad flu 🤧 but the good bloke he is he battled on and came out. The idea was to head to Broughton for some snapper action but the southerly 2.3m swell put a stop to that quick smart So plan B was to hide behind Fingal and try a few spot around there but there was an infestation of red weed. Then went back to shoal bay for a flathead flick on sp but after half and hour we agreed to go back up ramp and spend some time with the family as it was last days of school holidays also Jeff was in urgent need of some coldrals.  We then tried an evening Jew sesh but only got hassled by squid eat our livies along with tangles and wobigong shark.  Still a memorable trip and can’t wait till June for @Scratchie snapper meet with the raiders.  Till the next post tight line raiders

My favourite time of the year.. can’t wait.. very solid fish guys always producing the goods

Congrats on on your first SP snapper.. how long did she go on the tape?? One of the best decisions I made was to go for a flick with Jeff ... On ya Jeff, a wealth of local knowledge and techniques as always... and not a bad bloke to keep spirits up between bites see you in the next couple of months 😎🤟

Nice work fellas as always... any marlin trips in the near future?? @Woodsy and Jeff

That’s fishing sometimes.. but you can almost feel the marlin fishing will be going ballistic in the next few weeks. Snapper is never a bad back up 👌

No mention off my potential raider record for puffer fish on SP lmao great day out as always.. thank you @Scratchie and @Woodsy

Great day out mate, we’ll have to do it again theres always more room for more drag lmao ( excitement got the better of me haha) top bloke ,great teacher can’t wait to do it again im hooked!

leave some for October Jeff haha your slaying the snapper of late, must of got lost on the way to Arno bay SA ?

Mate what a fish!

Good to see the results for tracking that far out?

Great work Jeff as always

Definatly, even saw them busting up at shoal bay in 2m of gin clear water while squidding

That would be some fight,I really over killed my catch with 50lb braid and 60lb leader, dont know if id wanna go lighter though. Thats alot of work and pain lol

No we didnt downrig just motored ahead of the surface action and drifted in the path.. Very important i thought to turn the engine off as they spook very easily with the other 10 boats trying to get a metals into them One under a ballon, the other free swimming with no weight

Yes both were caught inside the heads only a couple of kms apart, west of the rock wall marina. Ive heard upto as late as June

Yeah it would be nice to finish up with a Lotto hat trick lol Cheers

Thanks Jeff, big thanks for sharing posts which lead me to fish those areas Your a wealth of local knowledge

After reading and researching about longtail tuna in Port Stephens I decided to give them a crack and see if i could catch my very first longtail. After sourcing some slimies at the heads headed to where i thought they might show up. Needless to say locating them was very easy with information out on the internet but seeing them bust up all around you for hours and not get a hook up was very frustrating, due to the fact they were chasing very small bait fish. But persistence paid off as the rod buckled over and after a couple of nice 30m runs and about 10mins of back/arm breaking circling under the boat I finally manged to get it onto the deck. Its measured 107cm to the fork. High fives every where After burning my arms out decided to do some more laid back fishing and chase some Jewfish on the tide change. Dropped the livies down and 20mins in the rod bend over and after 10mins on 20lbs trace pulled up this jewie just shy of a meter. Couldn't believe my luck. Fishing its a funny thing....many days for doughnuts but its day like these that make it well worth it

Because of blow back. You might drop you DR to 100ft but in reality your fishing maybe 80ft, putting you out of the stike zone