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19 hours ago, Rebel said:
That is a top haul.
Well done.
Thanks
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On 2/19/2023 at 7:42 PM, Yowie said:
Nice bag of fish, and a couple of flatties as well.
Yes always good when we get some flattys
we used to give them always all the time until we found out how to cook the fillets
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On 2/20/2023 at 9:40 AM, Isaac Ct said:
Good stuff, a nice bag of fish.
Well done.
Thanks
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On 2/20/2023 at 10:26 AM, bessell1955 said:
That is indeed a mixed bag.
Thanks
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On 2/20/2023 at 7:21 AM, zmk1962 said:
Lots of fun in that catch. Your friends would have been chuffed.
My preference is to slit the throat and bleed bonnies as soon as caught if I plan to eat them. It improves the flavour and texture significantly.
cheers ZoranYes we usually bled but it gets too messy on the boat
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On 2/20/2023 at 7:30 AM, noelm said:
A live bait is never "too big" you would be very surprised how big a bait even smaller Kingfish can/will take and get down easy.
I’ll try and use one of the big slimys next time
we got a black marlin last time we used a big slimys for bait
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On 2/16/2023 at 9:25 PM, Larkin said:
Gday Raiders,
I took a mate (who also jet ski fishes) out to go for some local snapper & kings today.
first light loaded up on yakkas and headed out. Hit up the snapper spot first - my mate hooked a 60cm king - released. I kept casting with my streakz SP.
I was casting for about an hour with no bites, then the rod bends over and I’m onto a big fish - I pull back and it takes off hard. It’s a very good fish 70+ from the way it’s pulling. Stupid me didn’t yank the rod to get a good hook set and with some hardcore head shakes, the hook pulls!
After about another 20 mins, we leave and head over to the kingy spot from last week - bait balls everywhere and big marks on the sounder. I throw over a livie and within a minute I’m on - both of us fight fish after fish.
I kept a 66cm & 70cmMy mate kept a 65cm and a 80cm - he also hooks up a 60cm Bonnie on a yakka.
we bring in a few more just under and release.
mate has to leave at 11am, so I decide to hit up a couple of squid spots.
Squid are on fire in the hacking! Finally.
spent the next two hours bringing in 14 green eyes. Some small and some good eating size. Will keep the small ones for bait, and the large ones are going to become entree’s.
Passing one of the fish to a work mate, and some fillets & a couple of squid to my parents as I have enough fish from last week. Will be keeping the rest of the squid as I’ve been waiting for months for some calamari 😋
We’ll done mate
still waiting for my 1st legal kingy this season
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Thanks for the advice mate
yes usually we always put a live bait out but that day no yakkas and the slimys were a bit big 😂😂😂 I had a shark took my live bait last time and big Aussie salmons
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Hi all
its been awhile now since I last posted
took 2 of my bff fishing recently
target was first kingy for one of my bff
got to the ramp around 6am and the ramp was already half full
decided to troll from the ramp all the way to little bay hoping for something big
decided to use the Penn 8500 and Penn 6500 with 50lb braid and 50lb leader using the halco redhead 160dd and the mackbait 4in in the 2 Penn combos and my 2 bff using the Penn 4500 combo with 20lb braid and 20lb leader to spin the Jackson 28g lures and Rapala cd7
we got our first hit around cape banks and landed our first bonito for the day on the Jackson g lures
for the next 2hrs we keep getting hookups and double hookups from cape banks all the way to little bay and back
ended up with 13 bonito on the troll biggest one around the 2-3kg
decided to go back inside to molli when the wind started to pick up
got to the molli reef around 10am and fished the reef until around 1pm
i promised one of my bff I will get him his 1st kingy so I was full of hope when I saw a large school of kingy rats busting up around the reef
trolled around the reef but can’t get any of the kingys to take the lures so decided to anchor up and use bait instead
for the next 3hrs we hooked up plenty of kingy rats and my 2 bff both landed kingy rats up to 60cm on my Penn 4000 combo with 20lb braid and 10lb leader using pilly cubes
lost over a dozen kingys on the side of the boat and ended up with a mixed bag
I’m so happy we got our target fish today for one of my bff
got to the ramp around 2pm
thanks for reading
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Hi all
had the day off so decided to hit the Northside for a change
got to the ramp around 11am
trolled from the ramp all the way to the heads with no hits
decided to bottom bash around the heads with only baby snappers so after one hour decided to hit our favourite spot around Newport
within 5 mins of our first drop my mate hooked on something big using half pilly on a two hook sliding sinker rig
After a couple of minutes we had our first keeper on the boat
a 42cm snapper
Biggest legal snapper we got this year
hi fives all round and was a very good start
that was followed by more than a dozen baby snapper up to 25cm all went back to grow more
also got 1 legal Trev at 33cm with half a dozen going back to also grow more
also got about half a dozen yakkas which we use for live bait but no takers
we were using Pillys chicken strips and yakkas for bait
went quiet around 4pm so decided to head back closer to the ramp before the sunlight disappear
tried a spot near the ramp and the bridge but the current was too fast and can’t touch bottom
we were using 4oz snapper sinkers
decided to head back to the ramp around 630pm
took home 1 snapper 1 Trev 3 yakkas
Home around 830pm
asleep by 10pm
was a quiet day in the water today
thanks for reading
sorry no pics
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On 5/1/2019 at 12:08 PM, jeffb5.8 said:
Don't get a Nissan Pathfinder R52 either, only towed with it once or twice and after 43,000km we have just had the 3rd transmission replaced, Original lasted 16,000 the next not much more but replaced at 43,000km as Nissan debated it.
Car is out of warranty now and this transmission only has a 20,000km / 1yr warranty.
Just sold my pathfinder r52
had gearbox replaced last October and gearbox started to play up again so decided to get rid of it
cost to replace a gearbox is $15k and only comes with 1yr or 20000kms
wont ever buy a Nissan again
better off buying a Toyota or Mitsubishi
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Caught kingys on chicken strips
just plain chicken thighs cut into strips
also u can buy frozen Cali squid cut into strips
frozen pillys cut in cubes
fresh is best but u can still catch kingys on any bait
depends on how hungry the kingys
goodluck
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On 4/28/2019 at 11:30 AM, micktempe said:
Hi Fisholb,
Thanks for response. how many would you put in water at same time also would we be able to bottom fish or not recommended?we usually put 2 live yakkas while we bottom bash
we put the live yakkas around 15m to 20m from the boat in different depths
always put the live yakkas on either side of the boat so they dont get tangle up
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1 minute ago, micktempe said:
Morning guys,
This morning headed to Foreshore road boat ramp and docked in just before 5am.
Cruised over to the cans i think you guys call it for some yakkas. We managed to pull in 10 using sabiki jigs with some bread and some pilchard.
We moved on to molineaux point, on the yarra bay side but only had small fish stealing our bait. We tried dropping a yakka down but only managed to tangle our lines. After about 1 hour we relocated to pretty much on the corner of molineaux point. Some more small bites but nothing exciting.
8am on the dot, last line going in decided to put a full pilchard. Within 2 minutes line starts screaming and pulls to the left tangles with couple of other rods but got them sorted then comes back around. After a nice fight on light gear I got it to the surface, Kingfish! No net i pull the rod back to grab the line then decides to go for another run and snaps the line!
After that nothing, packed up because had to be at work soon 😱
Need some advice on what to do with live yakkas. We normally are anchored. Sinker? no sinker? balloon? what is the trick with them?we put live yakka on float around 3m to 5m drop
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On 3/31/2019 at 1:57 PM, sam bros said:
Stonker bonnie, well done
Thanks mate
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8 hours ago, Houdini said:
Great bonnie what are you going to do with the mac tuna
Gave the Mack and bonito to my mate
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3 hours ago, LuckyFil said:
That's a bloody big bonnie!
Yes it’s a big one
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2 hours ago, lakelad said:
Great report and fun day out, you must have slept well that night!
How big's the esky with the bonito in it? That large one looks a cracker!
Thanks mate
the esky is 47L
length around 68cm
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4 hours ago, masterfisho7 said:
Top report Fisho well done
Thanks mate
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hi raiders
one of my bff got a new boat (surtees workmate 495 with 60hp) and he asked me if i can show him some fishing spots. finished work around 130am packed my fishing gear and got to my mate around 4am. got to the ramp around 5am and decided to catch some bait at clifton. spent around 30mins trying to catch some bait but with no success so decided to troll north head. trolled for around 2hrs for 1 bonito and 2 mac tuna. bonito was caught on the mackbait redhead and 2 mac tuna on the banana mack. decided to go to balmoral and try catch some bait. spent around 1hr at balmoral catching baby snapper bream flattys and 1 kingy(60cm) on chicken strips and pilly cubes. wind started to pick up around midday so decided to head back to the ramp at drummoyne. took a while to come back to the ramp and had to wait at the ramp for a while because a boathire company left 1 boat at the ramp while he got another boat. got home around 6pm. went to bed around 8pm. its a very long day but worth it. the new boat was excellent. hoping to go outside the heads again soon. thanks for reading.
btw, one of my bff went trolling last friday 22/3/19 at north head and caught 5 bonito and 3 mac tuna. 2 of my bff went fishing botany bay 23/3/19 and caught 2 legal kingys around molli point. still plenty of rats at the bay atm.
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Flattys and reds
very nice haul mate
well done
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2 hours ago, kingie chaser said:
This is the one I caught a long time ago, if I had of been able to measure it properly is probably close to 60cm at the fork which on the calculator comes in at approx. 3.5kg.
Went back so might me 6kg by now 😀
Date stamp on the pic is 9/5/2012, boy time flies 😅
On my next outing im definitely going to be getting some livies so hopefully this will get me into one of these or a King
Good luck mate
always better if you can catch livebait
we always make sure we got livebait just in case we get lucky with a hoody one day
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6 hours ago, kingie chaser said:
Sweet, Im after a salmon for my next so called 'poor mans fish' cooking/eating challenge.
Got one in the same area a few years ago & it was a nice fish, though it was a nice king the way it pulled.
I'll have to find the picture, recon it wat around 3kg?
We’ve been catching salmon lately on livebait around molli pt
salmon is an excellent sports fish
they go really hard like the kingys and you can keep them all the time for a feed
caught one on my daiwa 2000 combo and took awhile to bring it in on 10lb size 4 circle hook
I need to use at least 20lb trace next time we go fishing to decrease the bust offs
the salmon we caught were around the 2-3kg
the kids love eating salmon fillets just pan fried
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Botany Bay mixed bag
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Yes mate
kingys are always fun to catch on 10lb 😎😎😎😂😂😂