Andy-Z

Well done on the blackies good to see that the harbour still holds a lot of fish did you use weed or cabbage

Hi RICK Used to fish with you for Blackfish about 10yr ago all over the place from the Georges river to the Harbour from land & boat had some real god times it's good to see that you are still fishing for them

The best mod you can do on a reel I recon. The handle change makes the TLD20 feel like a much bigger reel and more balanced. Fitted the Torsa handles to mine for $45ea inc the replacement handle screw & new drag plate.

We used to do a lot of crabbing up around Spencer. Go past Mangrove creek & Spencer township and when you come to the first red marker start dropping your pots. Both sides of the bank to the 2nd green marker. Used to get some BIG crabs out of that stretch. Also get a few jew out of there as well.

A gravel patch could be a shale reef or a rubbly bottom. It will show on your sounder as a thick grey line, sand will show as a thin grey line. Depends where the fish are as to where you fish. If they hanging right on the reef, then thats where you would want your bait. Drifting is a good way to find new ground, however I recon, anchoring and berlying like hell is the best way to go. Snapper can be found in depths as show as 15m right out to 100m. I like depths of between 20m - 50m the best. The biggest turn of forsnapper I have found is boat traffic. If you can get a quiet spot, they'll usually bite through the day. Snapper hang around all year, its just in summer that the current is usually raging that makes fishing for them hard..... well.... thats how it it is up here anyway.

Not too far wide. Most of our fishing is done within 5km of the shore. Off the Gold Coast

Report before the blow hit earlier in the week. Hit the water a bit late. Plan was to get out to the 50's and get into some pearlies. Conditions were ok until about 5km from our mark where we run into a stiff SE & conditions were crap! Sounded out a few marks & was barron, so we started the slow trog back into shallower water. I noticed as we were traveling that the targa was starting to move a bit, only to find we snapped a stud off on the rocket launcher, so we stopped braced it & continued on our way. As we got close to the mark the sounder lit up with some good showings on the leading side of the ledge. We anchored only to find that there was zero current, less than zero in fact!!! Our baits were sitting right under the boat. We were about 20m from our ledge so we berlied hard. We had a few tentative touches and then the RLF20 takes off. The bail arm was flicked and the rod loaded up to the hilt. A long powerful run to start with and we thought he might not stop it. I eventually pulled it up and we called it for a kingy. This thing didn't give an inch and all through the fight would take some long powerful runs. We thought that a kingy would have bricked me, so we started to call it for a cobia, that was until those tell tale head shakes started. Finally we got colour and the bulk of this thing kept getting bigger & bigger. It finally hit the surface, where we all gasped at the size of this thing. It was slipped into the net and just as we got it over the side the net buckled and snapped!!!! Calling it a contender it was put on the lie detector and pulled the scales down to 28.5lb !!! At home just the head weighed 7lb and the dead weight of the fish bottomed our drag measuring scales out & they go up to 20lb! It was a monster!