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Hi I have a place up there . The fishing since the rain has been a bit slow but did alright around the warm water outlet of the power station and found some decent bream further down in chain valley bay Good luck Cheers

Really nice catch champ well done.

No it's a mako it's really easy to tell with the shape of the teeth head shape the keel at the tail the size of the fin behind the dorsal fin and I worked on fishing boats in north Queensland where sharks are a daily thing.

Thanks guys, It was caught outside just off north head and it measured 105cm and a much fun fight.

G,day Raiders, Was looking forward to getting out on the water all week. Come Friday afternoon start prepping the boat for an early start then my lights all decided to blow. Off to my local takle shop for a new switch panel long story short back in business in 1 hour. Up at 3 head to Drummoyne ramp. Meeting a mate at 6 at the spit put the boat in go to start it. Flat battery .Tops, after 20minutes she's now up and running starting to charge up. Thanks to the guys who blew there steering hydraulics for the good conversation while I was waiting, must of been the day for it as there were a few boats having trouble that day. Finally headed over to the spit and picked up my mate. Headed around north head for some trolling as I was letting the line out my Xmas tree lure takes off nice bonnie to start hooked into a couple more then decided to head out for a drift fishing 60-70m bang nice flatty then bang 32cm snapper then another flatty both around46cm Headed back in as it was hard for my mate to hit the bottom with his lite gear. Drifted out of north head into a N.E direction then my mates rod buckles over he is having a ball 30seconds latter ping brings up his line both hooks are gone. Caught a fair bit of wrasse, bakers was starting to think I've done my dash for the day, so I chuck out an unweighted ,ganged pilly. While baiting up another line my mate sports a large fish at the back of my boat he asked me" what's that" my reply was "that's a shark". Drop the rod and wind in the pilly quick in the mean time I'm throwing bits of bait at it to keep it near the boat but wasn't interested u get the pilly close to it and it didn't want to know so after watching countless fishing shows I need to twitch the bait so it looked injured well now let the fun begin this thing has taken off Like a train tighten the drag and it's still going nuts, then comes the summer salts, breaching thrashing a top fight for such a small shark about one metre long.( pretty sure it's a Mako. I turn to my make and said when it comes in it will been green as and it didn't disappoint thrashing around every where ,I had only been on for what felt like 2 minutes . One of my first sight fishing experiences and one I won't forget to soon. After about ten my mate rod goes agin this time same thing peeling line off to the point we are starting to see the bare spool, he tightens his drag and gets some line back on. Then it breaches way out the back and you guessed it Ping she's gone a few choice words later we decided to call it. Dropped him back and headed home .What and absolutely fun day even tho I had a shaky start.

The wreck is called the Centurion

Nice fish well done!

Sorry yakkas

Hope this works. Yeah there were some horses around in the talks department.

Hi Raiders, First time post so hear goes. Was planning on heading out to the harbour on Sunday morning at sparrows , until my mate convinced me to head out for a night session. Checked with the missus and the ok was given. We have fished the harbour for a few years now and we generally always go home with a feed of fish. So we launched at rose bay at 1130 right on high tide and headed to the spit for some live bait. By the time we got there the tide was slack, I started after some yakkas while my mate chased squid, I got a couple of taps but no joy then all of a sudden my mates on to a squid, then another so I changed rods and chased squid too. Before long we had 5, time to get some yakkas.with all the bad weather This was not an easy task. Headed over to the old trusty spots no joy, ended finding a s&$t load at cremorne wharf but they were hard going finally got a few then headed over near Clifton gardens and settled in chucked out the livies . Time for a kip woke up to my mates rod going off. Brought it in and it was a flatty smaller than the yakka, cooked a quick brekky at 6 then hit out side within the first half hour and 2 passes from North head to blue fish 5 Bonnie's, headed out side for a bottom bash in 50 meters but all we got was a heap of wrasse and sweep still a non stop session catching fish. Will try and post pics as soon as I find out how. Cheers