Mickyd

I use egi max. I can't say that I have caught more squid since I have started using it but it does seem to give you confidence and I think that's half the battle Confidence catches more ! I also think I have caught more big squid since I purchased a can. $25 for a can of confidence is relatively cheap. I do however hate it when the wind blows and you get a whiff of it. It stays in your nose for hours.

Very nice. I went out from the shore at la peruse and got some beauties a well. Nailed my PB 38 cm hood! Water clarity was excellent and the conditions were the best in weeks. Geez they are tasty

Awesome mate

Thanks guys. It was about 2 hours before high tide. We tried to jig some of the bait moving through but couldn't get anything

Here goes for my first post. We put the boat in at Roseville and went straight to Balmoral to collect some livies. We nailed a great range of large and small Yakkas and left enough room in the live bait tank for some squid. Unfortunatly the swell around middle head was bigger than we would have liked and made squidding a difficult task so we decided to not waste any more time and went in search of some action.... not a bird or splash to be seen anywhere east of the bridge. We slow trawled the livies around north and south heads without any luck braving the swell and finally gave up, moving into wedding cake for some easier target species. First bait down was nailed by a legal Snapper, then a massive Tarwhine an Octopus and some Trevally and Bream. I had a live bait out untouched for the first 30 mins so I checked it, swapped it for a smaller one and cast it out. Instantly I hooked up to a small King fish. Next livey out and another rat king, and finally a legal King. It all went quiet after that so we went back to the heads and tried livies, one on the surface one mid water and one on the bottom. We waited for an hour or so then noticed some bait moving through on the sounder and right on cue my livey started to freak out. At first I felt the weight and got a few cranks on the reel, then a few more then my Stella screamed! I managed to get the fish mid water quickly but another run down and I felt the line rubbing on the rocks below. I gave the fish a little slack, not much, but enough for it to swim away from the reef and then I really gave it to it. A minute later and a really nice King came to the surface. We fished for another hour without any other action but were pretty happy with the result on a day that wasn't perfect but gave us a great feed from inside the harbour and a fat Sydney king..