redpump

OH! I live in Marrickville if anyone wants to take me around the George's River for fun I'd be more than happy to tag a long and learn some tricks

Top catches mate

nice report mate, I would be scared to keep/eat that red scorpion if I didn't know it was good eating as well! Now I want to catch one.

nice recipe I will give that a go if I hook up a good fish

Nice catches. That made an excellent read at the office lunch time I can't wait for the weekend!

Oh! I am very interested in this as my partner and I are regular rock fishers. Please let me know when you release the one with the GPS tracking system. For the moment, I will check out your PFD shirts.

With all the water coming from Warragamba dam and the full moon Thursday, I was wondering whether there will be a lot of fish along the Hawksbury river or around the opening for shore/rock fishing? With the crazy high tide at approx. 11.30am and dam overflowing my logic was; higher sea level = bigger fish? Please correct me if I am wrong. If there are a lot of fish I'm be driving down there this weekend

Thanks for the help everyone! I fixed up my report How do you tell the difference between the yakka and the kingfish (other than the difference in size).

Hello everyone! My partner and I went fishing on Sunday at Botany Bay. At 9am we headed out and was amazed at the beautiful day (cloudy, but warm), we caught about 20 yabbies and fished the beach with them, caught 6 undersized bream tarwhine, 3 undersized flatheads and 1 barely legal bream tarwhine(20cm). There was a few big splashes in the water which made me pretty excited (but still no big fish). The tide was going down when we started fishing (10am) and reached the lowest point at 12.43pm (tide chart), at this point we had a few nibbles and fewer hook ups. There was a lot of puffer fish swimming around our feet for the scrapes, they are so cute. After using all our yabbies, we decided to pump out some more (30-40 yabbies) and went to lunch (fish and chips ). We then went along Botany Bay again and fished off some rocks. There were a lot of undersized bream tarwhine and juvi snappers that I lost count (10-20 altogether?), we managed to get another barely legal bream tarwhine. Around 4pm (tide is going up) we caught our whiting (30cm) and our first kingfish a yakka!! (30cm - released), we caught a few more undersized bream tarwhine before my partner hooked a stingray. I went to grab it with a net (scared of it's barbed tail) and ended up slipping on the rocks and ended up with a 1cm gash near my wrist . I went to wash and disinfect it and slapped on a band-aid. I went back to my partner's location (where he informed me of a few more undersized bream tarwhine) and we packed up and were on our way back when we were hit with the downpour (approx. 5.30pm?) Soaked and on our way home, I was feeling great with the amount of hook-ups we got today (normally we only hook a few fish, lucky to get 1 legal sized). We fried the 2 bream tarwhine and whiting for dinner and made stingray soup. The soup was amazing, but, the meat wasn't very nice to eat... All in all, it was a great day! It was cloudy in the beginning, sunny during the middle of the day a few sprinkles in the afternoon with the downpour in the evening. The rig I used was a sliding sinker attached to a swivel attached to a leader to a shank hook. My partner used a 3 ganged hook (different height along the line) with a pyramid sinker at the end. Happy Fishing The Whiting was making a lot of splashes (not letting this jump out like the last) so I pinned it down!! Bream Tarwhine + Whiting sandwich anyone? Doesn't look very good here, but it torpedoed off when I released it. Lastly, my gash (healing nicely)

Holy Moley.... I thought the 30-40 yabbies we catch for fishing was heaps... 600??? seriously greedy... Also, how do you make sure the pregnant females are safely released back without seagulls swooping in to eat them. It has happened a lot so I put them in one of the holes I created and cover it with sand.

Nice! I also went fishing yesterday at botany bay. Also caught a lot of undersized bream and juvi snappers. Also, my first (severely undersized - 30cm) kingfish I think I should do a report too =D I was there from 9am until the massive downpour (approx. 5pm). It got very windy around 2-5pm (I think SW winds)

Hi everyone, I was just looking over my legal size chart and noticed whiting had "27cm for sand only". I just want to clarify it before I head out attempting to catch one, does that mean I can only catch sand whiting or does it mean sand whiting is the only species that have a size limit, whilst other whiting do not? I caught an undersized silver looking whiting from a beach and let it go, but, if it was 27cm or larger, would I be able to keep (and eat) it? Thank you

Cool. I tried Port Hacking, but, I think the tide was too high because all I was getting was little soldier crabs, little worms and little yabbies.

Nice story! The sunnies on the jewfish just adds that extra for me to vote you in the COTM polls.

I see people pumping yabbies at Taren Point/San Souci beach (near the bridge), is it legal to pump here?

Wow! That was exhilarating to read. I hope to one day feel the same excitement when my reel screams and I set a hook on a massive fish! Well down on the bream and whiting, very large sizes (at least a lot more bigger than mine )

That's funny to imagine. I caught a flathead on the rocks to the right of the beach, it is a bit of a walk though. Never tried the beach there as there was too many surfers.

Argh they ruin it for the rest of us. What's worse than seeing rubbish lying around my favourite fishing spot is seeing a floating plastic bag in the water!! Don't worry, I fished it out... but it really bugs me that people can't do a simple thing like putting their rubbish in their bags until they get to a bin. Congratulations on the acceptance, I hope there will be less naughty people in the streets once you are patrolling the streets.

Hi everyone! I am Karen (aka RedPumpkin) and I am a 22-yo new angler who just started fishing on Australia Day '12. I now go with my partner every weekend shore/sand fishing. To date I have caught bream, red morwong, parrotfish, pufferfish and whiting. Unfortunately, the whiting jumped out of my bucket before I could measure it I think it was around 30cm (I wish...) I was so gutted though, I will try again this weekend (wish me luck!! ) Also, I have recently been using yabbies/nippers for bait and have been releasing the undersized and pregnant yabbies, however, they seem to take a very long time to bury under the sand again. How do I make sure they are safely released before I can go finding more yabbies (a lot of hungry seagulls in the area)? I hope everyone has a good week P.S. I like fishing the Port Hacking and Botany Bay area (heading to Taren Point for whiting this weekend)

The relocation is ridiculous. I've put my vote in! (I like how there is only 1 option - the best option!)