Jew Stalker

Squidding is just as exciting as fishing I have found. Generally I squid land based also and throw them straight on ice until I get to my Jewy hole. I like to get a few more though on top of my bait because lets face it, they aren't too shabby on the tooth.

Congrats on getting the fish in What size rod and line were you using? Your rod must have been in a bit of a bad position to snap like that.

It's not pink it's salmon hehehehe.

Depends on where you are fishing. If you are over a shallow reef fishing off the rocks or boat and a kingy tries to make strides to the bottom (as they usually do) you want to be able to turn his head before he reaches it, if you have a big fish on there and he wants to get away with a 15kg rod and reel chances are you will get dusted but in saying that if they are smaller fish you will have a blast. With a good 7-8ft 25kg rod there aren't many kingies and jewies that will get you, BUT you will still get dusted sometimes If you are fishing over deeper water and away from rocks and sharp edges or on a gutter as the estuary meets the ocean or on a beach a 15kg rod will definitely land you a kingy or jewie as big as the 24kg as long as you play it well!

I would have liked to have seen your face change when you noticed the yellow fins hehehe. Nice work young fellow, congratulations!

I grew up in Emu Plains and cut my teeth on bass, carp and mullet in the Nepean growing up. I moved to Merimbula a while ago now and the fishing bug has come back with a vengeance! Many a happy memory on that river.

I don't suppose anyone would be keen on a fish in Merimbula or its surrounds? I am mostly land based but sometimes take my rubber inflatable out into the lakes and rivers for bream, flathead and whiting over the racks and sand. I recently purchased a kingy outfit to start chasing those bad boys from the rocks and as we all know it is best never to fish alone there so I was wondering if there were any raiders willing to join me? Luc.

My standard rig goes like this... 50lb braid mainline to black swivel 50lb mono for around 40cm with size 8 ball sinker to another black swivel 25-60lb FC leader connected to a dual hook rig of one 8/0 at the top and a 6/0 on the bottom. The leader size depends on the size of fish you expect to catch in your area as they do have alot of pointies in there!

Gives one man standing ovation. Bravo!!!

A Shimano T-curve bluewater series 15-24kg 7ft, Probably a bit pricey though (I just paid $275 for one) but will never let you down. I would agree that the live fibre is the cheaper option and probably best if you don't want to outlay too much cashola... It will still get the job done very well. You also wont find what you are looking for for any less, I recently have done the same thing and settled with the T-curve matched with a Saragosa 14000 and havn't looked back. It is most definitely a forever unit and will catch more fish than it is worth by the time I am done with it.

Sympathy for the Jew fisherman Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a fisherman of taste I've been around for a long long year Stole many a mans fish without bait And I was round when old Rex Hunt Had his moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Young E.T Washed his hands and sealed his fate Pleased to meet you Don't forget my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game I stuck around the fishing hole When no other did remain All the rest that were around Left with empty bags in the rain I held my rods Ready at a chance To make that strike When it came Head held high and spirits low Hours long spent but not in vain Pleased to meet you Don't forget my name I think by now you know Why I play this game I watched with glee As the rods did bend Fought for an hour Or more under-gunned I shouted out You don't know who your messing with Your end of days has come It was a battle of an epic scale Short ground won and lost With power gone all I had left Was a fish and miles of frost Pleased to meet you Don't forget my name If you do you will End up just the same With nothing left I stumble forth To claim my huge quarry I help her and reflect on our fight And I watch her swim into the bay Pleased to meet you Don't forget my name Although maybe you might Want to be the same

Excellent work guys, I have been out wide a couple of times this year out of Merimbula but with no luck, just a couple of stripey tuna's on the spread. Big congrats!

Well tonights efforts were not much better. I fished from the beach from an hour before high tide (7.30pm) until just before 11pm I thought I would try a new bait tonight whilst hunting for the ever elusive Mulloway... Fresh caught Bonito from this morning which was kept on ice in the esky since it was pulled from the water. It turned out that it wasn't as popular as I had hoped for. I have been trying many different things lately, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I think being creative definitely helps the fisherman. You never know what may work. I managed to catch several salmon and a tailor which were all promptly returned to the deep blue.

Nice work, She is a fat fish! What gear were you using? Line leader etc?

This morning was interesting, after backing up from last week (I caught 7 snapper near Haycock the best 2 came in at 58cm and 56cm (a PB for me))with better conditions today having the last couple of hours of the rising tide just on first light with the old faithful 5" nuclear chicken shad and moulting prawn, we came up with not one of our target fish, the good old faithful snapper. After drifting a couple of reefs for a couple of hours and receiving barely a nibble we decided to have a trawl for some Kingies seeing as how the sun was now up and I had heard reports of them being caught at the wharf and headlands. I decided to try something different today on the trawl, a waxwing in pilchard colour as they are called and managed to hook onto a few Bonito, 2 all up for me whilst my buddy put on a diver which had caught him many a kingy, an old faithful if you will, and also managed to get 2 bonito onto his score chart, we also got a couple of salmon as a by catch. After about 2 hours trolling around the headlands and casting into boiling patches of water with no Kingy on board we decided to have a bit of a bottom bash out the front of the beaches near the headlands to hope beyond hope for a resting Jewie or a passing Gummy but alas was only managed 7 Tiger and Sand Flatties plus a Gurnard which has been added to my P.B list so in the end not a total loss. Since the Bega river has been shut off to the ocean now it is fishing very different to what I am used to... I am having to learn the river again, but this time with an advantage as I have seen it with much lower water levels. The Flatheads do not seem to be as big and as numerous as they were a month or two ago and the big crocs have all but disappeared. On a lighter note however the Bream are around more with some decent sizes in their ranks including fish well into the 40cm bracket. Jewies have been around also in the river in the deeper holes, specimens have been caught up to around 80+cm which is not a fish to be sneezed at by any means. Good luck with them though, they are battle hardened fish already and extremely wary. I am not sure if the lack of fishy action is because of the tourist boom Merimbula goes through each year with everyone who can hold a rod sticking a line into the water or because of the lack of summer conditions this year (which is highly unusual for us) not forcing the warmer currents down this way or what the reason may be but I am sure It will pick back up soon. I'm going to go out again tonight just to see hehehe. Keep looking for that fish of your dreams... It will grace your line if you look hard enough.

That will go into record books for a number of reasons! Very well done off the stones. What size line, leader, rod and reel did you use for the job?