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Cheers guys, yeah there is no way I could kill a ig breeder like that. The girth on her was insane I recon I could have for both my fists in her mkuth. I didn't have scales but would love an educated guess on the weight? Nah mate didn't use the squid for bait. Had salt n pepper calamari on the side of flat tie fillet mmmm Sorry about the sideways and upside down pics I dunno why it does that...

Gday all. Headed down to jb from Thursday night until Sunday night for a bit of a family do. I took the tinny of course and wanted to target the tasty population of calamari down there but the wind had other plans. We jagged about 4 good squid but the wind made it too hard so plan b was to find cover in one of the Creek/rivers to try get a feed of flathead with plastics. Creek looked good after all the rain (nice and coffee looking). Me and my brother were fishing and he hadn't used plastics before. The fishing was great with both of us jagging about 6 fish each keeping 5 in the 38-44cm range. The call was made to head off after one more drift. I got hit and called for the net as I could feel good weight. All of a sudden a big big run started of about 15 meters and I new this was serious. The fish gave my gear a run for its money. Size 1000 biomaster on my 2-4lb samurai 101 with 6lb mainline and 8 pound leader. It sunk in when we finally saw the beast swim over a shallow sand bank. That's when I started worrying about my leader and my little 1 1/12 jig head straightening. After 10 minutes of a nervous fight and a few huge runs it took a few shots with the net until we finally got her. Net was too smal and she broke it! The leader was freyed to buggery. Came in at 90cm and seriously fat. We kept her in the net next to the boat as we putted back to the ramp to get my tape measure from the ute. Got a few photos and let her swim off. Was a great experience for someone who is reasonable new to plastics! It was quite funny looking at the 3nch wriggler next to her huge head. Was a great day for both of us. My brother was stoked with his first fish on plastics and I was stoked with a fish I'd only ever seen in magazines and the net. I'll probably never see a quality fish like that again. The wind and rain for the resf of the weekend cancelled any chance of chasing a king or late season red. So it was family food and beers in the most beautiful place on earth (even when the weather's shithouse). Priceless.

Oops this is the second pic I meant to post. What a legend P.s. just ate the squid and its safe to say the trip was a bloody good success

G'day all, was in desperate need of salt and pepper squid or fresh fish so decided to hit pittwater/hawkesbry to try my luck. Last week I asked my mrs to come and surprisingly she said yes. so yesterday morning after maxing out the credit card for the privelage to launch and park at bayview we where on the water at 5.45. I'm in to the early start early finish but I don't think the mrs agrees! Anyway we spent about 2.5 hours at a few different spots in pittwater for one descent green eye. I could tell the mrs is getting bored so I throw a couple of xraps on and decide to trol around west head to flint n steel. As we round west head the mrs rod goes off. Now i have put my mrs onto bream whiting and squid before but this was hilarious. She's all pancaked and winding iraticly and the fish is circling under the boat and im yelling dont let the line touch the boat while the 6 pound line from my plastics outfit is flying off the reel (was only planning to squid n flick plastics for flattys). It's all hectic for a couple of minutes and after a couple of missed shots with the net i finally land a fat 43cm tailor. Bloody funny stuff. She's awake and interested now! We keep on trolling and we get to flint and steel and I tell the mrs to pull her line in while I turn around to stop crossover. As she's winding in bam! She's on again and the rod nearly gets ripped from her hands. Funny stuff. Again it's all hectic for a couple of minutes with the mrs panaking and me instructing. First net shot this time and up comes a healthy bonito a bit smaller than the tailor. We start trolling back towards pittwater and the mrs is giving me sh!t because I haven't caught a fish haha good ona. We didn't hook up again on the way back and I notice outside is looking very tame. I'm not the most experienced boaty and haven't taken the 4.2 tinny outside before but today's the day! So we duck just outside to try for squid again. This is the first time I have squided not in enclosed waters and first cast and I'm on! Shortly later another descent green eye. Then looking in the water where I pulled the first squid from I see another one on the top. Must have been the first ones mate following him up. I drop the jig back in and instantly he grabs it and I net him too. Good start! Over the next 45 I net another 3 callimari and about time we have to go and unfortunately my mrs hasn't got a single one. Last cast and I hook a big squid it's taking line with each burst which non of the others did and I get it to the top and its a monster. Then when it about 5 metres from the boat there is a big splash and a bit of a commotion, my drag runs hard for a few seconds then nothing. I just helplessly stood and watched a big kingy steel my squid. Very cool and very cruel to watch and I have never seen this or heard of this happening before. Anyway time to go now and I tell my mrs I'm happy for her to eat her fish and I will have my squid haha she didn't put sh!t on me after that! Also my hats off to my mrs for being a good sport and not nagging about the early cold start and when the fishing was slow. Bloody trooper The catch A picture of the trooper driving to the first spot haha Thanks for reading

This isn't mine but my father in law bumped into this bloke at the entrance a year ago.

Two on one hook. Was a crazy fight! Sorry for crappy pic

Yum! That is very cool. On ya for showing another raider that's what it's all about... Bloody unlucky about the second run on the big set up hunter111 would have thought you are a fishing god if you pulled a nice jewie too. Well so would have I!

G'day swaz sorry mate no secret spots. Just alot of persistence and patience. My entire squid experience is 3 times around careel bay in pittwater and 3 times in JB so I'm no guru. I moved around ALOT and changed jigs and retreives till I found small patches of them and remember I did spend 3 solid hours chasing them... Hi josamill the ribbon weed beds seem to work alot better for me but hard to say as I have little experience. I have done heaps and heaps of research I have never come home empty handed just by following all the basic rules you hear and read over an over again. Get over the Kelp/ribbon weed. Look for sandy patches. Close to rock or some structure. Use good jigs. Change jigs if ones aren't working. Cover alot of ground as there aggressive and if they are there they will jump on. Change retreives I either extremely slowy retrieve with small twitches or 2-3 massive jigs/jerks which I saw on YouTube under egi fishing. And early morning/low light produces more. I'm prob just telling you what you already know but using this advice and attention to detail is the reason for my success. And most of that advice came from very experienced fishos reports and feedback I found searching fishraider. Cheers mulloway man it's a killer not knowing what it was. The only reason I thought it had to be substantial in size is because I have had 65cm+ fat salmon pull my holder out of the sand in the passed and I could easily grab my rod but this occasion it was getting towed out to the ocean like there was a seadoo on the other end it was flying! Ohwell better not to stew over it and gotta live and learn. thanks for the feedback. Appreciated. Also I am in awe of your list of records and PBS sounds like a very good fishing life! On ya.

Cheers scratchie ya legend. I think I have the jewfish tactics thread memorized! I grew up fishing but since I read that thread have dedicated 90% of all of my fishing to catching jewies I've spent hours teaching my self to catch mullet and now squid. The only time I think I hooked one was off narrabeen beach with a fresh slab of tailor. First cast with the Jew outfit about half an hour before high tide at 9pm a couple of days before a full moon and I put my rod in a 50mm PVC pipe rid holder I had cut at about 60cm with 40cm of the pipe dug in. I turned around only about 1 minute after I cast while hooking up another rod and saw 2 big bumps so I stood up and then the rod absolutely buckled over and flipped the holder out of the sand and my rod scooted along the sand to the water faster than I could run. And I'm not a slow sprinter! I watched it scoot over the top of te water through the waves in the moonlight and then disappear. I still don't know what was more devistating. Not knowing what it was, the fact it could have been my first jewy and a descent one at that! Or the fact I lost $600 worth of practically brand new gear! My thoughts were either a shark or jewie. What you guys think? I now use 1.2m worth of pipe and belt it almost all the way in with a rubber mallet and I never forget to set the drag.

Damn just got a new iPad and not sure how to get pics up. Any advice?

G'day all first report and it's been a long time coming. Thought i had better stop reading and start contributing to this awesome site! This site has helped me so much since I started getting right back into fishing about a yr ago so thanks to all the guys and gals for sharing there knowledge and experience. Bit of a late report but better late than never. Launched the yak at barrenjoey in search of squid for a jewie beach session that night and got two stonkers (well stonkers for me as I'm pretty green when it comes to squid fishing) on the first drift of about 32cm hood. Then a smaller model of 20cm hood on the second. I was stoked but it was looking like I was going to have to submit my catch to the mrs as I never catch enough for a descent feed but promised if I did it would be a feed. Lucky for me my persistence paid off. Over the next 2-3 hours I bagged 14 including my pb of 34cm hood. Which is the best session I have had in sydney (have only done better in JB). So a happy mrs and bait for me and my mate for the night. All caught on yamashita LIVE jigs from 2.5 to 3.5 in pink orange and natural. The natural outfished on this particular day 10-4. Also trialed leaving a jig out while I fished on a rod in the holder and picked up two and dropped two which was a cool first. Knife is 30cm So that night fresh squid in hand I headed to the northern beaches and could not find a descent gutter on a beach without someone fishing it for the life of me. So I ended up in a half descent gutter on mona vale beach which was the first time I had fished this beach. So we set up and have a line out just before 7. Doesn't take long and we have two blue spot flattys in the esky but no Jew. Over the next hour I lose a lot of squid to pickers. Then just before the sun has totally gone down my rod buckles over and I pick it up and there is a lot of weight and a very strong first run and I think finally my first Jewy! A couple of short runs later and has taken me about 70 meters up the beach and I see a bloody shark thrashing around in the wash and my mate grabs it by the tail and have a quick measure and snap and threw her back. She was 1.1 metres long and I'm pretty sure a whaler. Pretty quiet after that apart from a banjo shark my mate caught that had to be 10kgs minimum biggest I've ever seen and I have caught hundreds in jb. So yet again no Jewy after about my 10th dedicated beach jewy session in the last year. I just can't crack one and I need to feed this addiction I have haha I think i finally cracked the squidding code now so hopefully that first Jewy won't be far off. Sorry for crappy pic and long post Please let me know if pics don't come up and I'll try fix it

G'day all first report and it's been a long time coming. Thought i had better stop reading and start contributing to this awesome site! This site has helped me so much since I started getting right back into fishing about a yr ago so thanks to all the guys and gals for sharing there knowledge and experience. Bit of a late report but better late than never. Launched the yak at barrenjoey in search of squid for a jewie beach session that night and got two stonkers (well stonkers for me as I'm pretty green when it comes to squid fishing) on the first drift of about 32cm hood. Then a smaller model of 20cm hood on the second. I was stoked but it was looking like I was going to have to submit my catch to the mrs as I never catch enough for a descent feed but promised if I did it would be a feed. Lucky for me my persistence paid off. Over the next 2-3 hours I bagged 14 including my pb of 34cm hood. Which is the best session I have had in sydney (have only done better in JB). So a happy mrs and bait for me and my mate for the night. All caught on yamashita LIVE jigs from 2.5 to 3.5 in pink orange and natural. The natural outfished on this particular day 10-4. Also trialed leaving a jig out while I fished on a rod in the holder and picked up two and dropped two which was a cool first. Knife is 30cm So that night fresh squid in hand I headed to the northern beaches and could not find a descent gutter on a beach without someone fishing it for the life of me. So I ended up in a half descent gutter on mona vale beach which was the first time I had fished this beach. So we set up and have a line out just before 7. Doesn't take long and we have two blue spot flattys in the esky but no Jew. Over the next hour I lose a lot of squid to pickers. Then just before the sun has totally gone down my rod buckles over and I pick it up and there is a lot of weight and a very strong first run and I think finally my first Jewy! A couple of short runs later and has taken me about 70 meters up the beach and I see a bloody shark thrashing around in the wash and my mate grabs it by the tail and have a quick measure and snap and threw her back. She was 1.1 metres long and I'm pretty sure a whaler. Pretty quiet after that apart from a banjo shark my mate caught that had to be 10kgs minimum biggest I've ever seen and I have caught hundreds in jb. So yet again no Jewy after about my 10th dedicated beach jewy session in the last year. I just can't crack one and I need to feed this addiction I have haha I think i finally cracked the squidding code now so hopefully that first Jewy won't be far off. Sorry for crappy pic and long post Please let me know if pics don't come up and I'll try fix it