james1990

Personally i'd prefer to use a thredline reel for all my spinning...for larger species like you have listed i'd probably go with a shimano spheros 14000fa. Id prefer to use a thredline simply for the fact i hate over runs on overhead styled reels...but im sure if you know how to work an overhead reel properly someone could suggest a good reel. cheers james

Hi guys Just moved up from sydney about 6 weeks ago. And we are finding it hard to get a crew to go out sometimes. If you are from the goldcoast and enjoy offshore fishing and dont have a boat or would like to join us for a trip feel free to PM me or reply to this topic. cheers james

Gday mate Word has it tweed heads is the go for mackerel at the moment ...live bait is the key. If your up goldcoast way give me a yell...PM me for my number if you would like it. cheers james

and an added bonus i DIDN'T get sick cheers james

somebody eats there carrots ...good spoting warnie never saw that. cheers james

Hi guys Decision was made a few nights back that we would go out saturday (today) and have a troll around. After hearing reports of wahoo, yft and mackerel hopes were pretty high. Unable to get a full crew of 4 it was just me and dad. Dropped the boat in the water at 6.30 started our troll about 5 miles off the seaway heading to one of the reefs on the 36 fathom line SE of the seaway arrived at the 24 fathom line to find a few boats including charter boats fishing in the one small area a quick troll around revealed nothing so we sounded around for some bait...found a awsum school with lots of fish round the outside of the sounder.....down go the jigs jigged for about 15-20 mins but the current was at about 2 knots so it was hard 2 stay on the spot for a decent ammount of time. Out with the skirts and divers again and we decided to head north between the 24 and 36 fathom lines. Got directly off the seaway about 15 mile out and ZZZZZZZZZ were on jump n the rod to find the fish had spat the hook ohh well marked it on the plotter and decided to do a big circle around the area ZZZZZZZZ off goes another rod just mins after the first get a small mack tuna to the boat...into the esky he goes. Decided this seemed a good spot so started to do our cirlce work again and ZZZZZZZZZZZ dad hooks up and fights a small yft of about 10kg to the side of the boat but unfortunatly hooks pull and fish gets away. The first hookup happend about about 10am fished till 11.30 in that area landing 2 mack tuna, 2 striped tuna and dropping 4 other fish. Dad hooked a screema at the end of the session peeling about 150meters of line off in only a few seconds but once again LOST IT Water was between 24degs and25degs. Great 2nd session out off the goldcoast....learnt a few things... will see how we go next time. I will post a few picks up later on. cheers james

that is one big fish.....massive is all i can say ..speechless hehe. cheers james

Hi guys Have we got any goldcoast fisho's on here? We are always looking for crew members on the boat and dont know too many people up here so i'd be keen to meet a few of yas. cheers james

Yes it's a big change from sydney, fishing is so different ......the gamefishing has been a shocker heard lots of reports of mack tuna in close, spanish mackrel and cobia on the reefs...the key is lumo beads i have been told but im sure if u experiment u will find the right way. cheers james

Got sharked twice today. 9/4/08 This morning my little brother jacob thought he saw a shark....i was thinkin he was pulling my leg but i had some time 2 kill so took out a reasonable sized outfit...caught myself some poddy mullet through em out on a set of gangs with a wire trace....tied my rod off to the jetty pole with the ratchet on and went inside to carry on with what ever comes along constantly checking the rod went back out 40 mins later and noticed my line was slowely moving against the tidal flow OHHH $#T untie the rod and start fighting but bites through the wire....clean cut...happend twice over the space of about 4 hours. I will give it another go tomorrow and hopefully i will have pics to post tomorrow night. cheers james

Hi guys Well finally moved up to the gold coast 4-5 weeks ago. Im telling you now it's sooo different to sydney in everyway it's just all really laid back and touristy. Anyway i'll get to the fishing side of things. Iv fished probably once every 2 days land based and in this time iv learnt alot and caught a variety of fish ranging from bream, whiting, garfish, longtom, BIG poddies, tailor,mud crabs, eels and a motza of fish i have never seen before. I fish landbased off a jetty into one of the canals leading to the broadwater some of my memorable catches in the past 4-5 weeks would be longtom i have sight fished ranging from 20cm - 52 cm....some MONSTER bream hang around under the moored boats and pylons i reckon they would be close to 50cm but i am yet to break the 35cm mark....theres plenty of garfish, mullet, herring around if you burly with bread. you have to go as light as possible to chase these fish i use 6lb gear and have been told it's still way to heavy....but if i do somehow hook up to something big for example a hard fighting mangrove jack or one of the larger trevally swimming around i want to land the fish. On easter we took the boat out...as we were leaving the spit and rigging up to have a troll with various sized skirts and divers i spotted alot of birds in the one area above a bust up......not sure what it was....to slow to get the gear ready but i will be prepared next time. So we started our troll towards a reef on the 24 fathom line troleld for 4 hours using laser pro divers and various skirts from 4-8inch's in a variety of colours. Had abit of a bottom bash using squid, mullet, pillies for bait and tried abit of jigging around bait schools didn't do to well...then the wind picked up so we shot back inside. Had a fish around the breakwalls inside the spit hoping for a nice bream or one of the big trevally i have heard about also have heard reports of big jewies off the south wall. Managed a few bream from 15cm-30cm and a few fish iv never seen before. I will post many more reports of the fishing around here...hoping to get offshore this weekend so hopefully will have a report to put up on sunday night. cheers james

I have heard some stories about guys who have done that and had sharks attack the pot...hence loosing the anchor. I made my own pots one is a plumbing pipe about 2liter bottle round sized round with holes drilled all over and chicken wire cable tied to the top and bottom with a rock in it....works fine. Another one i made is made of chicken wire once again about a 2liter bottle round but the base and lid is all made of chicken wire and cable ties i use a chunk of lead to hold this on the bottom. You can get bags in ultrabite kits that workwell but you need to use a rock as a weight. I use to use a plastic bag with holes in it tied to a rope with a rock as a weight worked fine. cheers james

Maybe a little bronzie or bullshark???? I caught a 5foot hammerhead off the fingal spit at portstephons about 2 years back on a tld20 2 speed outfit took me on full 360 around boat...i enjoyed the fight. cheers james

Live yakkas, squid, live tailor all work well...i'd be guessing a big beachworm would also work well. cheers james

Mate thats a real hood......bloody great forsydney mate...well done i bet it was a hairraising fight. cheers james

top place.....untouched would be a word for it. I bet the mountain bike riding is as good as the fishing cheers james

MMHMMM....the choice is 2 hard......haines hunter 800 patriot with twin 200hp 4 stks......but i shall keep dreaming. But i guess in the mean time we have the perfect boat for us seascape suncruiser 6.2 built by tabs....150 yammy 4 stroke does us for everything...inside fishing..outside fishing general cruising and light to tow...great on fuel. cheers james

I am a fan of te loop knot but i have had a few times when throwing metals around i have lost a few lures, one time luckily my lure landed on the marker and i was able 2 motor up and collect it. cheers james

When you say PPB that is port phillip bay in victoria? cheers james

Was just thinking...when trolling behind a yacht if you hook a fish would the force of the boat going forward and the angler winding the fish in and the fish running the opposite way result in many pulled hooks? Sorry if i have confused anyone. I confuse myself sometimes. cheers james

Top pics of the dollie mate.....different colours to the ones i normally see jumping off sydney. Anyone know why that is? cheers james

Iv got a coupla tassies.....havnt been used in over 3 years as im a saltwater fisho....would also be keen to see how they go. I personally think they would take flathead, tailor MAYBE bream and whiting and flounder. Only one way to find out.....GO WET A LINE and let us know how you go. cheers james

Thanks for all the advice guys...learing heaps of all of you. I like the idea of creating a white froth......must work well. I norm just berly with pillie cubes. cheers james

As a beginer in gamefishing...i thought i might throw up a series of questions that i do not know and that many other raiders that are looking to get into gamefishing could learn from I have just set myself up with a williamson bird teaser with a daisy chain of 5 squids behind it spaced about 35cm apart I have been told to set your teaser about 15foot behind your boat....how could i effectivly run my lures around the teaser? I will be running my teaser from the port short corner position. cheers james

Working friday...soccer friday night...WOOOOOO gunna loose again lol.... Workin saturday.....hang out with some mates saturday night Hopefully have sunday off 2 ride my new bike. cheers james