Scent Blazer Lures

looked like great conditions, good luck on Sunday Be interested to know what Rampage was fighting for over 2 hrs, have to be a big blue, either that or something on light gear

You get fish at night sometimes but the vast majority of bites are early morning, late afternoon and at the change of tide. Also overcast rainy days, they seem bite more which makes sense, because overcast days emulate early morning and late afternoon lighting conditions. But I like fishing late arvos and night, its just a nice time to fish. If you are fishing at night, I'd try a live yakka or small tailor on heavier gear because the distressed live bait will attract the bigger stuff and you don't have to worry about the little fish picking it off. As for the noise, if the bream aren't biting I sometimes turn on the engines on and a lot of time it seems to bring them on the bite. I don't think they that are scared or spooked by the noise, there would be that much noise in the harbour anyway, if anything it probably attracts them.

cool, that's a good catch, i'll definitely head out next week if the boat gets fixed, I'll be happy just to get on the water, even if there is nothing out there

Yeah I know the feeling. Just wear and tear on the boat, the stainless tubes that hold the radar dish are both broken, its ripping through the canvas and the wiring. Needs to get fixed otherwise it will all come crashing down next wave I hit. I might just remove the radar, I never use it anyway. Might fish next week if I can get the boat fixed, I'll let you know. There's probably heaps of dollies around those fads this time of year, I'd be happy just to catch a few dollies.

Has anyone been getting anything off Sydney, Monday looked perfect. My boat is stuffed since my last trip a about 3 weeks ago now, should have it fixed for next week.

unreal! nice pics

I am pretty sure the state doesn't own that road, I believe its private, so you're probably not helping the state anyway, you're helping some rich guys get richer. I wish the state owned that road which would mean all NSW residents would have a share of it and then the state could probably regulate the tolls to make them fair and reasonable. you have our give our government credit, they are exceptionally good at selling our assets or creating assets at the taxpayers expense that doesn't benefit us. I am predicting they will sell the Harbour Bridge next to someone overseas

And don't forget all the Crocs in the rivers up there I wouldn't fish off the bank

There is a big pier up there, the locals all use heavy handlines on it. You can buy the handlines from the local supermarket up there. They get jewies, GT, barra, sharks, mangrove jack off the peir. I fished it a few nights and got one big mangrove jack off it. But the locals were telling me when the jewies run they pull them in one and after and another, so you still have to be lucky and get the right day. Its really high off the water and don't fall in, there are warning signs that display WARNING Sharks Crocodiles Sea Snakes Dangerous Currents Box Jelly Fish

bummer, we got quite a few hook-ups on little dollies trolling around the fads near the 12 mile a bit over a week ago, sometimes they're there but won't bite, doesn't matter what you try, lures, baits, livies you'll just have to go fishing another day now

nice one, that's really cool

nice one what water temp did you get him in? I heard that Sydney was pretty quite over the weekend, one stripe on Saturday morning and one massive Blue in 1500fa, but most boats getting zero marlin bites.

doh! thanks for that yeah, highest was 23.2 that we came across. 25+ is out really wide but it looks like it might circle back in close in a week or two. Lots of school Dollies about and 23 is a good temp for stripes.

no probs Steve, maybe next time we get some big fish fishythings, the most bait we sounded by was around the 10 to 12 mile area near the traps. there was scattered bait here and there all the way out but not any big blobs of them. but water was good all the way out, we didn't see any flying fish either. Good luck tomorrow.

We went offshore yesterday with a few Fishraiders. Good conditions this time, mostly smooth for the majority of the day. Water temp went to 23.2 from about 10 miles out and stayed at that temp to 10 miles past shelf where it dropped to low 22s. Plenty of small Dollies around those traps 10 miles out, boated 5 or 6 small ones and missed about as many. We got a 3-way hook-up on one of the passes and we dropped one Dollie that was a bit bigger. Headed east from traps looking for bigger fish but didn’t get any other hook-ups. There were quite a few birds east of the shelf at times which looked promising but that was about all we came across. Good luck to anyone heading out. Peter

Yeah Sunday looks best, if the weather is good this Friday we'll be heading out. Weekend before last there was that hot Blue bite but the weekend just gone was really quiet from what I have heard, one boat said they hooked a spearfish but that's about it. Hopefullyit will be good this weekend.

got this texted to me today from a friend of a friend, photo taken yesterday

there you go one caught on rod and reel in 2011, its about time for another one

I have thought about giving Swordies a crack off Sydney before. Long liners bring them in off Sydney all the time, so no reason why a rec couldn't get one. I guess I would emulate a long line method which would be 3 -4 rods dropped with squid or slimies between 30 and 100m, late arvo and night or if you were fishing during the day then I would set it much deeper. I'm sure they would be around Browns at times but I agree with Stevefish if they were around Browns in any real numbers you would have to think someone would have caught one as a by-catch by now considering how many boats fish Browns. Most long liners set their lines pretty wide off Sydney most of time, at least east of Heatons and up to 100 miles out. So I would probably try Heatons if I was going to give it shot and fish it from late afternoon, all night and into the morning. I think you would also have to put some serious time into it as well. Most long liners off Sydney set thousands of hooks of over miles and miles on trips that can last up to a week and only bring back a few. The race is on to catch a Swordy off Sydney

good stuff, conditions looked great today

On great days like that, the fish are the bonus

yeah it was a rough old day and we got some good fish, can never be unhappy about that;. A sheltered bay, a wharf, offshore, its all good! This weekend looks really good conditions wise, be interested to see what reports come in. Next Friday is looking good for now Steve.

No prize fish like Aerial or Sunray, seriously they were both awesome catches. but we got variety I got email from customer on Monday night who got a Blue along the shelf and a couple of text messages from guys that hooked Blues in the same area, so I thought screw it I’ll give it a go based on their reports. I had buddy and his nephew available on short notice and the BOM forecast was for less than metre after midday, so it all looked promising. We got to the heads around 12, it was horrible, really rough and messy, 2 swells about 1.5 to 2 metres from different directions and strong winds were forming these mutated double waves. We headed out anyway hoping the wind would drop and smooth out like BOM predicted. We could barely set the spread and about every 5 minutes the boat did a bone-crunching drop which knocked us about. We got a hook-up on something that seemed fairly decent about 3 miles out but dropped it while turning the boat downwind to fight it. We got couple of Dollie hook-ups about 5 miles out. One mile further east we took a wave over the side of the boat and then another shortly after. I called it after that, it was too risky for my liking and the wind still wasn’t dropping, so I turned around and started heading in. It wasn’t even a soft ride back. We got a small stripy on the way back in. I was actually surprised by how many boats we could hear on the radio chasing blues. They must have been much bigger boats than ours or crazier than us. Its Blue fever and people will go out in just about anything to get one, just like did, we're all mad fishermen right! We were back inside the heads by 2, still early so we decided to anchor up at Forty Baskets between the boat moorings for a few hours to collect some bait and clean up the boat. We put out a live yakka and got a Jewie not long after and then we got a couple of Kings on little cubes of pillies. We could almost hand feed the Kings, they came that close, we just kept throwing out burley and that kept them around. Anyway, we gave it a shot.

That's so awesome, well done, I don't mind the long post, I like details I like the shots of the stomach contents, whole stripies They have mouths like buckets

seabreeze is generally around 25% off the money, its normally 25% stronger that it forecasts if says 15knts its 20knts, etc, www.bom.gov.au is way more accurate for wind forecasts, but they will also get it wrong from time to time, but overall much more accurate than seabreeeze seabreeze is pretty good for wave frequency if you're going offshore