jewiehaven

Mate unfortunately you cannot avoid catching Ray's, and you should never handle one or even get near one, they are lightning fast with the tail and the barb on a big one will send you to hospital for a visit via the local ambulance, lol I did once with a little one and it jabbed me in the hand, excruciatingly painful for at least 3 hours, followed by nausea. Better off cutting the line if you snare one again and let them go back without any danger to you or it.

I think they call them "kidney slappers" when they reach that size. What a STONKER Whiting, and a great feed of Taylor to boot

Yer, on a live yakka, we thought it was either a kingie or a Jew by the run- peeled about 60m in a few seconds then came screaming back towards me (and the rocks!). Was using 2 X snelled 4/0 Big Red Mustad Suicide Hooks, on 15lb mono with a 30lb leader of about 70cm, with a running bomb sinker in size 2 (I think... )

Hi All, My mates, ben Dave and I went for an overnighter to nth Head last night. Started @ Balmoral for live squid and yakkas- the place was packed. We got no squid but they were there, tried various jig colours/sizes still no joy. Managed 5 yakkas but there were heaps more there just not on the chew. Around 2:00am we left for the heads and platform. About 3am I tangled with something that took a HUGE run on a locked drag Alvey. I thought I got dusted and was winding in when I noticed that the faster I wound the mroe slack was created??? Got to a few metres from the platform and I called for the net After seeing colour we all called for a soapie and were all hooting and what not. After he was in the net Ben thought it was in fact a rat kingie Realized it was a BIG Taylor- he went 50cm on the dot One of the blokes near us got a baby Cobia Dave got dusted BADLY on 4lb when a rat ran him from one end of the ledge to the other very, very quickly. A change of tactics saw us run out of livies but get 5 more after the sun came up, this was mixed in with lots of baby Sweep. Sorry for bad piccie quality was takewn with phone (not mine either, lol) Still a fantastic night with a couple of mates and we had a ball. We will definitely be going again to the same spot very, very soon try for my first legal kingie.

Nah, thats gotta be WAY more than 40lb... Look at my Grandfathers below and it was EXACTLY 27kg (60lb)... Caught on a live Beach worm, 1/0 suicide hook and 12lb Platypus Mono and a 13' PowerRod blank (hand made by my old man) and a Daiwa 7000c spinning reel- LEGENDARY! Your mates HAS to be 65-70 lookin at the piccies amte, what a great catch!

Thats 1 gnarly lookin set of fangs, fark me thats scary!

Am off tonight with my mate Eddie for a quick session at my local wharf, then Sunday morning will be off the stones chasing kingies with another mate Ben. Heard some good reports from some rivers so hoping I can nail a Jewie and some flatties tonight, then get my first "legal" kingie Sunday morning before I go home to babysit my son for the afternoon. Lookin forwards to it for sure

Well, I am truly envious... on both accounts- being able to work when you want and also catching a great feed. Great catch again matey

Lintern is a pretty good apot as you know Ray, that Flattie lie looks like a decent model was there. Great piccies as usual

Great feed Groper What a top day to be out on the H2O, sure beats workin, lol

Lads, Is it possible for either or both of you to PM me with the shop details, I am in the market for some new braid and maybe a new combo for Xams Cheers Anthony

In the piccie you have 2 different species of Trevally: The one on the left is a Diamond Trevally (or Coachwhip Trevally) whereas the one on the right is in fact a Turrum (GT). Both are fine specimens, great catch mate

Sorry ladies and gents, all spots are now filled, lol If a spot becomes available I will re-post Cheers

I have no hesitations eating fish caught EAST of Gladesville and have been doing so for a few years. Parra River is OK to eat from and I have eaten Taylor, Flatties, Bream, Whiting, Jewfish and Crabs all from the Gladesville area. Maybe all the dioxins have made become such an obsessive and compulsive fisherman l

I have 2 free spots on a charter for 5th December from Port Kembla. Primarily chasing reefies (bottom bashing) and jigging/live baiting for Kingies. Boat leave 6am sharp from Port Kembla and returns around 2pm-ish Cost is $92- per person max 6 people (already got 4 people confirmed) Anyone interested please PM me by the end if this week.

I love my Okuma Beach Spinning Reel, its got awesome drag and requires bugger all maintenance. Other favourites are my Shakespeare Agility 2000 and 3000 series spinning reels and my all time favourite Alvey C650 and my trusty old ABU Garcia 7000C3 (swedish one not the jap version). I always take my shakespeare reels with Penn integrated tips on every outing, along with my Okuma and 13' Shimano Beastmater 6-8kg beach rod- I even use this off the wharves chasing big flatties and jewies, makes 3 of the best outfits I ever used.

WOW! Great pot of Red's there

At least you got up there Nathan, I reckon the fish you lost night have been a big Kingie. Shame he dusted you but them's the breaks I guess. My mate landed a real nice 82cm Kingie from Parra River Sunday morning on a whole pillie, he was west of Gladesville off a wharf, it took a whole pillie intended for a Flattie on 10lb and took 30mins to subdue. I am heading out tonight to the same spot see if I can nail a few Flatties and Bream, then off the stones with my mate Ben to his spot for some kingies. Better luck next time mate, persistence is the key and you are out there doing it.

Good catch Beaver. School Sharks make great eating

Thats awesome report Ray. Fark how big is that blurter, I dont think I ever seen one quite that big- what a horse!- bet he got a gave some stick like all trev's do. Well done mate! FANTASTIC day out

HOLY F****** CRAP! Now thats some serious fish there. Thats FREAKY!!!

The new one is pretty good, me amd my mate Ash launched from there a few weeks ago and hod no problems. *Good parking *Dual lane ramp *good wharf to tie up to while ya waiting. Good luck!

johnny, did you find the jewies also like live yakka??? I caught my biggest Jewie (went 92cm) on a chicken strip and a 2/0 baitholder in Lane Cove/Riverview area, chasing Jewies for LONG time, been catching jewies LONG time too... caught my first when I was 9yo from harrington Breakwall, got my first 5kg model from same location... have hooked 2 or 3 corkers at different locations but all within the last hour of the run-in and first of the run-out. Jewie fishing requires the ultimate patience, my grandfather has nailed 60lb from Harrington, my father nailed a 35lb from Forster Breakwall, its only a matter of time ... Still waiting, I reckon I have hooked a 50lber before, frigging fight of my live... or at least the 20minutes I ran up and down Fingal Beach near Newcastle on a strip of fresh mullet on a 2/0 suicide hook.... Was fishing 30lb straight through too... Pinged when I got to the end, but she had more then I expected in her, lol SHE WAS A BEAST FOR CERTAIN!!!!!

Bad luck Nathan, but at least you know wheree to go and get the live mullet for next time. Try using a running sinker on a separate leader that anchors to the bottom, then the live bait will be able to swim up and down the whole water column as it pleases. I find that star sinkers as long as they are not too heavy work best followed by snapper sinkers, they will hold the bottom good and allow for the livie to swim around freely- just remember to feed a few metres of line every now and then as the livie will need some slack so it can swim around more. This means also tyhat if a predator picks up the live bait ther is little resistance and the fish will be none the wiser until it swims away to swallow the biat, then strike for all its worth. The trick here is to be patient- let the fish run with the bait, when it starts to slow down or stops to engulf the bait is the time to strike... too early and you will pull the biat from its mouth or it will spit the bait at the first sign of resistance. ... Leave it too late and you are in a whole world of trouble, which usually ends up in you being disted, losing your rig and the fish will go elsewhere for a feed (Fish are pretty smart- once bitten twice shy...) Good luck mate

Rig the gars up on some good wire traces with 4 X 3/0 ganged hooks and then troll them slowly behind a boat. Ge tsome garbage tied and wrap the beak to the wire trace with a few extra trists in it to keep the bait straight as you are trolling. When you troll keep reasonably tight into the structure and no more than say 30m from the chore as this is where majority of fish will be waiting in ambush for a good feed. I used to use this method over in the Eastern Suburbs during summer for Kingies and Taylor- my biggest Taylor was caught on a whole gar trolled and it was nearly 86cm in length, and it broke my wrist it pulled so hard, I was only 9yo when that happened and I will always remeber the sheer size of the fish (I had to snap the tail of the fish to fit it ito a large chest freezer- it weighted 14lb on the node at my mates palce who lives in Vaucluse) If you are LB then do the same rig but chuck it out as far as you can with only LIGHT sinkers, let it sink a bit and wind in erratically with pauses and flicks, the Kingies and Taylor (if they are around) will freakin go NUTS over them. If you want to freeze them just sprinkle a layer of salt in a container, layer them in then sprinke another layer of salt on top, then add another layer of gar, then more salt. They store better in a fridge than a freezer and will last you a few outings. Sorry never used live gars but yakkas are like one of the bet biats I ever used, live, butterflied or even filleted or stripped up they work for all sorts of fish both outside and also in the harbour and rivers.