dadwithnoidea

what time did you finish up?

why do all the blackfish fisherman seem to have the best laughs out there?? seems great...where do i apply? speaking of which...for a complete noob, where in this torrential weather could i try inside sydney harbour for a fish tomorrow morning? would even love to give your dark art a try. hopefully 100's of you will answer tonight because it is so miserable to go out fishing..... thanks in advance Mat

Yay!!! fishraider just got even better....fishing reports when i dont catch a fish....and....helping the terminally helpless. 2 great new ideas to help us completely useless fishermen out

Yesterday afternoon in the sunshine I had a fish at a couple of spots at Roseville. Burleyed up with bread and could get some yakkas off the rocks at both spots. Maybe a little deeper but they all seem to be big solid ones.

haha..great read...the things we admit that fishing does to us. You have inspired me to have a crack at a squid sometime soon Mat

I guess 'donut', like circular...not nuts made into dough, which would make your eyes go like donuts

Maybe I wasn't serious enough

There still is a national park fee $7, but I have been of an evening and never been booked. Even if you buy a ticket and fish late into the late you need to be careful because it expires at midnight and not 24hours The other night I parked down near the kayak ramp and road my pushy loaded up with gear right up into the park and up the track...Might've been a good idea to take spare head torch batteries, those speed humps through the picnic ground sneak up on you on the way home in the dark.

Thanks, that made my afternoon...I promise I was laughing with you, not at you..

How did you go? Any jews play along?

Great story, great landing, great fish!!!

Nice session Tom..Great fish Went Sunday morning early and the tailor and yakkas were everywhere but nothing else to follow. Also flicked a couple of different plastics and one black one with sparkly flecks through it kept getting chomped but missing the hook. Guess it was tailor.

I had a couple of hours spare this afternoon before school pickups. Grabbed a couple of squid and some prawns and headed up to MH. Threw a squid out on my bigger rod hoping for a jewie or flattie and set up my little spin rod for a prawn. 6lb line, tiny sinker to get my prawn out as it was quite windy and a size 10 long shank. Hoping for some tailor or yakkas to put out as live bait, so using the tiny hook. First cast got my this little silver darty looking thing. Back it goes into the water and new prawn on my hook, I was peeling them too. Prawn must have been in the water for 10secs and my rod buckles over and line goes screaming off!! A few anxious minutes later and I have a 70cm jew sitting on the bank next to me. The hook was nicely in the corner of his mouth but boy it looked little compared to him. My first jew!!! wooootttt..I apologise to everyone within a few kilometres as I must have made a lot of noise. I managed a big flattie as well but got bitten off right the edge...I guess it would have been the same size or so. That was on a livie. Thank you people of fishraider...I know I wasn't exactly targeting that fish with that rod, but if it wasn't for a few people here I wouldn't have been in the right spot at all

great report!! Makes me worry a little when i sit out all night in my little kayak. I am in balgowlah too....maybe I need to stalk you out to there one night and have a fish with you. Any sharks are yours in the boat thought!! Mat

I have had great success with mullet lately using my jig for yakkas. I take the sinker off the bottom and attach a small bubble float. I bait up all the hooks with bread. Then burley with a small amount of bread and cast past the burley and slowly retrieve back through it. By retrieving it keeps all the hooks close to the surface. At least gives you 6 shots at them per cast.