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.

Hey Tom Had a fish around the bridge in deep creek with my 4 year old the other day. Caught a few mullet...they fight like crazy. He loved it. Had a thumper ray glide under us there too in only a couple of feet of water. Beautiful to watch. Must have been almost a couple of feet across I left a small poddy out in case a hungry flattie went past when we paddled around a bit more but nothing interested. I spent most of my time getting bread back on his hooks I will try to get out again soon, will try for these flatties. Are you only using SP? Mat

Yay, this is my first report....albeit by accident. Hit Balmoral for some yakkas. Burleyed up and caught them easy. Just about to head off with them when my tiny bait rod, which had a small amount of yakka skin left on one hook took off. Up came a nice fat 35cm blackfish. 100% not my intention of catching it but it is still going in as my first PB

narrabeen today on your new yak?? If you are leaning towards MH, but not the bridge, where would I lean?? :)I had another go there on Sunday night with yakkas, strips of mullet and squid. My live bait went crazy at one stage, I presume something was chasing it. Nothing happened though Mullet not touched and squid got a couple of small tentative bites Or did you mean grab the yakkas at balmoral and stay there off the wharf? Thanks for your help Tom

I will have a few hours off tomorrow afternoon. I will get the last 3 hours of the rising tide. Where should I fish? I am from near Manly, but can't decide whether I try MH, Narrabeen or a beach. Happy to grab some yakkas, bait or throw some sp's. Would really appreciate some tips as I seem to spend more time procrastinating on the best spot Thanks

I went again on Sunday night and due to a lot of people there before me I fished the bit between wharf and pool...nothing, not a sight of one. Most of the people gave up and went home but one bloke on the other side started talking about all these little fish zooming around. He was happy for me to move over and got stacks pretty quick. Thats twice now on the side with light that there are plenty and twice in the dark for zero. Gotta love learning a little bit each time

We have the odd bit of success from the sand The ODD bit???? thats a nice haul I would love some help to be able to show me how to catch that 'odd' fish

Thanks for all the tips. Going to go give it another whirl tonight.

Armed with great advice from mack attack off I go on Tues night to try and catch some yakkas. Burleyed up at Balmoral wharf and within minutes I could see little rockets zooming around in the dark. Straight into them then realised I hadn't filled my bucket with water. Got that done with one hand while holding first yakka in other hand. Second one came in fast behind it, straight into the bucket then jumped straight out....hmmm, maybe too much water. Third one came in, off the hook, bounced off the wharf steps and straight back in.... Refining technique with each fish and after an hour had enough. Only had an hour or so to fish with them and didn't catch anything but was so, so happy that I had mastered yakka fishing. Thank you Tom for all your help. Told my mate all about it and he was keen to come out Wed night. Planned to get going a bit earlier, grab our live bait then have a good go with them. We fished 5 different wharves, including Balmoral twice for nothing!! I burleyed the same or maybe even more. We even ended up back at Balmoral at exactly the same time of night to check if that made a difference. Anyone have any ideas about what happened? The storm came through on Thurs, could that have changed things the night before? Or is my mate just bad luck? Now I realise I have not mastered yakka fishing, but maybe had a fluke on Tues.

If my Coles prawns are under servo prawns, what's above servo prawns?

Managed to sneak out of work for an hour at Roseville today. I think I fished the last hour to dead low tide, so I guess that was probably the worst time possible. Fished one rod with a whole ganged pilchard and one with an unweighted prawn. Managed to get a beautiful hour in the sun with no fish interrupting my afternoon!! hmmmmm, I think I need more practice. I was on the sandy side from opposite the ramp and wandered to opposite the kayak steps. I was in Coles and they had fancy green peeled prawns on special, so I used those. Is that OK? They were pretty big....tasty looking to me, almost got a fire going and cooked the rest up