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Thanks mate! Fishing is serious business sometimes 😂

Cheers mate. Glad you enjoyed it.

Awesome fish. I like the sound of that manic moment with the multiple hook ups and boating struggles. Well done.

Thanks for the kind words guys! i really appreciate it. Haha thanks Richard and yep, just a simple double hop. I didn't because although it appeared as though I had a lot more room on the right, I didn't actually have room. It's due to the 'fish eye' effect of the camera that everything is more open on the right side. By standing where I was, I could adjust the angle of the line around the boat/buoy. I thought that was a higher percentage play than being on the right and having it run left under the buoy (as you could see the fish ran against the wall on the right, suggesting it would do the same toward the left side if I was on the right). I hope that makes some sense!

G'day guys! I haven't had much opportunity to drop a report but I'm still here and I'm still alive lol. I hit the Bay Run on the Parramatta River the other day to get some exercise and chase some bream just walking the banks flicking light lures. I was using a 2-4kg rod, size 2000 reel spooled, 6lb braid and 6lb leader and the conditions were overcast. I was flicking mainly a Zman grubz in watermelon red on a 1/16oz jighead and after a nice bream caught close to shore, my lure was hammered by a rat king. It was a tense fight mostly because I couldn't decide where best to fight it as I was in close proximity to a boat on a mooring and a small groyne/rockwall that was jutting out parallel off the bank. After a few blistering runs (as you would expect) I guided the fish into shore. I was elated and it was a bit of a nice surprise to cap off the session. I wasn't doing anything special in particular, just doing small twitches and hops with the lure in the pursuit of bream. Anyone that can cast a light lure could do this. Thanks for reading!

Awesome stuff. He looks stoked.

Looks like a Sydney Cardinalfish.

Kinda looks like a grass emperor.

Not necessary but it helps a lot. I pretty much always let it hit the bottom.

That was a good read. A good bedtime story.

You are probably not doing anything wrong in particular. Those lures do attract a lot of attention even if dead-sticked. If you can feel the bites and are striking to set hooks then it's possible the fish are pickers (small fish, toadies, small jackets etc.). In that case, move on from that spot or try more resilient lures.

I wouldn't rule it out but without having caught it, it's hard to say either way what it was. ------- Nice cod, that's a solid model. Stewy caught one of those up the Cooks River a couple of months ago too. Are the jacks still up at Manly lagoon (after the fish kill)?

Nicely done guys. Great fish that , Stewy.

Hey connico. That boat actually belongs to @J0nn0. He might have more to say about it.

Mini report: It was certainly a beautiful day out there at Molineux Point and about 10-15 other boats thought so too! The bite was a lot tougher today (compared to the previous outing with Stewy which was simply magical and it was always going to be hard to top) but the kings were definitely around. We didn't have to look very hard in the water to see them. They were a little bit picky but they were taking squid strips which is what most people were using. Whole prawns also seemed to do the trick. It was nice to see everyone hook up at some stage, including a father and young daughter duo who looked like they were having a ball. My favourite moment was seeing her dad take control of the net duties and try and land her kingy. For us, Jonno got his first king which was very exciting to see. I didn't take photos as I should have but I did capture his first below. Well done mate! Also congrats to Donna for ticking that off in style too. It was nice to see Stewy and Donna hooking up in front of us too. All in all, it was a great day, the swell was small and the wind was calm.

Certainly was. It was good to get out. Thanks Donna. I'm glad to hear that. Yes, he should be the designated netter when you fish with him. Thanks Jeff. A cracking day it was. It had that magical feeling just like that night on the Hawkesbury we all had at the social several years back. Thanks mate.

I lost count of how many kings were hooked, lost or landed. I had 4 batteries for the GoPro and I was running out of memory and battery. You will see in the video I was recording very conservatively toward the end and lot of our catches were simply not recorded. Kings were even swimming out from the under the boat at one stage. It was hard to miss them. All fish caught were released back into the water. Overall, it was a great day out with Stewy. Thanks for the company and the awesome fishing. I appreciate you taking me out.

<Continued> So onto Molineux. Obviously, this is the first time I can remember that we have bait fished so we didn't have the right tackle for the job. Our makeshift rig was simply a jighead around 3/8oz with a strip of squid cut out from a pair of scissors with moderate difficulty. We dropped out baits out behind the boat and held onto our rods with anticipation. We were running heavy gear for the rat kings we were expecting. I was using a PE3 Daiwa Saltiga 7'1" with a Daiwa Catalina 4000H running about 30lb braid and 30lb FC leader. It didn't take long after that. In summary, it was a good gym session in front of Molineux Point. The fish were all in the 50-low 60s class. There might have been a few bigger ones in the mix from the bust offs/smokings. We fished near locked up drags due to the countless other boats and lines out there. Even the Police we out at some stage making sure everyone was abiding by the maritime laws (and possibly having a look to see how the kingies were going).

Earlier this week, Stewy took me out for a session on the Cooks for Bream and Jews on his Fishraider boat. With us both being avid jew and bream fisherman, that was the plan anyway. We were on the water bright and early at first light and as the day played out, it became evident that the Cooks River would be a hard slog. We managed to catch a flathead (5" jerkshad) and a bream (on his new crab soft plastics which look unreal) before the change of plan to head into Botany bay and have a look around the corner at Molineux Point. Stewy also managed a cod of some variety - probably an estuary cod if someone can confirm. This was taken right at the end of the day. Now about Molineux, there have been reports of rat kings being caught here for the good part of a week (even reports posted here) and so we had our hopes up. The kings weren't busting up and we did work some stickbaits and poppers along a few of the markers on the way to the point. The point looked quiet as we passed by as the kings didn't seem to have gone through yet so instead of sitting down and waiting for them, we decided to go hunt some calamari squid. In short, we caught plenty. Well, Stewy caught plenty and I had to resort to netting them. The green-eyes were firing this morning and by the time I was able to store away the squid, put aside the net and have a cast, Stewy would be onto another sucker. This would repeat many times until we filled the bucket. Every jig we tried, we hooked up but if you guys were wondering what secret weapon Squidmaster Stewy had on, it was a Yamashita 1.8 in orange tiger. I made sure to get the scoop for you guys and I will certainly be getting a few of those jigs. 😎

Well done Stewy. Sounds like a ripper session.

That's a top bag of reds Jeffro!

Well done guys. Looks like the you made the most of the leave pass for sure.

Nice one mate. It looks like you did well with a nice bag of fish. I did hear about the absence of pelagics lately. Were you able to find any black jews or GTs? I assume you went south?

Nice one Stewy. It's a good day when the gaff has to come out!

Awesome work Jeff. Looks like a good start already since they didn't get sea sickness.