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Afternoon all, Well time for report number 2 after a fish last night. Headed out from Tunks Park, Northbridge about 8pm. While heading out past the Spit we got a lovely visit from Maritime about our lack of an all round white light. After some quick fixing with torches then an LED strip we were back on our way and hit up Balmoral for a Yakka session. Was fairly quiet but managed 3 little ones and after about an hour were off to North Head. We anchored just by Old Mans Hat and sent out a couple of Yakka and pilly blocks. Wasn't a brilliant session but managed to get bites without hooking up. Ended up catching one Pike on the pilly and losing a squid on the Yakka at the boat before deciding to call it and headed over to Clifton Gardens. From here we again getting bites without hooking on. Finally got a hook up only to be greeted by a Moray Eel tangled up in two rigs. After getting rid of him we found a Rock Cod??? but nothing with any quality. A quick snooze in Balmoral Moorings before heading back over to North Head as the sun rose with a quick troll outside the heads. With no luck there either we moved back into Old Mans Hat for a final fish of the morning. We had more success with a couple of Trevally and a little Red Snapper. Nothing too special today but a nice collection. Heres to hoping for a few keepers next time. Cheers

Cheers guys, Maybe a upgrade in tackle on the trace for next weekend then. Cheers

Evening all, Was fishing the night of Saturday 6th April in the late evening. Headed out from Northbridge on a 4.7 Stegi and over to Balmoral bait grounds for a selection of Yakkas. From here we went to the back of Northhead and had a quality session. Caught dozens of Tailor, a few baby snapper and a nice Yellowtail Bream but the most interesting part occurred about 10:30pm. We had a Pilchard cube down and had been sitting on it for about 5 mins with no bites. As we prepared for a rod changed began to wind in something hit the bait and headed out towards New Zealand. Ran at full speed for about 15 seconds while we were trying to get ourselves together again. It paused for about 5 seconds as we adjusted the drag up and as we began to wind it ran again. Again it ran for about 15 seconds before it bit the line through. We were fishing with a Sz 9 Bigmouth hook on a 20lb line. We have never had anything that big and was stunned it ran out of the heads rather than to the rocks. Any ideas as to what it may have been? Will be heading back there on Friday week so hope for a repeat performance and maybe this time finding what it is!