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    Fishing Sydney | Crabs Flathead and Flouder Botany Bay - Videos

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    14 hours ago, Yowie said:

    Looks like a lazy day of fishing, however, no need to bust the boiler.(have done that myself a few times) A great feed of fish and crabs.

    Yeah man, sometimes its good to just go out and enjoy the day, no need to stress about anything

    14 hours ago, flatheadluke said:

    Some clever fishing there fellas and a great result - well done 👍 

    Yeah thanks man, gotta make the most of it

    Fishing Sydney | Crabs Flathead and Flouder Botany Bay - Videos

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    Hey All, Welcome to another video!!!

    Havent been able to get out since our last video, due to weather and other commitments. We have been neglecting the crabs quite a bit this season so we decided to give the kingfish a rest for abit and see if we cant get a nice feed of blue swimmers.
    Whilst waiting around for the crabs we had planned to target Flathead and Flounder with our usual method of drifting with white bait. The wind and tide was in our favour that day so it turned out to be fairly productive on the fishing front, although the crabs werent as productive as previous years maybe due to the increased number of boats targeting them


    As always would love any feedback on the video as im always looking to improve!

     

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    Botany Bay kingfish madness 75-85cm bagged out!!!

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    4 hours ago, Blade said:

    @Botany Bay Fishing nice video, I live in the Sutherland and have never fished Botany Bay but have decided to give it a go. I looked at some of your other videos and was hoping you could point me in the right direction as to where to get some squid, I will be launching at the Foreshore boat ramp. 

    Any help appreciated, looking forward to more videos.

    Cheers

     Hey mate,

    Definitely launch for foreshore, there are squid all over kurnell especially around the Captain Cooks landing and directly opposite around bare island.

    If it is your first time fishing the bay be cautious around bare island as it can get very dicey there

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    Botany Bay kingfish madness 75-85cm bagged out!!!

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    5 minutes ago, big Neil said:

    Good video mate. One thing I could suggest you do is introduce YOURSEVES as well as BBF. Viewers like to feel that they KNOW who they're watching. Maybe some drone footage of the bite and landing of the squid and the Kingies. Just trying to be helpful. Cheers, bn

    Yes mate great idea!!
    Absolutely love that i never even thought of it! 🤣
    upgrading camera and grabbing a drone is definitely on our to do list!

    Botany Bay kingfish madness 75-85cm bagged out!!!

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    Jeez, havent the kings been firing lately in the bay,

    We went out on 2 separate trips on the first trip we caught a total of 7 kingfish keeping 5 with the largest going 83
    Then on the second trip we caught a total of 6 kingfish keeping 3 with the largest going 85. We have been fortunate enough to avoid the plagues of rats with the majority of the fish being over 75cm.

    Live Squid ofcourse outperformed all other livebait by far, roughly 4 - 1 when compared to live yakkas. Both days we managed fairly high numbers of calamari first day catching 6 and the second day catching 9. Around 3 hours each day catching live squid to only have the kingfish smash them all within 30-40mins.

    As always would love any feedback on the video as im always looking to improve!
     

     

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    Nearly Bagged out on flatties caught 14!! with video

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    Hey All,

    We headed offshore for another day of bottom bashing for Flathead.

    Simple Paternoster rig with Salted Slimey Mackerel done the trick and outfished all other baits on the day. We were very active in finding the Flathead constantly moving. If your not catching legal flatties within 5 minutes of dropping it's best to up and move until you do. After 3 hours of fishing, we decided to head back with 14 fish biggest going 50cm.

    Its good to be able to stock the freezer again and have flatties cant wait to get onto the crabs!!

     

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    Sydney Offshore Flathead

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    Started early morning collecting live slimy Mackerel for a chance at a good kingfish and to stock up on slimy fillets to salt.

    Then headed offshore to try and find the deep sea Flathead. We headed north out of Botany Bay towards Coogee and started searching for them in 30 meters of waters being plagued by Sargent bakers and red rock cods we bounced around eventually working our way out to 50 meters by then we were only just north of Cape Banks. Where we found the patch and boated 6 within 20 minutes by then the wind had picked up and we were forced back inside the bay. All in all, we ended the day with 7 flatties largest going 55 and the smallest around 40

     

     

     

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    Show us your best fish you ever caught and tell us why???

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    It was actually a few weeks ago. Some of you may remember the post.

    I've been fishing with my father since i can remember started out with beach fishing and eventually we got a boat about 10yrs ago And all of a sudden it was me waking dad up in the early mornings!!!

    We have pretty much fished Botany Bay ever since!! Alot of the time just targetting the bread and butter species for a nice feed Flatties, Crabs and Calamari. We would target kings when its the right time of year and we wouldnt get much lukc the odd king here and there and it was never my father that would catch the kingfish always me!

    Which was great for bragging rights 🙂 

     

    That all changed when dad hooked and landed not only his first legal king but the biggest we had caught on the boat!! Coming in at a nice fat 78cm.

    He later said to me that was the best fish he had ever caught and it was the best weekend of fishing he has ever had 🙂 

     

     

     

     

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    78 and 77cm fat Kings with video!

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    19 hours ago, quintrex52 said:

    Nice fish guys.. They have been so fussy.. I was fishing there on Wednesday and had similar results. Marking alot of kings but they were almost all holding near the bottom. Downrigged for an hour without a touch on fresh squid, so decided to spot lock and fish straight up and down on 30lb gear ended catxhing 5 of them, suprising all legal fish bar one.  Also lost a good one but i think mr bullshark is lurking around

    yeah they were super fussy on the day i was fishing near bottom where the fish on the sounder were holding and wasnt getting anything. Wound up above mid water column and the moment i did that you could see on the sounder the kingies coming up and attacking the squid!!

    Then a few moments later was the hookup

     

    78 and 77cm fat Kings with video!

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    2 hours ago, M1100S said:

    Enjoy watching your Vids BBF....

    out of curiosity how long do you guys stay in the on spot... for example on that day how long were u there for? you obviously burley up as well do you?? any other things you caught on the day??

     

    i always get frustrated after 30 minutes of nothing happening and move on from my spots, i guess its my inexperience, and patience is an important part of fishing i would say 

    Thanks for the support man 🙂 

    Thats a tough one mate. It is a mixture of patience and confidence if your confident your in the right spot at the right time of day with the right bait and your confident the fish will come around then stay.

    Usually though as a rule of thumb 45 minutes - 1hr just to give the spot a chance.If we are anchored at a spot that we know produces and for whatever reason theres nothing happening and the sounder isnt lighting up and the burley isnt bringing them in then definitely 45 -60 minutes till we move

    78 and 77cm fat Kings with video!

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    4 hours ago, kingie chaser said:

    Nice video & report.

    I don't think I am goin to waste my time getting yakka's any more.

    Seems like all they really want to take is squid!

    Ahh mate seriously theres been days where we have gone and caught 5-6 live squid and went to target kings all day only to leave and come home with 5-6 squid for a feed🤣

    And other times the kings wont touch whole live squid but will take squid strips!

    And other days they will hit the lures!

    they are so picky!!!

    78 and 77cm fat Kings with video!

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    Posted · Edited by Botany Bay Fishing

    Hey guys we headed out to make the most of the great weather on Saturday and Sunday. On saturday our plan was to fish the high tide for an hour or so then head over to towra to see if there were any crabs about. Unfortunately there were no crabs but the kings were out to play only taking live squid. Ended the day with 1 hookup and one bust off catching 1 fat king at 78cm.

    Sunday was pretty much the same, except we wanted to solely target kings for the high tide. We had difficulties catching the live squid only managing two, and we had 1 hookup and 1 bust off again!! We left with another kingfish this time going 77cm but much much fatter!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUhL-71cpP0&t=138s

     

     

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    Botany Bay Flathead and Big Whiting!!!

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    Hey guys, we headed out on back to back trips to stock up on some Flathead, our last 3 trips we have a managed a solid feed of flatties.

    First trip was 3 Flathead all over 45 and one fish going 53. Our second and third trip is what you see here in this video.

    First day we managed a 65 and 55cm Flathead. To follow it up on the third day with a nice mixed bag of fish with the standout being that stonker whiting!!!

     

    Flathead, Slimy Mackerel, Calamari, Tailor and Kingfish are all starting to fire within the bay. There have even been reports of pan size Snapper being caught.

     

     

    Feel free to ask any questions and ill be sure to answer! :) 

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    Botany Bay Offshore Reef locations???

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    Posted · Edited by Botany Bay Fishing

    Hi guys planning on heading out on Sunday since its such a great day. We usually only fish inside the bay and around the heads but we are going to go out to drift for flatties around Maroubra and coogee etc etc. We thought if there were any reefs in the area or if anyone knows of rough locations around that area we could have a look around for to try our luck on snapper and mowies  etc.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance 😊

     

    Also any help on finding flatties around there would help also 😂😂

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