Botany Bay Fishing

We headed out to Botany on Good Friday the 19th for one last crack at the crabs, we managed 4 good sized blue swimmers and we also had a productive day of Flathead fishing. We caught 5 flatties in total all in the low 40's. We then headed out on Easter Monday solely targeting Flathead it was a much more productive day we caught 5 flathead in total and the biggest coming in at a very fat at 65cm caught on 6Lb line it was a great fight! We also caught a rat king at 63cm again on 6Lb which was an even better fight. All in all we had a great day out Caught a nice feed of Flathead and had great fun on light gear. The Bay has been on fire the past months and we haven't came back without a feed in close to 10 fishing trips. As always would love any feedback on the video

Great fish and great photo well done 👍

100% through the cartilage in the front of the nose that way the fish will stay alive for hours, Also could put a second (snelled) hook in the upper or lower back of the fish making sure to not to go too deep and to avoid the lateral line

Hey all went out last Thursday and posted "Botany Bay mixed bag and lost the big one" So we headed out today again in search of some larger kings inside the bay but also with the idea in mind of still catching a feed of fish. So we headed to our usual squid grounds where we caught 5 nice sized squid I was really tempted to keep some for a feed but decided to send them out live. We then bounced around the bay trying to find the baitschools and in-turn the Kingfish we tried the drums and molineaux but it being a weekend there were 22 boats, 4 kayaks and a team of divers there with a few seals on the break wall. Caught 2 or 3 leatherjackets and decided to up anchor and move, we headed to our favourite kingy spot near Bare Island and managed one legal king. All in all seemed the overall bite wasnt as hot today as it was on thursday which was later confirmed at the boat ramp by other fishos we weren't successful. Even though this trip and our last wasn't succesful and we didnt get our 'big' King i'm still happy that on both days we managed a feed of fish. PS. Turned last Thursdays feed of leather jacket into a seafood risotto and was one of the nicest meals i have had. I wanted to get some feedback for my youtube channel currently im of the mindset to ensure that the videos i upload have better content and contain better catches, but the downside to that is that i dont upload as frequently. So would you guys as the viewer prefer this current format as stated above or would you rather a more casual approach where the videos are more of an update on the day of fishing so you guys as the 'average fisho' know whats going on in the bay? Let me know what you guys think would to hear back from you https://www.youtube.com/user/m1croe

Oh okay i have heard of people using trebles on their rigs, do you find that it does increase hookup rate?

Hey everyone, managed to head out on thursday for a nice change being one of the only times going out during the week thats not in the holidays. Our plan was to target kingfish and hopefully bag a few keepers, so started out nice and early hitting squid an hour before dark at watts reefs, didnt catch any. We moved over to our usual spot at kurnell at first light and boated 4 live squid perfect for kingys. We decided to anchor at the drums with a strong burley trail to start catching some nice fish (which usually works well for us this time of year) after 30mins with no takers or even fish on the sounder we pulled anchor and re positioned still within the drums but closer to the channel stayed for another 30 and no takers. So we moved again, we decided to go to molineaux point being that there wouldnt be 20 boats to compete with. We lost two live squid to leather jackets before we changed tactics and actually started targetting the leathers managing to catch 7 with 3 over 30cm biggest going 37cm which were all turned into an amazing seafood risotto (highly highly recommend). With 2 live squid left we started fishing the top of the water column where 2 rat kings were landed one on live squid the other on a squid head. Then we hooked the big one on 50lb gear with drag near 70% spat the hooks after a 5 minute fight. To put that into perspective the two rat kings 62 and 64cm were caught with the same setup and drag setting and were boated within a minute or two. Then the storm picked up around 10:30ish so we headed for the boat ramp with a feed of leather jackets and a good days fish

Hey guys i recently made a video on how we rig our live squid just a simple snell rig through the tip of the hood and one near the head. So what i wanted to know was how everyone else goes about rigging their livies and what hook size you use.

Great catch 👍👍

Great work, can't complain with that bag of fish 👍

Thats phenomenal!!!

That looks like an amazing feed, great work there

A hoodlum/hoody is a kingfish over a meter

Great work, Its such a good experience catching flatties at that size on plastics.

Awesome work boys 👍

Absolutely awesome catch, and off the beach aswell something to be proud of for sure Great work!!

i sort of agree with what your saying, i try to add extra detail in the video description. Im still trying to figure out how to make the video as detailed as possible and add as much information in them as possible without having a long run time, I think for stuff like catching livebait and going crabbing is pretty straightforward and i try not to make a convoluted video. This is great feedback and ill will defintely start adding more info and detail into my videos as best as i can.

any one of these jigs would work best, and as for style some people actually jig them and work them as you would a jig, Although we find with a little squid on each hook and with the livies around your boat they will smash it straight away. Try any method and figure out which works best for you

Awesome work there Id love to know how you sourced the poddies

Hello everyone Time for another video, Nothing as great and fancy as my last video although this one really gets back to basics on how to catch livies, Slimeys and yakkas in particular. I know most of us know how to catch our bait but this is for those new to fishing or new to fishing in Botany Bay. Added bonus some kingy fun at the end including a bust off. As always all feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read and watch

Great report @Scratchie have always been interested in being able to get a good feed of snapper, How far out were you, 10-12m i would assume not that far? My father and i fish out of Botany bay and love any advice you have cheers in advance

It certainly was, more information in the video for ya. You can see exactly where around towra they were caught

had an absolute horse of a slimey out along with a live squid i think the slimey was bigger then 35 and it got smashed by a rat king

Great catch

Thanks for the feedback guys, greatly appreciated went out for another day of crabbing used the same method and got another great feed, the female blues definitely taste better than the males

Fish carcasses are the best, we find flathead, trevally and mullet are the go