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seen a lot of sharks in close at Nambucca as well a lot of bait around
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nice rig good work never thaught of that im going to try this as well
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I got smoked by a large model with a live squid 3 weeks ago didn't act quick enough and got reefed whilst setting the drag
my mate seen 4 20 kilo king fish when they were diving got to love that place but too many boat some times in the 1 spot cant be good my mates seen a 2 m grey nurse shark there as well
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went off bellambi two saterdayds ago when it was 2.4 m swell1 boat got a few nice snapper... i got none i was two nervous to get near or anchor any bombie or headland didnt know the area good enough easy to get smashed i saw some good showings on the sounder but no joy..im certaint it was snapper the way they looked on the sounder... but gone with the drift to much weigh to fast i get sick of wasting money not catching fish..... how hard can it be!!!! here fishy fishy fishy come to papa
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they dont even have to be running to catch them sometimes they sit on the bottom u can waid through water and use even just a dolfin tourch if their sitting on the bottom u can put the net straight over them and twitch the net and they will fly into the net repeat the process and before u know it ull have a heap
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my misses recons I should sell my boat cause of lack of fish but I love to just be on the water and periodicly I do catch and shes happy again
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yes and local people from the local fishing platforms are un able to fish on there rock cause tourists occupied all the space its super annoying its like high density fishing
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I have caugh snpper like this at Kiama in close to the rocks also seen another guy on a little tinny catching snappers very close to the rocks in the morning at jb he says when the sun comes up they retreat into deep water
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all the fish are in the spots ya not allowed to fish in dozen that just suck what its supposed to be a free country lol
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nice work with the kings ur are a classic great reads I live to smile and giggle also I learnt to never say to my misses how tired I am after fishing she don't like it lol
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Hi Raiders,
I've been lucky to get out on the water 4 days in the past week and chase kings, after telling my wife as I don't play golf or drink beer I need to network through fishing. She kind of gives me that wife look followed by "fine"....... Thats approval isn't it? I don't question or look up on Google what it means when your wife says it fine, I just start making calls, ask boss for annual leave day and got to bed early that night
Day 1 - Sat week ago
Early start, 2 mates from work 2 hours for 3 yakkas and one squid.
Had to be back by 10am so fished the main harbour.
Drop downrigger down with the tiny squid at the first spot, a rat king takes it as I am lowering it down. Handed rod to my mate who winds in his first 50cm king - all over in 20secs
The three yakkas end up with a similar fate within 1 minute of setting the downrigger
So no bait, 1 hour left we switch to halco metal slices and go back over the spot and they are hot to trot and smashing anything that's in the water. rats are so dumb
So after 20 kingfish for the morning we ended up with 2x 67cm kings between three, the mate that had to leave early and didn't help clean the boat left empty handed
Day 2 - Wed
I'd been talking up the Sydney king fishing to some Adelaide snapper crazy friends
they were heading to Sydney so we locked in a day fishing
After Sat bait catching issues I checked out a likely spot west of the bridge in the dark. Burley up - lots of activity and quickly fill the tank with "yakkas" pick up the guys in circular quay and head out to get slimies near the heads, Too rough and windy and end up with only one yakzilla after 30 minutes. Neither of them get sea sick so we head out the heads and to the inshore reefs
Get out the first "yakka" which turns out to be a slimy! Check the tank and 10 of the yakkas are actually brownish slimies obviously from living in the Parramatta river -nice!
See a Hire boat out there hooked up hard. Rod fully loaded what we expected was the bottom. We lapped him with the downrigger and watched for 5 minutes (yes that long) waiting for the rod to snap. As we got closer it was the owner of said boat hire business hooked up hard on top shelf gear. Next minute the fish runs to the back then the front of the boat with him hot pursuit but he got reefed on the last run and it was over
We idle away to some marks one bait on top one on the downrigger - hungry rat takes the top bait, bait runner 8000d screams off and it's sounds awesome, until he turns the handle drag kicks in and fish of 50cm is skull dragged to the boat. They don't even want a photo
We then sound up a big school and go through 15 baits and 15 fish for one keeper every time we stopped for a downrig strike the surface bait went off. In search of a reef donkey we put on yakzilla and downrig it over different marks until a 64cm king with eyes big then it's stomach manages to hook itself
Go back to the original mark, still heaps of kings so switch to jigs. Triple hook up of rats and heaps follow them up we get a least another 10 with only one solid hook up which they got the fish to the boat with the assist hook hanging out its mouth. One shake and the fish of the day is gone. All that action for 3 keepers
Took mate who left early sat some nice fresh skinless and boneless Kingy fillets into work the next day for his dinner. Gave a big tailor to my neighbour who seems to like them. Never eaten one myself
Day 3 - Sat
After talking it up at work, take my bosses boss out for the third time after a kingfish after two zero days. Wake up to a southerly... I am sure that's not a good sign. Undeterred I head to my new bait spot and fill tank with micro yakkas and slimies - it's looking good now!
Cut a long story short - epic fail! and I tried everywhere in the harbour! When it's the third trip with the big boss and looking like failure I was trying every trick I knew. I am sure they were around but he is just an albatross and I didn't even see a single fish on the sounder. My team mates where SMS ing asking for updates and taking the piss which didn't help.
Day 4 -Monday
Monday this week with a customer from work. Chinese guy who a gun rock fisherman who's always showing me pics of surgeon fish, grouper and other rock beasts but never fished from a boat. After telling him to just brings snacks and his best rod, he rocks up with so much stuff! Red bulls, cakes, chips, water, 3 types of bait, 3 fishing rods and is keep as to get onto a king. Catching bait was lots of fun with a mix of slimies and yakkas. Head out and troll South head, downrig and surface bait out, top one gets nailed with a nice sound from the bait runner until he turns the handle on the 8000d and it sounds like a coffee grinder! Maybe shouldn't have let my mates jig with it on Wed..... He lands a 60cm king, but the reel is cactus. I left all the good gear at home except my jig rod so we chuck one of his rods on and continue. 2 rats further up the harbour by then it's 10am and I'm suppose to be at work (should have been home an hour earlier) but he's my top customer so we try another hour for zero and head home
Race home at 35 knots unhook boat, shower and at work ready for lunch
late that afternoon my customer rings me and asks me to come downstairs and see him. To thank me for the trip and to say happy Chinese New Year he had bought me a new Penn bait runner to replace the dead shimano I am really embarrassed
Then I get home and my neighbours son is cleaning out crap he's got stored at his dad's place and says "do you want my old downrigger?" - old the Penn unit is current model and used a couple of times! Nice
Never owned Penn gear now I got two pieces given to me in one day
Lots of kingfish for dinner this week which was nice. So sweet when they are barely legal
Mmmmmm. NamJim Kingfish for dinner
Barely legal.........
Jason
ps I googled what it means when you wife says fine. I'm not going fishing this weekend. And am solo Mr Mum Sat and Sunday as punishment.... But the weekend after....... My brother is here, so I can go fishing both days right???
u are an absolute classic great read isn't it funny what ull do for a king nice work
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top job ya gotta love jew well done im itchy again
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sound good maybe keep in contact for next trip for a marlinathon lol
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hi people we just got back from a good holiday in Nambucca
whilst I was there went Jew fishing nearly every nite managed 1 at 60 cm on a paternoster rig with a herring bait caught earlier..
we out fishing with my partners brother launched at shelly beach at about 6 am in the morning cruises around south to the front of the river bar to pick up some live yakka's and slimmys for about half an hour got out on the spot a few mile and dropped anchor and burley up .
pretty much we caught every few minuets 1 pearl perch 2 snapper 2parrot fish 4 sharks 2 eels 1 nayningi we saw a large group of king come to the boat but could not get any customers we stayed there for a few hours and had a great time .
we pulled up the anchor and just started to put some lures and skites in the water when at the back of the boat I saw a marlin com right up to the lures...... it looked at each one my mate was having trouble with setting his drag so it lot interest and didn't see it again once his drag was sett we trolled around for about 20 min then started to head home about 230 pm .
just 2 mile from shore we had a double hook up and two small tuna I of which was landed got back and it was done what a great day we had
I went out buy myself the next day solo in my boat to just troll for marlin king dolphin fish for 3 hours not a touch
in the 10 days we were the I heard at least 3 occasions of hook ups with marlin and 3 captures 1 in Coffs on a kayak 1 300 m off southwest rocks and 1 just off Valla beach in about 45 m of water again I saw this 1 on the back of this guys ute nice fish
a spear fisho shoot 1 large Spaniard and 1 large Sampson fish I just love the place but will take a life time to work out ill be back next year been every year for 6 years
this is the jew I got the year before my pb I just love fishing it is a disease for my cant stop thinking about it
any how thank you for reading sorry about the lay out -
apparently there have been snapper caught off the beach at currawong and a lot of rat kings just off shore in close to the bommie I also saw a very large king taken 1 month ago on a live bait 17 kilo or so big big it was also some morwong also some large fatties about
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hey guys im new here in regards to kings a lot around 55-60 cm... 1 guy at the boat ramp had a 1 they recon was 15 kilo it was very fat caught along the cliff at jb live yellow tail down under a bait ball around midday.. so he said but u could never know maybe just a bum steer to keep us away.... I know they are about but recon u just got to be Johnny on the spot they can be anywhere they did have a down rigger onboard 24 kilo stand up rod 100pound jinkki leader ..
im heading dowm
n Friday cant wait
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hi there mate im new here.. I went to Fiji too last year only went on 1 charter due to free beer at resort ... saw 1 mahi mahi flying around the back we got all exited but no hook up ...damn got some small reef fish that was it next time I know what to do
Fished JB yesterday
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I found at jb the other week the kings wouldn't hit anything except the down rigger at 15 meters deep same spot using live or dead squid or yakkas they even hit strip baits all fish went around 60 cm all released but good fun