GoingFishing

Awesome stuff as always champ. Some cracking reds there

I think my second biggest pet hate would be those who rock up late, for any trip. When you have got out of bed at 430am, packed the gear, the boat, filled up fuel and ready to rock n roll....only to then have to wait 40 mins because they slept in. That cheeses me off big time. Gee i tell u it feels good to let it all out 🤣🤣

I hear you. But on a 6.2m boat listening to someone vomit from 2m away......... again and again and again. It ruins the trip ! Ive had to cancel a few trips for the sake of seasickness. If they had taken a seasickness tablet and still got seasick..so be it. i can live with that. But to stubbornly refuse, like taking a tablet is a bruise to your ego, only to then ruin my trip ! NAH AH - BLACK LIST for the rest of your life buddy.

Ill start 1. Refuses to take seasickness tablet and provides rock solid assurance he doesnt get sea sick........ Gets sea sick

Perhaps what she meant Baz is "you have too many rods comparatively with how often you actually go fishing" 🤣

Thats a horsie trev for sure. Good on you for letting her swim to fight another day. Thats about as big as they get in Sydney ! not sure what size the fishraider record currently stands

Cheers mate Thanks Jeff - was good to be out. Ive missed bottom bashing. Bellambi this weekend hopefully

Excellent report fellas ! That sounds like an adrenalin packed session. Im curious fellas, how are you presenting your hooks on your bait. Shouldnt have that many pulled hooks after a run.

It is possible. But Botany Bay becomes very hard fishing in winter, especially land based. My advice is to try some new spots if your only after flathead. The other alternative is to buy yourself a beach set up and target some of the winter species like salmon and tailor off the beaches.

Thanks Gordo - Hope you will catch a few more next time !

Great result Z & Wayno. nothing like a solid feed of flatty fillets. Conditions look great. Hey i noticed PLASTICS always appear in your reports in uppercase 😆. PS - out of curiousity - were there any discernable differences between the vacant drift lands and where you found the fish? (depth, change in wind/drift direction, adjacent to reef, etc)

This is why you should never buy Yamaha................. andddddddd release the popcorn

$250 for a blue slip or inspection. Thats ridiculous overcharge ! CAMPR is right, the charges by RMS are fixed now (circa $60) and it wouldnt have taken him $200 in labour cost to do an inspection. Either way - i would argue a total reinspection is not required. if you can provide him with a corrected receipt he should be able to have it registered based off his previous inspection as long as it is the same trailer. Its not like he needs to revisit brakes, lights, braces etc

Oh dont worry bud...id pick a 2 stroke over 4 stroke any day. Thats not where i was headed ! Just wanted to point out that for some spare coin you could get something newer and possibly more.reliable. With boats, being parked for a long time is not good.. theyre not like cars

Hey Lastworm - does the motor have any sentimental value ? If so, then look into doing a major service and give it a turn over. Otherwise your other option is to do a minor service get it to an acceptable condition and put it up for sale. Put some money ontop and get something newer and more reliable.

Awesome fish mate. thats a cracking red. Was it caught off the boat (i have seen boats drift off Garie) or the beach?

great bag as always Yowie. Ive developed a real liking for blue swimmers recently but am yet to really target them

@noelm try having a read of these topics i posted a while back. and not my topic but there was some good discussion with fragmeister on this one.

Thanks Mate Cheers Lakelad - squid was an absolute fluke - foul hooked itself on my size 5 octopus hook :). No idea if there are cuttles there but at 60m i havent encountered many in deeper water. Cuttles i find usually in the shallow water. Thanks Noelm. Very happy with that lot. Regarding the ice, i have a large kill tank which i keep full of fresh seawater. I had only drained it to take the photo, then fill it back up again. Most of the fish are still alive when i get home. Also theres absolutely nothing random about my drifting ! Its all very calculated actually. I have been reef bashing Sydney for years, cross referenced my navionics charts against seafloor maps provided to me by @saltrix, tested and trialed almost two hundred spots to find the few that work consistently. Every reef i visited yesterday is already marked in my fishfinder and i have been to those spots at least a dozen times before. Which spots i visit on the day are determined on the conditions of the day, target species, drift direction, wind direction etc In summary - not random ! The result of tonnes of homework, trial and error. Thanks Z - i am humbled. Ill have to start cracking a few reds over 90cm to earn any sort of clout that Scratchie has ! Bellambi will happen soon mate - May to August the best months for it. ill be in touch Thanks Yowie, i wasnt sure if it was marbled or tiger. But good eating none the less. RE deep water - some days i will find fish anywhere from 20m in depth all the way to 70m. days like yesterday, i would say 90% of the fish were caught on reefs around 60m in depth. Not sure why, moon ? tide? recent rains and fresh water. But - my hard and fast rule is to keep moving till i find the fish. I try a spot for 20-30 mins max with no bites i pack up and move. I move from shallow to deep to shallow to deep again and

Be careful - sometimes too much grease can have the opposite effect clogging up the bearings. If i was you, id have it serviced by shimano

Gday Raiders Have hung up the boots for the year on chasing offshure summer species, with mild success but learnt a lot this year. So back to reef bashing. Haven't dropped a paternoster with a pillie or prawn in almost 5 months ! Yesterday was the day and first time out in almost 6 weeks, the wife and i decided to celebrate mothers day on the Saturday to avoid the crowds and so that we could free up Sunday for a fish (She's a keeper !). Arrive at Drummoyne boat ramp at gentlemans hours - 8am. Virtually empty with no que and no confused, slow and annoying "once a year boaties" - perfect. I went solo as i couldn't find any buddies for the day and the plan was to reef hop starting from due east of North Head and work my way all the way up to Long Reef. First reef produced a legal reddie and a nice big jacket, then a nice sized squid. Kept moving, off Manly Sewerage Plant, Queenscliff, out wide, then in shallow, out wide again, then Dee Why, then Long Reef, picking up the odd fish along the way. The fish didn't really start to bite until i was off Long Reef wide in 60m of water. This was about 1 hour after the tide change, so not sure if it was the tide change or the location that turned the fish on. Here snapper, flathead and surprisingly, schools of trevally were all concentrated around the same area. Kept one trevally for mum who likes to eat them but must have thrown back another half dozen legal. Snapper were about in good numbers but fish of 45cm were mixed with fish as little as 20cm. It was a lot of fun and with 3 rods going i had some sore arms by the end of the session. Surprisingly my three best flathead spots didn't produce a single flathead - very odd. No moon perhaps? Lots of theories. All in all, was a cracking solo session for a first time bottom bash in 5 months. Hopefully with many more reports to come from me in the next few months. PS - conditions were dreamy - low swell with large time separation, barely a breeze. At times you could head a pindrop. Thanks for reading. Sam

Near Bellambi...or at Bellambi? Its a very busy ramp. People there all the time. Been there dozens of times with no problems

Ouch !!! Your much better off doing the drive down to Bellambi. From therr you have more options too because ive had days where the humps are wasteland and reefs off bellambi and towards wollongong are firing

Yes but the report heading is "(Real) Sydney Snapper.

I love it....that is commitment Its a long run from botany heads to the humps