[heading out tommorrow 4-6-2014]

How'd you go Pete ? Any luck around 12 mile or the FAD

[Long reef produces: marlin in 10m water and a hoodlum]

Awesome pics by the way and awesome report (obviously)

[Long reef produces: marlin in 10m water and a hoodlum]

Thanks guys. Was an unreal 3 days. Yeah the gomoku rods are unreal. Pack a serious punch for such a light rod. One of my mates runs 8kg drag through it with a 5000 biomaster and I always get him to high stick the hell out of it just for laughs, they just keep on bending. I have so much more fun using rods that will happily bend right over rather than some other carbon rods that feel rigid and brittle when you put the hurt on a fish.

Just had a blinder at long reef yesterday. Ended up getting about 60 kings off the surface on poppers and stick baits all different sizes, mostly between 65-80 and many big bust offs. Were chasing schools of gars and flying fish on the surface. Report coming soon.

Was the best day on sydney kings of my life.

Mate please have mercy your first report cost me days of sleep now you say 60 kings in one trip I don't think I'm going to sleep in a month !!!!!!!!!!!

[Longy King]

Mate well done that's a King worthy of the name. Sometimes all it takes is one good fish to make the day ! I know id happily fight one 80cm king rather than say 10 good size bream.

I've been wanting to try longy for a while and was wondering if anyone could PM me some GPS marks for the reef ? Any generosity would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Sam

[Rose Bay]

It's always good to see that persistence is rewarded mate well done. Fresh calamari can't go wrong.

Cheers

[the peak 31/5/14]

Let's hope the weather holds out for the long weekend it's not looking the best at the moment !!

[Five islands]

Well done to the guys those are some awesome reds ! Some of those bigger ones pull like kings !!

Iv actually been planning a trip down to the islands and would appreciate any gps marks to be offered ! PM me if that's ok. Thanks

[Big dollies still around]

That's a whopper mate well done where off botany did you hook up ?

[great day around sydney]

Great effort fellas it takes a lot of moving around to produce the results especially when theirs bad chop off the heads.

What side of longy did you find the kings ?

[Sydney & Botany Wide FADS]

Thanks mate , tried to head out today and decided to take the old man with me to have a go at his first Dollie, had to turn back Afta he got seasick from the chop. Hopefully they're still out there next weekend

[Another Chippo session - just one fish this time!]

Good work mate that's fishing I guess somedays it's hot and some days it's not.

Iv lived near chipping norton since a child I didn't know it could produce salmon? What other species come out of the lake ? Are they any good for eating as I've heard the water down that way isn't the best

[Sydney & Botany Wide FADS]

Hey Peter

hey that's unreal, its such a good season this year offshore, its amazing that the fads are still producing this time of year.

What was the water temp and did they have any size to them?

peter

Hey Peter

Big fan of them blazers. The temp on Saturday was 22.8 and Sunday 23.2

Most were around the 65-70cm mark but the biggest was landed at 81cm my PB on dollies.

[Sydney & Botany Wide FADS]

Thanks mate, I was equally as surprised to find them still there so late into May. Let's hope they stick around for one final weekend!

[Sydney & Botany Wide FADS]

Sydney FAD on Saturday 22.8 and Botany Wide on Sunday was 23.2 early dropped to 22.9 around 10am

[Sydney & Botany Wide FADS]

Hi Raiders

This is my first post in this forum, I've been following for quite some time but have only recently joined, looking forward to joining the family here.

My last weekend was a dream come true, the wife was occupied elsewhere both days so I took this rare opportunity to wet a line both days.

I had heard reports that the FADs were still producing , Saturday went to Sydney East for 5 Dollies on live yakkas and surface poppers. Action stopped after a pod of dolphins swam by for a feed of their own.

Sunday Botany wide FAD produced well on Sunday on lures, strangely they weren't very interested in the livies but I suspect that's because the yakkas might have been a little big. (Anyone know where to find those small yakkas in botany ? I normally stop near the tugboats. ) so 4 dollies later kept one let the other 3 go and stopped for two bonito on the way back in just outside the bay.

Gotta make the most of the warm waters before they disappear I guess.

Sam