Dano1

Thanks for all the replies! jason and I really had such a top day out, and has totaly restored our faith in sydney harbour kingy fishing!! THE SEASON IS NOT OVER YET!!! Here's a few more photos of the day! 74cm kingy! Havn't mastered the photo resizing yet i have to make them so small to fit in the post! ah well Dan.

Well done mate top couple of fish! Dan.

Well done netic! some fat looking dollies there Dan.

Hi all, What a day we had jason (hook'm) & I set out on a last minute fishing trip dession in search of some squid at the wee hour of 1am from tunks! with 1 thing as our target to gather squid and snap frezze them for latter date or should i say latter bait . The squid started off thick and fast within 1hr we had 10 in the well, by 6am we had over 20 squid, we had accomplished what we came out for and also landing the biggest arow squid ive seen went 38cm total length and got it on a WATTO lumo sparkle jig thanks again watto pure gold mate! and With only a few minor hickups along the way like the second battery dying and the bait pump not working and 2 squid dying due to lack of surculation. with that all fixed we were back on track! The monster squid and the jig that did the damage!! The live tank full of squid. Now being the keen fishermen we are we decided stuff it lets get out and get some kings. We quickly decided that downrigging was the way 2 attack them as the kings in the harbour have been few and far between over the last couple of weeks. So after 1.5hrs of dragging a 7lb bomb around the Harbour with all to show a 55cm grinner that smashed a whole squid we then new we were prob going home empty handed. So we decided to go have a anchor up and get some baits down it didn't take long b4 i was on and landed a nice little sampson went 40cm. Then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Jasons rod screems off strike nothing this happened 4 more times, then out of nowhere the squid head i had down screams off zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz i lift and strike i am on i pushed the reel up to strike wich is set at about 8kg this didn't even bother him he's still screaming off in the other direction looking for somewher 2 bust me off peeeling line off like it was out of gear i decied to push it right up into overstrike aprox 12kg, now this slowed him down considarbly but he was still managing to sneak some line of me!! bit by bit i fought this brute and after about 10 or so min a beautiful 87cm king was landed whoo hoo!!!! my new pb!! Over the next hour we managed to land a nother fine specimen of 74cm (wich we gave to a fellow fisho as he had zip) we also landed a 64cm a 63cm and a 61cm. with jason put to the test on his lite gear managed to produce the goods love the king fish vs jason fight u had mate! By now it was midday and we decided 11hrs on the water was long enough so we headed back to the ramp with our kingys our squid for future trips and 2 ear 2 ear grins!! As we were approaching tunks i said to jason wouldn't it top the day off if we saw some surface acction and hooked into some kingys on lures! 30sec latter u guessed it smash smash smash surface acction and they were kings i could see that geen head racing along the surface! Ive never seen a rig change so quick! lures were on and we were casting into this boiling mass! unfotunatly they wouldnt have a bar of anything we through at them!! ah well so we wound in and headed for the ramp! What a excellent day we had! Thanks jason for being a top deckie and fishing buddy! Its days likr this u dream of! And for dinner tonight salt garlic & pepper squid salad with kingfish and sampson fillets! mmmmmm yum! Sorry about long post just amped up about such a great day on the water! Dan.

Hey d&g, Nice king greg!! I have heard some realy good reports on middle harbour over the last few weeks. Glad to see its firing! might try 2 downrig some squid through there on the wkend! Dan.

Nice report rob! Bad luck on the kings! at least they were around though! Dan

hi all, Is there any where to pump bait in the lake do the flats produce any nippers?? Dan.

Well done nice report Glad to see someone found the kings!! Dan.

Cheers mate, Hopfully a jew! Dan.

Yeah they are deffinatly in numbers every where! We got squid in several different locations on sunday!! was loving it!! pitty theres no kings that want to eat them!! Thats fishing! Dan.

Hey Sean, was using a varity of jigs lumo, 1.8 yozuri and lumo sparkle had follow ups on all jigs! The one 1 landed one a watto special a lumo sparkle one!! Thanks again for all the jigs i purchased on sat The full lumo also did very well on sun morn! Dan. Deffinatly i am addicted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love squid fishing!! Dan.

Hi all, Just a quick post and a few pics. finished work and decided to head down to my favorite land based squid spot and once again it produced. In an hour of squiding i had droped 2 at my feet and landed 1 apox 20cm! At one stage i had about half a dozen swiming around my legs ranging in size from tiny about 5cm to about 12cm (perfect live bait size) . If only i had a little scoop net i could of eaisly scooped them up They were to close to me to be able to jig them up they would come over for a look at the jig then it would spook them Just for everyones info i was NOT using egimax!! Have a look at the photos this rock pool was working perfectly as a live well every time a big boat went past the water was repleneshed! Even though i only landed 1 it was a great little sesh and thats one more lump of bait ive got in the frezzer! Dan.

Nice rport rob shame no fish landed but at least they were there! I know that fishing spot well! Dan.

G'day shadow, Top report mate and well done on the kings ! And the jew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ill be out ther hunting them down again this wk we had a s*#T load off squid and only produced 2 kingy's on monday ah well was good day/night out on the water with many laughs had. ps. I have seen that mirage that hook'm talks of!! just jokes jason(hook'm)! ha ha.. Dan.

hey mate nice report! But im getting no pics??? Dan.

Hey shadow, what hooks u using?? straight or offset shanks? offset will definatly make it spin! See u out there 2morrow

hey mate, Only advice i can give is when fishing strips on DR make sure the stip is simetrical and you pin it with towing hook dead center! And maybe only use single hook when towing strips! I am no expert at this but a few things ive experimented with! What i do is lower it down a couple of feet and check the bait out b4 lowering right down!!! You out 2morrow? Dan.

coppers sparkling they love it!!! will try and find some more photos! was looking through my old phone and found that one!! Dan.

This is a picture of a giant muddy me and my mates caught down at durras lakes last year! It was a monster! Dan.

My thoughts are ..... That jew fishermen are very secretive!! Dan. (never caught a jew)

Nice red mate!! Dan.

SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tested this on the weekend i set my mate up with chepo jigs and ultrabite! no egimax whatsoever! and i fished expensive jigs and with egimax! The end result was! Egimax + yozzuri jigs = 8 squid! Ultrabite + chepo jigs = 10 squid! I am in no way saying this product (egimax) dos'nt work it does but for $20 -$24 a can its a bit of a rip off!! I will stick to the ultabite liquid form as there is no wastage and for about $9 you get at least twice as much in 1 bottle as compared to the egimax!!! Wont stop me buying yozzuri though i love em!!!! Dan.

I caught a flattie on a orange natural confectunary company snake on australia day! Had had a couple of beers and thought it would be a good joke! when suddnly i was on! it was only a baby 15 - 20cm or something! Dan.

Hey mate, have u checked seabreeze? Theres a link a top of page! Dan

Looks like there already a comp running!! it seems 75cm is the guess! only 10cm out!!! He was only a pup at 65cm! looks bigger eh? very nice looking fish though! Dan. Hey hook'm, would love to come out 2morrow but got 2 much on at work!! am trying to get out friday but wil deffinatly be out on monday! how about you? Dan. I reckon u win frank!!! Dan.