Longy

Bathroom scales, give or take around 0.5kg. At 19.8kg or 19.3kg, does it really matter? On any scale, that's a great fish! Well Done!

We fished in Narrabeen lakes a few times (end of Windbledon Ave), but we found during the day all you get are the pickers (ie small breams around the 15cm or so), but have friends that has success just before dusk into evenings or early mornings, but use toughter baits like squid or chicken thighs cut into small strips (pickers can't take in one bite and give the bigger fish a chance). Fish using light gear (8lb or less), small sinker (size 1 or 2), and around a 1 meter or slightly longer leader (trace). Otherwise post a request in the "Adopt a Learner" section, hopefully a knowledgeable and seasoned Fishraider will be able to meet up with you at a chosen location and teach you a trick or two so you will have more successful fishing adventures in the future. Good Luck!

Maybe he is talking about the Sydney fish markets, or Cabramatta or any Chinese Restaurant in Sydney, they usually have them in a tank in their windows. But I've seen people post pics (on fishraider) of the muddies they've caught in the mangroves area of Botany Bay (Kurnell and Towra area), just do a quick search.

will do! Same here, will be heading down to St Georges Basin for Easter/Anzac day extra-long weekend, will be staying 4 nights, so hope to get a few days on the water this time not like the last time down that way. I hear people say to try the artificial reef in the basin, otherwise sandy bottom with weed beds closer to the inlet for bream and flatties. My boat is a 3.7 m Brooker tinnie (mostly white with and orange stripe). Regards, Longy

Hi Pete, Looking forward to reading how you go. Will be heading up that way for the Easter/Anzac extra-long weekend, will spend 5 days also. A couple years back, went there for the first time, and first time boating, so didn't do much fishing, more of a case of learning the craft of handling a boat, on the sencond day out (in crappy, windy and raining session) we managed a few keeper flatties in and around sand flats (with weed beds), tried the artifical reefs, had alot of pickers but did see a group coming back in with 5 or so stonker breams (near the 40cm mark each). But this time will have more time on the water and better prepared for fishing. Regards, Longy

Hey Trung, Your poor day would be regarded as a great day for most of us, you still actually managed to catch fish in the first place, and got to take some fish/squid home for a feed. Well Done! Regards, Long.

Well done dhype, you really know how to attract and catch fish in the Bay. Still hoping to catch up with you one of these days. Will be in Sydney this coming weekend, but not likely to have time to get out on the water, maybe next time (should be up Syd way during Chinese New Year). Longy.

from the second pic of the jewie, it looks like the fish is laying on the front of a kayak.

yes, plenty of surface action, but was not able to get any to take the metal lures we were tossing out to them. It was great conitions early yesterday on the Bay, but only managed to get pinkies to bite (so all throw backs), and then the wind blew in, which made it very uncomfortable (3.7 m tinnie with low transom), so had to call it a day with zero.

Definitely a Mulloway (also known as a Jewie). Well done.

you're just amazing dhype, it seems like the fish are attracted to you, like you're some kind of fish magnet. must try and catch up with you one of these days, will be heading up to Syd for Christmas/New Years, but not sure if we will have any time for fishing (plus boat troubles - brother-in-law has not been able to get the motor started), if so, possibly Monday 27th. Regards, Longy.

approx how big would those bream be? down on the Clyde River (Batemans Bay way), there is plenty of spots you can do that, quite annoying if you actually want to do some fishing, because the swarm of baby bream (between the 15cm to 20cm) would have eaten you bait as soon as it hits the water.

what kind of live bait are you after? yakkas? if so, you can try of the wharf near Captain Cooks Bridge, use a hand line with very small hooks and a split sinker.

Well Done Trung. Definitely will need to catch up with you one of these days out on the Bay, last time we were lucky to bring home one flattie, apart from that it was very far and few bites in the many hours we were out on the Bay. But will definitely need to try and get into SP, as always been a bait fishermen. Longy.

Great work there DHYPE, we were out there on Sat morning too, but fished there between 7:00am until 8:30am or so, so Molli Point is the same as Trevally Alley? As we surelly got some Trevallies there. And later we moved over to the Caltex oil wharf (opposite side to the big tanker that docked there on Sat midday), and got a few more Trevallies and one keeper flatty that went 41cm (and saw a kingie come up and wanted to have a go at the flattie when we were trying to land it). All in all, a much better trip then the last few weekends where we came up pretty much empty.

read through Scott Lyons reports, he post a weekly report on Botany Bay each week. He runs "fishing sydney with Scott Lyons" tours, and they fish the Bay quite often, and quite a bit of success too.

Thanks for that Ganja. My brother-in-law thought it was the stretch of water near the drums number 5 lined up with the cross on land at Kurnell. So that's what we must have seen you guys netted then (trevallies). Regards, Long

we saw you guys out there on Sat morning, wasn't it rough later on in the morning? Congrats on your catch, we landed on pinkie and 2 small flatties, all were undersize in released to grow bigger. My brother-in-law and sister went out with Scott back in April, they got a few bream, trevs and bonitos. I'm sure they went out to trevally alley, what part is nicknamed trevally alley? Regards, Long

Hi Jason, We probably was in one of the boats on the water in the Bay on Saturday. We tried the drums first off, the fish finder showed alot of fish, but could not temp one to bite, but with the rough waves, we found it very hard to anchor down properly, kept drifting. Then was told that a big container ship was docking in 1 hours time, so we moved behind the container wall, was much more sheltered there from the weather, but again no bites. So after that, moved out towards Watts reef, but had the same issue of achoring, kept drifting out to the middle of the bay. So was going to try the 3rd runway, but by that time, 11am, the conditions was very rough and not another boat in site, so went around between the 2nd and 3rd runway, got a few bites (pinkies and flathead) but all were undersized, by then though (midday) boat was being tossed around in the rough waves with water coming over the transom so we called it a day. Probably will leave fishing until Spring/Summer arrives, which is when generally the Bay fires up again. But from your report, it sounds like you were in all the right locations that would generally find fish. Regards, Long

Have you ever watched "The Trawlermen" on SBS, Fridays 7:30pm? If so, definitely is possible to wipe out whole regions of ocean a make it an underwater waste land with no fish. Just sad to see the amount of fish the drag up with each net, and amount of wasted fish that gets dumped back in the ocean dead (ie. the prawn boats when they catch too much fish for their quotas).

Having to pass a test means nothing, how hard is it to pass a drivers license test? you learn about all the do and don'ts about driving, don't drink and drive, speed kills! but has that stopped all the deaths on the roads? So test, license or forcing people to wear life jackets is not the answer, people will still go out and rock fish no matter what change gets put in place with or without regards to the laws, it's just human nature. People rarely look ahead and think about what might or can happen, people just think about the now (I'm here to catch fish - in this case), everyone thinks it will never happen to them until it's too late, and that is the sad reality of life, if you're lucky you get a second chance but sadly in most situations there is only one outcome.

I would love a bucket of leather jackets each time rather then "0" everytime we go out (Bay or Hawkesbury)!

Congrats on the great fishging session. Was that from a boat or landbase?

light allows you to feel the nibbles and bites. 8lb or 10lb leader with the drag set right, you should be able to land every bream or flatties (as long as you play it right).

dropping out boat around there today (Sat), it might be a bit more travel time, but if you get great service and reliable workmanship, no distance is to far to travel for that.