Rock&Beach

Great little session happening there mate. Well done Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Great effort Sean. You look awesome. Keep them tight lines happening. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Well done sounds like a great day out. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Yes they certainly were, we cooked the fish up last night and it was the first time I have seen him eat all the fish on his plate. Wasn't bad even for a Sambo

Had not been to the beach for a while so decided before the arctic chill hit would go out Saturday arvo. My middle son at the last minute decided he wanted to come along as well. After getting to the beach and seeing that all the good holes were full of surfers decided to walk up the beach a little too an area that had a sand bank and then a drop off. After setting up my son first I started to get the other rods sorted when he said dad I have a bite and was winding like mad. I was a little surprised at first but he landed a small trevally. He kept on getting lots of small bites and then got whacked, he did the right thing and hit it and started to wind but it had gone. Things slowed down a bit so I decide to throw a metal around and third cast caught a herring my first off the beach on a metal. Checked all the lines re baited and cast them back in then whack my son gets a bit hit again and this time he was on and he was winding his little heart out. Thought that he had lost it in the wave but it took pressure up again and went for another run. He finally beached it and that smile was gold, his first big sambo 62cm and 2.2kg. I reckon he will be hooked on fishing for life now. We stayed to just after dark and caught another couple of small ones and another good size sambo that went back. What a great day out. At least one son has my passion for fishing.

Great write up. Love spending time with the family. Nice first up Jewie on SP. love that feeling

Had a great day out with my three boys on the Hawkesbury today. Nothing edible but the boys had great fun in beteween the AFL games. 2 small sting rays, 2 nappie rash tailor, a morey eel and lots of soldier crabs. I even received a bit of sun burn.

Great report seasponge. Looks like the family had lots of fun. I love crab so sweet....

Apart from being a good practice some of us need to wear glasses all the time, if you wear normal glasses in the sun you will know why good quality polarised sunnies are absolute gold. Great story great info.

Sounds like a great day away from work to me.. Nice report.

Love the Sambos off the rocks better fight than off the beach. They play dirty around the rocks and I love that.

Great stuff Scratchie. My boys are still a bit young for the stones but soon very soon they will enjoy. Same as I did with my dad.

Hey nice little snapper. A good feed there.

Great bonito mate. One of them would be nice off the rocks on 20 lb. what did it weigh or did you send it back without weighing.

Hey I find it amusing. The poor old carp if it tasted better we would love it like the other introduced species like trout and Redfin that taste good. Norwest lake is also full of carp and the kids love catching them. 10lb fish on 6lb line how better to teach the kids about fishing in a safe environment. I was teaching the kids how to kill them humanely and some do gooder gave me heaps in front of the kids. I politely told him to go away. So now we do 50 50 some go back so in the bin.

Hey mate that is a great fish on light gear. I broke my teeth on carp on light gear it taught me so much about knowing when to back it off and when to let them run. Teaches you how to fish. I have been teaching my boys how to catch carp they love it. I have also used them to show the boys how to kill the fish as humanly as possible. Now they know when we catch other fish what to do. Don't care what fish they are if they fight and you see them ripping through the water pulling line you can't beat it. Yeah Hahhhh

We had been having rat issues due to the chooks and the chook food, we also back onto a reserve. Went into the shed about 6 months ago and there was a red belly sitting there with a lump in the middle, no more rat problem. But does there poop stink. He Took off pretty quick luckily so far he has not come back.

Hey fella I am a sparkie from way back. Do you know what they put on cranes to pickup from the live rails. Yep carbon brushes. No better conductor, maybe have a glass rod as a backup. They are insulated but not against lightening......lol

Hey guys do you have any worries with air knots, I am struggling with the lighter braids when casting off the rocks and beach. I basically run about 1-1.5M of flouro at the end and connect direct to the metals. (I also learnt that the snap swivel changes the action) Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong? I don't have any issues with the heavier braid 20 & 30lb with 40gram slugs up. Just the lighter 10lb with all different rods. I use power pro braid.

Hi Guys agree with Crossfire63. Just to add I have had some great results at lower tides as it concentrates the fish better. Just depends what I am chasing. The swell will also depend if you have sand bars good sand bars lots of structure not so much swell needed. If they are breaking in front of you then fish just at the back of the break with a loose line. Good luck, by the way any time out there is good time you always learn

Nice Jew guys well done. It's a great feeling. Did you release.

Had a mate that no matter what would always have something to do when we hit dock side. Same bloke always had to go somewhere when it was his shout..... Great idea but if you have to remind them they are not worth taking out again...

That's a very fine catch mate. I miss my beach fishing. Love getting surprises like that.

+2 on the black magic tough flourocarbon I use 30lb with 20 lb main and 40 lb with 30 lb main. Maybe try the Penn 10x more than happy with that as well