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    Big Eye Trevars in Forster

    in Fishing Reports

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    I was back at it again today, optimistic that the fish would be feeding in the same place at the same time but also aware of the flakey feeding patters of pelagics.

    As I paddled closer to the mark I was met with a pod of dolphyns that seem to visit the area daily to make my trip a little more interesting. A little closer still and I could see baitfish jumping out of the water...a very good sign. Excitement set in and I sped up my paddling before finding a pylon to sit on, keeping my feet on the kayak to keep it from drifting away (who says you need an anchor!).

    First cast I missed a few hits on the retrieve, with the tail still in tact I knew I was in for another good session.

    What proceeded was another cracker session with about the same number of fish landed (and lost to my demise!) However the size of the fish were a little better today, none of which went under the 40cm mark.

    I can't be certain with limited experience with northern species but I believe today was a mix of bigeye and a few juvenile GT as well.

    Here's a pic. of one that had me guessing if anyone wants to chime in!

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    A great way to end a week of work away from home and whilst I'm keen to get back home to the missus, I really wish I had more time in this beautiful part of the world to nail a few more.

    As always thanks for reading and tight lines to all!

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    New experience with soft plastic bait!

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

    Posted

    No worries!

    Tie it nice and tight but not to the lure, tie it to the hook that protrudes out of the lure. Wish I could take a photo for you but I am away from home currently sorry! It's certainly worth a try and as with any type of fishing we learn from our mistakes so never give up!

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    Catching Mullet for bait

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    I make my own mullet rigs using old bendable springs and bend the end down through the centre with an upturn at the bottom, then fill it with bread (not compact it must be loose in there and better broken up before hand. Attach it to a float and tie some stinger assist hooks to the top of the spring and you're on your way. Narara creek runs through the back of my house and I do this with a beer to clear my head occasionally in the afternoons

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    New experience with soft plastic bait!

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

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    Work them really slowly, try to imagine what the lure looks like as you are working it and make it as realistic to a real worm as possible. The easiest method would probably be to let it sink right to the bottom and let it rest 2-5 seconds before doing a slow lift with your rod tip of around 1ft.

    Hope that helps!

    You can also tie about 5-7cm of leader to the hook coming out of the lure where it bends and attach a small treble hook to that to increase hook ups.

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    Trolling for Flathead

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    I've actually caught my biggest flattys trolling with 38mm crankbaits. Mainly in around 1.5m of water with shallow divers but the deeo divers in the same size around the boat moorings and weedbeds/smaller drops have also produced. I'm referring to areas where the water doesn't really get much deeper than 4m. When I go for jewies in the deeper whater I will troll natural coloured minnows in the deepest diving profile I can find and make sure I can feel the bib hitting the bottom once a while. If you use the floating ones you can just drop the rod tip if the lure catches but generally I'm talking about sandy structureless areas.

    Have you tried the small soft vibes at the Entrance for flattys before? Very very productive and you will get the odd whiting and good sized bream as by-catch there...this time of year probably some silver trevally and estuary perch too (which must go back from now till August due to closed season).

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    Big Eye Trevars in Forster

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    Just got back from a little prospect around some of the oyster leases around Miles island after work.

    I am officially kicking myself for not bringing more gear...

    First cast I missed a hook up for what I thought was a decent taylor but my s.p still had a tail to my suprise so I cast back and worked the 2" paddle tail at a medium pace past the leases and over the flats before I received a solid knock on the end of the rod. Line peeled off and my kayak began to tow towards the leases before my line got wrapped around a pylon, thinking quickly I flipped the bail arm and got the line free before working the fish back towards me. When a 35cm (estimate) big eye trevally surfaced and began grunting away.

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    Beauty I thought as I watched the shoulders of countless more fish breach the surface feeding on small poddy mullet and baitfish.

    What followed was an hour and a half of non stop trevars literally a hit every cast some hooking up and others pulling the pants off my lure.

    Over the hour I ended I lost count of how many I caught but I can tell you I lost some absolute monsters. On my 2500 Caldia with around 6lb of drag on (I never use this heavy a drag) my line was absolutely screaming off and I could see the surges of water as these fish made their attempts and succeeded in avoiding the net. My estimate would be at least 50cm...I've caught a lot of trevally around the 40cm mark in winter on the Central Coast but these fish had way more power than those ever did. Can't wait to get back out there after work tomorrow and try nail the bigger guys! Will post some shots if I get one of the big guys.

    Thanks to the members who gave me a few pointers about the area but I'm surprised none of you mentioned the trevars! Now we kniw hay!

    Cheers

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    Acoustic guitar build

    in The Bar

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    Stapo you've made my night! I made an electric 6string for my year 12 woodwork main project but it was pretty terrible and the sound was not great. This is something I would be very interested in! Thanks for sharing and your workmanship looks fantastic!

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    How's Forster Fishing?

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    Thanks for the info everyone, no chance of offshore, I get incredibly sea sick (cant get out of bed for 2-3 days if its over 1m swell =/.. not to mention I only have a kayak and 2 smaller rods plus I am working all week.

    I saw some huge bream around miles island today while I was clearing land so might go for a few of those and try for a jew off the breakwall on the Tuncurry side in the big eddy there. Will post anything worth mentioning.

    Cheers

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    Hello members

    in Plan a Fishing Trip

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    Cheers mate your right lol I've caught heaps here in Penrith but I want a jewy

    Haha can't blame you there mate! Well you've certainly come to the right place. Some excellent jew fisherman here including the site owners.

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    Hello members

    in Plan a Fishing Trip

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    Hey Tommy!

    I'm guessing that you enjoyed fishing for carp in the UK so if you feel like giving it a go here I can give you some locations on the central coast which hold oriental koi carp. They are a pest here however and must not be returned to the water. Great fun to catch though and I must admit they are beautiful fish to look at

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    How's Forster Fishing?

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    Hi adsy91, hit the leases for bream with plastics and the wall for Jew, tuncurry side of the bridge next to the bridge there is a hole where you can get Yakkas from on the run out tide and off the main point is prime position, it creates a big eddy there. Hour either side of the tide hi/low for most species. Remember low tide on the wall has a three hour delay. A few Jew have been caught recently, just look for the scales. Flatties in Breckenridge channel as well as blackfish.

    Awesome! That's what I like to hear, might have to upgrade to a 4000 and target some jews.

    Thanks for the fast replies!

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    How's Forster Fishing?

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    Bream around the oyster leases is generally a good guess. Flatty in the channel or around the sand island, and there is usually some trumpeter whiting around, which have no size limit but a bag limit of 20, a few of those make good finger food when filleted or nice fish cocktails

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    Thanks Dan, appreciate the advice!

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    Bleeding fish

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    Here's a old article I dug up so you guys can make your own minds up.It's quite interesting.

    Freshwater from the tap will be treated with chlorine, or choroamine to reduce bacteria within the fresh water supply. Whilst most water suppliers don't report all the types of bacteria they do test 'tap' tests for each region and report chlorine levels and common harmful bacteria (such as E.Coli). Bacteria levels are expected to be low, check your local water supplier website.

    The bacterial concentration in oceanic surface saltwater would vary considerably but here's a paper which shows for their testing around California they got bacteria counts of 102-104.7/mL depending on the location and culture/count method.

    http://www.aslo.org/...ssue_2/0128.pdf

    Floral bacteria counts on (alive) fish typically ranges from 102-107/cm2 on skin, 103-109/g on gills, 103-109/g within the intestines. Muscle meat is considered sterile. (From end source)

    In the presence of air (just) spoiled fish contains typically contains 108-109/g flesh or /cm2 skin. If the fish fillet was kept at low temperatures bacteria species Pseudomonas and Alteromonas spp. selectively dominate.

    As you can see, the source of bacteria is highly unlikely to be from your drinking tap.

    Further info.

    If the fish is stored whole, tests on cod show 12-14 days after capture minimal bacteria had invaded muscle tissue when held at low temp. (End source)

    Strict hygiene measures from handling whole fish is of minor importance, only difference is observed in later stage of storage. Shelf life reduced from 16 to 12 days (from heavily contaminated storage items to aseptic containers). (End source)

    Fish Spoilage

    Spoilage of fish is a combination of cell autolysis, enzyme activity and bacteria. Enzymes such as Cathepsin D promote degradation of cell proteins to peptides, when a cell dies this is food for bacteria.

    Trimethylamine-N-oxide is a metabolite (energy source) and osmolyte (regulates water pressure within living cells) found in fish.

    The fishy smell that comes from fish shops is Trimethylamine. It is a result of bacteria reducing (aka eating) the Trimethylamine-N-oxide. So the more bacteria converting Trimethylamine-N-oxide to Trimethylamine, the smellier the fish and the quicker the spoilage. (End source)

    What I believe is happening

    I believe the difference in rinsing a fillet of fish with fresh water compared to salt water is due to a process of osmosis and diffusion.

    An average fish muscle contains: Na+, K+, P, Ca2+, Mg2+ at 72, 278, 190, 79, 38mg/100g muscle. Approx 1-2% dissolved salt content + other compounds dissolved within the cell plasma. (http://www.fao.org/w...6e/x5916e01.htm and end source)

    These dissolved items give the fish muscle a higher osmotic pressure than the fresh water you are rinsing with (check salt contents with your water provider). The water moves into surface muscle cells via osmosis until it bursts, this may happen whilst you are rinsing or in the minutes following. Burst muscle cells can't retain water so surface fillet texture and flavour is lost. If cell lysis occurs after rinsing, the proteins and enzymes within the cell are more readily available as food for bacteria. Cathepsin D is activated by water, accelerating bacteria growth.

    Salt water has a salt content of 3.5g/100g water, 3.5% dissolved salt content and not many other dissolved compounds.

    This makes salt water similar in osmotic pressure to the muscle cells of salt water fish fillet. No significant intake or outtake of water from the cell occurs thus texture is preserved.

    Cathepsin D is deactivated by salt water, enzyme activity is completely diminished by a 5% NaCl (salt) solution. Proteins are kept intact, thus flavour remains unaltered

    If anyone is studying in the area of food technology, it would be good to hear your thoughts on this.

    Beware of supercooling your fish in your esky.

    Using saltwater ice (ie freezing saltwater as blocks of ice) can cause partial freezing of your fish which would ruin the texture. Saltwater (ocean water) does not freeze homogeneously, the last bit to freeze (or defrost) occurs at -21C at 23% salt whilst the first bit which freezes (or last to defrost) occurs at 0C with ~0% salt. Most bony fish begin to freeze at -0.8C.

    This means with saltwater ice blocks, in salt water with your fish could have the temperature at -5C, which would freeze 62% of your fish. This is equivalent of freezing (cooling fish)-->unfreezing (to fillet) -->freezing (storage for dinner in a month) --> unfreezing (dinner). Not good for the texture of your fish.

    What SBL mentioned,

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    Well we simply use thick plastic, water tight bottles and fill with fresh water, freezing them, placing them in saltwater ensuring they do not leak. i.e. 2ltr Orange juice bottles.

    is what I do too. With fresh water in your bottles, the temperature of the saltwater will not dip below 0C.

    Cheers.

    Thanks for the effort that went into that post very informative factual info. there

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    Bleeding fish

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    I'm not sure of the science behind it but as a chef when preparing any saltwater fish in the kitchen we would add sea salt to the water untill it tasted like the sea before ever putting the fish near it.

    I do however dispatch bleed and remove all innards/veins and gills from the fish instantly if I plan on keeping one for the family...mainly to stop them stiffening up and also to end their pain and suffering as quickly as possible.

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    Hawkesbury River session with great bycatch

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    The coast is firing on all cylinders for jews at the moment, don't think I've seen such a good start to the season ever!

    Whether it's the change in bag and size limit as Scratchie mentioned in a report last week or whether it's education on releasing fish, I'm not sure but it's putting a big smile on my face seeing so many raiders landing and releasing good sized models.

    Great report, great photo's and thanks for releasing her to repopulate the system! Well done indeed sir.

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    How's Forster Fishing?

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    Hi everyone,

    So work is sending me to Forster (mid north coast) to do so primary weed removal next week on Miles Island and they have put us in a lovely Cabin right near the breakwall. I will only be working 7 hour days which means plenty of fishing time and we will be bringing the kayaks to access the island so I have a question for anyone near-by.

    How is it fishing up there?! I can probably fit maybe 2 set ups and thinking one bream combo one 3000 spinning 9ft combo for the breakwall. I am not sure what fires at this time of year up there and would very much appreciate any input.

    Cheers in advance!

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    Ideal/Dream Tackle Outfit

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    I thought about this for a good half hour and really tried to give a response but I just can't do it! Haha instead I can give you the one rod and reel I can't afford but want very badly- Daiwa Battler (one in every size possible) and a big fat Saltiga...used them both and they are absolutely phenomenal.

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