Drought Breaker

Nice work Jeff. Just interested in how many packets of plastics you take out? Do you have multiple packets of same type in the boat or many different varieties? Cheers mate

great work Jeff, do you know how long the boys were in the water?. be bloody scary ordeal.

hope he catches many more mate.

Great fish young fella congrats. Think your only allowed 1 over 70?

Evening all, hope you all had a good weekend. So we are heading up for a 2 week fish (supposed to be Tully QLD, Thanks Anastasia for your border closure) and 2nd option is around Coffs Harbour. Have not fished there before so doing the good old research and trying to get some reasonably close to shore snapper marks of the internet. Would anyone be willing to share a few such as Bullocky Shoals etc?. We badly need a Coffs version of scratchie lol. Thanks heaps.

awesome mate, so they come with a 12 volt male cigarette socket or usb?

thanks everyone, some good advice and information. Appreciate it

Evening all and hope you had a cracker weekend. So I have a 27MHZ marine radio but looking at adding a VHF for extra safety etc. I have a 5m freedom sport Quintrex and don't go any further out then FADS.Tossing up whether to just get a handheld as opposed to fixed?. Fixed have obviously longer range but more expensive then handheld but handheld has the advantage with a water proof model in worse case scenario of boat sinking where you can still use the radio. Just wondering if anyone has the hand helds and used them back to base at Crowdy and port Stephens FADS?

thanks mate.

That was the best 1/2 hour of audio I have ever listened to. Well done Scratchie, would love to meet you one day. mate do you use scents on your SP's? cheers

Nice work. Do you drift or anchor up?

Hi Scratchie. Unlucky mate. Are you still running the 20/20 Lb braid/leader from your pinned article?

Nice mate. Btw my boats named drought breaker and fish Lake Macquarie regularly 👍

Mate I got 12 of Swansea heads on Saturday but all around 60. Not a keeper in sight. Dunno where the big ones are

Thanks mate. We will be at hidden valley near Wau. Is there any good fishing up there? Is Lae good fishing? Cheers

Gday raiders. heading to PNG for 6 months work up near Wau in the high country. Just wondering if anyone could give some advise on fishing up there, guides, charters, fishing of the banks or jetties etc?. Hopefully somewhere close to our location. Would love to chase black bass and also some blue water fishing. Cheers

Rick do you find the southerlies put the squid of at night? We squid in Lake Macquarie at night and do ok but no good when blowing from south.

mate we fished around cages on saturday the 3rd and got our bag limit of kings in 15 minutes. Was just like those clips Scratchie put up with fish everywhere. 2 guys, 10 fish, caught and released another dozen for fun. We just dropped a hook in and immediate hook ups with other kings swarming the hooked one. Heaps of boats in area and they were all smashing it. There was a big commercial boat there with guys fishing with long poles, they must have caught hundreds. Shame they dont seem to have to abide by any bag limits.

fished newcastle harbour on full moon from 8pm to 1 am with a high tide at 10.30pm. Not a touch with livies and squid I caught that day. Fished good structure with heaps of tailor showing up so surprised we didn't get a hit. Maybe the full moon theory of poor jew fishing could be correct.

Thanks for feedback fellas. Rick are boats still not allowed to go near pens? cheers

Gday raiders Was wondering if its worth a run up to the Huon cages to see if any Kings are still hanging around? Cheers

All good mate. Didn’t see your report but appreciate you notifying. Radio stations yesterday said ban was lifting and only found out late last night and we were committed to going. Spoke to a crew this am at boat ramp who got into marlin around car park.

Not on fire today. Dpi has extended the ban on Huon kings until 28 feb. Found out late last night to our displeasure. No kings around cage cardinal markets. Trolled livies, used fresh squid, metals, chook pellets, nothing. Heaps of boats around markers, saw zero fish caught. Headed to gibber for 1 trag and 1 snapper. The only surface activity we saw were dolphins. Should have just fished Lake Macquarie. Many boats were heading wide and to the car park for marlin

squid has slowed down big time. Got a few snapper in lake that were just over 30 on weekend but very quiet. out at midnight till 7 am trying for a jew but no luck

Agree completely mate. If he was heading in I would have up anchored and met him at the boat ramp. Unfortunately with him heading out my little 90HP yamaha would not have kept up with his twin God knows how big