wazatherfisherman

If you fish Akuna Bay you won't have a problem when the fog comes down because the marina is well lit. The best area is on the opposite side of the creek to the marina. If you go down to the end towards the sandflat stay more in the centre of the creek. Most use either an anchor each end or one on shore so you don't blow around. It pays to establish a small continuous burley trail to keep the Yellowtail around your boat and if the fish are around they'll find you. A light-stick on the wire trace about 30cm above the hooks often works really well. Good luck when you try, they are great fun to catch and excellent on the plate

All of them do at different times- any that have creeks, lagoons etc spilling out into the ocean are good places to start

Fish where the water come out of the lakes on the outgoing tide and let your bait flow out with the run. Live Mullet or Whiting (legal sized) if you want to avoid the stingrays

Hi Neil I came down with it on my birthday last November and although it only put me down for about a week, the dreadful taste etc lasted for ages. Hope you recover soon

If you were over any reef it could be a Port Jackson shark

1st one looks like South Whale second is definitely the ovens

Hi Neil I googled 'Fishing at Williamstown' and heaps of info came up

Welcome to the site- good intro and there's a gold mine of info here

The lights on the left hand side of the picture definitely look like the Ovens- too far out to be South Whale

You need another arm Dave! 3 fish at once is pretty good. Some good eating in that lot!

For many years there was a vacant block on Rayner Rd about 3 houses from the end and access was via that block then around the hill on a well used track, then down the rope. After the block was built on, they tell me that there was a dicey track along the edge just past the last house on that stretch (facing north) but I don't know what it's like (or still there!) The alternative access was a long walk around the lower section from the beach side. The Rayner Rd access was via the higher section, along the level above the lower way in. Although it's a famous location for LB Game, it doesn't fish too many fishers at a time and you need to gaff everything as there's nowhere to was fish up either. Yellowtail needed to be caught before light most of the time also, at the mouth of the gulph. You need your own rope about 15m long to hang onto to aid getting down. Stout Long Toms were often annoying when live-baiting there, but plenty of big fish have come from the location. Not that ideal a location for you- the lower spot before you go around the corner to the ovens (accessed from the beach and walk around) and known as South Whale, although low, is a great spinning spot, with other species available also. Just beware of the swell and take the usual safety gear. September-November there are also some really large Black Drummer along there and they get Snapper casting wide- a better spot for your spinning than the Ovens

Well done- great eating fish too

Yes but don't use braid for the sinker leader or hook leader. We used to use 18+half pound 'Tortue Supercontrol' mono for that style of fishing or 23+half pound if up higher. I personally only use braid for spinning and never rock work. You don't need that heavy a line, but if that's what you have by all means use it- wouldn't want to attempt breaking any snags with it though. If you enjoy this style of fishing, save up for another outfit and put mono on it- you don't need heavier line than about 25lb (11kg) for just about any rock fishing bar live-baiting for big stuff. My old line classes for the rocks were as follows- Bream and Luderick 3kg line on both sidecast and centrepin reels, Spinning lures 6,10 and 11.5kg (the latter only for Kingfish really) on all 3 types of reel (Spin, O/H and Alvey) Tailor/Salmon/Snapper 8 and 10kg, Drummer 6,10,15kg depending on area, Live baiting 10,15,18,25kg again area dependant. Cliff fishing 6kg for Bream, Luderick, 10-12kg for everything else- all mono, usually Tortue, Weiss(no longer available I think) or Schneider (it was cheaper but marginally thicker) all three brands were great for the rocks

My suggestion would be to make a few short sinker leaders at home with a couple of different size leads run between about 40cm of leader on the 2 swivels. Same idea for your hook leaders so you are ready and utilising the low light periods fishing rather than rigging. Although these type rigs don't lend themselves for fish running with the bait, if you can't get it out to where they are, you aren't in the game- just strike straight away, they usually swallow the bait pretty well straight away anyway

You should get far more distance with the longer rod- however, I'd try the 9'6" rod with 56gm lead and nice aerodynamic bait.