Green Hornet
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You don’t need put your stink bag close to the worm. Once raised, peg it a metre or so above (up towards the dry sand) the worm and use your finger bait to catch it.
If close, the stink bag stirs up too much sand and the worm will bury.If you haven’t already, watch everything on YouTube you can find and don’t be discouraged if it takes you quite some time to get one. It definitely isn’t as easy as it looks.
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Tie a leader just like you’d do when lure fishing, length is up to you, but really only needs to be short. Feed your sinker onto the leader, tie a swivel then, then add your trace down to the hook. This rig fishes the same as straight through mono and won’t tangle.
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4 hours ago, Little_Flatty said:
The surgeon’s knot has been a revelation for me. I only came across it when I started out fly fishing, to put together my tapered leaders. It’s astonishing how strong it is and how easy it is to tie. It would be great for attaching a 150mm bite leader to the end of your light fluorocarbon. Worth taking ten seconds to learn it.
Back before the FG was a thing, the surgeons knot was extremely popular for joining leaders to braid in the lighter line classes. That, and my old favorite the slim beauty.
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As others have said, a simple double uni or blood knot will suffice for your mono to mono/fluoro connection, or you can also try a 3 or 4 turn surgeons knot, which is strong and easy to tie.
Regarding length of the bite leader, keep them at around 100-150mm. That’s plenty to protect yourself from a large flatty or tailor.
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I should add, being such a large expanse of water with such a long, narrow entrance to the ocean, The Basin isn’t really affected by tides. Best time to fish it is early morning and late afternoon and around the dark moon cycle. Particularly during the warmer months when the prawns are about.
That being said, I’ve had plenty of good sessions around the full moon and middle of the day. Sometimes a bit of wind on the water entices a bite.
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49 minutes ago, noelm said:
Yep, that about covers it, much like Lake Illawarra, it’s just basically the same all over, so weed beds and small reef type structure is where the fish will be, even channel markers can be a good option.
100% mate. I never pass a channel marker without wafting down a Cranka Crab down beside it. Even the buoys on chains hold XL bream at times.
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If you have a good sounder, cruise around the deep side of weed edges and locate schools of bait to fish around. 4 and 5 inch plastics for flathead, 3 inch for bream. Expect bycatch of legal size reds, big tailor and the occasional jew.
There’s nothing for fish to snag you up on, so fish light for the best results.
It’s a large, relatively featureless expanse of water. Covering lots of ground is the key to a good catch.
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All good advice above. A couple of things I can add is obviously you’ll be wearing a rain jacket with a hood, wear a cap under the hood because it keeps rain off your face and stops water running down inside your jacket.
Secondly, if wearing gumboots, I’ve found them incredibly slippery on wet estuary rocks and prefer to wear Dunlop Volleys and just put up with wet feet.
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For yabbies I like to use a smaller hook than many, either a number 6 or 4 Gamakatsu Panfish works for me. With a #6, thread the hook into the bait from the tail and bring it out, hook point under the body, just before you get to the legs. No need for a bait holder style hook, with the barbs on the shank, because you can feed the eye of the Panfish into the bait to stop it slipping. This way avoids damaging the yabbies belly and they’ll stay alive for quite some time.
A #4 is done the same, but the exit point is between the legs. It kills the bait, though it’s still effective and holds better on the hook if you need a longer cast.
Same size hooks and similar method for squirt worms, though a bait holder shank helps in this case. They’ll still wriggle around for a while no matter how you put them on. Long enough to get eaten if there’s any whiting around.
I find the size 4 and 6 hooks a good all round size for bream, whiting and if using worms, luderick as well. I don’t see too many flathead getting off either.-
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You’ll do more harm than good using a pressure washer on your eaves forcing water into places where it doesn’t belong and if your house was built pre, mid 1980’s they most likely contain asbestos, which is a whole can of worms in itself.
Better to wash them down with a broom dunked in some warm soapy water and if the paint is flaking it will need a light scrape. Don’t scrape into the base material to ensure any asbestos is not disturbed.
Modern day acrylic paints will bond quite well to a reasonably sound surface as long as its clean.
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1 hour ago, BaitDropper said:
Our bandicoots can't keep up with them....
An example..... 2 raised vege gardens, 1.2 x 6 meters..... everything had finished, so set about turning it all over, Got 450 ish out of each garden bed 😁..
Thought something was going on here !! I pick up, of an evening, about 30-40 of the little bugga's popping up for a bit of a surface nibble on top of the lawn.
One test is to saturate the ground and lay a sack or old bit of carpet on it overnight, check next morning, it makes them rise up, counted 150, its an infestation..
They haven't damaged the lawn as such yet, but with those numbers it won't take them long at all, so it's battle stations before they do....
I've never seen the likes of this before, they say with the sack trick, it's acceptable for there to be 15 or so per square meter. I dug near 70 meters of trenches for Agg pipe when I first arrived for drainage purposes and there was bugga all, maybe find 1 or 2 every 2-3 meters I guess..
So I've spoken to a bloke over Sydney way who is a green keeper and he was telling me because of our weather this year, they too have had an issue, the beetles are still about and dormant eggs laid when we had rain are hatching like crazy, which is no good on putting greens or fairways !!. He also said, because you have turned a crap lawn into something pretty good, the o'l beetle will head for the best lawn.. Either way it's damn frustrating. But he's put me on to some pretty effective stuff, but it will still take best part of 6-12 months to end the cycle....
I think you live down around my way. If you’re collecting the grubs without the use of poison, I know the local wildlife rehab center is screaming for them to feed their injured animals, if you’re that way inclined. You can call them on 0418 427 214 for more information.
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No curl grubs in my lawn. The bandicoots make sure of that, LOL.
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1 hour ago, Little_Flatty said:
Thanks Pete, I was thinking about your little trick but I’d forgotten it was 20cm worth of braid!
I’m not sure that we’re on the same page here Mike. I don’t mean discard 20cm of braid, just pull the line tight so there’s no chance of loose line or loops on the spool before your retrieve.
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Good to see you out having a go Mike, that’s more than I’ve been able to do lately.
In regard to the wind knots, many years ago I used to use 6lb Sunline Super, a line that was famous for wind knotting and I got into the habit of when I flipped the bail arm manually after a cast, I’d grab the line just in front of the reel and pull off about 20cm against the drag before commencing the retrieve. This eliminated the problem completely and is something I still do with any line to this day without even thinking.
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Some days luck is on your side. Nice fish.
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WOW, that’s a massive bream @Fobbie, I bet you won’t be forgetting that fish for a while.
Nice outfit you caught it on as well.
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It’s hard to tell from the photos you’ve provided. Take a good look at it under a magnifying glass and good light to determine whether it’s a crack or scratch.
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Bugger about losing a couple of expensive lures, l’ve used the Hurricane, Switch 66 bents before with results I reckon that are just as good as the OSP’s, but you can never be sure of something like that. Another thing I do is fish barbless hooks on all my multi-hook lures. I don’t believe I lose any more fish and the bonus is sometimes after a bust off, the fish will “throw” the lure soon after and it will float to the surface.
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Always great to see fellow Raiders enjoy a weekend down on my local waterway.
That flatty sure has got some girth on it. Nice fish jenno.
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17 minutes ago, Evos said:
Un-real thanks everyone ! I'm still trying to work out a good spot if anyone has any suggestions for beach fishing and would like to give away any fun locations that would be great. So far I've just fished Stanwell Park Beach (I found it very turbulent the two times I went) and Narrabeen
Swell size is the all important factor when beach fishing. Find a good weather app or website you like and ideally try and fish a day when the waves are 0.8 - 1.2 metres, a little bit extra either side is okay depending on the beach.
Stanwell Park would have been very turbulent only because the swell was too big for that beach to cope with it.
If the swell is say from the south and a little too big, take a look at the southern end of the beach, where it could be protected from the waves by a headland. Either that, or find a beach that faces north and is protected from the swell altogether.
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11 hours ago, Larkin said:
Haha, Its only a matter of time before I start to seeing the “Little Flatty” range of lures and flies at my local!
Little Flatty’s Slippery Thong kind of has a ring to it…………then again, maybe it doesn’t.
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46cm is indeed a trophy fish and a capture to be proud of and to take it on a surface lure is icing on the cake. Great job.
These Slippery Dogs seem to be pulling a lot of quality fish lately.-
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That’s brilliant Mike. Just proves that besides the buzz of catching fish on a lure you made yourself, you learn a lot about how and why certain lures work.
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1 hour ago, mrsswordfisherman said:
I will find out. She was a valued member of this forum for many years. She has articles and posts here. We had several socials up at Forster where she lives.
She got very involved with the kayak community and a ukulele group.32 minutes ago, Steve0 said:Arpie left KFDU around the time number of active users started waning. She (and many others) had problems with the site logging her off before she could complete posts, but forums dedicated to kayak fishing were in decline in any case.
Thanks Donna, I thought you would have known.
KFDU is the other group I was referring to. My understanding was that site went downhill rapidly when the owner lost interest and stopped doing updates, becoming a security hazard. The good news from all that is, that's when I started searching for another fishing forum and discovered Raider. Best move I ever made and haven't looked back since.
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Not too late to the party - Sydney pelagics
in Saltwater Fishing Reports
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Nice going though a shame losing the king.
Could be just the photo, but are you sure your fish isn’t a big frigate mackerel?
They look similar but mac tuna have a few dark spots around the pectoral fin.