jenno64

Big day out....deserved a feed!

Sounds like an amazing trip, great post!

Thanks Bob ive sorted a few meals of boneless whiting fillets in the freezer and it was good to release a big girl to top off a good day Thanks Isaac My best in the Georges is 97 on a lure and 96 on bait, just couldn’t crack a metre! Maybe one day🙏 I hope you weta line somewhere productive Yowie, thanks for leaving me a few👏🏻👏🏻 I was a bit confused when I pulled her up the beach as she had swallowed my wide gap hook and i noticed the other trace…it must have been a knot fail for the previous hookup🤷🏻‍♂️I usually hook the big ones in the jaw so I just played it safe and snipped both traces off, hopefully she will pull through as she swam off like a champ 🦈 I think the water is a bit quieter on the weekends now but I always fish away from the channels so they don’t seem to bother me too much👌

Great short sharp session you sure were there at the right time and bad luck on the king!

Well said Jeffand thanks to all other moderators who keep the site in great shape!

Hit the Hacking again yesterday after collecting a few nippers the afternoon before. Headed up river for the last of the run in and started getting a couple of whiting on the flats. Pulled the boat up and threw the poddy trap out and fished from the shore for half an hour. Hooked a Long Tom almost a metre long and doing some amazing acrobatics before being landed and released. Plenty of small bream and reddies around and as the tide turned I drifted the flats for some nice whiting up to the high 30s but the rod with the poddies didn't get a look in. Ran into my friend the turtle a couple of times and gave up the flats after the bite stopped. Headed back down the river to stop off and scale the whiting and through all the lines out off the drop off. As I was scaling my first whiting I heard the drag wake up on one of my poddy outfits. Sure enough I had a nice flatty on and she came up onto the beach without too much fuss. She was well conditioned with beautiful markings and I noticed she had another trace with a swivel coming out of her mouth and my wide gap hook was well down to so I snipped the traces off and got her back into the water pretty quickly. She swam off like a pro and was my PB in the Hacking so I can now work on upgrading:)

Great stuff Jeff! Always great to see the smile on the dial of the kids when they proudly show off the catch!

Great feed Larkin!

Yep, makes a difference and part of the fun! Thought it was a flatty with the headshakes and it was thick as! Cheers Rebel My second one at 45cm this season so pretty happy! There's been some good size to them lately:)

Perseverance Bob ….should be you middle name👌

Great bag….winter is coming🤪

Bob You never fail! Great result!!

Had a plan to fishing the hacking yesterday so I collected a few nippers from close to home on Saturday arvo. Thanks to Yowie's advice I kept them all alive for 24 hours paddling in 10mm of water in a tray rather than in a bucket of deeper water...worked a treat with no losses! Launched around 11am to fish the run out tide on various flats. first stop Maiainbar and I saw plenty of species as I motored up the channel but things were quiet and lots of debris /weed on the flats so I headed up river. Hit a patch of flat with only a foot or two of water over it and picked off some nice whiting and a couple of bream. Biggest whiting just nudged 45cm and equalled my season PB....I thought it was a flatty with the genuine head shakes and darts here and there! Released as many smaller bream and few small whiting. Spooked a turtle in a couple of feet of water, very distinctive markings of half a dozen barnacles on its shell that was about3-35cm wide. Ran out of nippers so collected some poddies and picked up a small flatty then slow-trolled some poddies down deep at various spots even stopping to chunk a few up for berley. No joy on the livies so stopped to scale the fish and headed home around 5pm. Water has cleared up even for a run out fish! Happy days with a few more fillets for the winter:)

That's a great change of fortune! Enjoy the feeds!

That's a cracking mullet! Imagine whacking on a livie hook for a big flathead🤪 Good supply of bait there or even a couple of nice fillets if you prepare them right:)

Great stuff and a good bag of fillets!

Nice post Dave It's about time for the mullet to go on hols up the coast isn't it?

Krakens!

Great pics Bob! You're slaying them!!

Nice catch Isaac !

Great bag Yowie! I'll have to pick your brain about heading out into Bate Bay for the flatties, I haven't tried that tactic as yet. Good to se you brave a public holiday while the weather is good! I love the way you always pick off a bream at your mum's ramp, they must shudder when you come back in each trip:)

Yep, I felt pretty silly once I realised I was bogged in weed and mud. Watched another boat going flat stick about 50m from me that came to an abrupt halt too. The young boys all jumped out and float their boat into the channel:) At least I relaxed for 45 minutes! Cheers, fishing always seems good when a big moon is about to rise! Cheers Thanks! It was Yowie, I didn't expect much at all after checking out the Maianbar flats the day before, weed and debris everywhere. A bit further up the river the flats didn't have as much crap floating around. It was Bob, I always try to get on the water for Good Friday and it was an enjoyable couple of hours with fish as a bonus! The spin was the day before when I was giving the boat a run, I was happy that she started and ran well so Friday was a for a quick fish!

I sure will if I get a chance to wet a line!

Always good to try on the plate! Nice work👌

Yesterday I uncovered the boat for the first time since late January to find plenty of mould and water damage before taking it for a spin in the Hacking to see if everything worked! Beautiful conditions and without any fishing gear I sussed out a few of my spots to see how the wet had affected them. The flats of Maianbar had plenty of weed and further up toward Grays Point I could barely see the bottom even in 2 feet of water. It was great to give the boat a spin for an hour in nice conditions and I had a plan for today. I always try to get on the water for a fish on Good Friday and at dead low tide today I pumped some nippers my local sandbank and planned to launch about 3:30pm when the tide would be picking up. I also bought 200g of whitebait as back up for a deep water fish. I wasn't confident about getting a few fish and had dinner planned already with some mussels I bought yesterday. I launched and headed up river, away from the debris and weed. I approached a flat I usually fish and drifted in without sighting the bottom but ran aground in the weed and was stuck for 45 minutes. Tried getting out and pushing but the bottom was quicksand and weed so I waited for the tide to come in a bit. I threw 2 lines out and just before the tide moved me off the weed I hooked a just legal whiting. I fridted over the flats with the electric motor just in gear to keep me straight and hooked a couple more whiting, one going mid 30s. I motored back up to the top of the drift and picked up a nice bream, a few more whiting including a 42cm horse and a flatty in the mid 40s. A couple more drifts and I was busted off twice with a couple of good runs, maybe long toms and picked up a couple more whiting. Last drift, both rods went off and 2 nice bream came up. It was good session in a few hundred metres of water and I bolted home just before 6pm with a cracking full moon guiding past the floating logs and debris. A good feed considering I had no more fillets in the freezer so tomorrow I'll clean them up and restock the freezer. Heading down to Tassie to pick up a campervan next week, I'll be taking a few lures and a travel rod to have a crack at the bream:) Happy Easter Fishos!