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Shall do, filleting it today:) Yes, a few reports few and far between! Thanks Dave, bit of a surprise, I caught one 30 years ago on a yakka in Gunnamatta. Looking forward to the fillets! Thanks Bob He was pretty pleased as it was the best fish he has landed on his heavy gear (I'm trying to get him to fish lighter in the rivers!)

Some great action on the top and it looks like you've invested in some nice gear! Good to see the bent minnows getting results!

Hit the Hacking yesterday arvo for a quick bash as the conditions were great, overcast, little wind and the circus had packed up from the day before. Headed over to Maianbar to collect some nippers and poddies then got a call from my son who was keen to join me. We soaked a couple of poddies in the main channel for no joy then slipped around to Lilli Pilli right on low tide for more of the same. I suggested we head up river to troll livies through a narrow patch of channel close to one of my go to flats. The tide was a very low 0.2 and we were in 3-5 m of water in the deepest part of the channel when my son's rod starts buckling. He had a very large poddy on and loaded up his 50lb braid with a good short tussle. We saw the fish come close to the surface and couldn't quite ID it until it came up and rolled over - Cobia! A few more dives under the boat and into the net it went. My son was stoked as he hadn't really caught much of note on his heavy gear (wonder why:). We decided to keep the fish and onto the brag mat it went coming up on the 80 mark then dispatched and into the ice bag. I'm looking forward to getting some nice fillets off it today as they have a pretty good rep for taste. While we were measuring the fish my rod went off with a nice flatty in the 50s coming on board. While we were trolling I scored 3 nice bream in the 30s flicking nippers up onto the adjoining flats. My last 3 trips the electric motor has been playing up so it was lucky I changed the battery over this week! We decided to repeat the troll and this time my son's rod goes again but this time his locked up drag was screaming as a beast took about 200m of line in a dead straight line up into the moored boats before the leader gave way. I'm thinking the culprit was quite a bit larger than the little grey man following me in the shallows the other day:) Think before you wade ladies and gents, the water is 23-24 degrees and the grey men have plenty of fish to chase atm; I saw a guy up to his waist on the edge of this little bay the other day😮

Nice bag, you have plenty of bait sorted👌

Yep, the water has warmed right up and the fish are aplenty so the food chain does it’s thing👌

Nice work Dave! The Bonnie’s are a welcome addition and yes that half Bonnie obviously met a toothy end! Good to see the anchovies in the pic, explains the surface bust ups I saw the other day. The Hacking boat and jet ski circus show is on today so good luck to anyone trying to put together a bag😜

Yep BN Now is the time with river temps at 24 degrees 🧐

Sorry to hear you cooped that Bob! certainly spoils a session😡 I had a spike in the knuckle from a grouper once that had me on antibiotics for 4 months🤷🏻‍♂️

I think the flats are the go for whiting atm. As for the shark I spoke to a local kayak fisho who said he’s seen it regularly 😜 Yep, that area has some big critters on it, I’ve caught big long Tom, trevs and rays with a pretty big diameter…. The terns smash bait there and a resident eagle cleans up on the surface too!

Headed out in the Hacking yesterday arvo to collect poddies and nippers, fish the last of the run out and the first of the run in. Headed to Maianbar and loaded up on nippers and a half dozen poddies then tried the channel for an hour with a poddy down for no joy. Headed down river to a flat for a few average whiting then back to try to get some more poddies for the next day. No good on the poddies so I soaked a livey around the Lilli Pilli deep water for half an hour then headed up river to another flat. The tide was still very low but the whiting came out to play in a foot or two of water on the drift. (My Electric isn't working as II found out the battery was cactus and replaced it today$$$) Closer to high tide I had a visitor on the flat in a grey suit, about 1.5m tall and pretty keen to circle the boat looking for a feed for 15 minutes. I'm not sure if it was a small bull shark or a whaler but it followed me for about 500m on a drift and I gifted it a whiting, all in 3 foot of eater!. Lucky the local who was pumping nippers in waist deep water in his budgie smugglers had already moved on:) Finished up with a dozen good whiting with 4 very solid fish among them. The whiting seem to out there all over the Hacking atm. Good to get a fish in before the circus starts on Friday:)

Better luck next time! Plenty of boats atm, should quieter down in a week!

Great session Isaac! excellent top water results and some quality fish! Great use of a windy day!

Great read, that first bream is a tank👌

Sounds like you got a few for the table on the vibe. Sometimes the poor conditions are worth persevering through 👌

Thanks Dave Question is will you wet a line on the Goldy?

Nice work Isaac All the Hacking flats seem to be producing atm. I fished the other day and a got a few nice ones from 4 different flat areas. You got a good 40 + unit tgere, well done!

No plastics today Has been a bit rain affected but clear near the mouth Yep, just have two rods out with a 60-80cm trace and smallish sinker.

Thanks Chris it is great to be back floating again and the whiting are biting👌 Hi BN i use a homemade trap and put it out on the flats when I’m collecting nippers. Thanks, some good sized fillets! Always drifting Bob, I cover more ground and the whiting seem to be more aggressive with a moving bait. Sometimes I use the electric motor if there is no wind.

Hit the Hacking yesterday arvo for a quick flats session. Collected some nippers at Maianbar and fished the run out tide for 7 nice whiting int he mid 30s. Headed out again this morning and collected some nippers and poddies and drifted the main channel for a flatty in the mid 40s then hit a number of different flats for a mixed bag. The best fish of the day was a whiting up river that was quite dark and about 40cm. I've sashimid the trev for tomorrow and will cook the flounder whole, plenty of other whiting and flatty fillets also boned and ready to cook:)

Nice mixed bag Isaac! It was a bit slow today, had to move around a fair bit to get a feed!

Great report Whiskey! I'm sure the effort you put in assisting your dad was worth it and you scored an amazing bag! Great memories:)

Sounds like a great camping spot....lots of accessible fishing! Well done on the catching and cooking too! (And the salmon sashimi!)

Great report Mike! You sound like you’ll be busting to get back to try out those spots! We just returned from Hawkes Nest and I had a similar experience getting a chance to scope out plenty of spots but not as much fishing as I would have liked as we were with friends and doing lots of other stuff. My nipper pumped lost its inners and I couldn’t find a set of replacement washers etc. so that also slowed me up. id love to go back there with my boat as there are so many options in those waterways!

Congrats on your first king!

Nice work Dave, we are up at Hawkes Nest and got a few yesterday….not at 39cm though!