jenno64

Got a few the other day mauling my live poddies. Arrows will go upstream especially on large run up tides like the ones atm:)

I should have put it on lice and done another drift😉

With the big tides atm try mid tide up on the flats. Walk around and scatter some bread. If you see some mullet place your trap and walk away for 20 minutes. Any sand flats atm will hold poddies.

Nicely marked fish!

Delayed report from Wednesday. Collected some really good size poddies (just under 15cm) and fished the run out tide at the mouth of the Georges. All pretty quiet for a while then my lighter rig gets slammed and i pulled the other rods in to give chase. The beast towed me for a undred or so metres then hit the afterburners and busted me off at the braid. From its behaviour I was thinking maybe a bull shark. I dropped my heavier outfit back in and started re-rigging when the other bigger livey was smashed. I was towed again but this time I felt head shakes and the run was a bit more mulloway like. The beast turned back up stream and I was just about over the top of it and it turned again sharply and with a delayed run busted me off at the hook. I let out a few expletives and wondered what it may have been. Two smashings in five minutes! I re-rigged and headed down with the tide and hooked a nice little soapy in the mid 60s which i released on video. https://youtu.be/LwHrYf9qFXQ No big flatties today but lots of excitement! I'm contemplating rigging up my heavy overhead outfit and getting serious with these bandits!

I was out there in the yak, just out of the normal boat traffic:)

First run felt like a rat, possibly a jew

Georges River😉

Nice work!

Congrats that is fishing I dream of!!!!

Headed out about 6:30am yesterday after collecting some poddies on the smaller side. I was looking for a feed of flatties for a family BBQ.As the tide had already turned I headed upstream for half a km and started drifting towards the bridge. No joy on the sounder and I picked up a nice flatty in the mid 50s that I dispatched into my new insulated fish chill bag. Hung around the bridge for a while and baits were being mauled around the neck by squid so I kept drifting. Picked up a smaller flatty in 2m of water then a squid came up on a poddy so I netted it, removed the head and threw it onto my heavy line. Drifting in 8m a couple more arrow squid joined the bag and the squid head was trimmed by pickers. Picked up another few flatties around the 40cm mark to add to my shopping list. I waited until the bottom of the tide to try a spot I had picked small kings up in before and sure enough my lighter outfit screamed. Foolishly I grabbed the other two rods to get the kines in as one was tangled in the screaming line. By the time I grabbed the rod there was no more screaming, just the leader shredded about 20cm up the line. Must always set the hook first before removing other lines! No trophy fish today but a decent feed:) Caught a Grinner on the way back too:)

Love the fail story....would have made a good video! Congrats on the lure's first fish!

Great session with a top bag & pics too!

Nice Mowie Adrian!

Thanks for your comments guys, I'm looking forward to getting back to Sydney and planning another mission:) Whiting are biting in Port Macquarie:)

Delayed report from last Friday as a mate and I launched at the mouth of the Georges after collecting some poddies around 7am. With a full moon on the day a huge high of 1.86m had the poddies spread out everywhere but I finally gathered a good load. Headed up river on the last of the run in and had no customers around the bridge pylons but a little further up river I lost a poddy to a smash and grab raid. Shortly after my lighter outfit gets hit and a soapy around 60 comes up. Midway through the fight my heavier rods gets smashed and the rod holder flips the rod 180 degrees with the but pointing to the sky. By the time I released the first fish, this fish had taken a fair bit of line on a looser than normal drag. I turned the yak in its direction and started the chase, retrieving line and soon after up came a silver ghost which I slipped into the net. Not bad action in a 5 minute period! The fish was caught in about 30 ft of water 45 minutes after the tide turn. I fossicked around some deeper holes then turned back down river as a strong northerly came up around 11am. Only a few hundred metres from the launch site, my lighter outfit goes off over a drop off and up comes a very healthy flatty which I lip gripped, took into shore and released after a few celebrity pics with the jew. Nice to get a jew over 80 and a flatty over 70 on the same outing;) I've been chasing off the Port Macquarie beaches but have added a couple of videos from the day; - excuse the raw amateur quality and the length

Very sad and I think the impact will become more noticeable over the next few months and even years.

Nice platter as usual Yowie! Interesting about the crabs too!

Great vid - you certainly had the action for a while at your boat!

Sounds like you have the Hacking sorted:) Great flatty for your grandson, was it on bait or a lure?

Awesome king, shame about the fish kills....these fires sure have had far reaching impact on just about everything!

Go Scratchie You guys always get your reds!

Nice work on the two days out! Great vid too!

Amazing catch and even if you didn't find the whiting those worms look fat enough to cook up somehow:)

Fantastic report and great pics of the tops catches. Great highlight with you and your daughter landing the croc!!