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    Great Weekend Fishing

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    4 hours ago, gwoods said:

    This is my first time posting a fishing report. Managed to get out both days of the weekend doing some very different fishing.

    Saturday got out in the bay with my wife and 3 daughters. Put the boat in at Revesby beach and headed up the Georges into Botany Bay. Was on our way to the heads to troll for some Bonito (the girls have never trolled before) when schools of tailor started busting up on the surface off Towra. Put 2 hardbodies and a skirt out the back and hooked up immediately with 2 tailor between 33 and 35 cm on the hardbodies. Continues trolling through the bay and out of the heads to find that the younger 2 didn't like being outside so headed back in.
    Anchored up off the 3rd runway and my eldest landed the trevally at around 38cm. Once it went quiet there moved to the mouth of the Woronora off the Port Marker and got the flattie at 44cm. Caught heaps of undersize bream and snapper along with a few tailor and flathead to keep the kids interested through the day. The kids 9, 11 and 21 had a great day out.

    Sunday managed a trip outside on a mates boat. First stop the Sydney Wide FAD. Went straight out first thing and found another boat with spearfishers working the FAD. Saw a couple of small dollies jumping but didn't get a bite. Headed from there for my first trip to Browns Mtn for some bottom fishing. Current and wind combined for a very fast drift so after 5 drifts for one Blue Eye called it quits and headed back to the FAD with the wind picking up. No real luck there with a couple of rat kings only. Tried a couple of drifts at the Peak for one Sergeant Baker, tried drifting off Maroubra for a couple of undersize flatties before heading home. Although we didn't do so well it was still a great day out on the water.

    Attached is a photo of Saturday's haul. Cooked all of the fish dusted in flour and spices and put them on the BBQ. No body is in a hurry for more trevally.

    Looking forward for the next opportunity to get out.

     

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    Don't know how good your cooking skills are,but I regularly bake trevally in the oven using some Greek recipes (plaki) that you can find on the net. Perfect for fish like tailor also.

    cossie

    Few blackies in the east

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    Thanks for comments guys.

    There's something about chasing blackfish off the rocks that just keeps u hooked. Even the smaller models don't give up till you wash them out. As soon as they had a bit of cover from the wash they would come on the bite.

    cheers

    Few blackies in the east

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    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Ryder said:

    Great bag. Certainly some stonkers.

    .The ocean rocks would have been the coolest place to be today.

    Well done

     

    Yes mate it was beautiful. I don't usually measure my blackies but two of them were well into mid forties 

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    Few blackies in the east

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    Posted · Edited by cossie

    Hi raiders,

    quick blackie session off the eastern suburbs rocks today. Couple of stonkers.

    kept a few for a feed. Released a couple of the big ones.Top day out.Lots of fun on the pin. Finished off with a swim, and just lit the barbie.

     

    cheers cossie

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    Fishing Floats

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    38 minutes ago, Koalaboi said:

    Hi,

    I use two types of floats:

    1. your pencil style like Stapo's for blackfish and

    2. One like yours pictured.

    The pencil floats I just buy as I hardly ever lose floats: 15lb mainline and a 6 to 8lb trace keeps me out of trouble. Just the same, I have made them using western red cedar which is very soft and easy to shape. Your float can be long and thinner or shorter and fatter. The eyelets to run line through are made from welding wire.

    The other floats I knock up myself using 1/4 inch dowel and champagne corks. I drill the cork then place it on a short length of dowel which I put into the chuck of a drill mounted on a vise. Turn on the drill and then shape the cork with sandpaper as it spins around. Lots of dust so a mask and do outside if possible.

    Place the shaped cork on a longer piece of dowel and paint then either put runners on the float for the line for a running float rig or more usually, sharpen the ends of the dowel and use a piece of plastic tubing jammed over the ends with the line inside to attach the float to the line for a fixed float.

    If you read through the pinned best ever tips for Blackie fishing you'll get lots of ideas.

     

    KB

     

    KB

    my trouble is the cork always seems to spin on the dowel when in the drill.

    any tips appreciated mate.

    i have resorted to free hand shaping using a belt sander. I am happy with result but maybe not as safe as sitting in the drill.

    i will post photo of results when I get home

    thanks

    Quick rock session at the bra

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, luderick -angler said:

    Cossie where did you find that gem! Very rare and collectible! Only ever seen a few. Probably the rarest pin made in Australia. Nice catch by the way.

    Royce

    i actually have  2  of them

    the sportsmaster and the n-gger reel.bought them off a collector in Melbourne.get sick of sitting around and playing with them in the lounge room, so I use them time to time

    still run very well

    the trevally was good fun on it last night

    Ignorant amateur anglers on the rocks

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    I haves fished the eastern suburbs for thirty years now and have learnt to stay away from certain spots at certain times of the year

    fortunately I have the ability have to fish during the week and this keeps me away from the idiots that frequent certain spots

    you cannot educate the uneducated or the ignorant.

    i like others,have given up on trying to help, plus don't need the hassles of tourist fishos.

    btw I think compulsory life jackets will only give them a false sense of security and they will tend to fish a larger swell in that case.

     

    Day 2 - a few more luderick

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    2 hours ago, luderick -angler said:

    Cossie, 

    i use a sportex 662 or 663 for my 12 footers otherwise I have an unidentifiable 10'10" butter worth that was dads.  Got a few other rods laying around the collection. Love the mk2 trudex besrcpin I have ever used. It's the 4.5" model.

    Let me know when you want to get rid of 1 or 2 sportex's

    seem to be hard to find

    have been looking for ages

    cheers

     

    Day 2 - a few more luderick

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    9 hours ago, luderick -angler said:

    So after yesterday's bag Trevor and I decided to back up and fish a couple of spots I had not been to in ten years and last time was with my late father. First spot fired and we had 7 fish in the bag by 7am. Looking good....then they buggered of! Okay off to another spot 10 minutes in and fish are on very touchy and we dropped a lot. Trevor had a late flourish here outfishing me but all up honours were even for the morning 12 fish in the bag by 10am and six kept for a further few feeds to the relatives today.

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    Hi Royce

    See you are using the MKII trudex

    what rod are you using mate?

    cheers 

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