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4 hours ago, big Neil said:
A nice healthy looking Bream you got there, well done. What's the lure hanging out of its mouth?
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Specifically an Ecogear zx40, unless I have the scale wrong
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I knew it! Had to be raiders. Well met good sirs.
If you’re down there often I’ll be on my weird little private jetty again soon I’m sure. Not a bad spot. -
3 hours ago, Burger said:
Have seen a mate do that before with a Salmon and they got a good few blackies on the weekend too. . . hmmmm, wonder if it was him! 😅
Very possible. 3 dudes in their 50s/60s, and their keeper net had at least one 40cm+ fish in it. Sounds like raider territory
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30 minutes ago, campr said:
If you don't mind listening to the ramblings of an old fella, here's a tip to get shy cruising kingies to fire up. I used to use this method around the 3 legged posts and the pump barge in Botany Bay when they were there resulting in hook ups on kings an huge tailor.
Fill a couple of buckets with water and chop up a few pillies and add to one bucket. Put a piece of pilly (or livey) on an unweighted hook and have it ready to cast. When kings get close throw bucket with water only towards kings. This sounds like bait fish splashing the water and kings should fire up and investigate. immediately throw bucket with pilly pieces to add some flavor to the mix. Now throw baited hook into middle and hopefully kings will eat bait. Ron
Thanks! If I didn’t listen to old folks I’d know very little about fishing! My great uncle was a pro fisho out of Fremantle and Shark Bay, always solo and by hook and line. Taught me much.
Firing pelagics up with a big splash of nothing is genius though. You won’t be wasting berley or bait because you don’t even do those until they’re reacting. Today that wasn’t a problem though - they were absolutely churning in 50cm of water!
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1 hour ago, masterfisho7 said:
Great story years when i lived in Drummoyne i also heaps of Kings around the same place they would only take small white metals
I tried one of those (a discount bin $5 job though) and it got followed, but no chomping.
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2 hours ago, Larkin said:
Good to hear some kingy schools are around.
When they’re like that chumming with a heap of burley (chopped/mushed pillies and bread) can sometimes get them on the bite.
They can also come back the next day around the same time - always worth a shot if you have a day off.
Way ahead of you. I don’t start work until 9:30 out in homebush, so another crack is on the cards!
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I love fishing for flatties.
Sometimes it’s like reeling in a sock, until their head is literally out of the water and it freaks out. At least with duskies, landbased. Also you don’t really know how big the fish is *until* it freaks out, which is fun.-
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Was fishing under Iron Cove bridge this morning (shore based) and a big group of kings were circling the pylons and coming up into the shallows. They wouldn’t have a bar of any lure I had, after 3 cycles past me with about 15 mins between. They were eating jelly prawns, and I can’t even buy small clear plastics any more for financial reasons due to tiny tailor.
Nearby is a jetty, and one of the dudes there fishing (quite successfully!) for luderick just scooped one of the kings up with his net, which was cool to see! A little undersized, so back in the drink, but incredible technique.
I saw some big ones leading the pack though, and some chunky trevs following them along.
I caught nothing at all. Frowny face. I actually had a landing net with me for a change, and could have tried this crazy nonsense if I’d thought of it!
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Nice one!
A cheapo Kmart lure was responsible for my PB flatty too, at 63cm. Mine was a $4 redhead soft vibe. They’re actually pretty decent - chucking on some better quality trebles is worth it though.
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Excellent work. Fishing and storytelling both five stars
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Top report and fun times, with food! Yakkas are great eating imo
I’m getting ready to take my 7yo girl fishing. She’s keen in theory, but I suspect when it comes to the crunch she might not be arguing for the BBQ so much as release. Which is not my way at all. Personally if I’m not trying for the table I’d rather not fish, for various reasons. I’ll leave it there because I’m not totally clear on the moderation policy with this topic, but suffice to say I’d like my girl to share my values.
Any tips?
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2 hours ago, Pafisho08 said:
HI
Try a light line rig with a small ball float size (1) small sinker (0) and Mustard worm hook size 10 at 20 -30 cm under the float and use soft white bread pressed onto the hook also bread burley .
But the mullet can be very fussy .
Regds Bob
Haha! Given your name and clear expertise… was it you I saw?
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On 3/27/2022 at 3:24 PM, Little_Flatty said:
What I'd want to know is 1) Did the guy know that the mullet were going to be on? 2) If the answer to the first question is yes, then what cues did he read to realise it was time?
The parra river mullet have mystified me to the point where I stopped trying for them years ago. I'm actually more fascinated in what turned them on than actually catching them myself!
That is an awesome spot. I'm spoilt enough to have good fishing close to home at Meadowbank (when there is not much rain + fish kills), but I'd MUCH rather have Iron Cove on my doorstep - far more variety available, with the possibility of the odd salmon and kings, as well as all the usual bread and butter species.
Yeah, it is a nice spot. Particularly having moved from Melbourne!
I didn’t get too much info from the guy catching bug mullet with his kid, other that it was intended for mulloway bait. Which implies an organised fisho, so no fluke. I regret not pressing for more info, but didn’t want to intrude - the kid was a bit shy and clearly having a ball without some big galoot interrogating his dad.
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Hawthorne Canal represent!!!
This is my local spot, and produces all manner of things. Last winter, salmon were a regular feature, and sometimes they’d take almost any lure. But flatties and bream are always there, and big whiting can sometimes be around. The odd mulloway or shark might swing by too, I’m told.
The big mullet are generally just a bummer, but one arvo last spring I was walking my dog down there and a dude and his son had them biting on bread under floats. Between the Bay Run bridge and the boat ramp. Super simple stuff, and they were still fishing with half a dozen already on ice.
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Awesome fishing, as we are all saying, yada yada... but the quality of your writing is also top-notch.
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Yakkas are my favourite sashimi bar none, if they’re fresh and firm and big enough to get a decent shoulder section sliced up. Better than kingfish
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On 12/30/2021 at 9:35 PM, Pickles said:
Good work on the pics. You did well to land even a small tailor as they usually bite the line off. Stay well away from their teeth - they don’t have the nickname of “choppers” for nothing.
Very good advice. I once got bitten on the hand by a just-severed tailor head that I was putting in a crab trap. Revenge!
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I hooked a small whiting once in WA which got upgraded on its way in to the jetty to a 75cm cobia. It wasn’t strictly “hooked” either, as the whiting had already swallowed the hook!
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Sticking to your guns paid off!
It’s a good thing you did too - I was there at the start of the runout today, and couldn’t put anything small in the water that wasn’t instantly harassed by 15-25cm bream.
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Awesome Trev. I honestly don’t think there is a better white-fleshed fish for sashimi in our coastal waters. Happy to be proven wrong!
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Hardest pound for pound fighter after trevally in my experience.
I was able to fool myself I’d hooked a massive Murray cod once on the Goulburn river. Nope, just a slightly lazy 60cm carp.
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On 8/22/2021 at 11:49 AM, bessell1955 said:
Do you think they may be coming in to breed?
I lost one much the same size yesterday, right up in the shallows in Iron Cove, so you may be right. Different system entirely of course.
Breeding might be on their minds, but they’re feeding too!
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3 hours ago, kobi caught a fish said:
we all lose them
I presume you’re referring to the fish. 😂
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42 minutes ago, Rebel said:
Lock your fishing gear up, like I do.
Cheers.
There is no combination of actions I could have taken to prevent this - it was pure malice, and if not the net then it would have been something else.
Perhaps I deserved it!
But anyway bear in mind you only have my side of the story, and I could be a terrible person.
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Can anyone ID this? (Bully/Sea Mullet)
in The Aquarium
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So I’ve tried the idfish app, to no avail.
Anyone got any idea what this is? Roughly 30cm long. My 8yo took the photo, so please be nice!