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cheers mate, there were a few guys going out, but at the wall itself there were 5 other boats around me. not as busy as expected.

arm exercise is no exaggeration especially when sitting down in the kayak, its all arms. when the rod on the left side goes off i cramp up every time. its not my dominant side. can never beat a cloudless sunrise! looking like a good day tommrow too! Id like to also pass my thanks to @mrsswordfishermanfor correcting my miss spelling of Wednesday in the title

Gday raiders, went out Wednesday morning (8/03/2023) to target some kingfish & other pelagic that may also be around. Weather was set to be perfect with a very slight offshore breeze & N/E swell which meant very little swell inside the northern section of botany bay. Armed with some fresh squid caught a few nights earlier and 5 yakkas for bait, i dropped the kayak in at yarra bay sailing club at around 5.40 and spent the next 10-20 minutes full speed over to the area I was going to fish. Full speed in the hobie is 8km/hr & the water was perfect, 24.somthing degrees, almost complete glass & zero wind at all. Felt like it was going to be a perfect day! Once anchored, adjusted my sinkers to the conditions as the current was a little strong along Molineux because of the incoming tide & had my baits out by 6:10. First hook-up was at 6.46am followed by, 7.03am, 7.33, 7.34am, 7.39am & 7.51am All on squid strips and sitting around 55cm. Live bait was bitten in half just before the gills. The bite went a little quiet throughout 8am, so id stirred up a idea of dropping down a squid strip on a 1/0 hook on my 1kg squidding rod & after about a minute on the bottom it loads up with another rat but after 10 minutes of fighting the fish the line gives out. Also had 2 other missed hook-ups just afterwards on the other rods. Live bait rod buckles over just on 9am which resulted in a 61cm king. A school of small Watson's bonnies turned up and caught a few of those on my light rod. they were about 30-40cms in length and all went back. Landed 2 more kings afterwards which got no pics off and were both in the high 50's again, and dropped 2 more before running out of all bait & heading in at 10am. 9 kings landed, 4 lost.

Welcome to the forum mate! what a report to start out with as well, looking forward to more from you in the future. some cracker fish there!

good job mate, was a stunning morning, flat and slight offshore breeze. How many kings you end up with? I found them on the chew today!

id have to give this a go next time i use some green prawns. it might be abit challenging to do so with the smaller ones but it doesn't look too difficult to do and you'll probably get rather quick at doing it the more you do it. Might be the difference on a slow day.

cheer mate, good to see youve gotten a few squid! they've been around in plague portions cheers rebel. cheers, now onto bigger & better ones

After recent success on rats in the bay, a few mates who’d never caught a kingfish wanted to get out and catch some, so after abit of late planning today was the day. Perfect conditions, with no wind and a mostly sunny morning made for a wonderful morning in the bay. dropped my mates boat of at foreshore at 4.40am, which wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and made our way to point molineaux. On arrival there was one other boat so we got a spot and sat back. I already had lives I caught on Friday evening and 9 fresh squid also caught on Friday evening, I also had 20 litres of pilchard oil to make sure there’d be fish. My role for the day was to spread the kingfish virus, vaccinated or not. Rigged all the rods up as no one else knew how to tie good knots and even if they did I didn’t trust them. after however long it took me to tie 4 rods up I poked my head up and there was about 10 boats all around us and it was still dark. My mate caught a 33cm bream on pillie cubes while we were preparing. 6am rolls around and my mates rod has a king Playing with his bait so after a sharp strike and a short fight later a 58cm came on bored, the fish tangled with my line so I spent the next 5 mins re tying instead of untangling. First king for him. after new baits in the water and rerigged rods I get hit and catch my 1st of the day which was about 50 followed by my other mate who caught one at the same time, which was also his first ever king which was about 50cm aswell. the bite went quiet for a moment so i poured more pillie juice in and we all catch another king each which were all around the 50-55 mark. charter boat besides us caught a couple aswell which surely meant happy clients, but besides that didn’t notice any other boats hook up. the bite went quiet by 8am so we sat around for another hour and a bit and headed in by 9.30. The live bait went untouched so they were all released. only one pic as I was busy netting, untangling, rerigging and unhooking. The action came and went & all fish were caught within about 45 minutes.

Ripper session and plenty of fish to go around amongst everyone! Good work!

I store them in a bucket at a baitshop, change the water when it goes bad and keep them at a constant temp. As long as you don’t man Handel them too much and don’t let them flap around on the ground they will stay alive for a long time. I unhook them inside the bucket as soon as I catch them

any decent size atleast, all the ones ive seen caught & caught myself were about 20cm.

G'day raiders headed off to botany bay again to chase some pelagic action. caught some live yakkas and a handful of squid on Sunday evening and kept the yakkas alive in a bucket till Tuesday, Headed out at 4.30 and in the water by 5. Had a brief chat to another kayak fisho launching. Once at point Molineux there was plenty of bait on the sounder which were more yakkas so I threw one out with a hook in it straight away and also dropped a squid down. The clouds were lit up by fire as (i thought) the port was doing some burn off, but later that night i find out a emergency at a nearby plastics plant. The flames were over 80 meters into the sky and i could feel the heat from the bay. Anyway, a small rat kingfish took the squid at around 6-6.30 followed by another one 5 minutes later. Both were in the late 50's. By now 5 other boats were anchored nearby & no one seemed to catch anything besides shovel nose sharks and port Jackson's. Plenty of large bust ups of salmon & bonito but didn't take any pillie cubes, squid tentacles used as a plastic or a 1.5 gram halco twisty. 7am and my live bait rod peels over and the fish goes straight for the surface and jumps around. 52cm salmon very fat, very healthy, took a quick pic and released. the fishing mostly died down after that, schools of sweep were down deep and my livie had a few goes at it near by boats didn't seem to hook onto them. 10am comes around and i decide to head in, gave my livies to another boat hopefully they'd catch something.

good action yet again, are you sure they arnt the same pictures from last time hahahah

the sensor rods are cracker, i got the sensor surf and i find its 100x better then the pen prevails. Its a fairly stiff rod and casts out big slabs no drama

if you dont want to pay so much for rods, the aquatip range is good at 90$ paired with a sedona reel which are about 150$ RRP. You cannoy go wrong with a stradic though

absolute croc of a flatty, good work!

cheers mate! all went back but its great to hear the reel sing their song my dads always said the bay is cursed with us, never landing or finding decent fish so id say the curse is broken, for now. yeah good sized ones too, with the biggest being high 20's, low 30's hoods.

Yeah was great to have some fun on rats again. Hoping to get out again tuesday! hopefully gods good and the fish are around still & the weather holds yeah its ether no squid or 15 squid. have you been down lately?

uploaded a video as well, arm is in the way most the time as its just my phones shoved in a pocket on my life jacket

stradic 5000, shimano terez 10-20lb (TEREZ S70M) 20lb braid 20lb leader Saragossa 6000, shimano terez 30-50lb (TEREZ S76H) 30lb braid 50lb leader

Gday raiders, took the kayak out to botany bay to try for some kingfish action on Tuesday morning. But this trip actually started back on Sunday night when i decided i'd go out and catch 5 or so yakkas just in case there was no yakkas to be caught alongside point molineaux, so i made my way down to yowie bay boat ramp and caught a couple yellowtail easily before a school of about 100 squid turned up so i threw the one and only squid jig i brought with me and caught 20 squid in about 10 minutes. the squid promptly moved on so i threw my yellowtail hook back on and caught another 4 yellowtail before more squid turned up only to loose my jig to a bloody tailor instantly so i packed up and went home very happy. Tuesday morning came around quickly and with a 4am wake up i head out to pick up the yellowtail which are still haply swimming around the bucket and make my way to yarra bay. unloaded all the equipment and i was on the water by 5am & started cruising over to point molineaux. Once i arrived it was just started to go first light and with a few anchor issues and a few anchor resets i was settled in. Almost instant large schools of yakkas turned up so i caught quite a few more "just in case". The conditions on the water was absolute glass, zero wind and a beautiful sunrise! It wasn't until about 6am the first boat rocked up which was fishing Sydney charter boat (scotty lyons old business) so i immediately knew was in the right spot. I wasn't to pleased when he dropped anchor (or left his electric motor on spot lock) about 20 odd meters from be but oh well. It didn't take long for large schools of bait fish were being attacked by small salmon which were being picked out by the charter boat, i didn't have any interest in them and also didn't bring a metal lure. but there was heaps of bait below me and some good marks beneath them which no doubt were kings!, So i threw my livie down which didn't interest them and nether did salted pilchard or slimies so i cut up some of the squid i caught a couple nights earlier and almost straight away it was king, after king. Everyone was onto kingfish, although most where in the 60's there were a few barely legals. There was a boat containing 3 morons on it keeping 40-50cm kings. got a video of them doing it too. My livie goes off after about an hour of swimming around & i miss the hookup so i drop a new yellowtail down and he is eaten immediately on a 66cm king. a few more yellowtail go missing which i'm not too sure about how they got off. By 9am the king fish have moved on and I've run out of squid and most boats are starting to pack up. I drop down some salted baits for a few small reds and stupid sweep so i decide to try for some squid at the base of point molineaux only to get snagged and loose my squid jig so i pack up and head in by 11am. My total for the day was 9 kingfish, lost 3 larger models. the kings were in the 60-67cm range. These fish are also my first kingfish in botany bay ever as well as i usually catch them out of port hacking but I've been having it tough there lately so i gave up and went botany bay instead.

i find if you verbally abuse them they dont call back for awhile.

looks like a silver biddy

8 for 29 is a bargain. Yamishitas can be about 10-12 per jig and most other jigs sit around 5ish. Shimano jigs can be a rip off unless you find them on clearance. Hate loosing those to bloody tailor. The 3 letter store charges a good premium on jigs anyway. If you want to prevent snagging just put a dropper sinker with a jig 30-40cm above it and if you feel ballsy anther one above that and just tea bag it while drifting

Nice morning sesh, any legal or all rats? should get a lucky banana sticker for the boat.