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    Port Stephens- Damn!!!

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    Good to see you and Mick out there.

    The current made it difficult to read the drift, I was surprised how there was bugger all debri floating around.

    I could hear you cursing from over where we were fishing, I knew you must have lost a good one.

    Live bait tank

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    Hi

    I’m looking at buying a new live bait tank with chopping board on top.

    I was thinking about a Pro wave, has anyone got one and what’s your thoughts?

    My old tank is a home made one which sits inside the boat talking up floor space which I don’t have much of, that’s why I’m looking at one that bolts to the  top of the gunwale.

    Any other brand or suggestions would be great.

    thanks

    Broughton Island few Reds

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    8 hours ago, jenk98 said:

    Yeah nice! 
    We had a really fun midday session on Saturday around Fingal, boating around 25 snapper between the 20-30m mark.. the bay is fishing awesome at the moment

    Was there much current about and if so what direction?

    Can’t complain with that mate. 
    what did the damage, plastics?

    Broughton Island few Reds

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    Had the day off and after speaking with @Scratchiewe decided to hit Broughton hoping to find a Snapper or 2 and maybe a longtail.

    Woke up early only to find a big storm just off the coast so was crossing my fingers it would disappear and as It was it did, I think the thunder woke Scratchie up bright and early.

    Hit cabbage tree up for bait but it was dead and only managed about 5, so pushed on to Broughton for first light.

    As always the wind forecast was wrong, predicted S/E, was actually blowing N/W and water fairly brown so I wasn’t overly confident but we were still keen to make it work.

    First drift livie Deployed and flicking plastics for snapper.

    Got a nice little pannie on boat just as the livie screams off, after a tussle up comes a Mac tuna.

    Another few drifts equals another tuna, small snapper and heaps of just under size kings.

    moved spots livie got hammered but missed it and probably our chances of a long tail as it was the last livie.

    we were about to call it a day when we thought we would try one more area and lucky we did as up comes a nice 58cm to finish the morning off.

    it turned out to be a top morning and I don’t know how many snapper we actually missed and dropped as well, thinking maybe the dirty water was making them miss the plastics, who knows.

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    Port Stephens- 8 months in the making!!!

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    5 hours ago, back cruncher said:

    Hi all...good to be back on the fish.plenty of Mac action,not much in the way of snapper though .yeah,I got sore arms that’s for sure,still can’t reach the bottoms of my pockets.

    thanks everyone.

    Good to hear your back out there mate.Hope to see you out there soon

     

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    Broughton island Mac tuna

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    4 hours ago, Ledge said:

    I’ve made jerky from Mac Tuna before. I thought it was pretty good... but quite ‘fishy’ so the rest of the family were turned off by the smell!

    Thanks mate.

    ive frozen it all up for bait now but if I get one I keep next time I might try some👍

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    Broughton island Mac tuna

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    Posted · Edited by Peter Nelson

    23 minutes ago, quintrex52 said:

    Would be interesting to see how others prepare them, caught a bucket load yesterday in Sydney kept a few but no idea what the best way to cook em up. 

    Always a good sesh when the action is to hot for pics 👌

    Yeah mate every time I tried to re rig or organise boat a bit another rod would scream off, had some breakfast packed and didn’t even get to eat it until the trip back.

    maybe I should set up a go pro or something 

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    Broughton island Mac tuna

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    Hi all

    havnt put a report in for a while due to average catches but thought I’d do a quick one and might get some answers to a question.

    Hit Broughton nice and early after quickly loading up on some livies trying to get there by first light, got there on time even though there was a fair bit of slop left over from the overnight n/e winds.

    I normally don’t fish weekends but was  motivated by Scratchie’s report of mackerel in the area.

    happy to  be the only boat in the area the first livey was set only to be smashed 30 seconds later, Big Mac tuna came in.

    Every drift , every livey was smashed resulting in more tuna, 3 snapper, heaps of rat kings.

    got smoked 3 times by what we think were good kings as they stayed deeper then the tuna and leaders were scuffed up by the reef. Managed to destroy one reel due to heavy drag and getting spooled. Bummer 

    struggled to get any more snapper  due to the kings hitting every bait or plastic .

    Ended up Keeping 3 Big Mac tuna due to them getting gut hooked and I was fishing with wire in case a Spanish turn up.

    I really enjoy my smoked fish and beef jerky and the question I have has anyone smoked one before or made fish jerky?, I only thought of jerky as its flesh is very red, meaty so thought it could be an option. Ill be keeping some for bait as well or maybe all of it.

    Sorry for the lack of photos as it was hectic out there and didn’t get around to it, and normally don’t photo what I consider a bait fish.

    cheers

     

     

     

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    Snapper past the Sydney heads

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    7 hours ago, Berleyguts said:

    We used to catch them at a decent size - 25-30cm and occasionally bigger. I haven’t seen one for years. They are possibly my favourite fish for Thai fish cakes. 😋 

    Hi Baz

    If you want any go to the tank reef, heaps there last time I went, sore arms but as it's fairly deep and they come up with their bucket mouths open

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    Port Stephens catch up warm up

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    6 hours ago, big Neil said:

    Looks like your "warm up" for the September event has put you on the front line of the grid, alongside Scratchie. Gunna be hard to sneak poll position from you guys but I reckon there will be a few trying real hard to do so. All being well it will be good to see how the experts do it. Till then keep honing your skills Peter, it's pretty to watch. Cheers, bn

    Thanks mate

    I think it was more luck than skill, if i got there 1hr later I would have got nothing.

    They were really on the bite than shut down as quick as it came on

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    Port Stephens catch up warm up

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    6 minutes ago, Scratchie said:

    Nice work Pete! Gees that spot looks familiar haha 😂 Glad you could pull something from there. We did three drifts in that area and all we got was an ass smacking by a good snaps!!! Good to see you get out mate. I know you’ve been hanging for a fish! Well done 👍

    cheers scratchie!!! 

    I thought you'd recognise my secret location,  ha ha

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    Port Stephens catch up warm up

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    Havnt posted for a while due to corona virus and moving house at the moment.

    But I decided to get my priorities right and have a warm up before the Port Stephens catch up.

    Took my nephew out and tried a few areas with  a keeper and a 45cm model.

    Moved on to another spot and started feeding out a livey only for it to get smashed before the rod went in the holder, after a bit of a fight up comes a just legal king, landed a couple more the next drift.

    Set up our next drift and it was on, nephew gets a nice 63cm snaps, livey goes off and I get absolutely  smoked, then my rod with the plastic on goes off, lucky to get this one as it swallowed it down and could feel the leader skipping across it's teeth, another 63cm shortly after a 54cm landed.

    Got dusted  a couple more times and got a few big bonnies  before the wind dropped completely off and the fish with itIMG_3719.jpg.3a0a9f4dacefd3ae6e1cb06a23e38c9b.jpg

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