BIGG DADDA TREVS

Nice report mate, fish Clifton a lot with family and friends around. When the slimies bite it's really fun. What time did the slimies come and when did they leave? When they fired last time me and a friend caught around 60 between them two of us. Catch them on just about everything. From SPs to slimy chunks, flies, fish tails and anything creative u can come up with. They are either seeped crazy or not around at all. Funny bunch. If u ever plan to hit Clifton again shoot me a pm as I'm quite a regular visitor to that area.

Right! Thanks for the advice guys.

I have an enquiry about blue nose bream, whether I've been poorly informed or misidentified a fish. Last year I caught a bream in the hawkesbury river that went 48cm, I thought it was just a bream as I was just starting fishing and didn't know of any other species of bream. Later, looking back at the photos is identified it as a bluenose bream. Just wandering if the bluenose bream is counted as a different species as I couldn't find it in the records section. Thx

Hiwi hiwi is a New Zealand species originally but a friend's caught them of the rocks in Sydney. I've heard of them being called black trevally

Online or fishing stores that specialize in ISO, there's one called shin shin tackle store or something and there's another in burwood.

Hiwi hiwi right?

Red rock cod hey... Taste delicious, handle with caution. As with killing just cut the throat, snap neck up, bleed then ice. When filleting employ a Japanese style of filleting. Cut behind the pec fins toward the head on both sides, insert knife into butt and cut up to the head, avoid nicking the guts. Pull head down similar to cleaning a leatherjacket. Now fillet the fish starting on one side, cut toward spine either from back and belly. Insert knife a tail end of fillet and cut towards head side severing the ribcage and pin bones. Remove fillet. Repeat with other side. Remove ribcage and cut down either side of the pin bones cutting out the bloodline. Skin if ur going to sashimi or leave the skin on if ur going to fry or bake, just remember to score the skin or it'll curl up into foetal position. I would link my video but I'm in China so when I get back I'll link it.

Since I kinda target trees a lot I talk to a lot of ISO fishermen and they buy pre packed burley powder from Japan. Tried it and it works super well. However it's probably a bit crappy for the environment as all the colouring and preservatives that go into it. I just prefer my dodgy old recipe of fresh caught baitfish, bread, prawn heads and special sauce.

Yer they're pretty good if u get a decent one. The Kastking Ranger is a really cheap rod that will basically suit ur everyday all purpose rod. I pair it with braid and it casts a mile. It's just a little stiff for lures sometimes. It's only like 30 bucks so snag one and try it. U can't really go wrong with something at that price range

Ive fished around that area before. Three days of 12 hours a day for 2 fish. A big fat carp and a dink teraglin. What a trip. But the carp was fun as we intended to hunt down a carp. When we were fishing for carp a man came with 2 kids fishing for bass with lures. They said they caught them there and later I saw what I think was bass darting off as we boated past. So there's bass there. Worth a shot if you come around to mangrove creek or mangrove dam.

where's sandy point, just started fishing in pittwater, unfamiliar with the names of locations. Thx

hey man, where are those steps. If you could shoot me a dm. I've just recently started lure fishing for fish other than flathead and i wanna catch a trev on one. Just wondering if theres any advice floating around about trevs on lures. Thx

the fish there are fine to eat, i've eaten quite a few fish from there. the water pretty clean of pollution there so its all good. There's also a reef there which cleans up the pollution a little too.

i reckon that fluoro gets a few more bites than mono and it also last a little longer. Personally i just use sunline and other jdm leaders they use for iso fishing, normally around the 6-12 pound range depending on the water clarity. As campr said with flatties i can get away with using 8lb for flatties, just make sure the flatties don't eat the lure too far down and you should be fine.

Where is this lighthouse you guys know about

Ive eating a couple of pike, they're pretty decent fish. Slightly fishy to non-fish eaters and very nice to those of us that eat a lot of fish. I just filleted and deboned then fried with skin on and a bit of salt and flour

I have caught alot of fish with these parasites. the most common are the one in the yakkas and slimeys mouths. there is one other type that digs into the leatherjacket's bellys through the side. A month or so ago all the ones that i caught were full of eggs, some of them had already hatched and were all over the fish's gills. Poor little ****ers

Nice fish mate, where in pittwater were you fishing the pillies. Thanks

I also caught a larger port jackson there around 2 weeks ago, it was also around 140. Just wondering if you saw any hook holes in the left corner of the mouth