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    Sydney Harbour Sunday 30.3.08

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    post-4239-1206926993_thumb.jpgG,day fellow fishraiders

    thought it was about time i put a quick post up.

    Bugged the :wife: all day yesterday to head out for a scenic cruise / swim in our beautiful harbour.

    plan was to get a couple of hours fishing in sunday arvo :1prop:

    Mrs gathered some gear together ,food , drink, towels , ect whilst i screwed the down rigger on and grabed a rod :biggrin2:

    Got to tunks around 4ish to find it still fairly busy mainly boats leaving.

    Headed straight to balmoral and picked up 2 squid within 10 mins.

    cruised over to clifton to find at least 8 other boats all anchored.

    headed pretty quick over to yellow marker , thats when the mrs asked me to slow it down as we were bouncing around a bit (plan was working)

    I backed off to idle grabed 1 of the squid from the tank and it was in the water in a heartbeat.

    within 2 minutes the 6500 was screaming and the tug of war was on, this fish was going hard taking lots of line, i gave the drag a few clicks to slow it down to no avail , then ping line goes slack :(

    quickly rigged up and got the other squid in as fast as i could , as soon as it hit the water

    i was on again and this one was not getting away, quick fight and a nice king was on the deck and coming home for dinner.

    Had no more bait so went for a quick swim and kicked back for an hour.

    Then headed home.

    All in all a lovely afternoon on the harbour.

    Sabiki Jigs

    in Tackle Talk

    Posted · Edited by cflife

    Grab the herring jigs from any major shopping outlet $2.99 , youll be pulling in 3 at a time. 2 easy though the jigs dont last to long.

    Cheers

    What Is Wrong?

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    At the ramp at 6 and straight off to middle head in search of squid, it poured just about the whole way, and we looked quite pathetic 3 of us sitting under a small umbrella in the :1badmood: to try and catch squid. Once again we failed to do this as we have in the past 3 outings in the new boat. (no idea what the problem is, never had this trouble before! Can anyone help me!!!)

    Luckily we found a patch of baby yakkas around manly and got 15+ of them (not before getting twice as many small leatherjackets, Any tips for avoiding them?)

    So we went and fished a normally producing spot for a number of species to not even get a hit from a king and only catch an undersize trevally, couple of flounder and too many small snapper. The guys in a small tinny next to us got smoked once and landed another king but we didnt have a touch on the live or dead yakkas. Tried around Watsons, and a couple of spots up Middle Harbour for not much, so released the remaining live yakkas and went home!

    Cheers

    Josh

    Josh for starters i reckon the squid around the usual spots (spit bridge ect ) have gone off (bigtime), this time last year i was alone pulling minimum 12 every outing , im not sure why its so hard now, wether its (fished out) from all the boats that gather there now , or all the rain we have had over the last few months has put them off , who knows (maybe the bomb steve dropped might have killed em all :074: ) lol

    (What do other raiders think)

    You can get nice big southern calamari around the rocky shore over near balmoral near were the yakas are, though it can get pretty rough and very snagy and you may lose a few jigs.

    As for the kings i have been getting a couple or more most outings , but nothing like this time last year ,they have been a lot harder as well, why im not sure.

    Im sure other raiders may have been cleaning up. (maybe them raiders can inlighten us)

    anyway mate keep going at it as you will only get better :thumbup:

    cheers

    Guy

    Bait Tanks?

    in Boating

    Posted

    I purshased a 60ltr through ebay brand new for $15 from a lady at Blacktown.

    She has plenty of them as her husband brings them home from work.

    I will look for the phone number and post it up , or pm it (iff i find it)

    Cheers

    Guy

    Going Solo!

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Well done.

    thats a sampson allright , they go pretty hard to , i allways think i got a rat king on when i hook a sampson , been getting a few around the markers latley.

    Good work :thumbup:

    better luck on the king next time.

    My First King

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Nice king there mate.

    good to see fellas like yourself landing them off the rocks.

    Im sure theres plenty more to come

    well done :thumbup:

    p.s not much keeps up with the dato 1600 fj20t , sr20t,s

    had a couple myself. :biggrin2:

    Harbour Squid

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    na man was that u that downrigged my anchor rope ?

    and nearly chomped my anchor rope on ya prop? mmm can u get any closer???

    at the wedding cakes?

    Yeah man that was me that downrigged your anchor rope at the wedding cake.

    I could have gone a lot closer by going between you and the cake , but thought id do the right thing and stay on your outside.

    P.S i didnt realize you had let out far to much rope.

    better luck next time on the kings , maybe you should try downrigging. :074:

    Harbour Squid

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by cflife

    Nice squid there mate .

    I was also out today landed 3 kings biggest being 76cm lost 3 also.

    ran out of live squid. then downrigged yakas and squid strips around every marker in the harbour till 11 oclock with not 1 single hit.

    p.s was that you Shadda at the yellow marker with your mate.

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