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A great mixed bag Chris, a real fisherman’s basket for next few days. 👏👏

Awesome @Tarik, looks like a great day on the water. Well done boys.

Interestingly the only other Jewie caught was a 50cm, now soapies 🤷‍♂️

A great day out Neil - some healthy nice sized fish mate - well done. (Dolphin fish and Trag are around if you feel like a (long) drive.

Disappointing day Chris (but better than mowing the lawns), but at least you were out getting some vitamin sea.

Chris, what an excellent Sambo - not often they come along that size in Sydney. well done

Love those lures Steve - it’s great to catch fish on handmade lures and gear, especially if it is your own or a mates (Dan did a great job, looks like camphor laurel timber). A great report and magic pics.

Nice work @jaybez and interesting report - that tabby looks way big for the trout, - must have been hungry.

Great report Ian, those mullet a sure sign Jewies around, a 43cm flattie is good feed. Bet you keep an eye out for ants next time 🫤

A great session on the bream @R E G I C Y C L E, love those Sugar pens in prawn colour.

So true “you never know what you’ll catch”. Keep at it it @linewetter and the bigger fish will come - we’ve all started fishing of a wharf.

Nice work Dave- nice mixed bag

I’ve been busting to get offshore, but Friday (tomorrow) is shaping up to be only good day this week, but had a call from some cousins from our mob whose only day to catch-up was Friday, so had to forgo an invite from sensei @zmk1962😵‍💫. However I backed with buddy Steve (7 flatties and 2 bream yesterday) and hit paydirt today☺️ I had just started to peel my banana on the last cast & “whacko”, pic says it all

Was about 7m

Reverse paternoster- jig on end 1.5 m leader with a dropper not & small snapper lead near swivel attached to dropper knot. This way sinker hit bottom & jig swing around

Hey @whiskey299, happy to take you out and show you, but can pm you also, but a looong paddle - let me know

Been off the grid for several weeks (trialing my Lab in Victoria - showing them how a keen retriever works (bit of interstate rivalry). As it was, the seas have been too big to get outside and wind strong enough to blow a dog off its chain, so I decided to squid around middle harbour. I’m glad I did as the arrow squid were around in numbers. we got 20 in about 2 hours. My standard “squid rig” is a paternoster with 2 jigs, a 2.0 and a 3.0 of different colours and if no luck, I swap the colours until I find something they like. My buddy Steve tried his favourite rig which is a standard jig on the end of the leader and a small snapper lead fixed with a loop knot a meter from the jig and no swivel. After he had 3:1, I swapped to his set up and the score evened out. (This is my new “go to” rig now). The technique was - find bait fish on the sounder, drift until we hooked up, then MinKota down and catch a few more, then drifted again. The spots we tried were around the boat moorings and wharfs / pontoons in Middle harbour. I hadn’t ever fished her before, but will be trying it again. We then put the squid down for Kingies and bagged 15 kings (only 1 over 65) before 11 am - gotta love live squid for tackling the Kings.

Flick some live baits (out on the surface (Yakkas and slimies not too hard to burley up), floats or ballon’s and wait for the action. Lots of Bonito, salmon around and the odd king and tailor.

Great report @lhan, certainly a good feeling landing a target species on light gear. Well done.

Well done @Robbo from Sydney, Kingies certainly punch above their weight and not having landed one, you probably though you had a monster - even the little rats give a good account of themselves. Very often you have to fish light to get them to bite and if you take your time and no structure / moorings nearby, you’ve got a chance of getting it to the boat. The harder you go, the harder they go - take it easy as you’ve discovered and you’ll score. 👏👏

Well done @Tarik, you did well to get out, the conditions have been so crook that there have been few opportunities. 👏👏

Couldn’t see the image @Renegade460 😧

Nice one Dave. A mixed seafood platter - well done.

So much fun.

It’s usually not like that, usually the squid (or cuttlefish) are the gun bait, but I always fish with burley and today the burley was fish frames and I guess this turned them on to the yakka filets, which I put out (successfully) for snapper.