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Love the footage cheers

Great report & photos, they sure know how to handle a rod & net, that’s awesome 😎 well done

Sounds like you had a great weekend & a good mixed bag with the boys, nice green eye the hood alone looks bigger than the Bonnie & almost as big as some of the flatties

Nice feed & photos, the marbles are always a bonus A couple of weeks ago I was in 50 to 60m and they were predominantly females all roed up with one or two males amongst them

Thanks for that, Can’t wait to give it a go, the kiwi fruit works well & the tenticals always get cooked, got to be the best part of the squid I.M.O

That looks tasty & a lot simpler than crumbed or S & P rings, I’m gonna have a go at that next time I get a feed of calamari, any tricks or tips

Great photos,story & good sized fish, I’ve never tried slimy heads, is that what the toothy critter fancied, last time I was out the bite was on & off, more likely to do with lack of wind & current rather than sharks

Awesome never seen or heard of one off our coast until now

About 20 years ago I watched a guy land an 18kg model off Clarke’s point and a few years back while catching some rat kings around Chiswick west of Gladesville bridge I caught a 4kg one & a couple of weeks after Christmas in the same area among some moorings I foul hooked a fantail leather jacket on a plastic which got harassed by easily an 18kg+ cobia, would’ve been interesting on bream gear😂. Around the same time a few days later I thought I’d hooked a kingy which I lost at my feet but was a lot thinner in profile and had a blue & yellow (or white) horizontal stripe running along its lateral line. I’ve never caught or seen a rainbow runner before but that’s what it looked like re-marine fish books, go figure

Great catch & report looks like a nice quiet part of the Hawkesbury

Good haul again, with all your bag limits you won’t be short of any snapper baits this year, looks like you’ve found the honey hole,looks like the lake is on fire. Well done

Good to be out and catching fish, good write up & report of you’re day, I think they are called false killer whales if all black, a couple of weeks ago when I saw the seal on the surface, about 2 mins from him I saw a false killer whale would’ve liked to have doubled back (as the seal didn’t look right)to get some David Attenborough footage but had other commitments so kept on heading in. Good on you for getting a target species of bonnies. The “happy place” is a great place to be, especially with the unexpected things we get to encounter

Unfortunately not, my wife is going in for a major opp this Thursday & I’ll be looking after her & the fort, hence I’ll be riding on any reports

The current looks good up your way, good luck & tight lines

Hopefully we get a good autumn run, don’t retire to quickly, you’ll probably get addicted if you hook up, find the bait balls and won’t have to travel to far (save on fuel)good luck & tight lines

Looks like the southerly over the last week has brought the good water in closer to the coast, the weather & the seas look favourable for anyone venturing out for a beakie or two this week fingers crossed 🤞

With this southerly all week & part of next week the warmer water should move in closer and hopefully the fish with it

Good fish and report, shame woodsy didn’t get one before the southerly spoilt your session, is that a bit of midnight oil I can see hanging out of its gob

Another tip that saved us heaps is when driving into town don’t fill up at the first servo but drive through and into the back streets & look for a fuel co-op or similar we saved up to 10c a litre on desiel and with a long range tank and distances traveled that ends up being quite a bit, we stumbled across this in SA & WA I’m sure other states & towns would have the same. Not all towns but it only takes 5 to 15mins

It hasn’t been a good season yet this year, even the port shoot out tournament had low numbers caught keep working the bait schools and watch the water temp and grapevine and with a bit of luck you will get on, heard of a wahoo and a couple of beakies caught the other week off broken bay & someone put up a report of yellowfin caught at the southern canyons

The face says it all great photo and report

Thanks half of the flattie fillets went down a treat last night coated in flour egg & Panko crumbs , round 2 tomorrow night

I didn’t have a boat loader but did put some long rollers on the back of the roof rack when someone in Adelaide loaned me there 12ft stacer. For unloading I’d just back up to the water & slide it off onto its transom and then lower the bow down, it wasn’t to hard two up and do the reverse to reload onto the roof rack, I could do it on my own with a bit of effort but that was 30 years ago. I saw a set up of a rectangular home made frame that cradled the boat with a roller at the front of one of those all in one racks with a trailer winch attached to the bull bar, he was in his late 50’s and on his own, from memory he had a length of cable with a loop in the middle & a carabiner on each end creating a vee over the transom & half way up the hull attached to the carry handles & winch hooked to the loop via the front roller as well as a couple of wheels on the back of the boat(both set ups were 4wd),another thing we noticed was how much cooler it was in the car with the boat on top acting like a second roof skin, the boat was offloaded when camping for extended stays by a river or beaches rather than day trips.We liked free camping so it was either on our own or just a few other people and occasionally a caravan park by the water

I found good sources for areas Information ℹ️ shops and grabbing anything of interest for a read up later including the local paper, talking to people particularly getting to know locals who would quite often divulge swimming or fishing holes & favourite spots of interest not on the tourist route

Did a partial lap in 89,south from Sydney to Adelaide in two weeks for Christmas,highlights the south coast fishing towns,bells beach, Great Lakes, Lorne, great ocean road Apollo bay,South Australian coast very dry and not much to see.Adelaide and surrounds, great food, winery’s, victor harbour,best cherry farms in the hills (yummy pick yourself) Handorf if you like German stuff, west of Adelaide Whyalla, the two peninsulers, port Lincoln, streaky bay had a tinny from hear on stayed for 31/2 weeks to chill before heading across the Nullarbor great fishing for squid,king george whiting & snapper(20lber caught by an old lady off the wharf while we were there) nice place.The SW corner of WA very picturesque Albany, Esperance & Margaret river region.The WA Australian coast above Perth is along way between towns, highlights: monkey Mia, Dampier (red dog country),the bluff, Geraldton, Exmouth great fishing stayed 200ks south of Exmouth, carnavon, Broome, derby, Kununurra worth a look around and stay, caught heaps of sooty grunted & Barra in the ord river(wet build up) 40lb+ at Ivanhoe crossing got me heaps of free beers at gullivers tavern(biggest caught there in 25 years) Katherine Lichfield N park then headed south, Alice springs, Ayers Rock, (amazing)cooper pedy, back to Adelaide for Christmas (family) then west via Renmark and some towns on the Murray river and back out along the hay plains to Sydney 😭 that trip took a year and not nearly long enough to see all we went past. A 4wd and cartopper a big plus to experience all this country has to offer and of course lots of provisions and free camping to get away from it all. Some great characters and Places to see