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Looks like you had a great day out with your grandson, nice feed & elbow slapper 👍
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Good effort & mixed bag Dave I see you haven’t lost the art of intimidation even after retiring 🤣👍
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If someone stripped off & started heading towards me with a pump in hand I’d be bloody getting out of there in hurry to 😂🤣
Great mixed bag of fish, sounds like someone figured you’d caught enough & wanted to unnerve you, I dare say retired coppers have a knack of intimidating people🤣
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Great job Bob sounds like Neils bucket list is shrinking rapidly with that mixed bag, great to see raiders getting together enjoying bananas 😂 & the comradery 😎
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Sounds like you’ve got the area pretty well sussed out good report & info 👍
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Sounds like you had a very eventful few days from ringing your jocks out, saving a beautiful wedgie (pun intended)👍😎 & almost cracking a PB
I saw your post in another group & was going to tag you with “is this Gordo retired well now I know. Great report & photos 👍, funny about you mentioning catching a few around midday as I’ve experienced that on a few occasions & done quite well
PS you’re making me jealous love smoked trout 😋 yum
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On 11/6/2021 at 2:56 PM, Pickles said:
Hey Deiter, don’t know the “frog fish” and not sure how south Stone fish are found, but I’ve been spiked by the Red rock cod and truly thought that I was going to end up in emergency with the pain, I had a fever and was stripped down to my jocks on a July - cold winters day off the artificial reef off Sydney.
I think it’s called the eastern frog fish with a big ugly head & a short small body, brown to olive in colour. Bob I must’ve been lucky as I only got one dorsal %%%%% to my knuckle & didn’t have to strip down to my jocks 🤣 I do agree though the pain was pretty severe, worse than a very bad tooth ache
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23 hours ago, XD351 said:
I first fished there in the late 70s when the old wharf was there , a school mate’s dad took us there and we got a few good flathead a bream and a few leatherjackets . I once or twice ran into another guy that was a leather jacket catching machine and he was the one that showed me the short dropper rig .
When the wharf was still there & the blackfish were on, the rocks on the left used to get quite crowded, very rarely do I see anyone targeting them anymore
I also remember moving my gear back for when the cockatoo ferry was about to dock as the whole wharf & pylons would be covered in a mass exodus of workers disembarking & it would be all over in less than 5 minutes
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Another top report & photos, been ages since I’ve been flats fishing, did any make it home for a feed
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Good report & photo, funny how those kings can bring you to your knees 😄 looks almost legal, how did it measure up
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5 hours ago, XD351 said:
One trick I used to use fishing the ferry wharves is to watch the prop wash when the ferry comes in and departs , cast your bait out to the edge of this prop wash as this is where anything that the wash stirs up will end up and the fish have worked out that they can get a feed from it and I used this to great effect on Valencia st wharf
I used to be a bit of a wharf jockey frequenting Valentia st & ferry st wharves in my teens in the 70’s & fished valentia st & surrounding area until about 2010. I’m sure we would have crossed paths @XD351
The slow yo-yo technic also worked well for yakkas & a little bit of prawn or minced meat usually always ensured a catch of fish. The ferry wash was another good trick especially with the smallest of sinker & slack in the line
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5 hours ago, Pickles said:
We all know about catfish and stingrays, and stone fish, which are rarely encountered and the much more common red rock cod (red scorpion fish), which can inflict extremely serious and painful injuries (I know from personal experience and “not happy Jan” experience). However very common in the Hawkesbury and tributaries are the Bullrout (notesthes robusta) and Fortescue (centropogon australia)
Have had a couple of close calls with fortescues while prawning & a bad experience with a red rock cod, it’s painful enough to stop you focusing or concentrating on the task at hand for a few hours, seen what a catfish can do, major swelling & pain. A mate got barbed by stingray in the ankle a few years back & made the 6 o’clock news because he ended up in hospital & required stitches, the paramedics suggested soaking the affected area in hot water for as long as you can bare till the pain & swelling subsides. I believe that’s the best trick for most fish venom
Another one to be wary of is the blue ringed octopus, quite common in & around Sydney foreshores. @PicklesI’m aware of the frog fish(3 dorsal spines are venomous) & similar looking to the dreaded stone fish but haven’t heard of any encounters down this way, have you heard of any in the Sydney region?
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On 11/4/2021 at 6:19 AM, kingie chaser said:
I've been told the Salmon sashimi thing from quite a few people so I figure they cant all be wrong & I am willing to put it to the test, think it would be like bonito in that has to be treated right & done on the day of being caught. The next day the flesh starts to turn to mush I'd recon.
There’s a lot of salmon up here at the moment as well as down JonD’s way so you should be able to get them off a good beach gutter around your area at the moment on pilly or metal. Would be interested to hear how salmon sashimi goes. They are roe’d up at the moment (some Asian friends love it) if you are game to try
With the bonito if it’s soft try cutting a section & wrapping it in glad wrap or foil & then put it into the freezer for a few hours, firms up & easier to slice 😋
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All these photos were taken on a iPhone 8 without any effects
Interestingly the early morning mist in the reflection photo makes it look more natural when viewed upside down
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Terrific write up & photos JonD. Looks like you two had a fun session working out 😎
When I saw your daughter wearing her work boots I figured you were the water boy
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Sounds like a fun short outing & nice lunch to finish the session with, nice elbow slapper Tyran holding up,he wouldn’t be working on a moe-vember by any chance 👍
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1 hour ago, kingie chaser said:
I still have many fish I want to try sashimi style, the foremost being the humble Aussie Salmon.
Caught, bleed, chilled straight away Im keen to test the rumor's that it eats well this way.
Smoked yes, raw not sure?
Hi Adrian I caught a couple a few days ago, had them in a small rock pool & while following the school off the rocks a big wave washed them into a deep pool damn!! Anyway went back the next day after work with net in hand, knife & esky, managed to capture, bleed, gut & ice one of them, the other succumbed to an occy
Anyway sorry for the long story but ended up hot smoking it after an overnight soak in brown sugar salt & brine, used mesquite sawdust & it was flakey, golden & tasty. I normally give them to a single Asian mum & in kind she sends a sample container of whatever she’s made & to be honest the flavours are great but the salmon in most cases would be better left out
Good luck on the salmon sashimi 🤞
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On 11/1/2021 at 3:26 PM, dmck said:
Does salting really toughen them up? do you then freeze the salted ones (I freeze salted pilchards and it works well)
Are they still good bait when salted?
appreciate your advice,
Toughens them up but if you don’t over do it with the salt & time on the salt they come up ok& yes you can freeze they do stay pliable. As @Berleyguts suggested cryovacing is the go & keeping cold as needed
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relaxing snoozing without a care in the worldalbino & his matesea eagle in the snowys lake Jyndabine
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sunrise on the rockssunbathingenquisitive
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Early morning reflection on the Thredbo river
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sunrise reflection in June at Lake Jyndabine Early morning lone fisho after a wet nightafternoon sunset from the front yard
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Don’t worry many a person including myself have been possessed by the elusive silver ghost with many a sleepless night & at least you’ve done some research, keep researching & spending time out there chasing them & you’ll hopefully get one sooner rather than later & possibly crack the code
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17 minutes ago, Aerialangler said:
Thanks for the comments fellow raiders! First time catching the goatfish 😀
14 minutes ago, Aerialangler said:Cooked it simply in a pan to see the flavour and yes wasnt like anything I’ve had before - but tasty
had that gelatinous shine if that means anything ha ha
I caught a small one years ago (released) & wondered what it would taste like, good to here it was tasty thanks
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Well done James you’ve started your holidays firing on all cylinders cracker of a lizard. Can’t wait to see what you come up with for an encore. Bet you dream, sleep & talk fish as well as send positive vibes down your line while fishing
Happy Holiday Hunting 👍👍