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Nice report & great photos Jeff especially the one with Broughton in the background awesome to hear @back cruncher was rewarded with his persistence & patience 😎👍

I’m with @dmck larger one’s for the smoker or bbq, taste great & the rest fresh or salted for bait

Another great report & photos Bob some nice well conditioned bass

Another great report & photos, you did well on your new hunting grounds, won’t be long hopefully before you get that jewie or 🤞jack

Well done & sticking at it, you turned a potentially fish less day into a great day, out of curiosity how did the goatfish taste

Hopefully with the recent recruitment for positions by fisheries for (surveillance for nocturnal & twilight operations) the undersized & over possession take of certain fisher people will dwindle, unfortunately courts don’t seem to take many of the undersized & illegal activities seriously unless blatantly abusing & just give slap on the wrist fines What @kingie chasersaid about using the media & educating people might help curtail the majority but there will always be some who don’t give a damn & continue to flaunt the regulations

Great mixed bag & well done considering it was the weekend 👍

Definitely gave me a great fight Bob,never gave me a chance to settle in had to stay one step ahead, after we boated the kingy it didn’t sink in straight away & felt surreal, regarding the rod it was in a welded gunnel holder, have heard of to many losses including one of the Scotty rigger going overboard Thanks mate we tried down rigging around some moorings & some structure in the hope of getting another, nonetheless both of us were quite happy with the session Thanks Adrian, I’ve had some adrenaline pumping battles with other fish but never that intense

Always nice to get a good feed of blue spots, how was the fog Bob when you were running out from the ramp to broken bay, the reason I ask is because Brisbane waters all the way to almost Avoca beach was almost like pea soup around 5:30am cheers

Well after being busy working covid etc I hadn’t been on fishraider for quite a while & managed to forget my password 😖🤪 Do’h, well after getting a spark in my memory & writing it down for future brain fades I thought I’d submit a report from June in case I forget that to 😂 Anyway a guy I’ve gotten to know through rock fishing needed some plumbing done & looking after him he invited me out on his boat for a fishing session in Pittwater. With the spot lock set & burley trail of bread & bonito deployed at his chosen position not far from shore, he put out two floater rigs of garfish on gangs way out the back & set a downrigger a few meters up off the bottom with a squid strip We got out our bream gear & started fishing down the trail between us we hooked about 18 bream losing a couple of stonkers as well as having 3 kings taking us for a ride on the silly string (4 & 6lb braid & 8lb leader) two of them didn’t even know they were hooked. I ended up with the biggest bream going 42cm & we kept 9 in total At one stage while looking out the back a sea eagle swooped down & picked up my surface bait fortunately it flew towards the boat & I frantically wound the slack up & managed to pull the bait out of its talons as it flew past the boat without hooking up The bream on several occasions went quite for a bit due to a kingy being in the vicinity, neither of the surface baits got touched but typically while eating a sandwich the rod beside me attached to the down rigger buckles over & with about 10kg+ drag the fight wasn’t long but intense, firstly trying to clear the outboard leg & the 4 rods out the back & doing two & a half laps around the boat & then deciding to head for structure, the electric wasn’t going forward or up to the task of getting us into clean water & as he fired up the outboard it bumped against the shallow rocks but somehow we managed to stay connected & get the kingy onboard. I don’t know weather the adrenaline, heart in mouth fight on 10kg drag, holding my breath or me getting on but my heart was still going 15 minutes later & I’m guessing the fight only lasted 8 to 12 minutes. The kingy came in at 94cm & a new PB beat my last one by 5cm

Great report Bob & good to see the kings are around, might have to start calling you the kingy whisperer 😁

Nice mixed bag & the plate of battered flatty fillets looks great, did well on the flounder to yum😎

What a great session & report there with the boys scratchie, love the photo with little junior standing amongst the big boys with a big smile & the monster snapper. Definitely a magic day for all 👍👍

Nice mixed bag, report & photos. Looks like that burley preparation is going to keep going for quite a few fishing sessions

Hi Waza I hope all goes well & that you have a speedy recovery so you can get out & catch a few fish

Hi Frank unfortunately as a couple of other raiders have mentioned your HWS needs replacing. As @motiondave suggested shop around for a good price, some of the hot water companies might be worth a call & can be quite competitive, a tip if you want to increase the life of a HW storage tank replace the sacrificial anode before warranty runs out, I’ve had some of my customers get 16+ years Thanks @zmk1962 for the recommendation 👍 of said skills🤣

Try Nuts & Bearings in north Gosford, they’re old school & have heaps of variety

Well done Bob you definitely have those kings sussed

Love the photos & report, you seem to do pretty well Neil considering the water fluctuations you have to put up with

I’m wondering if they might be a touch small, I use a size 6 to 8 off the rocks in gamagatsu & have caught 35 to 55+cm fish on themThe gamaktsu seem to work better, the guys who helped me out suggested for me to use these instead of the mustard ones, interestingly a couple of the guys prefer using suicide hooks in similar sizes but extracting the hooks can be a pain I ended up making this de-hooker which I copied off one of the guys (made from flooring tongue) very handy for a deep hookup

Couple of good sized fish there, looks like the boats paying dividends, how does she handle the rough stuff, bummer about the kings Sounds like you guys had a great time up at Coffs 👍

Great report & photos again, awesome picture of the GT 😎 Good to see you out enjoying your local backyard again

All fish especially pelagics taste so much better & helps the quality of the meat last longer (eg up to 4 days in the fridge) a saltwater ice slurry is even better as it brings down there core temperature faster