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Just fresh prawns mate. No berley

Hey Raiders, After breaking in my daiwa BG 3000 and stradic ci4+ 1000 & 2500 over the last 3-6 months I feel it's time for a full blown tear down. Just wondering if there was any documentation online / knowledgeable folk here that could recommend a good precision bit set that would suit both reels? Have read online that it's very easy to strip screws if you don't have the right bits. Can anyone recommend a good one?

I caught something very similar in a Sydney estuary last week and had no idea until I asked a mate. Think you may have a herring. The mouth opened outwards like yours rather than a standard bite

Hi Raiders, Have a crack of dawn fishing trip planned tomorrow down in the Woronora system. After seeing some live bait capture videos on youtube using juice bottles etc, and how good they can be to catch flathead, I'm eager to give it a go. I started searching on google and also on the nsw fisheries site and the information wasn't exactly crystal-clear. I've got a few questions and I'd rather make sure I'm doing the right thing than get the book thrown at me. I was planning on just making one of the juice bottle traps where you cut an X in the top and fold the flaps down. On the fisheries website it states that all bait traps need to have a float and ID card attached, however none of the videos did any of this. Could anyone enlighten me on this one? I also looked up what kind of bait I can use that I catch. I'm assuming I'd get some by-catch in the trap other than poddy mullet, am I allowed to use anything else? Is it worth my time using anything else? (I'm assuming this isn't the case for both questions.) and lastly, if I don't use all of the live bait I catch is it worthwhile taking it home and freezing as bait for next trip? Is it worth my time bringing the trap whenever I go fishing just to top up my bait in the freezer? Or are they nowhere near as effective as when live and I shouldn't waste my time? Thanks and happy fishing

Settled on the stradic 2500 and extremely happy with my purchase. Thanks for your recommendations

Following the several recommendations here the fish was disposed of. Makes me terribly sad because it was a beautiful fish. I wish I knew this before it was taken home. There's no signs on the waters edge either like there is in Rodd point. Going back to strict catch & release now. Friends can come out and fish if they want a feed 🎣

Looking to buy a third reel to join my arsenal. Currently have a BG 3000 I've been using for 6 months and loving it, however I've also had a stradic ci4+ 1000 for 2 months and I've been loving it just as much. On the fence whether I buy another BG 3000 or try the larger stradic reel. Just wondering if someone was able to sway me one way or the other?

Feel like I've finally joined the big boy club! Decided to take a break from my usual soft plastic flicking around the inner west and went back to basics with some bait fishing near the Gladesville bridge last night. Have been having some luck at this spot recently with a couple of high 20's flounder, low 30's bream and also a fair few large blue swimmer crabs that I keep managing to catch on a fishing rod (is this normal....?). Just been using my standard run of the mill 7" rod with a Daiwa BG3000 with 12lb braid / 12lb mono leader. Anyway after only being there for 5 minutes I was already on and had a bit of a fight on my hands. Roughly 5 minutes later managed to land this beast and you couldn't wipe the smile off my face. Previous bream PB was 31cm. Caught a couple more smaller fish before I called it a night but nothing notable. I'm usually a strict catch and release fisherman, ESPECIALLY with bream due to their age, but after multiple friends pestering me for the fish I catch and just the sheer size of this guy (really wanted to weigh him as he was fat as anything..!) I made an exception and kept him for someones dinner.` (Also yes I know this body of water isn't the best to eat fish out of but one fish / month is the dietary advice currently.)

thanks mate, perfect! which knot did you use for the loop?

Hello, happy Tuesday folks, have seen a fair few videos around of people using soft plastics with sliding sinkers rather than using a weighted jighead. I know there is the texas rig with the cone sinker but I've seen people also using round sinkers and still catching fish. just wanted to know if this is advised or not, just starting out with soft plastics and can't fork out 4 weight classes over 5 hook sizes at $12 a pack. I realise the jigheads have the vertical loop to tie on to so that it bounces on the ground as you lift, would you recommend I get some of the weightless sp hooks and just use normal sinkers? If I can get this to work I'd just have to carry a couple sizes of hooks and sinkers and can interchange easily. thanks :-)

Hello all, What is everyone's recommendations for joining braid to mono on super light rigs? 4-6lb braid, <10lb mono. I've been using a surgeon's loop for the leader and then the standard fisherman's knot on the braid to tie on but sometimes have weird bust offs. I have no dramas learning the FG knot but seems a bit overkill for such light rigs. TIA, Chris

Thanks Masterfisho7. Would you recommend the actual iron cove part in front of Callan park or where abouts? Up until about a month ago I thought Iron cove was just that beach, not the entire cove past the bridge 😂

Hi folks, I've been trying to learn the art of soft plastics and although I'm having some relative success so far, it seems the spots I've been trying just fail to get any bites 3/4 of the time. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it's my technique or my spot! Ideally I'm trying to find somewhere local-ish (up to 20-30 min drive) that I'd be able to fish pretty regularly. I know the perfect spot doesn't exist but hope there may be some better places I'm yet to find. I'm strictly C&R so don't have any specific species / size in mind (running a suuuper light rig) just wanting to have a spot with a little more action. Have been targeting the usual bread & butter species so far - bream, flatty, whiting etc but really don't mind. I've tried the following: cooks river (at various spots) - mixed success. they either seem to be on or not there at all menai baths - good spot at first and had some luck early but after seeing just how busy it gets on weekends really makes me doubt there's many fish there.. iron cove / rodd point - yet to actually catch anything after something like 6 trips. few bites but nothing consistent lilly pilly - tried a few shore spots off the usual trail, mixed success woronora - although there's fish around it's hard to catch anything from shore. have had a few successful tinny trips with friends though. Although they have all had mixed success at the above spots it just seems I'm wasting my time most of the time. I'm not after exact locations but more so wanting to know if i'm on the money and should stick a spot out or if someone has somewhere I'm yet to try. Thanks for any help Chris

After having some success and really getting into soft plastics I decided to load up a bit on the popular ones (grubz, slim swims, paddle tails, gulp crawfish and prawns, etc) and bought one of the soft plastic wallets with zip lock bags. Have had to clean out the wallet twice now from the gulp plastics leaking, the juice also got into some zman sleeves and messed up some of those, I tried putting them in a clean new take out container and lost a good 30 or so from them melting a bit and sticking together. Also had zman leech through the plastic pouches? As in the colour bled through the clear plastic bag and marked the outside of other bags...? Always kept them out of the sun in a backpack, I think maybe the take out containers reacted with them? I gave the container and plastics a good wash off and dry before they went in too.. Have settled in the mean time for a clip lock storage container with one of the rubber seal orings. Just wondering if I'll face the same consequences as the take out container and wondering what everyone else uses? Chris

Just thought I'd preface this post - After bait fishing for the last 20 or so years I decided it was about time to learn the art of soft plastics. Picked up a new rig specifically for it (2-4kg 6'10 rod with a stradic ci4+ 1000FB, 6lb braid with 10lb mono leader) and have been making consistent attempts a few days after work each week, 2-3 hrs a session around the cooks river with no luck so far... until last night! Arrived to this new spot I've been trying with a friend at around 7pm. Aim was to practice some more sp's while also having some bait soaking out in the channel. After about an hour and a half with no bites on the baited lines (was using prawns, squid and pilchard, still nothing!) we pulled them in and decided to just spend another half hour or so flicking some more soft plastics around. Up until this point I was using a 3/8 size 1/0 hook with a zman crawz while the baited lines were out. Decided on a whim to drop down to a 1/16 size 1 with a 2 inch zman grub in motor oil. Within 5 minutes I was on to my first real fish with soft plastics! Short fight later and landed a 31cm Bream! Clean release and then walked a bit further down the bank and I was on again - this time a 32cm model. (was holding the ruler about 5cm above the fish, really need to remember to put the ruler below the fish!!) Another clean release and wasn't able to wipe the smile off my face for a good 15 minutes!! New bream PB and soft plastics PB Finally caught something decent on soft plastics (previously caught a low 20's flathead, doesn't count!) and after catching them basically where I had the bait sitting for an hour or so I'm almost fully converted to soft plastics..... goodbye smelly hands :D Chris

Hey all, Grew up in the woronora area about a decade ago and was always told the jumping fish you see everywhere are mullet. After returning recently a few times and after getting a good look at them they definitely don't look like the classic mullet shape.. more like a bream body rather than a mullet. Just wondering if anyone knows what kind of fish they are and if they are worth chasing? Saw a fair few that would be the 30 to 40cm mark.. Chris