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Good one mate. I fish, dont take any more than I need and will give a couple to those I know like em, and love eating what I get too. Bet they were delicious! 👍
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Excellent stuff mate. Good to see a fellow sun coveruperer. None do it where I am and sometimes I get laughed at. Anyway, used to love catching the Trev's too, use the water well don't they in the fight.
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11 hours ago, Berrero said:
Hey raiders,
For the uninitiated... yes you read that correctly, flathead on topwater.
After seeing some decent success online and on a few of doclures' podcasts I thought I'd give this crazy trend a try.
Picked up two crossfire 115 lures and tried my luck a few times in the past week. They are sort of like the bent minnow lures but a larger profile and a very slow float back to the surface.
Finally had success yesterday afternoon when I landed a 57cm lady. She looked very healthy and even scored a nice aerial display as she took the lure!
Gear used was my 7" Daiwa TD Zero rod, stradic ci4+ 2500 reel spooled with 8lb kairiki braid and 12lb FC rock leader.
Fun fight, she had a few decent runs and was safely released to swim around another day.
Definitely going to keep at this new trend. I'll keep you all posted on any further success!
tight lines,
chris
Great stuff. Stary night that bottom picture.
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On 10/25/2019 at 11:16 PM, Berleyguts said:
If you remember it, you weren’t really there??? 😂
Pretty much. 😂
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Errr, 70's, 80's apart from fishing...do remember my good catches, but much else was a bit of a blur! Can we skip to the 90's onwards!? 😎
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Nice fish mate. 👍
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All good mate. Fun to catch anything I reckon.
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13 hours ago, Restyle said:
Knocked off work early and decided to get the kayak out and go for a fish in gunnamatta bay among the moored boats just off the sand flats. launched at cronulla ferry wharf. Plenty of decent sized blackfish there around the pylons, wasn't interested in targeting them.
my plan for the day was a bottom bash with pillies and squid while drifting out. wind as slighty on the annoying side for the first half of the trip but it did die down later on which meant i was on a pretty fast drift for my liking, Anyway i lost a fish 5 minutes in on my squid slab. Big solid headshakes, a little bit of weight and not peeling much drag, ether a flatty, small jew or a shovel nose. this was followed by 25 or so small snappers ranging from 15-25cm. I hooked a nice flounder 35.5cm right on the dropoff across the RMYC. decided to keep it. i don't keep many fish so this fish was "lucky" to come home with me. Ignore the terrible cleaning job on it, just started to clean it before i remembered to get a photo. Never cleaned a flounder in my life haha
Now the purely heart breaking part. I have a scalier net which i put pilchard heads and other pieces of bait i don't use and leave over the side of the kayak for berley and i have my lines in the trail. I was going to restart my drift as i have drifted too far south, i was approaching the big sandbank on the southern side of the bay. My net tangled with the prop for the kayak so i untanned it and left it there for a second, all a sudden i felt a big tug on the net and i yanked it in because it thought it was a shark, Nope, a 85+ cm Kingfish. I threw the net back in and let it have a few more chomps at it before getting my heavier rod with a piece of squid and just dropped it in front of its nose. The kingie couldn't resist a nice slab of fresh squid and took it. a nice fight later the fish is boat side i went to grab it and it darted of for round 2 and i reel that in. i remembered i had a folding net so i went to use it got the fish inside the net and went to bring it in. As i'm bringing the fish in the net folds in on itself, the fish gets out and surface skids away pulling the hook out... Should've loosed off the drag. 2 minutes of swearing followed and the passing by ferry just watching that.
So close but so far. first kingie in over 5 years gone. all on yowie to catch it now.
i went back to where i hooked it to see if there were more but nope just pickers and called it at dusk. I'm sure we all know that feeling we have for weeks after a good fish was lost. ill be having that for a long time to come.
This was my 6th time on the kayak and i plan on only fishing the hacking & to crack the systems code. 5/6 times were in gunnamatta bay and one was in burreneer. Once it warms up abit more ill defently go to the deep water of lillipilli for peligics. finding places to launch has been a challenge. i prefer off wharf's or sand but not boat ramps. If anyone knows some nice areas that are flat and have no stairs thats somewhat close to gymea baths and lilli pilli that would be appreciated.
Feel the pain mate. Once in Qld I hooked a hooah of a King Salmon, easy 5 foot long without a doubt. 20 mins into the fight and 250mtrs of line out, looking at the skinny end of the line left, at this stage no idea what it was, right out I see a fin cut the water. See it wasnt a shark as id caught enough of them to know it wasn't one, im thinking what the.... Is this? 10 minutes later I've finally won, its beat, cruises towards me at the rock wall, im bug eyed to see this huge Salmon with it looking back at me with equal big eyes. I had a good big net. Get right to the water edge, go to drop the net right in front of it as its just cruising towards it and....the damn net catches on a button of my shirt. Unbelievable. As im trying to literally rip and force the net off it the fish gives a final burst and cuts off on a rock. I had it bar that damn button. No iffs. I will never forget that fish. It was and today still is my greatest fishing heartache. Id have let it go too as I actually caught smaller ones and didn't like the taste, just wanted a pic of it. Not to be. So yeah mate, I know what it's like.
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Im a south paw and for me find I cast more accurately using my dominant hand. Bit like if I was playing darts.
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On 10/16/2019 at 9:38 PM, Yowie said:
You have seen it all before, pictures of flatties, but it was wall-to-wall flatties today, though not big ones at that.
The forecast was for a southerly change to blow up early this morning, then fade later in the day. My mate and I planned for it, the wind started dropping off, so we headed out in his boat around 11am out to Bate Bay.
I picked a spot, we headed there and the fish were on straight away. Not big fish, the ones we kept were 35 to 40 cm, so anything under that was released, apart from a couple of spikies kept for bait. We released about 3 times the amount of fish we kept, blue spots and spikies. One patch of blue spots were under 30cm, one after another, have never seen so many small blue spots like that. It is breeding time right now for these fish.
Only one slow drift of over 2 hours kept us busy, hardly drifting at all. The wind dropped off to below 10 knots near the end of fishing time.
There was not one other fishing boat I could see in Bate Bay, only a couple of sail boats. During that time, a small pod of dolphins splashed and jumped, looked as though they had bundled up a school of baitfish.
A couple of feeds of flattie fillets from tomorrow night.
They are possibly the happiest looking flatheads I have seen.
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Ok, I'm thinking now I've been missing out on something then with fish heads. Next decent fish I get I think I will cook it in a soup perhaps? And see what I may have been missing and throwing away all these years.
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Hi guys. Was watching a NZ fishing show the other night Get Your Fish On and during it they mentioned a Free Fish head app they have there. Basically its after you have caught and filleted your catch you then go on the app and see who in the area has a hand up for some fish heads and the frame. During the show in a park the girl yells out "hey anyone want some free fish heads" and these strangers came over to collect them. I tried to think what people here would yell out at me if I called out that and held a bag of fish heads up along with the filleted frame? On line I see it's actually really popular there in NZ. Am I alone in thinking that here you'd get told where to put your fish heads if you did the same?
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On 10/12/2019 at 2:46 PM, zmk1962 said:
Live bait ??? 🐟🐟
Cheers Z
Ha ha, no. Just a couple of little catfish, danios and white clouds. Cold water but look like tropical. Several days to go.
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On 10/10/2019 at 8:45 PM, rickmarlin62 said:
Hoping the weather gods come good for tmrw arvo and sat goin to crowdy to annoy the reds comp wknd last 3 months have been blowouts with 35 knots fingers n toes crossed il be up there by 2 pm tmrw and have light breeze
Ha ha, not at you. But me and the misses have been planning a fishing getaway for the past 8 weeks. Every time we plan the wind is blowing gales, days of forecast rain. So I said to her, what will we do? She said "our getaway fishing trip money will probably go on other things, lets buy a nice fish tank and stand"! 😁 So we did. Got it set up, conditioning away and will put fish in it next week. If you can't go and catch em, may as well look at them we reckon. 😎😂
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4 hours ago, Berleyguts said:
Usually take it back out to sea and dump it.
Really!? Then if that's the drill it sucks. Like shooting an Elephant then. For what, a picture!? Nah, not cool.
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13 hours ago, Liltav said:
Few rough pics from Open day on the Cudgegong with the little bro. Wasn’t amazing by any standards but a relief to see a few nice fish around despite the lower water levels.
Good stuff mate. Love my trout fishing. Some of those smaller ones can give an above average account of themselves and be a ton of fun to catch.
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On 10/6/2019 at 6:04 PM, DaveTheBoy said:
It has been quite a while since my last post - mainly because we’ve been traveling through this beautiful & special country we call home. Out trip took us from Broome up the Dampier Peninsula, to the Gibb River Rd through the Kimberley, up through Kakadu and Litchfield and on to Darwin. We saw so many wonderful places, people and things, and whilst it wasn’t a “fishing trip” as such, there was great fishing to be had along the way. Most of the beaches held queenfish which were hungry for white plastics if we had the luck of the tides. I had a 10ft rod and fairly simple rig 15lb braid to a 25lb Fluro leader casting lures from the shore, and also managed to get out on a few boat trips along the way. Here are a few highlights hope you enjoy seeing them - back in Newcastle now and and am keen to see what the beaches and rocks have in store as the weather warm up.
Nice Queenies mate. When in Qld I loved catching those crazy things. Never got one as big as that goodie your holding up though. Wish I was back there now.
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On 10/4/2019 at 11:49 AM, big Neil said:
Hey TAZ thanks for the report from down South. Our major dams are all in the 20 to 30% range and that's likely to get worse before getting better. Not looking brilliant for the upcoming Murray Cod season but we'll manage somehow eh? Cheers, bn
Wow mate, 20 to 30%, not looking good there. Here its all over the place. Was just talking to a bloke from one of the water catchment's thingys, met him at a res. He was saying how strange it's been here in Vic in the past few years. Some places getting a fill, others missing out altogether. So much so that a number of small catchment reservoir's have become so unreliable, used to be 100% reliable, that they are becoming decommissioned. Water now pumped in to the areas via pipelines from underground reserves. Here's the thing. Those older res's had the water treated then distributed via treatment facilities. But the new supplies are salinated, so they needed to scrap the older method, gear, and replace it all. Naturally at a significant cost. So now he said, even if these now decommissioned res's fill the water wont be used and is usless as the new facilities are geared for salinated ground water treatment. I asked him are they still going to stock those decommissioned res's. He said some yes but many no because of the unreliability of them now.
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On 9/17/2019 at 5:02 AM, big Neil said:
Thought I'd have a look at Lake Wyangan yesterday. I expected the water levels to be down a bit but was quite surprised by the reality I encountered. In the past this lake, located near Griffith, NSW has provided me with many hours of fishing fun in the tinny. The Council has spent a lot on providing a great boat ramp and even a 20mtr floating jetty. I sorta expected half the jetty to be still in a few feet of water but the entire jetty is about 50 feet from the water's edge. Here are a few pictures.
The water level is usually near the foot of the EMERGENCY ASSEMBLY POINT sign.
Most of this is usually submerged.
At least a sense of humour prevails.
With no long term forecast for decent rainfall predicted, this mecca for Summer recreational activity is likely to become a graveyard for yachties and tinny anglers. For how long? Anyone's guess. This is Big Neil reporting from West of the Great Divide. bn
Dont look good mate. Dont look good here in Vic in most places north of the Divide either. After a long cold damp winter many places are just over 50% capacity. The few odd ones full but most not. Some even have blue green algae, not even hot let alone warm yet!
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On 10/1/2019 at 5:35 PM, Yowie said:
Headed out early to the deeper water off Lilli Pilli early this morning. Only fish there was the trevally and the small crab. Hoping for more crabs, though is a bit early just yet. Bait stealing reddies also about, then just before sunrise they suddenly disappeared. Nothing at all.
I pumped a few nippers and had a drift over the Lilli Pilli flats, and found some fish over the worm beds, so stayed there for a while. Not big bream and whiting, with a few throw backs, but happy with the whiting. Have not eaten any whiting for a while.
The fish were scattered, and during the mid run up tide, the drift was rather fast. Picked up the flattie further down river then headed home.
Smorgasbord!
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On 9/27/2019 at 10:50 PM, zmk1962 said:
Howdy Raiders,
Well after the "Tenacious Tuesday" ... which really became "Turn-around Tuesday" for Maria .... I'm happy to report today was "Far-out Friday !!!" .
Yup Maria went to the shelf.... Browns Mountain 40km east of Sydney. About as far-out as she'd ever want to be. It was her first trip and she was armed with the electric set up - which apparently now is "hers" ... and I have approval to go buy my own... but on this trip I was relegated to the old trusty Alvey Reef King.
We launched at Davidsons Park Forestville. It was a very early start. Salted pillies and squid for bait. A really bumpy ride out to Browns in the morning and the conditions for the first few hours were pretty ordinary, but the weather gods put on the best mid-morning to late afternoon that I have seen in a long time. Just glorious calm offshore weather.
On the way out, we saw a whale broach, and for most of the day there was a pod of dolphins some where in sight, so there was plenty to keep us distracted.
Anyway, back to the fishy details..... turns out electric powered Maria scored 3 Gem fish.... to manual powered Zoran's zero. Hmmmm. ... maybe some payback there for the 6 flatties I scored on Tuesday to Marias zero !! .... just sayin'.
So here I am pictured with the gemmies.... not because I was trying to kind of claim they were mine ... but because I was about to gut them....
It was a slow day at Brown's, 9 drifts for 3 fish. Also, on the first drop Maria had the braid bitten off with 57m to reel in ... I conclude there must have been something stuck to the line that attracted a jacket. But regardless guess who had to re-rig the FG knot etc etc etc !
Also two of Maria's 3 gemmies fought to about 20m off the surface and then spat the hook.... only to bob up a few meters from the boat bloated....guess who gaffed or drove the boat to net them ??? Maybe 2 gemmies are a shared catch after all ... 🙄
Yes there is just a bit of rivalry between us ... but what a great day to share together.
Cheers Zoran
PS - We stopped at 12Mile on the way back... to have two rigs bitten off by JACKETS !!!!! ...... which convinced us to pull stumps to run back home and face the Friday arvo traffic.
PPS - water at Browns 20.8C. Current 2-3kts running N to S.
Great stuff. Great to see some fellow Sun Smart fisho's too.
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On 9/12/2019 at 6:22 PM, The Rev said:
I'm an actual Rev - Senior Minister at St Matthews Manly on the Corso. Cheers
😀😀Fellow believer mate. Cheers Rev.
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23 hours ago, The Rev said:
I went out Friday morning on Sydney Harbour to both chase the schools of Salmon that were meant to be around plus put a few more hours on the new Suzuki 50 4 stroke purchased at the Sydney Boat show. First stop was a trip to wreck off Quarantine Point to get some livies but could only manage small trevally - all thrown back in.
Headed off to try my luck on squid and managed a PB Squid for Sydney Harbour.
Drovd then up towards the bridge from the heads and located some schools of surface feeding fish, but with the wind up it was nigh impossible to cast to any of them. So off for a morning coffee at Chowder Bay before heading to try my luck on kings with the Squid.
After driving to a spot I know I put down the Squid head on one rod and a large strip on the other and then waited. And waited. I threw some plastics. Slow jigged. And waited. Just I was about to pack up and head back to Manly the 10000 Saragosa went off with the rod bent over and the tip in the water. I reach down to pick it up and am struggling to hold it when the 8000 Baitrunner goes off on the other side of the boat. I manage to reach over, rod in one hand and turn the handle to click it into gear. It’s now hooked up solid.
Back to fish no 1 - I manage to eventually get it to the boat and gaff it, lay the fish and rod down behind me , then pick up the other rod and bring in fish no2 which I also landed. Result... 1 PB Squid turned into 2 * PB 90cm kings!
Happy with that, I drove back to Manly ramp one happy fisherman!
The Rev
Great fish mate. Rev because you like going fast or an actual Rev?
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Those are some very decent catches mate. 👍
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Love them. Once caught some and spent hours catching them and took them to a neighbour's place at New Years. We ate a few, but left more than we ate. Few days later said "how were those swimmers huh!?" Reply, "yeah, fed the rest to the cat". Never gave them another. Cat food, seriously!? 😬