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    port douglas fishing charter

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    On 1/2/2015 at 10:53 PM, Sydneyfisher12 said:

    gday raiders

    i will soon be heading up to port douglas and would like to do some fishing while i'm there

    i was wondering if anyone could suggest a good charter to go on i would love to chase some barra and jacks if possible

    PM's only thanks

    cheers sydneyfisher12

    @Sydneyfisher12 Its a really old thread but thought I repost to see if you ended up on a fishing charter? if so which one? 

    If anyone else has some reccommendations please let me know?

    PM me pls.

    Jervis Bay Fishing

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    Thanks to everyone for all the tips and helpful information, Unfortunately last week the weather was terrible and we were only able to fish a few hours in the morning for a few small squid then had to jet home due to the wind. Hopefully next time I go down the weather is better :) 

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    Jervis Bay Fishing

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    2 hours ago, Green Hornet said:

    From what I've heard, things are a little quite in the Bay at the moment, but that can change overnight. The squid are always around, over the weed beds in close to the shore.

    St Georges Basin is starting to fire up with quite a few large flathead landed from both the flats and deeper water. The bream and pan size snapper are biting well too. Snapper in particular, early and late in the day.

    In The Basin all the usual lures and baits will work. Best to concentrate on the drop offs around the edge and if fishing bait, berley is a big help.

    Thanks a lot for that bit of information, will help heaps. Which good tackle shops is there to buy some bait from locally?

    Jervis Bay Fishing

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    7 minutes ago, Isaac Ct said:

    I know some spots in St Georges Basin if you are thinking about going there at all.

    If it gets to windy then we might head to St George Basin. Ive never fished there so not to sure on spots or baits.

    Jervis Bay Fishing

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    Hi All,

    Headed down to Jervis bay for a few days of fishing and just wondering what tips, rough spots for fishing Kingies and snapper and needs to know when going down there? ( I know calamri are limited to 10pp and its a massive marine park). I have marked the following spots just woindering if anyone has had any luck recently or knows the area well (Mid Grounds, Waypoint 20 & Flat rock)? I am launching the boat from murrays.

    Hoping to post a fishing report If i catch anything worthwhile if not will be soaking in the sun on the beach drinking beers. 🍺

    Cheers

    Honda 50hp issue

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    Just an update.

    The mechanic never came which is not surprising. But the motor is running good now, I am thinking that it was bad fuel which caused it. I changed the spark plugs, onboard fuel filter and in-line fuel filter bit of fresh fuel and she is good as new. 

    Thanks all for the input

    Honda 50hp issue

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    14 hours ago, zmk1962 said:

    If fuel and spark are ok check compression on all cylinders. 
    cheers Zoran 

    Yeh I would if I had the tools. Got the pro coming in a few weeks. I will let you know what the issue is.

     

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    Honda 50hp issue

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    12 hours ago, Fab1 said:

    It's hard for anyone on here to diagnose without seeing it and running some tests.That motor sounds like it's missing which usually points to a problem with spark or fuel. Best bet is take it in and have it looked at properly than relying on our guesses. 

    Yeah I have it booked in for a mechanic to look at it properly. Just thought maybe someone might of had a similar issue or experienced it.

    I was looking at possibly even upgrading to a 50hp Suzuki. Anyone know trusted dealers which sell them in the Sydney region?

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    Honda 50hp issue

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    Hi All,

    Took the boat out today and while driving the motor just switched off. Upon reving it doesn't seem to reving freely. Feels like the motor has lost it power and it doesn't seem to be running well.

    Wondering if anyone might have an idea of what the issue might be?

    Here is the video Video.mp4

    I was thinking the computer is on the way out or possibly a piston issue? Not a fuel issue as I tested it on external tank as well.

    Port Hacking - snapper

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    2 hours ago, Yowie said:

    Well, I headed to the same spot today, early morning, and this is all I caught. The tailor was the only decent bite, all the rest were small reddies nowhere near the size limit.

    Amazing what the difference is a week apart.

    In the photo is a tail section of what appears to be a sand whiting, spat out by the tailor once onboard. I'm guessing that the whiting was about 30cm long. It was very fresh, no stomach decomposition so there will be a whiting swimming about very slowly and with no tail, unless another tailor finished it off. 😂

    I spoke to another fisho later near the Lilli Pilli bathes, who pulled out a salmon. He said there were a few about, then the school disappeared after the school herded baitfish into the shallow water over the bank.

     

     

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    Looks like the leather jackets are back in town. I will get ready for the bite offs.

    Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

    Port Hacking 24/04/2020

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    14 minutes ago, kingie chaser said:

    Soft or sensible??

    Going out in the middle of winter in an open tinny isn't much fun imo!

    Haha sensible as the boat Layover period is like June July from memory lol. 

     

    Yeh open tinny wouldn't be fun at all. 

    Port Hacking 24/04/2020

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    Hey All,

    So last Friday I went out again for the second time in a week, absolutely unheard of for me due to work and other commitments.

    Started on the water at the usual crack of dawn and started doing my favorite thing, jigging for calamari.  Within the first 1 hr or so of drifting we grab enough for a feed. As soon the sun started the come up he calamari were off the bite and it was time for a good old bottom bash.

    Went to spot X and we fished the reef for a good 2 hours or so for a nice mixed bag of fish. x1 nice legal pan size snapper at 31cm a thumber flathead, mowie and few of the usual suspects. 

    Towards mid morning the wind started to pick up a bit so we decide we had enough fish for the family,cousins, etc and we decided to head in for a nice lunch at Bundeena  as I had enough feeding the fish and I needed to feed myself. it was straight home from there. Great day to be out on the water, sure beats a good day in the office.

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    Botany Bay 21/04/2020

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    On 4/24/2020 at 10:53 AM, Matheus said:

    Nice report, I’ve caught this wrasse many times as well, but always thought it was a “Elegant wrasse”, which is prohibited to take it home.
     

    So are we allow to kept it?

    Good eating? 
     

    Cheers

    Yeah as @leonardgid mentioned they're Southern Maori wrasse.  Some additional information https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/375948/Southern-Maori-Wrasse.pdf 

    Few different ways to cook them. One way is you can make a fish soup out of them. or you can fillet them and lightly fry them. 

    Botany Bay 21/04/2020

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    On 4/24/2020 at 1:30 PM, 61 crusher said:

    Great first report, photos & mixed bag  there Franco, they look like good sized slimies did you eat them or keep them for bait 

    if I get a few of them, I use one for bait and take the rest home to eat :)

    Botany Bay 21/04/2020

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    Hi Everyone,

    New to the site, first time poster, long time fisherman. (used to be on SFF back in the day)

    Here is a little report from my day fishing out in botany.

    Started about 6am on the water, lines went down and started to drift for some calamari as that what I love to catch/eat. Within few mins i drop a calamari thinking to myself that this going to be a promising day for a hull of clamari. Unfortuantely I ended up with 2 with we work very hard to catch. I ended up putting one down live expecting some kingy action, but no kingy action but we did get a nice size tailor to the live bait (disappointed wasn't a king but still a decent size tailor).


    After around 10am we decided to head out to the heads due to weather being absolutely amazing with no wind, about 2km south from botany heads over a little reef which we anchored up and started to berley. We started to catch a small mixed bag of fish including (wrasse, trevally, slimeys, flatheads, yellowtails and sargent baker) which brightened up the day and brought a bit of action. (Pic of the fish, nothing to brag about)
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    Attached is pic of the water and what the weather was like in the afternoon, glassy conditions.

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    Tight lines talk soon :)

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