dreaflym

I know..showering and quite big swirl. Need to be very careful. I will probably skirmishing against the shower, since our house is very close to the shore. I guess we will do more surf fishing instead. Looking for deep beachs and gutters. Hope to get some jew if lucky. heard werri beach at Gerringong is very deep beach. People caught 6kg snapper out there. Any ideas?

Hi Raiders, Group of my mates plan to take this easter as a chance going out of sydney and try some luck down Kiama. We rented a decent house near Kiama Heights, planning to do some serious rock fishing and beach fishing. We've packed all sort of tackles for the trip from bream outfit to heavy surf fishing outfits. Everyone seems to be pumped for some action there. When I looked from Google earth, there are a lot of beachs and rokcy structures along the shore near Kiama Heights. But we have never fished there. Have anyone landbase fished near Kiama Heights? What species do you get out there? Any good location for rock and beach fishing? will be great to share some of the experience here. Cheers.

Thanks mate! there really are a lot of helps out there! thanks for the hint. I've just came back from practicing it at my backyard. hehe.. not many problem to handle this distance. . Maybe because I used pretty thick line? its seems to be quite easy to do 10m distance. but for long casting. I still get plenty of birdnesting. and the distance wasn't that great (I thought baitcaster can cast really far)....still trying to solve many questions on my baitcaster.

Gday raiders, I was rock fishing with my friend once and saw a guy used baitcaster. He was doing it smoothly and casted very far away. So I was thinking maybe I should get one to practice. Thats why i bought my very first baitcaster last week. I also did bit research on how to use them. It seems the thumb is very important for avoiding birdnesting. Went to some opening spot to practice. It wasn't as easy as it looked from internet. At first, I got birdnesting 3 out of 5 casts, even used my thumb to slow it down. It was quite frustrating to untangle the birdnest, which also made me so determined to get the casting right. after practicing it for 3 days, I seems to get some clue. I found the thumb pressure you put onto the spool should vary in the casting process. Assuming the sinker casts out at 45 degree angle, I found the thumb should gradually putting more pressures on the spool when the sinker flies up. When the sinker reach the top of its projectile motion, the thumb should release its pressure or putting a very light pressure on the spool. Then just before the sinker hits the water, assert full pressure on the spool to stop it from overspin. Reason for various pressure is that when the sinker is going up, its velocity slows at the rate faster than the spools slowing down rate. Therefore, the thumb should be putting more pressure on the spool to avoid the spool spins faster than the line going out. when the sinker start to drop, it speeds up again. The gravitational acceleration of the sinker always overuns the spool's spinning speed. Therefore, no much pressure needed on the spool. By doing this. I can almost make successful cast 8 out of 10 times. But I'm not sure if this is the optimal way of casting a baitcaster. I still think my casting range is bit short and the spool is not spining as smooth as it can. Any baitcasting technique from other raiders? I guess any suggestion here can help everyone handling their baitcaster reels better.

maybe a school of tadpole?

Did anyone caught something at spot G? lol

Good on ya! I was with gmaster last night. 80cm croc was a thumber! it really looked like a port jackson from the distance. it was fulling dragging down after surfacing..reel screamed and had kinda no control at once... it was breathtaking! luckily there is a stair just underneath the water, so he could use the wave to land this monster. Congra again for your PB croc! going for 90cm mark now aye! haha

Yep...definitely a Black Cod. its a threatened specie. must be extremely lucky to hook up this guy. Awsome squid catches

I reckon they are the best fish on the plate. It has very tendering and sweet meat. They are also one of the best fighters on the rock. They can actually match pound to pound during the fight! Few fish can do so. It is a great fun to fight 5+kg groper on the rock.

Mate..this is much better than a blackie. It's a brown groper. must put in a lot of fight with it. where did u catch that?

G'day raiders just checked some of the surf fishing video on youtube. there are people able to throwing baits and sinkers 200m off the beach. that's crazy! I never can cast my bait over more than 60m. and couple of days ago I saw someone casting at least 100m for jew fish in middle harbour. he was having a long casting spool on his spinning reel. I was just wondering what's the difference of using baitcaster reel and spinning reel? which reel is tougher? which one gives longer casting distance? Is baitcaster reel easy to handle?(I heard it's a bit tricky handling baitcaster reel) is baitcaster reel and trolling reel the same thing? (they look quite similar though) I usually do rock fishing with my mates in sydney. I've been using spinning reels and never tried baitcasting reels. any suggestions which reel is better for rock fishing? Cheers

Nice catch! I saw school of 60cm+ surgeons in the harbor couple of weeks ago, tried to land them but didn't succeed, it was visual hook up too! They were so strong that they straighten 5 of my Mustard long hooks and snapped 1. The first strike was just too strong to handle. I initially used 20lb braid and it just snap my line and leave a deep cut on my finger ( I was using hand reel.) I really want to land at least one of them. Maybe i will head down to harbour with stronger hooks next time. Congratulation on the surgeon again.

Seems there are port jackson everywhere these days. Caught this huge port jackson early this month near bondi. Went up to 1.35m weighted more than 30kg. I was thinking to put on to catch of the month but didn't have a proper photo. I only have mobile phone picture for it. Putting a lot of efforts to land it on a rock platform. rarely see port jackson this big.

Hi ANthony i suspected its quality too as it come from online retailer. I had test on the rod, its just not as flexible as my fibreglass rod. I will ask my mate to take me to matraville for an inspection when he has time. thanks Dreaflym

Thanks for all the advices guys. Yea, I know the multi piece rod is more fragile. But it fits in my bag so well. so I will probably visit fishfinder store to get it repaired. what a painful lesson! definitely gonna take more care using long rod next time! Thx again Dreaflym

G'day raiders: just bought a 12' surf rod for $60 from an big Victorian online tackle shop called ##########. anyone heard about it? it was a 5 pieces rod made of 24T carbon fibre. it should be able to hold 15kg weight as it classified. with my test, its not as flexible as my fiberglass rod. I'm a rookie fishing enthusiastic so i really don't know the difference between fiberglass, carbon fibre and graphite fishing rod. anyways, yesterday I was so excited to try my first cast on that rod. the 50lbs line accidentally looped on a tree branch and 'bang"... the middle section broke into 2 piece.... That ruined my whole day as i loved that rod so much. for a surf rod, its so handy to carry around and considerably cheap (I don't have a car and sometimes I carry the rods around to some fishing spots) I had my line looped on a wharf bar with my 2-5kg 2m fiberglass rod before, but nothing like that happened. wondering if carbon fibre is the right material for long rod? is there any good rod repairing shop in Sydney and if its worth to repair it? the broken section is 80cm in length, Major diameter is about 1.5cm, minor 1.1cm and broken section 1.3cm. Thx