Mike Sydney
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Surely there’s no going back to buying lures now. Next up, selling them!
Congrats Mike !
*edit - “Little Flatty” would be a great name for a lure!
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8 minutes ago, R E G I C Y C L E said:
That's crazy! I was with @Aussiefisherman on the weekend and these things were busting up on bait on the surface... weirdest bubbling kind of bust up. Aussiefisherman also got one on a crankbait... very glad now we used pliers to remove the lure without touching the fish😱
I’ve read horror articles about the pain of cobbler and catfish stings. After a bad foot injury on oysters retrieving a lure I vowed not to hurt myself for a lure ever again.
The lure was $20, the pain sounds horrific. @squidjigga is the same species that stung you earlier?-
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Beautiful spot. Looks as Australian as it gets. Thanks for the video @big Neil
part of why I love fishing is escaping the noise and bustle. that looks like paradise
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Thanks @telescopic_rodd I figured that out not long after posting.
They’re safe to handle then as long as I’m careful of the fins? I’d have liked the lure back but chickened out haha
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Took a crankbait in dirty water after the rains. Was making a lot of commotion, swimming surface then sub surface, splashing about. Took the lure very aggressively, but then no fight at all. Right against the edge of the bank.
Thought it was a cobbler so cut the line rather than retrieve the lure.
Probably coincidence, but I caught a flathead on the previous cast with its tail fin severed and a freshly bleeding stump. Not sure if it was damage from my strike or what but it was freshly cut. Never seen that before.
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What fascinates me about wind knots is how deep they can be in the spool.
I fish braid in strong winds often and have become a bit of a pro at untwisting them, but haven’t had much luck preventing them altogether. As with @Steve0 checking the reel by eye before cast can help - frequently you’ll see them over the drag - as can closing the bail arm immediately on/before the lure hits the water.
A lot of the wind knots (we should call them wind ‘twists’ really) are so deep that the offending loop sometimes hasn’t even been cast that day and has only been used fighting previous fish or on sessions long gone.
Of course they always feel deeper in the spool when untwisting them as you don’t have the benefit of a high gear ratio when you’re unspooling by hand, but still some of them feel so deep I ponder if they’ve ever seen water. Makes me wonder if it was just a time bomb sitting there from the original spooling on of the line.
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Holy smokes that’s big. . Guinness has a record at a meter even but no details. I’m sure submitting it (if you have a measured photo) gets their record.
I’m sure you read this report in your search for the current record . It’s an environmental impact summary on the cuttlefish from the desalination plant.
This confirms the tentacles are included in the measurements and that this is larger than any specimen documented in this study.
https://www.bhp.com/-/media/bhp/regulatory-information-media/copper/olympic-dam/0000/draft-eis-appendices/odxeisappendixo5australiangiantcuttlefish.pdfPlease do share the photo!
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A timely topic @Little_Flatty I actually spooled my Sedona yesterday with straight through mono (10lb Shimano exage). My reasoning was that I was attaching it to a very cheap fishquest rod (my very first fishing rod a few years back, very bendy tip) and so that old rod didn’t “deserve” the expense 😄
The extra stretch on mono to me made more sense for the type of fishing I’ll be using on that rod (float-fishing bread for mullet) where the float meant I didn’t need the added sensitivity of braid.
I’d argue it probably makes sense for fast moving lures as well to better absorb shock of sudden strikes. But whether that absorption makes up for the lack of casting distance probably depends on the location.
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That’s a great fish @kobi caught a fish must’ve been a good fight, well done !
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hahahaha I told you don’t give that donut boyz tag oxygen we can’t have that sticking
@XD351 that moniker was below the belt, I’d been sulking about it all day, muttering to myself, snapping at the kids… 😂
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Cooks river at Tempe, sunrise and sunset
Underneath the Wolli Creek bridge , evening and night
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Well done mate, you’ll get plenty from here now you’ve busted the first one out. Look how quickly you got the second! The floodgates have opened. Another retrieve you might try for flathead is short fast rolls and sudden stops.
Being able to vary your retrieves with different speeds, hop heights, pauses, twitches etc is what I love the most about soft plastics, there’s always something you can do to change things up.
Great report @SpeedyGiraffe49 well done.
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I fish there heaps at night it’s great to be honest. Lots of bream and flathead near the wharf and tailor under the bridge itself.
@linewetter that’s the wharf by the car park last night-
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BFFs forever @linewetter 😍 😁
Great to meet you too, shame about the donut. A couple of “almosts” with some big splashes at the lure but it wasn’t to be.
still, all lures retained and (not counting me) only one crazy person encounter. (An old lady basically body checked @linewetter walking right at him, basically tightroping the ledge in a strange game of chicken). A wild and woolly night but let’s do it again soon.-
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Yeah they had Velcro I found them on retail shelves at a shop in belfield a few years back but haven’t seen them in stores lately.
I got the biggest they had in store (don’t remember the size) but they were very snug, hard to take off I would’ve loved a slightly bigger size. -
On gloves, I’ve had the Daiwa DG2223 gloves and they were awesome. Got caught out in a storm one night and they went to pieces when they got soaked though. They could handle regular wet but not total saturation.
Great gloves, I used them for both a bit of warmth and mosquito protection. Having thumb and two fingers exposed meant I could still handle line without needing to remove them.
Have been meaning to buy another pair. Here’s some photos I can find wearing them.
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My take on it is that they have elevated levels of dioxins , higher than many food but almost all dairy has dioxins too so as long it’s only very occasionally why not. One every couple months probably won’t hurt (not a doctor…!) .
I’ve eaten flathead from Balmain, but wouldn’t from iron cove as I read that’s particularly polluted too.
I think it’s frequency that’s the danger as evident from the recommendations of eating east of the bridge.-
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@linewetter great fish but that sucks about the rod. Worse, they were on sale last week for $99 at the big snake but the sale has ended from what I see. Should’ve broken it a week ago 😏
Huge Trev that one on 6lb gear.
Welcome to the snapped rod club.
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Great read. Congrats on so many fish and finding your float again at a different location too!
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Happened to me too, can’t recall why, I posted here by taking a screenshot of the old photo and uploading the new screenshot
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I worry about hooking cormorants too. My friend hooked a bat which took his lure mid flight in parramatta.
I imagine the law would be that it’s accidental by catch and as long as you made reasonable efforts to free it you’d be fine. It’s not like you were targeting them (….right? 😄)
Community outrage would be the biggest issue I think. A video on social media or a harrowing picture could raise a lot of anti-fishing sentiment.
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Yeah @faker that’s what I was thinking maybe a long mono leader for a bit more stretch as well
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1 hour ago, Steve0 said:
Thanks for the report. Using artificial light for Tailor is news to me, but I have caught them under a full moon. It seems obvious, they are using the light to silhouette baitfish.
The first year I started hunting Salmon and Tailor I bulk-bought 50 metals, thinking they'd last my days out. They were gone inside 12 months! Loss rate reduced with experience, but Tailor will always extract a toll. Losses to schools of small Tailor seem higher than to schools of big ones. In sunlight, when you see the shadow of the school, casting to the edge of the school reduces the lure tax. Maybe if you toss your lure wider from the light source, you'll reduce lure losses?
Thanks @Steve0. See for me I’ve always found them on artificial lights and had never clicked to targeting them on the full moon.
A lot of my losses last couple years was on bream gear 6lb . The losses were just cut line as they hit the lure - a big splash and then slack. I was running 12lb last night mainly to throw heavier lures and didn’t suffer any losses yet.
Interesting you say throwing to the edge of light source / edge of the school. I got a lot of hookups / started follows on the light edge but wasn’t consciously targeting those areas, rather it was more the angles available to me from the land spot.
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2 minutes ago, Little_Flatty said:
Great report Mike, two sessions on a work day eh?
At 50+ tailor are great fighters on light gear. Don’t mind them when they’re that size.
Just getting my workmanship and design right, but I’ll give you a few dowel stick baits when I have made them. You won’t need to cry if they wreck them or steal them😎
Ah but in my defence Mike only one fish was during work hours 🤣
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Fish ID - Cooks River - cobbler/catfish?
in The Aquarium
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Gosh right through the gloves no problem.