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Awesome mulloway!

Awesome report and nice flattie Bob!

With a head like mine it would be an improvement

Closer to structure = more bream ! Also means less lures in your tacklebox 🤣🤣🤣

I wear water shoes to launch then put the crocs on when i’m in the boat - stops people throwing rocks at me 🤣🤣🤣 I only thought that happened to blokes that wore crocs and chino shorts 🤣🤣🤣

Saw that on FB yesterday along with: If you can’t remember my name , just say fishing and i will turn around . Or If you need me just shout big fish 3 times and i will magically appear!

Great report and you got a feed - can’t complain about that !

Nice flattie !

I filleted one once because my mate reckoned it couldn’t be done - he was almost right 🤣🤣🤣 I will stick with my flathead !

Peter morse ?

Great to see you back on the water Bob! Nice size flatties and flounder ! I usually get those out in broken bay - they can be a pest at times !

Nice flatties Mike ! fly casting at Meadowbank will be interesting - watch out you don’t hook onto a jogger with the back cast 🤣🤣🤣

Correct ! A 251 would be missing a couple of cylinders 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Epic post Zoran! That was a close call and things were going bad real quick!

Definitely learn to tie the FG knot ! I use the little knot tool that is available - not cheap but i have no choice as dexterity in my hands ain’t what it used to be! A lot of rods use tiny runners or guides and the double uni gets hung up and your leader usually snaps . I always did better at night in narrabeen so maybe look at low light times like dawn and dusk .

Awesome report Zoran and great stack of flatties ! It was great to meet you too !

Ripper haul of reds and fantastic report!

Nice fish and great report ! I can honestly say I have never seen anyone crabbing from a JetSki before !

I was talking to a bloke at my local fish market today and he said the bottom end of the harbour has been very quiet.

Thanks Larkin ! Still got to find that big mumma though ! The real test will be using the system in Botany Bay ,Sydney harbour and other areas where the current is a lot less . Thanks Yowie! The great thing about drifting is i can have two rods set out with different baits and flick lures at the same time. Funny thing is a few weeks back it was the garfish that seemed to work . Also the rod with the white lumo sinker caught the bulk of the fish and even when I changed the other rod that had the green lumo sinker to pilchard bait the white sinker seemed to get more fish - might try a white lure there next time ! Thanks Isaac! It is a work in progress! Thanks Bessel!

Thanks BN! Thinking back I could have upped the hook size a bit but didn’t have the same weight in a larger hook . Another option may have been to Texas rig it and I could then pick and choose hook sizes and weights - something too keep in mind for next time !

G’day Raiders, just another quick Hawkesbury report and that’s right it’s more flathead 🤣🤣🤣 I hit parsley bay ramp at dawn to launch for a trip up to moony moony area and with a good hour and a half of run in tide left I decided to try the tiny creek that runs into the bay behind Long Island . I started out wide of the creek mouth and worked my way towards it on the minn kota fanning out casts of a Gobblers plastic . It wasn’t until I got right to the creek mouth that I got my first hit but a mid 40cm flattie spat the lure at me just outside the reach of the net and this would be the first of four fish -all low to mid 40cm models to do this to me Anyhow I continued up the creek and finally got one in the net - it was barely lip hooked so maybe the others were the same ? Only one fish on the way up the creek then a lure colour change to a bloodworm colour for the return trip which yielded two undersized fish . I then tried the mouth of the bay between kangaroo point and Long Island with the same lure and two bait rods - both the half pilly but with one running a half pillie and the other a garfish fillet but this produced a donut . I then tried a drift from the northern end of the road bridge down river to the northern end of the rail bridge which produce a solitary small mulloway. I was now starting to run out of tide flow so decided to do a drift from moony moony creek out into the main river which produced all of the fish except the one I got in the creek , it seemed that nothing wanted the bait as the first couple of fish were caught on a plastic but then something changed and the bait rods provided some welcome action and the biggest fish of the day . Overall I probably landed a dozen fish , dropped a few and kept the two smallest ones but only photographed the fish over 40cm . If it has a lure in its mouth or next to it then it was caught on that lure the rest were on bait. I also ran into Zoran at the ramp - awesome to finally meet you mate !

For Botany i would send Mel spikes a message ,she did a crabbing video a little while back and got a pile of crabs .

I had a look at the site on the poster and it is a legit event but not so much a ramp closure but more like a heads up or FYI to let other ramp users know it will be ultra busy there on those dates and you might no get parking there so they can avoid any hold ups .

G’day Raiders, Just a heads up on an upcoming event that will affect Deerubbun ramp , it is self explanatory.