little fisho

this time of the year is absolutely killer, great job👍

depends on the species but keep trying with different lures, matching the profile of baitfish like mentioned before in this topic. if a fisho nearby you hooks up then you can try politely ask what he was using and try to match it with a lure of your own

in my personal experience landbased, i have had more hookups while the fish are not busting up, although still near the bustups. casting large profile lures on top of a school of fish can spook them as much as excite them, so smaller metals around 5-10g have always worked better for me when casting directly into schools

i would personally shoot for the vanford for the deeper spool and stronger drag. my logic is that heavy drag means that the reel is stronger and more robust than a more finesse reel, could be way off though 😅 extra $50 wouldnt faze me at this price point

another great feed, flatties have been on fire lately

pillies and microjigs did the damage

what a write up! did you end up eating that jew?

headed down to middle harbour landbased this arvo, managing close to 15 watsons leaping bonito and legal trevally, most released save those that were hooked deep. also witnessed some kings touching close to 10 kilo swimming around under the bonnie bust ups.

my mistake, was referencing kings in the saltwater side of the river

i do happen to know that there has been a certain desirable yellow and green pelagic fish active in the river recently... looking forward to your report

off the rocks at daybreak this morning. blessed day

that is huge, managed to hook a 56cm model on top of the head thinking the mullet school was a bait ball off the rocks, they must be running now.

i dont think theres a limit to how many are allowed to be carried, only used

in casting while the top piece came off, it slid down the line and smacked into the metal, the force breaking my mainline and leaving my rod free in the water yes, we agreed for him to pay a little over half of what the whole rod is worth (all that he has to spare at the moment) and throw in a few packets of softies as well for the trouble

in his cast, he flung the rod behind him and smacked the metal railing, then cast really hard causing both the mainline to snap and the top part of the rod to fly away. not exactly sure what happened i called my local tackle shop and they said i would need to get it specially ordered in and pay around half the price of what i got it for, which makes sense

after losing my brand new setup last week, this is the last thing i wanted to happen headed down to mcmahons point with a few mates looking for jews, and started casting a metal lure on my brand new shimano rod, and my mate who was relatively new to fishing decided he wanted to have a cast, i reluctantly handed it over and let him cast whole holding his rod next thing i know i hear a loud ping and a snap, i turn my head to look and the top half of my new 2 piece is floating in the water. i stared for a second in absolute disbelief that this happened twice in 2 weeks and my mind just went blank. another mate jumped in but it sank to the bottom and was lost forever. somehow snagged a huge blue swimmer on a pillie which was quite lucky later that night i had a live yakka soaking for 2-3 hours for nothing, but ended up nailing 10 or so on mcdonalds chips after running out of pillies. went home at 10 with nothing but some yakkas for bait and a promise for a replacement rod my luck is unbelievable

nice fish and good report, harbour has been going crazy recently

the gars were floating around the surface much further out than any yakkas, hence why my stickbait landed straight on top of this unlucky fellow on a big cast

will be going very nicely in the pan tomorrow😋

headed down to a busy pier in sydney harbour for an afternoon to find hundreds of garfish and yakkas being riled up by a small school of bonnies, watched them smash bait on the surface and jump out the water chasing them as i was rigging up. snagged 1 small bonnie on a pillie and watched them nose my pillies, live yakkas and lures for the rest of the day without a good hookup. still great fun seeing the bonito cruising around. also hooked up to a waterbird on a live yakka, which bit me hard as i was unhooking it, should have been more careful but was too annoyed by the bird taking my bait to take too much notice. also snagged a huge gar when i was spinning that came home with me too.

Currently very tired on the way home so i will get right into the story. After a slow morning spinning off the rocks near cobblers beach, i gave up and started floating pillies while sitting down and resting, before i knew it i got a big down, but missed the hookup so i rebaited and cast again. noticing that a guy spinning some way down from me had hooked up, i realised that a school was coming down on us, so i put my rod down and went to wake up my sleeping friend and before i knew it-must not have even been 5 seconds-i hear my rod sliding off the rocks, panicking i frantically called to my friend to grab his rod and try to snag it, but alas it was zooming off into the water already. i chased it down and attempted to call on some kayakers to no avail, and eventually lost sight of it about 100m away. lesson learned for now, but if any raiders happen to spot a brand new daiwa legalis 5000 spooled with bright orange braid floating around somewhere between balmoral and sydney heads i would be extremely glad to be reunited with it. thanks tor reading

i was there about a week ago and spotted a massive blue groper, had no idea they could be found in the harbour

my forecasting app is saying that wednesday/thursday around central coast will have up to 9ft 16 second swells from the south, wondering why this might be and a warning to anyone thinking of going out of those days

i dont have much problem landing rats on my 8ft 5000 15lb mono combo, but get smoked by anything decent, id suggest going for as heavy as your comfortable fishing, especially if you are going to expand to the rocks in the future like i have

use the fishraider search tool, im almost certain i remember seeing a post about seasons and when fish are active, but general rule of thumb is that pelagics such as kings bonito salmon etc are active in warmer months and species such as bream and blackfish are active in the cooler months. basically all fish can be caught all year round tho with a bit of luck and finesse