J.Smith

Boat size fine but safety depends on boat driving experience. On a good day 30 mins to 12 mile for that size boat on a bad day 1hr plus. Suggest you don't pick bad days and avoid forecasts of big southeriy and north easter changes when coming in. Find a nice day with below 10 knot winds 12 plus seconds wave period on less than 1 metre total swell and you should be safe. (seabreeze,meteye,buoyweather gives that type of info). For livies rigs use 3 way swivel, 1/2 metre sinker drop on bottom and 1 metre live bait rig on other swivel point(30 to 40kg leader)..Find the bait schools on sounder and plan your drift into them. If minikota etc spot lock over them. I personally only use size 6 live bait hook but I try to stick to 100 to 150 ml size live baits and size 6 suits those baits.

Muddies with odd swimmer

East Gosford (the entrance road) heading north go over punt bridge small wharf and boat ramp left hand side. Fish anywhere along the shore casting towards mangroves other side, Fish for mud crabs