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Those are pretty neat little spoons. Out of interest what travel combo was this? Ive only ever seen lures like this in America in like little multi packs and big ones sold by them selves. As for the soft plastics, they look to be the standard ones you get in all in one combo pack, I have a bunch of them I found on the side of the road. They work alright, not the great. I have a bunch of these tiny jig heads I found, they're like 1/24 ounce or something and tiny hook. Work alright on those soft plastics. As for the spoons, maybe trout on the small one and tailor and salmon on the larger ones?

Looks like a bit of fun. In the warmer months, chuck out a whole yakka or large bait with steel wire and you will get bronzies. heapes of them around there.

Thanks for clarifying, I was just flicking through yt shorts when I came across a guy hammering on and on about his stainless steel rock climbing stuff. Just thought it might have been helpful to relay that info. Can definitely understand the issue of weight though. Thanks for correcting though. Sorry about the misguidance. Not that long ago I did see an ad for dog life jackets for sale.

It's probably worth looking and a lift jacket as well. Those rock climbing things are stainless steel, well the good ones are.

Probably a dumb idea as I don't know anything about alveys, but isnt there a specialised Alvey for luderick? I'd have thought that would be suited to float fishing?

I found going lite to no sinker with small hook and a chunk of bonito works well. Get quite a few bream and stuff. Though I'm not not really trying and just chucking out a line while waiting between sharks

Could it have been one of the catfish?

MY trick when handling fish on the kayak is to either lift them into the kayak and chuck them up the front and quickly dispatch or just remove the hook and back into the water. Because I usually have my feet over the side for stability the whole area in front of the pedals is free. If I need to make adjustments, I have the rudder somewhat pre set to adjust depending on how I've needed to adjust before and just pedal with my hands. For emergencies where a quick escape was needed, which has happened while I was still landing fish. Ive turned a car shade into a freezer bag so I just pop the fish down the hatch while making my escape. As I do basically all my fishing in salt water, I never use a stringer. As for the rigs I usually fish a dropper rig so I just have the sinker over the side and keep the spare hook over the side as well. As for the rod holders, I have a rack with 2 30 degree pipes out the sides for trolling. But this is setup for offshore, absolutely useless for estuary. Thanks again Derek for teaching me about the ins and outs of kayak fishing.

In wood tech we watched our teachers finger get eaten by a ban saw, was a bit of an eye open. Ive also had drills go through my hand and come out the other side, wire brushes go into me. The one to top it all was my boss got a bar of metal go in one side of him and come out the other, part of the drilling rig. And yes he's ok, narrowly escaped.

If you bring a pair of pliers, use it to pull out the pins either side of the wheels then you can pack it into the front hatch. Takes a little bit of fiddling to work out the orientation but it works. PS I'm using the standard Hobie cart, not the C tug

Sharks will be coming down and into the harbour soonish, they've already began to come down. Also jervis bay, Nelson bay and south West rocks are my favourite places. Long reef has been producing for me. Good luck 🙂

As far as I'm concerned. Sienna then Sedona them stradic then saragosa then Stella as the core reels, but there are stuff in between. Here's my theory, I recon they're just part of combos and they're just peddling different looks. They don't have half a dozen twin power competitors for example. Just a marketing thing as well as giving way to many options for combos.

Have you thought about a custom rod?

I'll probably be heading out as well

I use some Japanese brand braid, platypus, crane, just to name a few. The issue with cheap braid is that the colour rubs off on your guides very quickly and actual strength can differ quite a bit, also wind knots can occur. Just for reference though, I've landed big bream on cheap $10 braid. My thoughts on J braid ect, they're good, high quality, I just can't justify spooling every reel with expensive braid, hence only a few of mine are spooled with expensive braid. As a side note, don't be to afraid of cheaper braids like ashcon fish, or wft strong braid, I know people and I personally use them and have landed large fish and sharks on them so for what it is, it gets the job done for me. As for fluro leader, I like what Evers cheapest, I usually go with Berkely vanish or whenever I'm re-spooling a reel or a mates, I'll keep the line to use as leader. I can honestly say it is completely fine, I landed a gummy shark on very old line without any issues. Personally I'd go 8-10 lbs braid and just change out the leader, allows me to target a broader range of species.

Congrats, you always rember your first fish 🙂

Had a funny find in bag of bait prawns, a small like 7cm flatty. Kinda surprised lol, never seen that before.

Apparently it's ok for salmon, sometimes king's there but rarely and bream. That's all I've heard, never tried personally

When I'm on the kayak I have a couple of pre made rigs with a swivel and then a snap swivel on the main line. Allows me to change our easily, as re tieing on a kayak isn't the easiest. Land based I have a mixture. If I'm targeting 1 species only, I don't use a snap swivel but if I think I might be wanting to change rigs a bit I'll just pop one on. I don't recall ever having a snap swivel breaking, even on sharks.

I have a 54 lbs water snake shadow thats been rigged for the kayak but I have all the parts and it can be put back together if your interested, as I have no need for 2 motors

as an idea, what about one of those pedal 'paddle boards' allows you to get on the water and cycle at the same time. I still rember doing the excat same thing though with my bike, the joys of when you dont own a car and your only transport was a bike

I was going to go land based. The river is full of trees and sunken crap still, so yeah. My mate wasn't to excited about the idea is potentially hitting things in the dark so yeah.

In going tomorrow, will let you know. Main target is Pike eel though

Haven't been beach fishing in a while and never have beach fished in sydney, so was wondering wheres some good spots for salmon, tailor, bream ect. And how do you go about targeting these? I am thinking about palm beach thanks