AlbertW

For me personally halco twisties work great, the little 5 grams work a treat but they'll eat the bigger 30g models

Rewarded with some good fish for your effort!

Ganged hooks are mostly used for big baits like whole pilchards. Most beach fishos use em as you can use a big bait but stil have a solid hookup ratio. The size of your hooks and baits all depend on your setup and what you're going for. Below is a pic of a rigged pillie

I agree, might have to wait until sunset or evening though as the outlet and the bend is quite shallow and a lot of people play in the water

The oceans flowing in at the moment so hopefully it should bring in some more jewfish!

Hey All, Recently, thanks to @DerekD I’ve caught the topwater fever which means emptying my wallet out on lures and spending an exorbitant amount of time chasing fish on said lures. A topwater whiting or even just a whiting caught on a lure had been on my to-do list for quite a while and I’ve targeted them for quite a long time and have had some very close encounters. I hit up one of my favourite sand flats and started with my baitcaster, hoping for a big flathead on a swimbait. After spending 2 hours wading the flats, I could not find a singular flathead. So I decided to head back to the car and change to my bream rod. I waded for another 2 hours with no luck until I started messing around in the ankle deep water until a small school of whiting came up and smashed my slippery dog but my hooks didn’t catch. The newfound encouragement fueled me to wade to the deeper dark blue water sections of the sand flat and skimming my slippery dog over them until suddenly something exploded on it. A good specimen for my first one, not sure if it’s big enough to be called an elbow slapper though haha. It measured high 30’s, around 37 or 38 and was very chunky, around the same size as my forearm but it still looks tiny in my hands . Was a struggle to land it on 4lb and my braid snapped very easily as I tested my leader knot. I then spent another hour grinding away for a big flathead on the baitcaster but they didn’t come out to play. Thanks for reading, Albert

I'd always rather be on the water than stuck at home

Hey All, I'm very sorry about how late this is @DerekD, I've just been crazy busy this week with wifi cutouts, fevers and my promotion course for my cadet program at school. Anyways, Derek was generous enough to give @Bennyg78 and I his afternoon on saturday for a baitcaster lesson. I already had a baitcaster combo with a curado 200hg paired with a zodias rod whilst Benny was in the market for a starting outfit. To start us off Derek demonstrated his exceptional casting distance (showing off). Derek was casting out a heavy garfish imitation topwater lure and twitching it back. Afterwards he handed Benny and I the rod and we started looking at the different drag settings. Then we got to casting with all brakes on. After that we progressed with having less and less brakes on, which in return probably increased our casting distance by 5 times. We then practiced casting the lure like a pendalum and switched to a quick bream gear topwater session. Nothing from that but I saw a big jewfish carcass. Once again thank you so much @DerekD for giving us your time and imparting your knowledge upon us.

Cracking Fish!

I think I have one of the older Mavics, maybe i should learn how to use it this hols

Congrats @DerekD, very very well deserved ! Wouldn't be here without you!

Good stuff, I have seen some some swellpro drones specifically designed for fishing that cost more an arm and a leg! 🏴‍☠️

They're already on some websites so it should be soon

I've fished crowdy landbased before and the best place to launch would be the boat harbour I think, haven't been there in ages but I know the fishing is good

I;ve recently purchase one of the new shimano revolution travels but find the bream rod a bit heavy for my liking, there's also the shimano raider travels for a cheaper option or like @Little_Flatty recommended I like the maikuro series as well due to their price and value

Maybe try for a hump headed wrasse!

Cheers mate

Hey Raiders, I'll be fishing the lake mac comp on the 19th and was wondering if any of you that frequent the lake have any tips. I've been looking at taking my outback (I have a lowrance sounder) out to the islands (pelican and spectacle) and the surrounding sandflats. I've mainly been looking at using soft vibes and plastics but all info is appreciated. Cheers Albert

Yeah sorry about that, I usually do but the ep was bleeding a bit so I just dehooked him first. The lure was a yozuri diver, I think the crystal minnow

It was calling to me haha

Yeah theres plagues of EP's and some golden perch as well, wish I had time to target those! They also stock rainbow trout in the colder months and they even stocked 10,000 murray cod fingerlings in 2021 but I don't think theres a high probability that they survived.

Hey All, Bit of a late post due to the past couple of days being busy. I headed to Melbourne with the family on Thursday to visit my uncle and decided to pack an ice fishing rod and my nasci. Plan was to hit up the docks lands for some vertical bream but my mate who had visited recently told me to visit Albert’s Park lake instead. So the plane changed and on Friday I had picked up one of the new shimano revolution travel rods and respooled my nasci with 400m of 4lb braid. My uncle wanted to start fishing so I had paired him with the same outfit. I chose some shallow suspending divers as it would be an easy gateway into lure fishing. In the afternoon, I managed to get away with my uncle and by some luck i had chosen a random spot that had heaps of weedbeds. I showed my uncle how to tie a double uni knot and got him tied up onto a suspending diver. Headed to the water and teaching him how to cast and retrieve the diver, I finally started to fish. He started having troubles with the casting again so I demonstrated again and as i demonstrated how to work the diver back something smashes it and pulls me into the weed. I asked my uncle if he would like to land the fish but he insisted on me doing it so up comes my first ever estuary perch measuring at 30cm. At first I thought it was a bass due to their striking resemblance but had a look online shortly after. Swam the EP back and that was that for the trip. Back to Sydney on Sunday and was too tired to write up the report so here I am now. Thanks for reading, Albert

Looks amazing, well done on the fish