Aussie_fisher

Congrats. My first fish on a soft plastic (it was a squidgie prawn wriggler exact same colour) was actually a very nice 33cm flounder. It’s a great feeling

Ye yakkas small tailor and stuff are always around

Some interesting observations there. So far I haven’t had too much luck night fishing anywhere. At dusk everything goes crazy but as soon is the dark comes it becomes a bit quiet but obviously there’s many people who night fish with excellent results so I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong. @Mike Sydney do you use bait or lures? Are lures still as effective at night? Do you fish at dusk or when it gets fully dark

On Sunday at dusk headed to iron cove, to the jetty at King Georges park. Had seen a shroom video a few days ago and he caught some massive bream there at night on bait so I had to try it. Because I had been getting into lure fishing I had changed all my reels to braid. This time I had decided to use bait after a long time, and unfortunately the running sinker rig wasn't doing too well with braided line (I later figured out you should connect a leader to braided line before putting the sinker swivel and trace thanks to the help of some raiders). The tangles were horrible, one after the other. At dusk I saw a nice flattie caught (on bread!), some whiting and a few small tarwhine. I wasn't able to do anything because of these terrible tangles. Finally I just put a small splitshot a tiny bit above the hook which wasn't ideal but atleast reduced the tangling. I was using prawn and another fisho on the wharf caught a pretty big herring which he gave to me so I used that as well. However the bite had stopped as soon as it got dark. Despite seeing some vids of really good night fishing there with some big bream, even mulloway this time there was nothing. The tide was rising wind was good but they weren't biting and no one was catching anything anymore except for 100s of chopper tailor which went crazy as soon as the dark came in. Everyone was pulling them one after the other. All were around the 20cm mark, biggest one I pulled was 26cm. Still good fun. Left at 10:30pm after a not so successful night fishing trip. A highlight though was a cat just coming on the wharf and chilling with me while I fished, eyeing all the small tailor I caught very eagerly. Not sure if he was a pet or stray. How many of you guys do night fishing? Do you find it to be a good time?

Personally for me what I've observed is alot of places really fire up at dawn or dusk, some on tidal movement despite time and a few on the top/bottom of the tide. I think what I've observed is there isn't necessarily a universal time period where they all just stop its that different spots fire up at different times/conditions like @DerekD said. You have to fish a spot a few times to figure that out, and choose a spot based on conditions. I try to fish at dawn/dusk if I can as it has the most success for me in general but I'm still also really new to fishing and learning . just go out and throw a line whenever you can you definitely wont catch anything by not going. Don't even bother looking at the solunar charts even if theres an influence its much lower than the others

Assuming you’re talking about poddies anywhere should be fine where the water isnt too deep maybe a bit of weed around or a sand flat and if you see a few swimming around that’s a good indication obviously

Hope you're feeling better. Covid can be terrible - and getting it on a trip is very unfortunate. Atleast the charter trip went well though. TC

Will try that next time thanks

Hey guys been mainly been working on fishing with lures lately so I switched all my reels to braid. Did some bait fishing this weekend and used a running sinker rig. Put a running sinker on my braid, tied a swivel and attached a fluorocarbon leader. Every single time the braid tangled around my sinker due to it being very limp which tangled the leader and caused a horrible mess. I just had to keep cutting everything off. I tried using a split shot but it still tangled. Eventually I just put my sinker on top of the hook but it really turned off the bite because the fish could probably see it. Any suggestions on how to stop this? Thanks

Will send you a pm

Great session. Want to fish the hacking sometime but don’t have boat. How does it fish land based?

I’ve had a puffer destroy my hook long ago even tho it was a pretty crap one from the five letter department store. I’d suspect it’s that

Could give you tips about the channel if you want. Haven’t ever fished the beach for Jewies but I know there’s some pretty big ones there plenty of people here who can help you

they don’t cross because they see the real estate prices on the east side of the bridge 😂

Just curious, how many of you would actually eat fish from the parramatta river? Any where above Gladesville I definitely wouldn’t eat anything out of but maybe around iron cove or Balmain I wouldn’t mind eating a flatty or very occasionally a bream. I know a lot of people eat everything legal they catch east of the harbour bridge and then as soon as they get on the other side an invisible border appears and they don’t even touch the fish. but it’s not like fish won’t move around a few kilometres. https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2022/homebush-bay-dioxin-project-report-2017-03.pdf According to this study the bream from Homebush bay and silver water have a lot of dioxins which obviously makes sense but bream from the lower parramatta river aren’t terribly above the recommended limit (6pg TEQ/g), so I’d assume a flatty or something from these areas would probably be within the limit. Mullet are a different story. Read some posts on this site from a few years ago and there were mixed opinions. Any thoughts ?