TheFishyFisherman

??? I’ve caught bream when they are just “mooching” around lazily around jetties before. Same thing happened last week when I dropped a bait right next to a blackfish and it kept picking at my bait.

Gong for another session today at Balmoral. Hopefully I get some. Baits all ready

Good fish! Hopefully the kids calm down. My brother and I fight a lot too

Thank you. I’ll just use the size 8 hooks for now and search for anything smaller next time I go shopping. I do have some size 10 hooks but they bend pretty easily.

I bought some new hooks. Would these be good enough for the luderick because they were the best I could find. At the moment I am using hooks slightly smaller but the shank is a little too long

Good job on the blackfish 👍.

I usually use my right hand even though I’m left-handed. I’m no expert but I find that using my non-dominant hand works better for me. Watched some videos about it and found that reeling with your non-dominant hand was better once you get your head around the weirdness for a number of reasons such as the fact that you don’t have to switch hands on your rod after casting. Also flicking lures while using your dominant hand on your rod is better too and fighting fish is easier too if you use your dominant hand on your rod. Credit for this info obviously goes to the creator of the video. I wish I could post the link of the video here for you but I’m not sure that’s allowed here.

Nice whiting 👍 Shame about the trevally but at least you caught lots of fish

Congratulations 🎉!!!!! That kingfish is HUGE!!!!!! 🥳!!!!!!

Keep trying and you’ll eventually get a big one 😁. That’s how i got my first. Should take my own advice too tho because I haven’t tried for them in a while.

Sorry but I don’t know… I’m still a newbie at this

Nice job and nice feed!!!

I don’t have a photo but there was cabbage growing where I collected it and stringy stuff growing with it so I assumed it’s cabbage even tho it was like hair. I’ll get a picture next time I go and post it here.

I went to balmoral today with stringy cabbage collected from this morning but it was too windy and the float rig kept moving towards and tangling around the pylons because of the wind so I used the emergency chicken as bait with running sinker rigs. When the wind settled a bit later in the afternoon, I tried again and burleyed with cabbage and sand. That attracted a few luderick and I had 5 hookups. Lost 3 becuase they tangled on the pylons becuase I was pretty close to them so the fight would last less than 2 seconds. I set up a weightless rig really quickly with just a hook and was getting bites. I struck and was on again but it spat the hook out. I was on my last piece of weed and casted it near the pylons again. Was on a another again but the knot slipped and the hook fell off. It was probably from tying the knot really quickly becuase it was a poorly done knot. I ran out of size 8 hooks so I was using size 6 as an alternative for the last 3 fish. Also, I strike 3 seconds after the float goes down but I’m not sure if that’s the correct method. This experience has gotten me closer to learning about blackfishing though so I was pretty satisfied 🤗

I hope the cat is well.