mmarkich

i was using squid for the jewys and strip mullet and hawkesbury prawns for the flattys, most flattys caught on mullet

the jew was caught on fresh hawkesbury squid

went for a fish with a mate down at berowra last sunday (oct 17), by 11.00am we had a nice feed of fish. 1 x jewy at 22lb and 1mtr long, 1x flatty at 7.5lbs and 72cm long, 1 flatty at 62cm long and 3 x flatys from 49cm - 56cm long the catch bag weighed in at 39lbs, great feed of fish and about time as the rest of my year has been a bit quiet. the jewy took out about 150mtrs of line on his first run and then a boat tried to cross the path of my line. i quickly opened the bail arm and dropped the rod tip to the water, the boat only just missed my line (lucky). he got a few nice names shouted at him and then i got back into the fight. Once i turned the fish i got right into him keeping him heading towards me. just as we landed him the other rod went off with the big flatty, it was mayhem for about 20mins. Great day , great catch and great weather, what more can you ask for......

monduran is a hard one to crack. i found it most productive at night on the piont of bird bay or trolling the main harbour with bombers. night time seemed to produce bigger fish as well. Next time you go up give awoonga a crack as well !!!! also November is the best time so you should be able to catch one when you go.

Congratulations on your catch, Im going to monduran and awoonga next friday for two weeks with 10 mates and 5 boats. i hope i join the metre club two as this will be my first time barra fishing. look for my post in 3 weeks !!!!

they werent that big, between 800mm and 1200mm long

Went for a fish tonight/this morning at elanors bluff and between juno and brooklyn and landed 4 hammerhead sharks and one bronze whaler. i lost about 10 other rigs to sharks during the night as well. ended up getting one small jew 50cm and one nice flatty 60cm and at least 15 eels and 10 catfish. didnt get much of a feed but had plenty of action. Its adrenalin rushing being in 2 up in a ten foot boat in the dark with a hammerhead shark thrashing around on the floor lol!!!!

hi, just wondering if you ate any of yours. i kept mine for bait but i was temped to eat it. see you down there next time but this time im going to start with the yakkas on a spike not the jig

talking about sharks i'm pretty sure i hooked up onto a big one 2 friday nights ago in berowra waters, my line took off at 100mph and ran for ten seconds then "snap" .wheeled in my line to discover that i lost my hooks and half my trace 2 x 10.0 hooks 80lb flouro trace and a full large callamarri (fishing for jews). the trace was frayed up past half way. also my father lives at wisemans ferry and often see's bull sharks feeding in the shallows at sunset (cruising around with the dorsal fin exposed out of the water) also about 10 yr ago three people in berowra lost there dogs to bull sharks in one week and that was in summer two. i wouldnt swim in there if my life depended on it

yeh its the spot your thinking about, i got a massive one to about 2 weeks ago with a hood about 40cm no i didnt go to windemere because of the weather i spoke to paul and the weather was real bad so we didnt miss out on anything. yeh i should be there friday night

ive been getting about 4 to 5 a night at the wharf but had the ocasional good night with 8. i had three perfect bait size calamari come right up onto the steps in front of me on thursday night but they wouldnt take a jig. if a had a landing net i rekon i would of been able to get them, they were very dosile. no he only put it in the rod holder next to me and then he removed the piont protector so it was ready for me to use. the fish was definatly bigger then him

took my 4 yr old son down to berowra for his first fish in a boat today (sunday 5th october) to see if he followed in his fathers footsteps and while i was still rigging up he allready had a nice flatty on about 45cm, the excitement on his face said a thousand words. After that we both got a few small soapys and then i got i nice flathead about 48cm. things started to get a bit quiet so i moved to the other side of the river (a secret family spot) and put on some large strips of fresh squid. within ten minutes i got a 5lb jewy on my light rod and within another ten minutes a hooked up on a 8lb jew. after about another 20 minutes i hooked up on something big on my heavy gear. this thing ran like a freight train for about 150mtrs then i turn him, for about 45minutes i played him, i even had boats stop to spectate. i finally got him close to the boat and my son got the gaff ready. he came up from the deep then i saw a large flash of a huge jewy tail and then he ran again did some big head shakes and then he was gone. he had to be at least 50 - 60 lb for what i saw and felt (disapointment +++). when i pulled in my line the hook 8.0 had almost been straightened (big fish). After re rigging i threw out another big bait hoping to get his brother and within another 10 minutes "bang" off the drag went. i fought this fish for about 15minutes and then got him in (14lb jew), Nice fish but nothing like the one before. overall the weather, fishing and company was perfect and went home with about 25lb of fish so i cant complain ill have to get the big one next week

start using that secret map, all the spots my father showed me as a kid 25-30 yrs ago are getting more fish than most other areas. these areas were over fished years ago so people have stopped fishing there but dont realize that the fish have returned. also the new generation dont know about these spots so you will have them to yourself

if you ask me i reckon that spencer or berowra waters produce the biggest fish in the hawkesbury (all species). i never seem to have much luck around the bridges or juno etc. my father has caught over 20 jews over 50 lb in berowra alone the top 3 being 84lb 73lb and 68lb and all old school on hand lines. also two years ago in berowra i caught the biggest bream i have ever seen 53cm and 51cm about ten minutes apart from each other and these areas always seem to produce good size flattys too, and the best of all is that these areas are not over crowded. lots of large boat traffic is not comfortable in a ten foot boat lol

no it was the other caravan park with the sand boat ramp