frangkie

I am interested to hear different anglers techniques for rigging swimming gar! There is so many different ways! i have had success with a couple of methods but i'm looking for a quick, foolproof gar rig that swims straight every time. any little shortcuts sound great to me. cheers

might try the harbour tomorrow morn. weather looks shit but might just go anyway. is anyone else going or keen? pm. me!

spectra is actualy the type of fibre used in the line. the other most common fibre is dyneema. Not sure what is better, both are good. the most important thing is how the line manufacturer either braids the line or fuses the line some are better than others. I think your probably safer using a reputable brand name, it could cost you a trophy fish.

sorry made a mistake well done, i tried on sunday, i tried everything for no results a little hit and miss i think

pj do you eat the carp that you catch ? just wondering? ps. i like your advice

these grinners are the scorn of the inshore reefs in southern queensland. they have become that thick in the last few years that they decimate entire reefs, eating all resident fish. a definate pest. that one is a quite small oneby the way. the bigger the uglier! it's amazing what lures they hit sometimes!

fish cakes are the only way to eat them. you have to cut all of the blood out of the fillets. there are many different recipes for the fish cakes and i believe some are on this site. you basically disguise how horrible they taste with a heap of ingredients, but the fish cakes taste good as fish burgers.

they are very similar although gt's fight a little more lateraly rather than kings which fight more or less up and down. pound for pound mangrove jack, just for their initial violent power burst.

here is some more photos of daylight jew: thanks Gaffers for a enjoyable and insightfull days fishing, and my first hawksbury jew. hopefully plenty more to come in the next few months before moving back to queensland. perseverence is the key!!!

hi there, I am interested in getting into some of the gamefish this season off sydney. I have a boat but it's not big enough to get seriously amongst it. would be happy to take you fishing inshore in it. I have past experience as a deckie working on charters out of the gold coast so i'm not a novice. I can chip in for fuel and am available fairly often because i am a shift worker. I also have all my own gear. Super keen to get out wide. pm. me if your interested! cheers, alex

cheers mate! good news to my ears

for a jew land based on the northern end of the coast your best fishing off the seaway walls at the end of the spit. you will need to fish before the top of the tide and hang around till it starts to rip out, you can either fish right at the end of the wall or you can fish on top of the sand pumping pipe, which regularly holds jew and is located on the wall near the main large car park. look for a small concrete platform right down on the rocks, it may take some looking possibly at low tide during the day. these two spots would probably be the best spots on the northern goldy as well as the above mentioned jetty all within 10 min walk of each other. I would forget jewfishing at broady, there is however good bream, whiting and dart fishing along that stretch of beach. cheers, and good luck.

cheers mate ! probably needs more time. pity it's not like past seasons where by now they would be a sure thing. wonder if that bumper season two years ago and the popularity of fads on the east coast may be having a detrimental effect on the stocks of east coast dollies? I'm just a little concearned cause they haven't been as thick as they used to be, around sydney anyway. Their very short life cycle could leave them possibly prone to overfishing? On the other hand their very vast growth rates could negate this as long as there is enough stock left to spawn at the end of each season or start of each season? If anyone knows any real facts about the east coast biomass or can set me striaght that would be of great interest. cheers, not paranoid just interested!

nice

is there any dolls at the sydney east fad at the moment. can,t decide where to fish tomorrow morn. cheers!

top effort boys, keep hunting!

that is some good advice there mr magoo, cause you never know whats going to happen.

definately the second type the first is an estuary lure. in plastics try the bass assasin twitch stickbaits from tony's shop in matraville they are killer.

thanks for the kind words rf, were gonna have to team up again soon.

thanks jewgaffer the offer sounds good.

went up to hinchinbrook on the weekend to visit a mate and hopefully go for a fish if the weather would allow. the forecast was for rain and more rain. posidon was kind and it only stormed at night. We fished around the close in islands the first day for a couple of trout but the fishing was pretty tough. On day two we decided to fill the tinny with gerry cans of fuel and run the 60 km trip to one of the many coral reefs east of hinchinbrook island, after a long trip and compressed lower backs from smashing chop we arrived just before dawn. We fished the bottom for a while for mixed results. Our next move was to troll swimming gar around the reef edge for macs or anything that would jump on. unfortunately the macs eyesight is that good that they kept snipping the baits off just behind or sometimes even over the hooks without hooking up. we gave up on this technique after a while and decided to go chuck some poppers around some bombies with adjacent channels. This is where the action occured. My first fish came a little unexpected when the fish smashed the popper on the first bloop, he woke me up pretty quickly. after a few minutes of brawling we had him in the boat. he went 112 cm, if you look closely you can see the popper in his gob A couple of bustoffs happened after that with fish arcing back around coral bombies. The next fish came from trolling a haymaker slowly and giving it a massive bloop and pause. this fish fought a lot harder than the first so we were thinking it was going to be an absolute horse but was actualy a little smaller than the first. we suspect the deep hookset of the first fish took away somr of it's spirit. he went 99cm. anyway here is a couple of shots ps. does anyone know a length to weight ratio for gt's?

i saw a strange post that i was going to reply to but couldn't because it was moderated from the site and let me tell you it wasn't nice. anyway nice fish

how have you been locating them? have they been on the surface? last week i was fishing the area but they were a little hit and miss because they were in pelagic mode rather than sitting around specific structure as they normaly do.