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G'day all
I took my young bloke for a fish on Wedensday arvo. We were chasing Bream on mullet strip baits under the Tumbulgum Bridge on the Tweed river. i cast up against the second pilon and BANG i was on. The little Sahara screamed as the 6lb braid was burning from the reel it was obvious i had a good fish on . I called it for a ray then maybe a Jew then it was holy shit its a jack!!
we had no net so i fought the fish till I got it on its side and surfed it onto the rocks.
My son and i just stared for a few seconds!!!!!!
the fish went 60cm I did not weigh it but must have been over 3kg
ignore the date on the pics. This was 2 days ago middle of winter.
cheers
andy
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unlucky on the tarpon
but there look some good Bass
did you run a tape measure over them?
no didn't measure them the biggest would of been just over 40 cm i guess and was a fat bugger who slammed the popper at my feet .great stuff !!!!
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Awsome red mate fantastic stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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G'day All
headed out with a mate this afternoon hoping to land some early season tarpon at a little lagoon up here. We were throwing poppers. my mate Brent is not very experienced and has ( had) never caught anything on a popper.
We had 3 inches of rain last night so the water was up a bit. We had no hits for half an hour or so when Brent's lure was smacked but failed to hook up. He let it sit there for a bit then gave it a twitch and bang he was on. The result was his first ever Bass . i think the look on his face says it all.
Brent then nailed another couple and I caught this beautiful fish. I should of washed the sand of before the pic.
We did not get any Tarpon but the bass more than made up for it
cheers
andy
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Nice fish Zenman,
middle harbour fishing really well at the moment for jew.
regard's Rod.
top report mate heading to Sydney for a week in November hoping to wet a line I am staying on the water at abbotsford
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Sounds awesome mate, i spend a few weeks up at tweed heads in January... PM me the name of the charter if you can mate.
have added a couple of pics
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G'day All
Yesterday myself and some mates headed out from tweed on a charter. I won't say the name but PM me if you want to know. We left at 6am and headed to the livie grounds. We jigged up a heap of yackas and then moved to a spot wide off cabarita beach to target Kingies. we fished in turns with 3 livies down at a time. First drift and i was on deck and hooked up after 5 mins . My arms were well and truly stretched by the time I landed a nice Kingie approx 8kg. We ended up with 11 nice big kingies and amberjack.
We then moved to the bottom bashing grounds and a steady stream of Parrot, squire, pearlies, pigfish, mowies and a few flatties were boated. Nothing huge but some great table fish.
All fish destined for the table were promptly bled gilled gutted and placed in a slurry by John and Troy ( crew).
We returned to tweed at 2 pm and the day was topped of with a close encounter with two humpbacks just outside the bar.
I will post some pics as soon as I receive them. But i thoroughly recomend this charter to any travelling raiders who are up this way.
cheers
andy
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Mate, the fishing was great - i know its not all 20kilo trout like it used to be but for a sydney fisho wanting to experience the reef it was fantastic and the bust ups - wow - there must still be some freight trains down there. ..
Its also like anywhere - it takes time to work out local techniques - its not a case of chuck in and hook up unless youre doing everything right.
Some guys fished the dories every day and caught very little - our little crew worked it out after a couple of days and went very well.
The boat was night crossing - a beauty of a boat - great crew.
Mate I fished many times with the gleesons on thier previous boat the Curtis Ambassador . Was Raymond the skipper. He is the best fish filleter I have ever seen!!!!!!!
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We get the odd one up here on the north coast . Definately not for the table mate. Enjoy those screaming runs and leaps and the put em back as they are chockers with bones.
cheers
andy
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Great stuff Andy!
Congrats on your 1st Cobe & a nice one at that at 10kgs. Now that Spotty. Is that an early or late season one?
It's looking like a top fishing summer we're going to have up here.We were out a couple of weeks ago at Fidos & had a whale breach very close to the boat & had a dolphin stay with us for about 3 hrs while we were at anchor. Fantasic stuff!
How was today! At 2 p.m it was 30.4c on my verandah in the shade. The fishing should fire up very soon.
Cheers,
Grant.
It should be great . we will have to get out and chase a few red toothy critters in the river
cheers
andy
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I'll ask around & p.m you the details mate. I'm sure there is someone!
Cheers,
Grant.
I live in Murwillumbah and have been out with reelfishin they are good blokes who leave from tweed. Mono stewart out of brunswick heads is also excellent there are heaps of different operators. google tweed charters and you will find them
cheers
andy
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Top report Andy.
Next time.................
Remember a Camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Stumpy
I know i was not so annoyed by not having a record of the fish but the whales were so close . When I get up at 4 am I am lucky to pack myself let alone a camera. Next Time.....
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I had a fish with my dad Yesterday offshore from the Gold Coast. We crossed southport bar at 6 am and headed for palm beach reef. My Dad's boat is more of a "miami vice" boat than a fishing boat so we anchor up set up a berley trail and fish offf the duck board. for those who don't know palm beach reef is an extensive gravel patch known for red hot mackerel action in the summer. I began throwing a 5 inch gulp on my bream rod and caught a few ooglies( juvenile cod different colours). Then my plastic was nailed on the drop and after a few screaming runs a nice little spotty mac was in the net and on the ice. A pillie floated down the berley trail was hit hard and the result was a nice cobia of around 10kg's which again went straight on the ice. The morning was rounded off by a few trevors on the plastics. Plus a mother and baby whale popped up 10 mtres from the boat.
All in all a great day.
cheers
andy
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G'day luffy
I grew up at Budgewoi. We used to catch a few Bass 25 years ago up in Ourimbah Creek. We used to float live black crickets and we got a few on celta's. I like targeting Bass on the surface and in summer a little black buggy pop is my favorite lure I think it must look like a cicada. Other than that chartruse sliders work great up here.
good luck
andy
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We had a very hot day today up here on the tweed so i thought i might go see if any Bass were stired up. I arrived at one of my fave pools to find it fairly heavily choked with weed. I decided to have a flick into some gaps in the weed with my fave bass plastic ( 3 inch chartruse slider grub) . My problem was going to be how to land the fish through the weed as i was only using 6lb fireline and 8lb vanish. Third cast and "whack" i was on . The fish began by scorching across the surface before diving into the weed. I was bricked so I opened the bail arm and waited . 2 mins later and the line started to snake across the pool i came up tight and the battle resumed. Anyway a few anxious minutes later i landed a beautifully conditioned Oxley River bass.
I took a few pics and then revived her and watched her swim off slowly through the weed.
That was it as far as the fish were concerned but when I left 45 mins later i was still smiling.
The fish is very bronze so maybe she did not move down to the salt this year. she had a big belly and went 45 cm to the fork.
having probs attaching pics so will keep trying
cheers
andy
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First post on the site so here goes.
I went down to my local ramp for a flick this arvo. Wind was pretty strong but managed 2 nice bream to 30cm and a nice flattie. All fish were caught on 6lb braid 8lb leader 1/16th jighead and 2 inch gulp shrimp in lime tiger. No pics as was alone and keen to get the fish back in.
cheers
andy
Awsome red mate fantastic stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's looking like a top fishing summer we're going to have up here.
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Awsome stuff Grant...a couple of kids from school who live in Tweed have been getting amberjack and kingies inside the bar off the north wall in their tinny!!!