Tangles

good work mate. You would be happy if that was the by catch everytime you went out.

i think i have actually heard that before. dont know if its true or not, but have heard that the jackets turn them off, especially when they're in plague proportions. Good to hear its not only me that was struggling though. thought id forgotten what to do. Does barometric pressure have anything to do with it? The same as it affects fish?

Has anyone found that over the weekend, squid have been hard to come by? tried all weekend for nothing. Frome the reports ive been reading, people are still getting them in certain places but couldnt get one in the hacking. Its days like these that you just wished you stayed home.

good stuff mate, atleast you still got one. Better than going home empty handed, as i did yesterday after fishing the hacking. Im convinced the Hacking just doesnt produce. Nowhere near as good as the Bay & right up the Georges anyway. What sort of rig were you using & what weight did you need in the strong current??

hey, thought i would put a post up as i havent done in a while. Fished the week before the Easter weekend. Thought i would get out before the public holidays & try get some fish for good friday. Just went out for a flick on Monday to try & get a few jewies, but no luck. not even a touch. Water was still really murky from the rain on the weekend before, so thought i would leave it a day or two to clear up. Headed out on Wednesday to try get some squid as thought i would have better luck fishing bait. After a couple of ours & trying numerous spots, no squid. Luckily the day was perfect & there was no swell at all so i headed outside to look for some squid. as soon as i got to my spot, i hooked up. His mates were following him up as i brought the first one in so i through another jig at them but they didnt want to touch it. Only wanted to go for the trusty pink. Landed 3 in quick time until i got a snag & lost my pink jig. tried with other colours but they didnt want to know about it. Headed out on Thursday with about 2.5 hours of the run in tide left. Stripped my baits up & wasnt long before i got my first run. This was a big sucker. Was fighting it for an easy 5 mins & didnt get any closer to seeing it. tangled me around the anchor rope for a bit. eventually got it off & then headed straight for a snag & bang, gone! Re-rig, only to happen again. Eventually landed a just legal king, which went back to grow in to a big puppy. Next bait, got a few good knocks. Knew it wasnt a king. Let it run a little & hooked up. Few good little runs & a 77cm Jewie surfaced. Was going to release him, but he had stomached one of my hooks, so he became the feed for easter. After this, got busted off again twice more & ran out of tackle before i ran out of bait. its normally the other way around. So that was the end of the day. Headed back to chill out for the rest of the easter holidays.

Yer, ive got no problem with sharing any of my spots with fellow fishos.

where abouts in the gong mate?

going for squid tomorrow in the bay &/or hacking. Anyone doing any good after the recent rain???

It wasnt on tonight. It is on 7 "today tonight" tomorrow night.

thanx mate. I will be fishing land based this time around. I was going to take weed up with me as i wouldnt know where to get it even if there was some. Thanx for your help mate.

Heading up to Coffs next weekend for a week. Having never fished up there before i dont really know where to fish & what to target. was going to do some beach fishing & also take my Blackie rod, if i can find some weed after all this rain. If anyone knows how its going or what i should be targeting, it would be appreciated.

nice feed there mate. well done. Im heading to the hawkesbury tomorrow for a week. hopefully i can get atleast one jew. weathers not looking the best though. Tangles.

Hi funnierthanu, we are going on monday, so if you could put a report on that would be good. cheers & good luck!

haha, funny how i put a post on asking bout the hawkesbury & we end up talking bout the hacking.