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"i kept trying different tactics till i found one that is pretty much firing for me now, getting lots of bream and not losing any gear, it doesn't involve a float and it doesn't involve 'smelly' bait" Lol well do tell, don't keep us all hanging, what's the best tactic you have found? Are you fishing from the car park on southern side of river? Spanker

When pondering why all the big Kings are in NZ I had a terrifying thought. What if every time a Kiwi crossed the ditch to move to Australia, one of our big Kings went the other way and migrated to NZ to restore the balance? That would explain EVERYTHING!!! What would happen if all the Kiwis got sent back? The mind boggles. Tongue planted firmly in cheek. Spanker

hahahaha I could just about see the steam coming out of your ears lol!!! Thanks for sharing. Was it old line or hurried knots? Spanker

Thanks for the raw data, now spin us a yarn lol!!!

Thanks for your report mate, I could feel your pain lol but also your sense of wonder for the amazing terrain. We had the frustration of bringing in numerous salmon and school jew at a rockwall recently with large swell and just weren't able to land them, everything got lost at the base of the rocks. Ah well I guess it is experiences like this which make the victories oh so sweet when they happend. Spanker

Great report mate. You got out into the elements, you hung out with the old man and you connected with some great species - brilliant!

Outstanding report Auto and sounds like an even bigger effort to entertain not only a crowd at the park bit the boys at work too haha Will be a morning to remember, what makes fishing such glorious time well spent. Spanker

Very nice report mate, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you got on to a few species and did everything you could to catch and present live bait for something bigger. Do that enough times and you will come up trumps. Spanker

Haha fantastic report Hood! What a cheeky bugger. Well done for persisting, sounds like a brilliant morning out. Spanker

Great report Stewy, sounds like a fab session. Spanker

Me too!!!!!!! I suck at finding gutters on the beach! Any threads on this very helpful. I know about the dead water, where the waves die off but I am never really certain. Cheers Spanker

Thanks Roberta, love the report and the pictures. I took my young family camping at Cresent Head last year with great anticipation of fishing the creek there. To my great distress I was told by locals that someone had recently illegally netted and cleaned out the system, it was a desert Spanker

Outstandinh work JK. I am sure most of us have been terrorised by eels at some stage, to actually be able to catch something decent using an eel as bait is pure genius Spanker

Sigh alright I will get off my lazy butt and read the rules then, was hoping someone would just tell me hahaha Spanker

Yeah but what has a knife being in the photo got to do with it? Is that part of the comp? Cheers

Hi guys, I don't really get what this is about. So he tried to cheat by pretending a kingie was larger then it was? What's the knife got to do with it? Feeling dumb Spanker

Nice work Giac. I have given the sand bank at North haven a few goes but never tried Dunbogan, maybe I will next time. What was the size fo the flattie? Spanker

Well I reckon if someone just got 70 fish from Swansea, that ought to make your decision obvious as there can't be much left alive in Swansea hehe Hehe on the serious side, I like it when people mention in their reports not just what was caught but also what was released. Great to hear when people catch a massive haul but you also want to hear what they threw back for another day. I know most people do only keep enough for a feed but some reports read like a horror story because it sounds like half the system was caught and wiped out because they ommitted the release details. Trying to put a positive spin and a potentially negative subject, bope you get what I mean. Spanker

hahahaha! So no pauses? I have had takes by small tailor and follows by whiting. I have seen Bream invesigating on the pause but cannot get the blighters to strike!!!

Hi Ray, I am yet to find success on poppers after several attempts. Can you comment on retrieval action and speed? Also watcer depth? Cheers Spanker

I am hearing you and no doubt you guys are on the mark, due to the internet and great communinities like FR, information and expertise are accessible like never before. What took years of hard earned expertise in years gone by can now be accelerated by online chat and reading reports. What remains unanswered or rather unaddressed for me personally is "where is the magic?" Has instant gratification and high volume exposure via www.whatever eroded the mystery of the sea? The what if's are becoming the daily report. Not sure if I am expressing myself well - I guess i no longer marvel at catches that used to get me excited, just another sign of our shrinking world. Well, I am off to check-in with the psychiatrist for session #1 of my mid-life crisis. Wish me luck Spanker

Crickey by the time I had finished I was listening for banjos amd watching my back for mountain men! Cracker post Kiwi Wayne haha Spanker

Hi FR friends, I caught myself sighing "not another boring kingie post" today and scrolling past looking for something more interesting like a craggy blue-nosed bream, tail thmuping jew capure or someone's kayak antics. By gosh how things have changed! Wasn't it only 5 or 6 years ago on FR that the subduing of a decent kingie warranted 1,000 's of views (okay there were only a couple 100 of us back then but seemed like EVERYONE was enthralled)and gasping praise from the uninitiated? Now every man and his downrigger are claiming slimey scalps, catches of under 75cm are scoffed at and only 1m+ specimens garner up much enthusiam from the kingfish fatigued audience. The "new normal" is a kingie post mantled with terms like bagged out, PB, on fire and so forth. Eyebrows are only raised at the infrequent admissions of total failure, few and far between. What does this mean dear friends? Have the early pioneers of the Kingfish craft been so influential in proselytizing to the masses the fervour and technique required that now the Holy Grail is the rarely fail? Or are our waters now so stocked with kingfish that even the untrained have success? Whatever the reason, I miss the excitement, the newness, the sense of shared specialness of the taming of a decent kingie. As this current craze moves from the exception to the normal, I wonder what will be next, can any speciies create such excitement to once again hurry my mouse pointer across the screen, hungry to participate in that small way the shared glory of a great catch well earned. Thoughtfully Spanker

Haha I would have kept the fish and kicked the boyfriend back into the drink! Sterling effort mate! Spanker

Hi Barredup, hehe, I can hand on heart swear that that is not me and the missus in the photo, just some random pictue I got from I can't even remember where. What cracks me up is everyone ASSUMES IT IS ME!!!! Like I would get naked with animals and take photos and put them on the internet!!! Like MY WIFE would not cut my goonies off if I even thought about it hehe. Beside I look much better naked......... Spanker