bmar560

Yeah I've seen that boat once, while I was chasing the frigates during summer. The back of that boat opens up and a smaller boat came out. I was wondering wtf ??? A boat carrying another boat ?? I guess when you have that kind of money you have to spend it somehow.

where can I get those rod racks from ? cheers, Mario

I'll just whack this report in here.... After yesterday's inspiring day, I head out to fish the parra again this time with Darryl(marlin_dc). We started late, because I had bloody uni. We started at around 3.30ish launching the boat from Drummoyne. First destination is back to the X spot, after a few casts Darryl hooked up a nice bream. It was his first bream on SP. It went 32cm to the tail,still smaller than my PB heheh Today was his day, he kept getting hits, and after a while he hooked up another bream, this bream went straight to a structure, luckily Darryl reacted quickly and pulled him out(thanks to the training he had with the kingies at cliftons). He finally landed the bream, this time it's a 33cm model. still 1cm short of my PB but it was his PB so congratulations to him. well done bro !!! I hooked a smallish bream but it got away, and darryl landed another smallish bream. The fun doesn't end here... Since I forgot to bring the camera, and Darryl caught his PB bream. We decided to pick up the camera at my house. So we drove the boat back all the way to Bayview Park, and I walked all the way to my house just to get the camera. By then it was raining cats and dogs, with water hitting our face real hard. The trip back to Drummoyne was cruisy but just before we trailered the boat it started raining again and this time it was harder with the wind blowing, thank God I wasn't in the harbour. By the time we got everything done, we were drenched really drenched and freezing. THINGS YOU DO FOR FISHING It wasn't a perfect day, but I was happy that Darryl caught his breams today. Getting our confidence level up a bit for the social. took some quick pics... here they are... The happy man !! Double Happiness !! Cheers, MB

Do you drive a hornet Rick ? If you do then it's probably you, that we saw near the island (can't remember the name) before iron cove. thanks Andrew...

We were on a white open boat haines, with a 40 HP yammie. This bream on SP bug is getting me mate... gotta go out more and practise more. Next goal is to get one on HB. cheers, MB

nice fish there !! I just watched a dvd of fishing in the Cape York. and it was mind blowing !! One day I'll make it up there. All depends on the $$$ cheers, MB

I hit the parra again this morning, started at about 7.30am having Matt the Matrix man as my parra river guide (thanks for the valuable lessons today Matt). We started working from Hen and Chicken bay, fished some pontoons and moored boats around the area. I landed 2 flatties from there, first fish to my new reel and first fish of the day. On the way out to the main river, Matrix landed a smallish bream about 22cm. But a bream is still a bream. We then tried to fish around Gladesville area with little luck, I think we came across Mick P's boat. Nice boat you got there Mick!. He was fishing the marina and we were fishing moored boats under the bridge. From there we went to X spot, where the fun begins... Matrix was hooked onto a decent bream about 26-28cm but I was too slow with net, and the fish spat the hook out(sorry there matey) I'm sure he was cursing at me inside his head. After a few hits and no hookups I finally hooked onto something decent, then I saw silver... IT's A BREAM !!! landed the fish measured 34cm to the tail, my PB for bream on lure. I was using pearl blue BM. Matt landed 3-4 more breams from there, but they were just legal or just under. The fish stopped biting after a while and we decided to call it a day. Here are the pictures: My PB bream. Matt's decent bream, he was too shy for the camera. Flattie Number 1 Flattie Number 2 And finally, all those fish are released. Now I have faith in my lures. Looking forward to more breams. cheers, MB

thanks for the valuable advice there Sputnik. Anyways I hit the parra again this morning, I did better today actually much better. I landed my PB bream of 34cm which is my 2nd bream on lure. And 2 flatties as bycatches. I was fishing with Matrix which gave me a lot of infos on how to fish for breams. For my gear, I'm using a 5'10" Live Fibre rod, and a stradic 1000 spooled with 4lb fireline. I think my mistake last time was to use a 10lb Nitlon leader, today I went down to 6lb Vanish. I will write up a report soon and post some pics as well. cheers, MB

nice breams mate, everyone seems to be catching breams at parra river except for me... and i live 400m away from the river. why is it i find it so difficult to find the breams at parra ? my fishing buddy and I have fished 3 times at parra river and came up with no breams, is it because we went in the arvo ard 2 -5pm ? I managed to get my first bream on lure on a solo trip but that was it, nothing else. What's the best time to get this breams ?? cheers, MB

mate you can get a stradic 1000FH from ebay for 160 oz dollars shipping included. and get a 100 dollar rod. That will set you up nicely and will land most breams you will encounter

nice king for a kid !! well done... 69cm is way better than my PB.

broken rod on a kingie hahha nice... i tink he was holding the rod too far up. I've fished kingfish with 6 feet rod and 6lb fireline basically my bream rod, and I've never broken my rods, although the biggest was only a 65cm kingie. the trick is to follow the fish mate... wherever it wants to go.. start pulling him in if he stops swimming. that'll bring him up. cheers, MB

yup i tink that was me too hehe. I never knew yakkas and slimies are actually quite nice to eat until recently. cheers

How's it going everyone, I hit the harbour too this morning, caught some yakkas in rose bay. head out to wedding cakes. not a bite not a hit nothing at all then we head out north head.. same thing again... on the way back... between the heads we saw a boiling surface hmmm something fishy there... we tired metal lures on them... they won't hit it, after 10 casts or so i switched to my bass minnows which until today have not caught any fish yet. first cast out.... the line went tight and i was hooked hehhe pulled my drag a little bit... it was a good size slimy mackerel. we went to chase them a for a while around 20 minutes or so..caught ard 15 slimies and a few big size yakkas, biggest was 34cm yakka biggest one i've seen so far. after a while they went deep and we head towards wedding cakes again, still nothing with the livebaits we decided to call it a day. while i was going to tow the boat it... something disastrous happened !! my freakin crank dissapeared , tried everything we could to bring the boat up, got pissed off with the people queueing to use the boat ramp from the stupid f**in comments they made. luckily i found a spanner with the right size in my trunk.... pheewwww glad to bring the boat up. that's all folks my first report on fishraider .... cheers, MB

Joe !!! Well done mate a PB of 74cm !!! I'm losing to you Joe Nice fish cheers, MB

nice catch Joe ! I think I've seen your boats a couple of times both at Cliftons and around the harbour. I've had a good kingie season this year.... have a look at my website Mario's Fishing Sitehttp://users.tpg.com.au/adsly8a7/ Still waiting for the one that's over 65cm though.... cheers, MB