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ha ha ha there was a whale in that shot too...

NIIICE!!!! Im glad to see you got a REAL 4WD and not one of the Chinese imitations flooding the market nowadays. All the best with it! Musty

I'll be taking the yak off Hill 60 and the islands tomorrow so will let you know then. There's always a chance at bonito, tailor and kings early in the morning around all the south coast rocks mate I would have a crack if your not doing much else. Musty

A big kingfish can swallow a bonito, dont you worry about a kingy not being able to eat one of those yakkas if the kingies are feeding they will have a crack! I used to think like you too but never under estimate the capabilities of animals. If you want kings u may have to somteimes eat a salami sanga instead as more often than not kings will prefer the squid over yakkas, even tiny yakkas. Musty

And with a stainless prop, if you ever hit a rock again instead of damaging your prop u will damage your gearbox. Stainless prop is like getting a stainless steel sacrificial anode IMO, the piece of metal in the direct firing line is no longer the weakest point. Musty

That jews from hunters hill! I can tell Musty

Where's the "report"? Musty

Its comming!... LOL... Not long now.

The way you lay it out is this.. You go fishing, and u go fishing, and u go fishing and u go fishing and after years of going fishing u will be experienced enough in a particular species, a variety of species or a particular area or type of water way or any combination of them. Its that simple. Along the way you will notice times, tides, techniques, etc, usually not all at once, but in time u will (without even trying) piece it all together and be fishing like a "champion" whatever that is. So forget the books, forget the arm chair angling, get out and have a go! Its not if but WHEN u improve. Go get 'em digger! Musty

Alot of people wouldnt know this but under the harbour bridge, in that exact line north to south there are stop signs under the water, These were put in place so the fish would see them, stop and turn back, thereby fish with high dioxins stay west and the clean stuff stays east. So we are told to restrict what we eat from the west. Arnt we lucky to have intelligent people in government looking after us... EAT THE FISH MATE, EAST AND WEST! u will be fine, still healthier than fast food chains. What WILL make you sick however is driving down parramatta road or any of the sydney roads for that matter with your windows down, especially on a day with little or no wind and during peak hour! Musty

Happy birthday to the young fella Mr S.Ward!!! good on ya mate hope u had a good one Musty

Everyone buy lures! They are awesome, buy as many as you can all sizes and types. I love going onto classifieds sections and buying huge batches of near new lures for next to nothing from you poor sods! LoL, the last batch of bream, bass, trout lures i bought for $200 would have retailed for well over $650. So buy up boys and girls! Should be some bargains on the forums in the next 12-24 months Musty

That thing will be sorted out in Greenacre or Bankstown and then sold off to some unsuspecting buyer. it wont need to go interstate rest assured! Musty

HA HA HA that is weak mate! WEAK!!!! C 'mon dude your 31 yrs old- in your prime! You can do better than that. We paddle 15km some sessions! Sorry to hear about losing your gear though that sux Thanks for the post I was about to wack up a post about yakkers launching at Clifton, the parking is expensive but if u wanna get into the Kings it needs to be done! Musty

Ah ha ha what a top reply, and that about sums it up! The good Old Skillion ahhh fun times Musty

Where abouts is the Skilton??? I know of the Skillion but sorry cant give you any useful tips for Skilton Musty

Ha ha I would keep one and name him Jackall! Musty

C'mon mate i've told you about the Hawkesbury plenty of times! Why make life harder for yourself by trying to raise fish out of the the only system in the Sydney region which is still commercially trawled on a nightly basis??? Not alot gets past the area between the heads and Brooklyn. If you are to have consistent results it will be well upstream toward Wisemans in my opinion. Musty

Thats mad (apart from it killing all your chooks) i would try to tame one and keep it as a pet they look unreal! Musty

Havnt fished it for a couple of years but from about Jan- April we used to catch some BIG kings off there, also plenty of bonito and salmon. I used to hear stories from the locals about big tuna being caught from there but never seen one myself. Marlin is always a possibility in all those areas down south. I recommend getting there before sunrise and stocking up on whatever live bait you can get, slimeys preferably and if u can keep them live and drift a couple out under a balloon ur cooking with gas! Apart from that i used to pretty much spin large poppers on sunrise and metal lures throughout the day which accounted for some decent kings and enough pelagics to keep me occupied. Good luck mate let us know how you go! Musty

We dont know that they were inexperienced or forgot what they knew and were not following correct rules/procedures. The fact remains two people are missing, One of which has 3 kids at home and yes i have spoken to his family. An accident is exactly that, an ACCIDENT, and they happen from time to time. No point in looking for reasons and blames. As a matter of fact I was at the beach yesterday and by 7.30 pm all the markers within sight were blinking except for the one in question. Weather it came on as it got darker i dont know. My condolences go out to the families of those involved. Musty

Might be an idea to give them your location otherwise they might suggest a nice sandy beach near Broome W.A. Musty

Yellowtailer grows up to be a kingfish. A "yellowtailer" is a baby kingfish!!! Well thats what my old man always told me when i was young! Lucky for me I researched further and soon realised he knew didley squat! LOL Musty

RODS IN MOUTHS= LOL! Great fish mate well done, I've sent Nick a PM re: jewies in the local area, great bloke knows his stuff. the baits starting to get very plentifull in the lakes well worth the effort i say Musty

A geography teacher who was a keen fisho back in my highschool days and who knew the georges river system better than he knew himself told me back then that mangrove jack did exist in the system. I was very doubtful back then obviously not having seen such things i was very dubious. When i asked him he told me that he had caught one once and been busted off quite a few times. I still thought he was having me on. I asked him if it was worthwhile targetting and he said "no, they arnt common enough to target but they are there".... Which still sounded like a fairytail to me coz i havnt seen or caught one, but then again so did jewfish in the georges at one point, let alone 15kg plus jews which i HAVE since caught. Another person told me about salmon at chippo and i made fun of him for YEARS!!! only to catch TWO near the M5 bridge last year, which isnt very far from chippo at all. Not to mention watching some bloke pull in a spangled emperor off Balmoral warf one day only to read a no no no article that confirmed such rare catches as that and sweetlip in the lower harbour... I guess after all my years of not seeing such things and being skeptical, nature has suprised me time and time again with what is possible. Does anyone remember a report years ago of a huge tailor around the 6kg mark caught in a land locked lagoon down south? Or the reports in the early 90's of big yellowfin being caught in south west arm Port Hacking? How about the big dolly between Sydney Heads last season? I think anything is possible. Maybe not often enough for it to become a consistency of any sort but i think we can never know what nature wants or doesnt want to permit IMO. Musty