patl

thats the jetty at the top end of hinchinbrook?

We camped at wivenhow dam one easter and done a heap of bait fishing off the bank and out of a canoe. We where there with the in laws and I ended up being the "deckie" all easter. We caught a heap of little catfish some only 100mm long, well after taking these off half a dozen peoples lines all weekend I felt like a pin cushion. But its the same as flatties, the smaller the fish the better chance you get spiked

the forecast today is....................... "fresh to frightening" There is nothing wrong with those swell measurements.............its all realtive to the size of your boat 5 knots and less - my 13ft fine 50 knots plus - Queen Mary as a start

the second one looks like a grassy sweetlip/spangled emperor or tricky snapper (all the same fish), the photos a bit dark but i dont think it is red throat emperor

Tim, I own a old small quinnie so I dont think Iam too biased. And remember this is only my opinion so I can be just as wrong as right. I think you need to work out what you want to do in a boat first and put down the must haves and the wants. The must haves could be price of course, 2 or 4 stroke, ride and tow weight (this may determine glass or ally), style (CC, cuddy, bowrider, half cab etc...). tow a skier, cover for the family, just fishing or cruising etc... If I was looking for a straight fishing boat I would not buy a bowrider style of boat. One positive in theory for a bowrider is that you sit a bit further back than a cuddy style so the ride could feel a lot softer. But if going off shore and conditions are not quite perfect and you get some water over the front it may be too much to get rid of quick, wether this is my thinking and not quite true in practise I dont know but I wouldnt take a chance. Quintrex make some pretty good looking boats but there are other plainer options that may do the job without all the pretty colours if you are looking for a basic fishing boat. But if you are looking for a family boat that would be great for a ski, cruise and picnic and some inshore on most days and offshore on the right day it would be a great boat. Two bobs worth anyway. Good luck Patrick

simon, great report and well done patrick

Over the next few weeks do a bit of slow trolling live baits close inshore and in pittwater as there was better class kingies around this time last year for the next couple of months. Then really start fishng for salmon even though this year they never really finished.............................. and heaven forbid about half a dozen hairtail trips even though i didnt catch one last year????? I must be crazy to sit up at cowan on those nights

tyronne I should be there on 1st May Thanks Patrick

wait to you get a fresh in the creek and it runs over the weirs, we caught over 50 some days fishing beside the over flows, put tags in them and even got a few back

off Friday & Sunday, probably fish for a few hours each morning, will wait to see what the weather is doing, maybe try and chase a few pelagics around joey, pittwater or west head

avoca,

I promised my wife id be home by 11, I almost broke another one, mind you there has been so many what is one more!

andrew, congrats guys on your first, be careful it can get terribly contagious

right at the end of norah head, looking back south

thats a school of slimys on the surface in the foreground. Caught a few fish nothing to write home about, a couple of frigates, tailor and a very small kingy.

for all those at work today a photo from outside BB looking back.........

I only fish out of a small tinny so I find you can usually sit right over the top of the snag and drop the tackleback onto it, it seems to work ok. The green cord is the best but if you can only get venetian cord line there is different diameters. I actually take two of them, a tackleback and another called a snag I think, it is just a heavy weight with a line guide and a couple of short bits if chain, I normally use the tackle back first becuase if it gets off with this you start fishing straight away. With the snag thingo it usually catches one of the hooks and you straighten the hooks or pull the split ring out sometimes getting it back depending on the strength of the hooks, it a worst case scenerio the lure may not swim straight without some tuning as things sometimes get pulled pretty hard. But every now and again you may lose a lure, I usually find if it is rocks or big logs there is a chance you may not get them back due to the lure maybe getting lodged in a crevice, heavy weed or under a ledge/log. But over the years they get enough back to pay for themselves heaps

either venetian cord line or I got some green "hoochie" cord that guys in the army use, it would break at something silly, in fact it sometimes breaks the branch off, bring the branch, lure and retriever all up. I keep it all rolled on a plastic handcaster

when i have been up on the cape and territory the locals all throw lures on handlines for barra, quennies, tv etc...

I think it is like that for all fish.... It takes ages sometimes to crack a legal one, first species and then (sometimes) the others come a lot easier Patrick

looking north from the northern side of the entrance channel???

looking south from terrigal towards avoca

If your going to Lucinda and throwing lures up against the jetty pilons there you will have more than 10kg leaders shredded, there is some big cod, GT's etc... that live under there But the channel is a great place to fish

Well done Ivan

I was up at SWR with work on Tuesday just for the day, no fishing???? At the boat ramp there were boats coming in with up to 4-6 marlin hook ups and up to 3-4 cobes, but the awsome thing was the size of the cobes, the smallest would have been 20kg plus, they were animals