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Hi brunswick bar is great in a south swell and ok in a se swell anything from the east or north and you can be in trouble . I live in byron and i cross the bar alot but this bar is a nasty bar it has a very tight river mouth and a bommie on the nth seaction to keep you on your toes.Also plenty of surfers to get in the way. If you have access to the internet go to coastal watch and type in bruswick heads and have a look . If you get up early and watch it live you can see the locals going out . Low tide is big no no with any swell. Yes the macks will still be around when you come up in march plenty of cobia as well , some say its prime time in march. Any Q s send me a pm and we can have a chat.

Ok guys doing some work on my haines and Im looking at putting a pod on my boat but i am a little lost as to what is best a glass pod or an aluminium pod for a glass boat.Will it affect its performance or can it damage the transom from the lack of flex from the aluminium pod. I have got plenty of quotes at the moment but i have no made up my mind yet so i have turned to the forum for help cheers guys

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Well done on the king and dolly how did your king cook up ? I got a 115CM OFF BRUNSWICK on Wednesday and it mushed up when i cooked it. What did you get your dolly on and how wide where you? well done again and it looks like we might be shut down this week. cheers john

Boys Im stuck in Byron Bay for work and need to ge4t out of town for a fish, does anyone know of a good fishing charter off Gold coast? I would like to go jigging or plastics for snapper , kings etc please pm any info cheers for any info

hi cobia must be around at the moment here is a cobia that went 69cm yesterday at 6.30 am plus 2 snapper to 63 cm all caught on plastics nth of syd harbour how good does the cobia taste much better then snapper?

yes we found the sauries as well and the flying fish , we scored a yft nth east of browns fin was just 6kg so a little jelly bean also hooked a massive strippie tuna 9kg , did you hear about the boat that ran out of fuel out at browns? Took them till 8pm last night to get towed back to syd harbour last night. We also found bait on the shelf at 5pm getting smashed but the nth easter was blowing up. cheers john

hi mate , i was out on my blue center console out at that fad . you waved us onto the bait on the bait grounds the day before. We ended up with 2 tagged fin, 1 tagged dolly and 3 tagged kings of that fad as well we made it to the shelf line when that sth wester started to blow. Well done on the placings

way to go i got my 20kg on a soft plastic this time last year re fish of the mth oct. i know how you feel its the best feeling . how many hrs have you put in to hunting the bronze fish. congrats

hi young gun I live at av as well ,wollstonecraft av I fish around the beachs for jews in summer and every now and then for salmon in winter have got good size fish in the gutters at nth av I own an orange troop carrier so if you ever see it come over and say hi , every now and then im looking for a decky to come out for a fish on my boat , so you never know i might contact you to come out for a snapper fish. Keep up the good work and i might see you in the mornings at av , your post got me keen for a fish of the beach again. cheers john

hi guys need to take off the old rego stickers from my haines hunter as i got a call from the msb and was told i had to change the rego numbers cause they where the wrong ones , the old old owner of the boat has them on his new boat. But how do i get the old ones off without scratching the gelcoat? any suggestions? cheers john

mate sounds like lots of fun, nannygai are the gun live bait for big yellow fin, so you where on the money with those baits. 1 is better then a thousand slimies from what the old guys down south say. good on you we are on the hunt this w/end for the fin.

hi Billy how did you go with finding that bait board , im in the hunt for the same thing. cheers john

Hi guys looking to get rid of the seats on my boat and i would like to get a leaning post installed. Where do i start looking? Would like to get one here in oz thank you for any help

great report and a fantastic effort from the beach. I have seen kings in the waves while ive been out surfing. so good to hear it came of the beach . Good luck and great catch

mate well done , its so good when it all works out . Well done on the catch its so good to get one no matter how big they are. Keep up the good work. In time you will come across that bigger one.

Thank you everyone that voted for me during oct fish of the month.I thought i had no hope as all the other fish where very good and great reads. I must say that i think that if i catch another big jew its going back in after a few photos . When i cleaned the fish i noticed she was starting to grow her roe. When do jews spawn? cheers everyone again

mate i know how you must feel , all that bait gathering and bang mucking around with the hard body your on. Its funny how the baits arent getting touched. Well done .

thanx guys yep the boat drifting into pittwater made me laugh but at the same time it had me worried as i was covered in guts and blood as well as jew slime.Id just thrown all the guts in the water. I did all of what you said keflapod but i never got the river gar they where harded then the jew fish? zenman the jewels are on their way out asap will post them soon plastic man here is the plastic and rod you know the plastic 5/8 nitro saltwater pro jig head in 5/0 lots of water moving , got the hit at 3pm just on the slack water. the rod is an eric egrell s10 rated at 20lb , it handled like no other . So im very happy with the overall outfit. cheers john

thank you for all the comments . Ive been on holidays for 2 weeks travelled up nth and didnt get anything worth keeping ,met nice people but both my big fish this mth have come from my local areas. This fish was taken deep down the hawksberry. and this is what a fillet looks like cheers again

short and sweet start of the day went to the shit and im on holidays .So instead of staying at home and getting the shits , i went for an arvo sessio. Went and got yakkas and tailor for bait.Then off to lion Is to see what was happening. Not much but still a nice day. Wind was get bad so i thought why not go to a very secret place and try for a jew!!! Well I said to my self as i cut the motor and set up the anchor , Im going to enjoy the quiet and remotness of this area. Down goes the live tailor and a live yakka, a slab bait and the burley net. I then started to see lots of nice river gars in the burley trail. Tried to catch them but no luck .As this is happening i cast out a paddle tail softy 5mins later zzzzz goes the reel , Im like still tring to get gars so im to slow to get to the rod. felt weight but it spat the hook. Oh well who knows what it was?? S<<<<t What happened next blew me away.Still looking at the gars and getting keen to get one i cast the placcie towards the same spot i put my new Egrell s10 in the holder but something made me grab it and give it 2 lifts on the second lift it justs stops.I think dam on the bottom ( all for about 1 second ) and thats when this thing went offfff. The rod( Egrell s10) and reel ( symater4000)loaded with 20lb crystal fire line and vanish 20lb leader did so well. The first 4 -5 runs where strong not to mean head shakes so i thought i had a shark. I was waiting for the bust off. Then around the boat twice , through the anchor rope once and around the other lines but it never got tangled. I cleared all the lines and the burley bag. and every time it went near the anchor i just gave it line and it turn also i turned the rod in the opposite direction. Then i got same almighty head shakes .I said to myself FunK i think ive got a big jew and not a shark .(20 min fight at this stage) . I got he gaff ready and thats when i say the colour everyone wants to see when you hunt jews with soft plastics, SILVER and boy did that just freek me out. It went straight for the leg of the outboard and it just stayed there .At this stage i was saying just chill wait for the shot just wait and then it popped out from under the outboard and bang i lifted its head and struck the gaff in the shoulder. Man that was a moment all on my own. I let out a big YAAAA just a boat went by .All he did was stop staight away he couldnt believe it . on the brag mat it went it went over the size but roughly 125cm ,On the digi scales it went 19.70 kgs .30 min fight Man this jew was going no where , she swallowed the plastic so deep. there was no chance of me losing the fish except for a bite through or a bust off I call WayneB from the water to meet me at the ramp and help take some photos and weigh the fish .Thank you Wayne Turned a bad day into a good day. By the way not one fresh bait got touched.All the baits where in the same spot.Strange? And last but not least when we were cleaning the fish my boat floated of 30mt into careel bay .So off for a swim i went. cheers john

way to go an honest fisherman .What you said about the size and weight growing day by day is sooo true. welcome to the site. hope you get plenty of big ones. Just keep trying ,it will happen good luck john

sounds like you had a blast where abouts did you find the stripes , as im thinking of going out in the morning for a session out side? and what lure did the yellow fin hit? cheers john

hi netic i used a t curve jig stick 200 with a okuma epix 80 reel loaded with 30 lb braid.

i saw a mako out at one of the fads early this year , we where getting into the mahi . i thought about hoooking him and then i went no way i have heard of the damage they can do . I was on my own and it would have been my first time . So i thought i would wait for a time when i would be with more experianced shark fisher men. Great photos mate.