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lol take a look at its noggin, i here spec savers has a sale on lol just kidding , still there should be an ugliest fish of the month not the ugliest fisho , yeah it is a nice fish no matter how you see it

G'day all went out for a snapper session today and had a little success. I've done a few firsts since moving up here like an over 1m mark kingy, Jewies on soft plastics and now this my first snapper on soft plastics. So headed out over the bar (3rd time) when first light hit, always a bit dubious when you cant see the swell. Got too our destination and first cast with a nemisis soft plastic and zzzzzzzz im on about 40 sec in to it pop lost a stonker fish, when it pulls 15kg braid with a 20kg leader and dusts you, you know it was a stonker! 15min later i got this 80cm or 800mm and around 7ish kilos specimen for the next 3 hrs it was a little slow with a few lost fish but steady all the same with a total of 4 fish caught the last three were around the 2kg mark . I must say the big guy was about an ugliesh fish that i have ever seen and should hold some kind of record like ugliest fish caught or maybe ugliest fish of the month

Nice one! only one problem, I had to turn my computer upside down to see the piccies

Well done nowno more smelly messy bait unless live. Fishing with a Lure is definately one of the best ways to catch fish, anything from whiting, bream, flatties, jew to kings and marlin. The thing is you'll need to put in more than three casts to get fish, believe me couple of hundred casts a day and you usually come home with fish, if not there not there .

Excellent catch! i would love to snag a few of those KG whiting!

Yeah i found it a very strong flavoured fish, it was bled and taken care of in the proper way. The sashimi was by far better than cooked. I never over cook any fish just like squid very fast and let it cook on the plate. We had some more last night in a thai green curry, we first blanched it in boiling water for a second or two then browned it but not cooked we then added it to the allready cooked curry. We found that it was still a strong flavoured fish i likened it with aussie salmon to be honest. Either way they are a great sport fish and deserve their place at the top of the gear testing ladder and i would still be thrilled with another capture like it as it was alot of fun with my mate on board laughing and commenting 'those bream fight hard hey' as the runs were very long and hard in fact we thought he had found the hole to China a couple of times

Thanks for all the replies guys, we did go out again today but headed south of port this time,first drop my friend snags a 3kg ish snapper and that was it for the day as the tide/current and wind were working opposite of each other and made it difficult. As for the Kingy i was really impressed with the catch but i wasnt all that impressed with the eating quality even after all care was taken to remove the blood lines! i even tried it sushi style. I will from now on measure take a happy snap and then let it go and only keep fish like spaniards, pearlies, snapper etc as they are far superiour table fish, i'll leave the kingies for you guys

G'day all, went out of port today in 30m of water to some well known snapper grounds in hope of a nice red using soft plastics and what did i get? something that i tried for numerous times in sydney without success! a well and legal Kingy she went 108cm or more precisely 1085mm of fish!. I thought i had the mother of all snapper! i was fishing a 7inch terryaki chicken jerkshad with a 650ss penn running on a 6-10kg crystal blue rod with 15 kg braid and a 10kg fluro leader and a 6/0 1/2 ounce jig head. The fight lasted long enough for me to breakout a sweat in a joggling sea and for the weather to turn nasty enough to come home.Anyway going out tomorrow to actually try for a red so stay tuned.

ye olde Boot fish wirrah cod, place in pot of boiling water add two river rocks when the flesh of the fish is soft and moistthrow out the fish and eat the rocks lol

it aint no monster (almost) but that is perfect eating size and a nice fish no matter which way you look at it well done

Sounds like you had fun, i feel ya pain on the beach worms i have read roberta's how to pull beachworms but for the life of me i just cant do it, same as you guys get the rise get them nibbling away at the bait and as soon as i go for them like lightnig thier gone

Try Tallows beach and do the pippy twist for pippies and you'll get bream, flathead, whiting, dart in the close gutters. Some of the rocky headlands to the south can produce really good Jew on lures, even head 30min south to Ballina and try the breakwall for jew and flathead or the North Creek bridge at Ballina for Jew, Bream, Flathead, Cod and possibly a Mangrove jack. Live Herring jigged from the bridge are a gun bait there. Good Luck! When i lived in Ballina these were the places we fished and nearly allways produced.

Awsome vid loved it great stuff

G'day all went for a fish with my new found friend in my new water way up here in Port Macquarie for a bit of poppering and un-weighted nipper flicking and done quite well with 10 good sized whiting and 2 River blackfish, we moved around a bit fishing the flats in 2-3ft of water, the action was steady with a lot more fish dropped than landed. It is great learning a new water way and what it has to offer and getting let in on a secret here and there, cant wait till i find the Jacks yes Jacks they are here , till my next report tight lines all and remember no wobble no gobble .

lol thats fishin, reminds me of the kingfish social . best looking water best baits but nothing willing to play game, bet your next session is better

i'd say the same top bream bottom tarwine, the bottom is definately tarwine due to its shape and the lateral lines in the flesh, its harder to tell when they are scaled. nice catch either way

After moving up to Port Maquarie from Sydney I went and got myself a quintrex 420 dory with a 30hp yammy to use in the river. After sitting there looking at it all yesterdy afternoon i decided to go and get an electric motor for it first thing this morning as well as stopping by the tackle shop to pick up a few soft plastics, got home stuck the electric on grabbed the wife and went down to the ramp which is no more than 10min from home and launched the boat. We threw plastics around for about 2 hrs on an incoming tide for 5 Flathead, 4 at 38cm and 1 at 47cm and a bream of 28cm all caught on the small grubs in peppered prawn colour. sorry no photo's this time as we were really only just feeling our way around and didnt expect too much, cant wait to get to know this area better as some of the water up here looks pretty special and extremely fishy. Will try to post more reports from up here in the north next time with photo's

Nice Catch easily spooked i believe, i havnt seen a trag for a few years, i wonder what happened to seperate them evolutionary from Mulloway?

Welcome to OZ, i have a 5.45m glass half cab and it has been good to me for years but we are moving up to port macquarie and i'd like a boat that i can handle easily myself and a bit more versatile as there is great prawning and crabbing up that way, not to mention being able to beach it easily on the flats and pump for yabbies and not worry to much about my boat getting stuck on the flats and too hard to get off by myself, on a particular fishraider social event the tide went out a little and it took 4 of us to float the heavy glass girl and it was allready half in the water . In the end horses for courses, but the holy grail would be good to find a boat that does it all within reason . Budget is also a huge factor

Cracker snapper for the hawkesbury! cowan i pressume,makes me wonder why im moving to port macquarie

G'day all, i've been contemplating getting a new boat and have been comparing 3 different makes and models and stuck on what boat would be more suitable and stable in rougher conditions if and when they arise. i've been looking at the quintrex 420 renegade sc, the stessco 435 catcher sc and the savage 435 pirahna sc BMT packages. Can anyone give a non biased opinion on which of these boats would be more durable and reliable to help me decide on which one i should pursue. Thanks in advance.

Just wondering if there is any where in the Port Macquarie area that you can catch squid?

when is enough enough!never i tells ya, you now only have other PB's to better, great work congrats on the goods, but fishing is fishing and thats what keeps us coming back for more!

Live unweighted crabs the brown and greens ones found in the mangroves and under rocks, been blown away by unstopables whilst flicking them around like lures.

Nice one,my pb is only 64cm i still can't crack a legal 1