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Actually no! The belt fish referred to here is a frostfish I believe, they are almost identical to a hairtail with the only difference being the Frost fish has a small fork at the end of it's tail where as the Hairtail does not.

Your best bet is to head down to the port kembla ramp , its an easy ten minutes from the gong. From there you have easy access to the islands out front plenty of options there for a fish. good luck

This is typical for all the rocks along the coast , as soon as some fish turn up all the grubs come out to play, catch as many bonnies as you can ,clean them high up on the rocks where there is no chance of the pools being cleaned out by the high tide and the place smells like a tip ! oh and I forgot about leave as much rubbish as you can bring in. I reckon the greenies are right in saying ban fishing, anyone who reads this go down to your local ledge and see for yourself the filth that is left behind by these vermin. We are our own worse enemy boys. For christ sake clean up after yourself or we will loose our fishing rights.

Bad luck on the lost fish champ, by the way it's trolling not trawling (unless your dragging nets behind the boat) and your Bonito has morphed into a Striped Tuna! Cheers better luck next time.

Pretty sure Kiama FAD is in place as I saw the Fisheries boat loaded up with the FAD driving through Kiama last week. A nice rig not sure as to the make , about 21 foot glass runabout with twins on the bum. May have been a formula or Bass Straight boat. Would be happy with it in my drive way. Cheers stu

No the boat ran north the fish were taken up Sydney way before returning, massive effort huge fish.

Three fish weigfhed in by Kiama boat this evening ,130,120 100 out of a multi hook up 8 fish on at once I think.

Nice catch there mate , it,s a great spot to fish the only downside is the grubs who refuse to pick up their rubbish and the dills who clean their fish high up on the rocks where the blood and guts rot in the sun. I,m sure you,re not one of those clowns, looks like your fish have been well looked after. Hope you keep catching and lets all do our best to keep all the rock ledges clean. cheers

Terra Liza a local 48 Steber weighed an 88kg yellowfin last night at Kiama , fish caught on a lure , not sure of angler or line class. Great fish and hopefully a sign of more Tuna on the radar .

Nice that you guys managed to get a feed of fish, unfortunaly Bass Point resembles a tip when the fish are on, not blaming you guys but there is a hell of a lot of people who come down from Sydney and treat this spot as a sewer, there is rubbish ,discarded fishing line and fish offal in every nook and cranny.The amazing thing is the council actually has installed a garbage bin on the rocks to clean the site up! I dont know if people are to stupid or lazy not to clean their fish down close enough to the waters edge so the blood and waste is washed into the ocean. Every rock pool is a cess pool. Please guys come and fish here but keep the rocks clean and encourage others to do like wise. Good luck next time.

unfortunately it will be reopened, with the amount of rubbish ,human waste and total neglect for this spot that some (people who access this forum I would say are not who I'm complaining about) show it would be better left closed. It is typical of most popular easily accessible fishing spots that they end up looking and smelling like a local garbage dump. Please if you fish any of these places take your rubbish home, clean your fish down close enough to the edge so the blood and waste will be washed in and offer advise and educate those who are ignorant in their ways, regards Stu.

Guys don't want to be percieved as a knark but every time someone looses a marlin it seems as though there always a Blue, it can be quite hard identifying marlin laying on the bottom of the boat, being swum besides the boat before release let alone hooked fought and lost. The marlin in this thread may be a blue but it's just an observation I've had over my twenty years of chasing these things. Hopefully next time guys luck prevails your way ,cheers Stu

I wonder Ross if their migratory route has been disrupted that they simply just pushed off shore and stayed there. Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think the long liners generally worked in close for tuna i:e inside of 70 ftms. Sure there was a fair bit of pressure from rec fishos and the few guys who actually earn't a dollar fishing for them on rod and reel down at the Banks, (which I fished yesterday in a raging 6-8 knot current ) but the apparent overnight disapperance on the inshore grounds is a great mystery. Aside from the fin watched the local pros from greenwell point poling bonnies and kings hand over fist yesterday it is interesting watching the guys work ,arms and shoulders would be aching after a day like that , maybe if the pros continued down that path with the bluefin instead of purse seining their stocks may of not suffered as they have. Any way keep the thoughts flowing good fishing to you all cheers Stu.

G Day all I took my first decent fin of 70 kg at the peak in September of 1989 at the peak fishing with my mate warren knight in his old savge lancer at anchor. The week before I fished the south coast rocks and lost a fin off the front of the Blow Hole at Kiama, for about two weeks a school of fin became resident there and fish up to 85 kg were caught from the stones, unfortunatley not by me! Any way since I caught my fish at the peak that year I have yet to here of any more caught there since! Why , the same goes for up and down the coast on these inshore large fish. Surely if they were overfished the catch rate would slowly decline not just come to a complete halt as has happened, as we all know there is still fish out wide. My thoughts are that the deepwater sewer outlets off Sydney came online in 1990 discharging around the distance that the Peak lies off shore 8km or there abouts. Could this cold crappy water have thrown the entire inshore fishes migratory path up and down the coast off? Would be interesting if the outlets were stopped, the discharge returned to be recycled and fed back into our dams . Sydneys water problems solved without the need for the greatest waste of tax payer dollars (desal Plant) and our Yellowfin came back within reach of us mug fishos. I have a dream!!!! Cheers Stu