Starman

They are excellent on the plate. Eaten plenty of these.

Nice Bentstik, Boat looks immaculate. Your crew will appreciate not getting too wet. Heard you did realy well at the Whitesands Tourney. Up there with the big boats.Remember,its not about the size mate but how you use it. Cheers, Gabe, Starman

Hi Stewy, A small treble or keeper hook suspended below your ganged hooks. By the time the hairtailer has the pilchard in his mouth, the treble is down his throat. No good for release fishing though. Good luck for next time. Gabe

Hello Slideshow, Was a top weekend and plenty of laughs. Pity no category for Garfish, would have cleaned up on all the prizes. All that was missing was Mr Magoo. Anyway there's always next year. Mars Gabe

Thanks Ray, All the best to you mate. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Raiders, Went for a fish on Sunday with my mate Max in the Hacking to see if we could get amoungst some fish. Fished rising tide, live worms and yabbies for about 3 hours. Couldn't believe the spider webs over the tips of my fishing rods. Looked like I had streamers coming off the rods. Anyway a nice day to wet a line. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

I think they may have found that missing Japanese sub...... Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Matt, I have just recently purchased a Baitmate baitboard and only fiited and plumbed it up last week. It's a PM640 which has a 40 litre live bait tank, a tray beneath and of course the chopping board on top. I can highly recommend the product in terms of looks, quality of craftmanship and cost. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Grant, Have a Daiwa saltist 6500 coupled with a Daiwa Monster mesh PE 6-8 jig stick. 80 pound braid with 120 pound leader. Have caught some kings with it so far with no problem. Have recently bought a down rigger and some knife jigs/poppers and will give it a workout shortly hoping for some 1 metre + specimens. Cheers, Gabe

Hi Mick, Spot on mate that was me hanging out of the centre console throwing burley over the side. I just soaked some old bread rolls, mashed it all up, put some tuna oil and periodically threw some over the side. I also had some old pilchards from a past fishing trip and was cubing them out the back of the boat as well. A bag of stale bread from the local bakery is only $2.00 so cheap as well. Works a treat. Cheers, Gabe

Hi Mick, The answer to catching fish any time any where is to burley and burley hard. I also on Saturday morning fished Molix point with a guy in his boat that never seems to catch many fish at this time of the year.We anchored, I started a burley trail with bread and tuna oil. After 15 minutes and no fish my mate wanted to up the anchor and move around the Bay. I said give the burley a chance to attract. This is why he probably never catches fish at this time of year.Cut along story short, within a couple of hours had 5 trevely and 5 bream in the bucket. Threw back heaps of under size fish as well. Happy days. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Benzz, Firstly welcome to fishraider Reading your post brings back fond memories when as a young 12 year would catch a bus to my mates house and then we would both catch another bus to Balmain. Rods, reels, bucket and tackle box in hand much to the amusement of the passengers and bus driver. We would always have the last laugh when geting back on the bus with a feed of fish each. It's briliant to see young kids like yourself getting out and flicking a line as opposed to sitting in front of a computer screen chatting or playing games. Keep up the good work, Cheers, Starman, Gabe.

Hi Keflapod, The majority of bream were taken on blood worm, but the chicken did alright.I cubed the pilchards and also had a mixture of bread and tuna oil which I threw over periodically. A piece of unweighted pillchard down the burley trail worked wonders on the trevelly. Hope this answers your question, Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Fish53, Saw some birds around but they were only floating on the water. Kept an eye on them but nothing was happening. So we kept going. Regards, Starman, Gabe

Thanks mate Hello to you too Dimitri and Christo. Well done on your harbour fishing Basil Regards Starman Gabe

its on the kurnell side of the bay near the gryons regards starman Gabe

Hi Raiders, Hit the Bay on Saturday morning with my mate Max and my Son and headed out to the hot water outlet. Wind was up and it was cold Any way started a burley trail and it wasn't long before we had all rods go balistic. We caught 31 fish which included Bream, Trevelly and a couple of jackects. Bay has been pretty good to us on our last few trips. Tide was going down, water temp was 18 degrees and bait used was blood worm, prawn and good old chicken breast. Not bad for a few hours fishing with good company. Get out there before it gets real cold. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Breamchaser, Yeah sorry mate nippers Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Basil, I've been good all doing well thankyou, How's everything at your end? Cannot believe the conditions last Saturday in the Bay. Seems what ever you put out it would get smashed. No tap tap tap it was bang. I've been doing some game fishing lately with Silvo. We fished Shoalhaven torney just before Easter, and I got a 140kg Blue marlin and a 70kg Stripped marlin. Only lost coming first on countback. Then at Easter took the kids to Fiji for ten days.We are fishing the Bermagui torney next week chasing yellowfin. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Well done Penguin and crew. Nice mixed bag of fish. Kings are getting a bit scarce so again well done. Regards, Starman, Gabe

Hi Raiders, Hit Botany Bay at 6.00am on Saturday with a mate in search of some table fish. Light tackle with live yabbies and Hawksbury river prawns. Started at Towra for some nice bream and once wind abated drifted the middle of the bay for more bream and travelly. All in all a productive day and I must say the water was very clear and water temp around 20 degrees. No peskey red bream stealing our baits either. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Basil, With all that rough water, it may have been a tailor or king who forgot to take his kwells Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Dangas, King on live yakka, jewie on a squid strip. Regards, Starman, Gabe Hi Basil, All good mate. All the best to you and your family for Christmas and New Year. That goes to all Raiders as well. Regards, Starman, Gabe

Hi Raiders, Fished Sunday morning with a mate in the bay to try and get some Chrissy fish. Converted worms, nippers, squid and live yakkas to these. Fished both runways. Both kingfish and jewfish were 78cm's. Threw back plenty of smaller units just under size. Cheers, Starman Gabe

Hi Ray, Congratulations , I have just picked up the same reel.They look and feel great. Can't wait to test it out. : Cheers, Starman Gabe