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I second the banana boat rental idea from the locals. I have done it in FIji and the Solomons and am now looking at Vanuatu. My mates did it in Mexico , costa rica and Mozambique. Its the only way to go.

Do you ever go bass fishing in the upper tweed or back country streams around there. I was swimming at whian whian? falls in october and I could see something quite large smashing insects off the surface. I didnt have my rod in the car but it sure looked inviting if not bloddy snaky. Also I could see something schooled up in the tweed just near Uki, dont know if they were bass but I would have loved to have ago.

Clareville, scotland island, mack beach and the basin all produced. Also forgot to add that I found some good willing kingie schools between careel bay and the basin.

I havent had the pleasure of fishing Pitty since easter. Our family has a shack on Clareville beach that has been in the family since the area was first sold off in the 20's. This is where i learnt to fish, trolling for tailor and pinkie snapper and whiting. We have a large family and its almost impossible to get a slot down there with all the aunts and aunties and cousins and their kids. I got down there 10 days ago, launched at bayview and went for a scout over some likley looking spots and a vacant mooring to keep the boat for a while. When your on holidays the days can become a blur, to much piss sun and sex. Through in a good book or 2 and I am in heaven. The fishing was excellent even if the winds were not. We got around 50 kings (all rats) during our stay and while noe were keepers it was great fun to be fishing with fam, not getting up to early and just going with the flow. At the beginging of the week as the tides were not the greatest for squiding and not wanting to go the yacka route I worked on my plastics. 6 inch sluggos with a running ball sinker dropped in to bait schools and worked eratically produced some good fish though I have to admit that I dropped my first 3. The quitened down on the deep worked sluggos and that was fine for me as my transducer started to crap itself and I switched over to fising on dusk and waiting for the kings to show them selves. Nearly every day the kings would fire up between 5 and 7pm in the moorings at Clareville beach , we caught most f our fish here and double hookups were the norm. Poppers got smashed, went though 4 packs of sluggos even if the fish were not on the surface we would just troll the luggo and the popper around in 5 meters of water and get hit. Unfortunatley no keepers but plenty of bustoffs from fishing in such tight country. We also got a fair few bonito who made up for the lack of keeper kings with there beatuiful sashimi. The last few days while the weather hasnt been great have been down riging squid. Squid were plentiful on the high tide and it didnt take long for them to be eaten either, though today we met our match. It was our last squid. We already had 4 relaeased and 1 missed hit. Something came and smahsed us to pieces. There was no way in the world I was to stop this one. I had it for about 45 seconds and I never even budged it, finally a good king but unfortunately it was not to be. I cant wait to get up there again and I didnt even make it to newport reef.

If that was the shark that was at balmoral on Sat. My brother was one of the people swimming with it. It had been run over by some yahoos in a tinny. One guy grabbed it by the tail and my brother went face to face with it under the water. He thinks it was a white as it had a very white underside. The Sun Herald called it for a thresher. He was stoked as he has always wanted to swim with a white, crazy sob. He said that the shark was in a bad way. Here is a video of the whole thing. Notice the white belly of the shark at 1.21 . The guy who grabbed it did have a death wish. My brother is the guy in the white boardies. http://vimeo.com/8272650 Other than that a neighbour of mine was nudged twice by what we think was a bull shark while yacking just near my mooring. He felt a whack on the bottom of his yak , then a few minutes later he was wacked again and saw a 6 ft shark swimming next to him.

I have been looking at a fishing trip to thai land for ages. My girlfriend loves it there and I have never been. Koh Tao is supposed to have a good run of baby blacks about now. My german mate has caught nice spanish macks on charters out of Samui. As for lures / live baits , bring your own and go to the fish market and buy some fish and rig your own swim baits.

crazy session. When they are on they are on. I havent had one of those days for a while. Ran out of livies, ran out of plastic, then caught the rest on bigger raider spinners.

I like the river to sea live popper hybrid popper. Not avail in oz any more. I just ordered more from the states 3 for about $26 aussie delivered. http://www.river2seausa.com/t/livepopper.html Its great on surface feeders. Just watch out for tailor. More of a blooper but have also caught fish on it just trollin it behind the boat while downrigging.

NIce Going to be staying at pitty around new years for 1 week. Downrigging newport reef is insane but often we dont make it past whale beach and hole in the wall.

one xmas I was housesitting a waterfront joint on clareville beach out the front of the supermarket. My brother came and met me at 6 am that morning and we had the whole of pittwater to ourselves. There wasnt even another boat at west head. We caught a bunch of kings and were back by 10 am without even seeing another fisho. One of those stinking summers days but even the onshore doesnt come up. The next day we fished sydney harbour (I will never fish the harbour on boxing day again). Dan

I love the high country in the summer, really need to get up there again and go for it.

The condon mill. That brings back memories. I have an old great great great something uncle (90 something and still farming the cane) whos taken me around there. He lives on the bank of the tweed at murdering? creek. Used to shoot sharks which they baited to the surface. It wasnt exactly sporting but the good old days would have been fun.

I lost around 10 spinners in the last week fishing the birds. Also done 3 packs of 6 inch stick baits. Tailor every where with some nice size ones for fun with a few schools of fininky kings. Nearly every time i bring a tailor to the boat i have a king ghosting it, but unfortunately no love. Of to the tackle shop I go yet again.

Wow monster. Excellent fish!

Great fishing. Went out today with a friend off broken bay. Jigged and live baits. Livies were not popular but got the better fish to 88 cm. A few rats on jigs but was hard going. Saw somthing very large make some disturbances on the surface. Could not identify it, though soon after we marked a massive return on the sounder at 60 meters. Smelt beaky to me. Water was warm 22c and dirty green though. Returning in we found a school of striped tuna on the surface, here the water was clean and still warm. Wind was picking up and with a large rolling swell we kept on going and left them to do their thing.

There s a guy in Kona Hawaii who has a great set up. Be pretty good at SWR, Long Reef etc with little blacks. http://www.badcoteam.com/articles/264/1/Je...sports/Page1.ht http://www.thewatermansjournal.com/blog/ar...reme-as-it-gets

I was called into work on tuesday aftenoon and told that I would be needed until the coming tuesday. Great. i cancelled 2 charters that I had booked my self on and put on the suit. Every lunch time I go for a jog around the botanical gardens and i could see the birds working in Farm Cove and around the finger wharf at Woolloo. All week the weather was perfect so I was determined to get out on the boat on the Harbour. The Sunday tide looked the best for early morning squidding so decided to ask the old man if he wanted to tag along. For the first time in years he said yes. I was stoked. Got every thing ready in anticipation for a 6 am departure from the mooring. Got down to the boat and paddled out in the yak. Tried to tilt the engine and nothing happened. Not another flat bat I was thinking. All the switches were off so I looked in the battery compartment and sure enough some %%%%% had stolen it. Nothing else missing. Simply gutted, old man is 2. I hope whoever stole it drowns and all other raiders have a more successful outing than we did.

Daiwa for spin reels. AVET for overhead they are just so sexy . No shimano on my boat (except a bait runner and an old tld 25). I want me some accurate 2 speed bling.

As soon as the waters nice and blue and clear the windara will fire up. I have caught wahoo there from December through to May. Never got anything under 20 kgs. Fished it on my cc and on with Mono when he ran charters. Normally best in the arvo going late arvo, though have got them early on in the day in glass out conditions. Heaps of double hookups and triple hookups. Also pulled big cobia there but they can pop up any where. Always started slow trolling livies (slimies) and then go over to the halco laser pro 190 2 meter in gold colour. With the livies sometimes the hoo will school up right under the boat and it is like sight casting to them.

No doubt it would be back up in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Either running around in small boats chasing the longtails or trolling for spanish and cobia and then going for walks on the beach with polaroids on casting at the goldens and whatever else was out there. Simply incredible fishing. Or out on the Windara Bank off Brunswick Heads getting spooled by wahoo on light line. Both are priceless.

2 nippers at a time

dont feed them to the cat. Trev sashimi is the best.

I have a daiwa certate hyper custom 3500. Loaded with 17 lb on a tcurve 6-10 spin rod. Dont like the rod at all but the reel is incredible (bought it off the net with out checking it out first). Just don't try and sight cast to massive coral trout and gt in the solomon islands like i did. Got bricked big time every time. Fine for smaller kings though structure is structure and you will get popped.

check out online with the high aussie dollar for your reel. You may be surprised at the difference even with shipping and duty.

see any thing today..... just got back from a swim at Neilson Park. They were busting up a few hundred meters out. Watched them for about half an hour until some boats came over which seemed to scare them. Went for another swim and when I left they were still on the surface.