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sweet as b4ndit nothing beats an arvo rock fish, specially if u can get tasty buggers like those big snappers u got. where bouts were you, north or south?

g day fellow raiders had the day of work today so i decided to go for an early morning rock fish. I fish between botany and bondi just on 5am the sun was starting to come across the horizon and the wind was minimal, it was a beaut morning. ive had a fair bit of spare cash lately so i decided to invest in a stella 3000 and a new 9ft tiralejo for a bit of spining fun. anyway today was the first day ive used it. got to the ledge and setup my new baby and started spinning, after about 20 minutes, bang something smashed my 40gm raider, it took of like a rocket down deep. any way i tightened up the drag and fought the girl down deep for a few tense minutes, finally she surfaced and it was a nice kingy. landed her and measured her she went to 62cms a quick snap and she was back in the drink. after that not much else happened for me, a few other people there were getting come nice blackies. it was awesome fun of the light gear, well worth the small fortune it cost me f1sh3rm4n

hey fellas im heading up to swr in a few weeks time for a week of fishing, thinking of sending out a few livies of the jail n maybe hat head. just wondering if u can catch ne yakkas or slimes up there LAND BASED and if so where bouts cheers f1sh3rm4n

cant remember the price, we hired the whole boat for four of us dont think it wouldve been too expensive at the most 200 bucks each. u can hagle with the prices thats what we did

hey mate i went to phuket last year and picked a charter that went trolling all day the brochure had a picture of a sailfish on it, i thought sweet im going to catch a sail fish. i was wrong. spent the whole day trolling only to catch small shit tuna, and the charter boat operators dont speak any english so u cant tell them to do something else, if i had my chance again i would've picked reef fishing instead

Jiminy jillickers hahaha what can I say fishing it's not a hoby, it's a way of life. It's my religion. All my tackle is funded by donations to my church.

cheers fellas, yeh its the best feeling when the tell tale signs of a hit occurs (the tight pull on the line), definately my favourite type of fishing. bandit my outfit consits of a tiralejo 11ft castign rod matched with a trinidad 20 run with 30 lb braid, caught the salmon on 85gm raiders. its a solid outfit i use it to spin tuna of the bricks on the mid north coast. handles them with ease

yeh they put up a great stink, quite a few acrobatics aswell which is always awesome to see. yeh ive herd they are not that great on the palate, never actually eaten them before, bringing them to a bbq next weekend and the host is quite the accomplished chef so it will be interesting to see what she whips up

headed out to a not so secret spot on the coast for an arvo spin with a few mates, got there and it was rough as guts, the incoming tide and the 15knot easterly winds made it quite hairy and it was packed with 3 other fishos, i say packed cos its a tiny ledge, and anyway not even 10 minutes into the session and im on to a nice salmon, within the next 5 minutes im onto my second. about half an hour later im onto my third and its an absolute beast of a salmon, quick tussle and its onto land. all arvo we had out lures chased buy big fish, my mate droped 2 big ones just at the front of the ledge, and the guy next to use landed a nice rat kingy not too sure about the size didnt measure them but id say the big one was around the 70cm mark and 3 to 4 kgs

252 meters jesus christ thats huge matei got a 20dc and a 11ft rod im getting about 70 to 80 at the moment only just started using an overhead a couple of months back so still refining my technique. what distance should i be aiming for with a 20dc and a 11ft rod casting 85g lures cheers f1sh3rm4n

I rekon it be around the waterfront houses at the end of wharf rd

seen a bloke catch a small one at kp once

hey mate, where bouts is the ovens actually, ive read about it before liek its a 2k walk from the beach or a rope climb but never actually been there because have no idea how to get there. wouldnt mind checking itmout for a spin one day cheers f1sh3rm4n

hahahaha oops my bad, should look when i type next time sounds tasty when you cook it that way, next time i catch one im going to have to try it like that sounds very tasty when you cook it that way, im going to have to try it next time i catch one

your going to have to tell me how you do it, u seem to catch quite a few fish of the rocks. whats the secret. is there some sort of way to retrieve your lure, do u go fast or slow? and also i see you have kept the salmon, ive always been under the impression that the humble aussie salmon is a bit ordinary on the pallet. how do u prepare and cock the humble salmon, and how does it turn out

great catch bandit, wish i could land one of those beauties myself, well done

nice catch jerry adams, u deffinately got urself a good feed there. not a bad looking diy electric reel. how did u make it, wat type of motor are u running cheers

awesome story b4nd1t, sounds like u and your mates had heaps of fun, great work with the king, its never easy to land them of the stones, you must have a really experienced gaff man. nice salmon as well, looks like an absolute thumper of a specemin youve got there. by the way what size and type of lures were you using to catch the tailor with. they are awesome fun when you hit a school of them, even more of light tackle.

awesome, you always hook the unexpected big mother lover when your least expecting it. mustve been huge to be 6kgs. where bout in the eastern suburbs was it, i do alot of work around there and always looking for a new spot to fish after work heres to you

g'day fellow raiders myself and a few mates are planning a trip up to swr in like 3 weeks time, just wondering if ne of u fellow raiders would know what to expect land based up there, what will b on the bite. thinking of spinning of hat head one or two days what would be up there this this time of year? cheers f1sh3rm4n

thanks for the info raiders, hopefully in a few weeks time when me and my mates dont have soccer on we can head down that way and hopefully come back with a few fishy tales cheers f1sh3rm4n

hey fellow raiders just looking for a bit of information, me and a few mates are heading down to jervis bay in a few weeks times for the weekend and are looking to do some spinning of the stones. herd of a couple of spots "the tubes, devils elbow" and just wondering if ne 1 would know where bout in the bay these ledges are, and also if there are any more good spots down that way. cheers f1sh3rm4n

once again my friends and myself decided to spend the long weekend up at south west rocks to get a few good days fishing in. my mates went up the week before as they didnt have work so i decided to drive up on the thursday arvo after work so i could get a fish in for good friday the traffic wasnt too bad just a little bit of traffic from north ryde to mooney mooney. about an hour out from south west rocks at a place called kundabung at bout 10 at night i look in my rear view and see the dreaded blue and red lights flashing, after a bit of swearing and punching the steering wheel i pulled over to find out ive been done 120 in a hundred and no p plates, 400 odd dollar fine and going to loose my license for a few months. not a very good start to the long weekend. any way finally got up to swr and and reversed parked into my mates subaru, thank god i only doing bout 2kms an hour, so no damage so finally got to bed and the next morning work up at 4am to make the trek out to hat head, got there at about 430 ish and thought no one would b that crazy to b here this early, but wernt we wrong there were already four other cars there. so any way we made the trek out to spinning ledge to see it packed with people except this little spot down the end, so rigged up and started spinning. after about 15 20 odd minutes the guys next to us are on to the first fish iof the day and its a nice mack tuna about 45 cms long, and not long after that were all on all day we were bringing in fish between the 30 and 60 cm mark great fun of the stones, giving an awesome fight, also lost about 80 bucks worth of lures snaggign them on the rocks. but all in all awesome fun and a first for me. my mate also caught this trevally thing not too sure what kind but it had a gold sheen to it will post photos soon just gotta get then of the camera

im heading up that week aswell, hope the fish are on the bite, got some awesome fish of smokey cape and hat head last time i went up

not too sure about the charter company name, goign back a few weeks now. but my advice is dont choose one which is just trolling all day they have a few options to choose like reef fishing and deep sea aswell their lenght were 65 and 75 cms each, not too sure of their weight, but i would estimete the bigger one to b around 2.5 3 kgs maybe. they had a fair bit of girth to them hey they measures 65 and 75cms, not too sure about their weight, but i would estimete the bigger one to be around 2.5/3 kgs. they had a fair bit of girth to them