[First Ever Beach Jew Wooooohooooooo]

Awesome Jew there

Congratulations and well done

Chris

[Looking At Buying A New Reel]

I have 2 Okuma reels, one is on my beach rod (IBF65 5years old now) and the other is on my rod I use for SP's (2 years old AE20) both reels have given me faultless use

If the reel you are looking at is anything like the two I have, I would say go for it

Chris

[Patonga 1-2-09]

Well Tastes better with chips and I organised for a fish in his boat this morning, off we headed to Patonga boat ramp, picked up some ice on the way all optimistic that we were going to smash them today. Tastes better with chips had some nice fresh poddy mullets & prawns, I came armed with some nice salted pillies to cut up.

Ended up hitting the water around 8am, tried drifting everywhere from Patonga almost to Brooklyn and back, all we ended up catching was a shovel nose ray, 2 20cm chompers, a 10cm snapper and a 25cm flathead

After that dismal effect we decided to call it quits for another day, you win some and you loose some and today was not a winner for us

Least the deckhands on some of the boats going past were good on the optic nerves

Chris

[My First Jewie (s)]

Nice fish there Cory

Might see if I can catch them this weekend

Shall PM you later to see if yo want to catch up for a fish

Chris

[Long Time Between Drinks]

Thanks everyone

Best thing about trying Budgewoi Beach is it s a lot closer than my usual spot, Wamberal Beach since I am at Wyong

Scott - sounds like a plan might go for an afternoon fish tomorrow to see if I can get some tailor shall PM you later once I know

Cory shall PM you next time I am going there

[Long Time Between Drinks]

What a way to do your first post

Have been beach fishing on and off for the last 5 years, but mainly have been estuary fishing for flatheads

Times I have been beach fishing have been getting tailor and salmon but missing those Jew's, up untill tonight I have only ever caught one Jew a 14kg monster 4years ago. After only been put onto fishraider 2 days ago I started reading about everyone catching/trying to catch some Jew's. Went for a fish at Wamberal last night but didn't get a bite, tonight thought what the hell and try a new spot. Well glad I did decide to go for the drive to Budgewoi Beach, these two were caught within 25minutes on my old ugly stick that I took as well as my beach rod - goes to show you you can catch em on something basic. Mind you I nearly lost the first one including my rod as the rod holder fell over and the rod was going east into the surf (I was still baiting up the beach rod). Decide to call it a night after catching the second one just incase I didnt catch anything else(didn't want to ruin my averages)

Samllest one was 60cm and the bigger one was 64cm

Very glad I read other peoples comments on Budgewoi Beach, both caught on 3/0 tripple gang with pllies