nic_ally_king

Cheers Rebel. Not after a list of locations, just recent reports of the bite. The wide FADs I hear are Ok... not much in close though. Guess it's time to get out wide for those YFTs!

DPI puts reports up? not sure about that one.. Has seemed very slow rod the fads the last few weeks..

Hi all, Just curious as to any reports about the FADs close to sydney harbour this past week? Anybody had any good sessions or heard of any reports re FADs or long or similar? Was going to go take a look tomorrow at some of the close by offshore spots..

Sweet, thanks mate. Yep, catching a salmon trolling off the joey was the fish that got me hard into fishing 10 years ago. Didn't measure anything, but they were good size, some maybe over 80 and nothing would've been shy of 65

Hey guys, Had a great little sess monday on the run out off a rock platform far north northern beaches. Nothing too flash as eating goes (or so they say), but the Salmon were on for hours, and really nice size too. Had so much fun getting hit after hit, with heaps of double hook-ups with nobody else around Absolutely perfect day and a great spot with a challenging little reef to work the fish around and then get up onto the platform with pretty light gear. I was using bonito strips for bait, however my question is, with the season/salmon around at the moment, has anyone had much luck catching them on their own flesh? I kept one for bait, salted it, and was keen to have another crack. I know salmon is meant to be good for big fish, but has anyone had much luck catching more salmon with it? ...I've never really tried too hard to catch species on their own bait.. but I'm thinking it probably shouldn't make much of a difference.. Can anyone tell me otherwise? Cheers guys, happy fishing

nice job mate. Even better to hear you released them

Thank BMac - will pump it through her!

Thanks snapper! Yeh, that's how I normally do it but not even that was working! Floated the surface unweighted and tried a little deeper.. the only thing interested were the %^#&*@*(@ birds! Pays to be persistent I think we just ran out of time. Always good to be on the water though

Hi all, Haven't posted for a long time.. took a run to the broken bay FAD this morning at first light.. plenty of fish out there but none interested! 21deg and a nice current today.. managed… nothing! Unfortunately the southerly was up at sunrise.. One other boat turned up and they had no luck either. Tried pillies, squid and trolled a few different things. weird. Where's the temp change start atm? Not too smooth out there so we didn't hang around for long.. maybe the bite came on later this morning. Would have had a jig or tried some lives, but the gf was getting crook. Caught two stripe tuna on the way back and a nice kingy inside. Very slow day overall. Hope everyone has some more luck, Nic

I double that! Symetre's are awesome for the $. Even at a good online store here you'll get one for only a smidge above your budget

She'll be sweet buddy. I think some ppl get abit weird with thinking you need huge heavy boats to go anywhere. As long as you pick your days and know the weather and do it smartly your 5.35 will be fine. I've got the same boat with a 75 honda. The only prob with that set-up is it's a little underpowered coming back against a swell but it handles well maybe just get the weight up front. Unless there's a storm offshore, water conditions tend to get better as you move outside. happy fad'ing

Slinky!!! You legend! Thanks mate I really appreciate the effort you went to, seriosuly thanks! I'll check it out tomorrow night just wanted to get an idea of what I was looking for before I tore her down, havn't fiddled alot with overheads. I didn't have the time the other day but a mate assured me it was actually the other side I should've been looking at - this approach didn't help haha. I feel like I should buy you some beers or something! Thanks again. Framedtrash too. nic

Anyone know much about the clicker on shimano overheads?????

Check out opus bull or sealine bull too if your on a budget. Good gear.

Hi guys, the other day the clicker on my charter special 2000 started playing up. it more or less dissappears so I can't hear the drag running. It's making no noise at all when the drag runs or I pull line out, and occasionally starts to sound after after a few winds with the clicker on when I'm pulling a bait in. I took it apart v. v. briefly and the mechanism that makes the click seemed fine. Has anyone had this happen or have any ideas? Sure it's an easy fix (I hope!) It's a well maintained reel, hasn't been used alot. Any help would be much appreciated. Nic