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

Like viking said though there's some seriously good looking water atm too.. not too wide either. Let us know how it goes buddy and good luck. Def worth a shot just be early

Mainly mid-water mate. But we sounded the fish so It didn't make alot of difference.. but in saying that, def not the bottom

Hey guys, Planned to get onto some reds at longy early yesterday with a mate. Put in at sandy at 5am, got plenty of little yakkas at west head and started heading round the joey. Wind was blowing strong strong.. still.. bureau buggered this one up! (It was howling all night but all reports until midnight were pointing to calm waters, 5 knots se). Slowly headed round towards newport reef - there was no way we were getting to longy, wind and wind swell was shite! and there was a front approaching! wtf. Anyway, we sounded fish up and decided to drift sth from the southern side of the reef. After the 1st drift the wind was seriously howling! But we got SMASHED by kingies, losing two big boys and boating a legal. Threw him back and did it again. Got a sp and braid stuck around the prop about 20mts from the reef with a heavy stherly blowing us straight onto it. Quick freak out! managing to avoid jumping in, cut it off and got wide.. just! We did about a half dozen drifts using live yakkas and flicking sp's. Every yakka (about a dozen) was smashed within about an hour with half of them being belted on the way down!! The kingies were on! We got plenty of followers on the sp's by schooling kings and managed some good fish on all sorts of sp's. No snapper unfortuently, but my mate got the biggest bonnie we've ever seen right at the boat on a sp. It coulda been a regular stripey! Will try post some pics later as I don't have the camera. All in all we got over a dozen fish losing some big boys! So, there's some def big fellas out there if you can find them. Threw them all back to fight another day - I rarely keep anything. Best session i've had for a while!

Hi, Was wondering if anyones used or owns the starlo stix duo jig stick and could make comment?? Thinking of grabbing one for christmas. I was going to use it around broken bay mainly for kings. Also, has anyone used a daiwa opus bull for jigging?? Should go alright?? Happy fishing

Cheers for the table buddy. Can anyone direct me to a good webpage they use for pressure readings and changes?? Nic

Even easier - The smallest part in the line is usually at the outlet where the water jets out.. Crap gets stuck here. Poke it with a rivet or a nail.. something fine that fits. I've done this plenty of times on yam and honda 4s always works.

Great stuff mate. If you don't mind me asking do you mean closer to barrenjoey headland? How much water were you jigging in? Actually never jigged before but your post just got me keen to buy a few

I swear evertime I troll a gold 'bomber' a tailor smashes it! Like everyone said they take pretty much anything and everything... But my gold bombers is an absolute tailor whore!! (I think it's a bomber-a). This one lure has been in circulation for ages now they last really well - I actually think it's a little more solid than the x-raps, and a little cheaper.

Yeh that's what I thought. Have heard about the blues too, but was unaware of the big dollies thats great. The last 2 times i've been to browns and around i've come back with nothing so I'm really looking forward to some quick runs to the fads. Cheers fellas happy fishing

Hey all, Just wondering how long it usually takes for the action to start once they re-deploy the fads? Mate of mine went to BB wide and terrigal last w/e at sun up and it was dead. I noticed the wk leading up to that the fisheries website had no mention of either being deployed yet so I'm assuming they'd only been there a matter of days/maybe a week. Either way, considering waters good, how longs it normally take? Regards, Nic