The Rev

They just arrived in the last week apparently. Water up here has just gone up to 23.3 degrees Lots of rat dollies are also being caught up here 60-70cm Cheers

Hi Fellow Raiders, We are currently up at Coolangatta on holidays having a great time. Decided to take my son and my daughters boyfriend out on a charter today. After an an early start (5am Queensland time we headed out through the Tweed Heads to be greeted by a fairly tough sea to fish in. Onshore winds at sunrise stronger than what was forecast greeted us as we powered out. After a fairly quiet morning, the livey off the back goes off. Isaac (daughters boyfriend grabbed the rod and proceeded to fight the fish. After 10 minutes on the rod he passed it off to me and we managed to land this great Dollie that went 122cm. While we didn't catch much else - we sure were happy with this fish Cheers The Rev

That's a great catch on such light line - well done . I'm sure it was fun. Nothing like the sound of a screaming drag!

Fantastic haul

Awesome catch - well done.

awesome catch - great job and encouraging to see what can be caught off the rocks in the harbour :-) the Rev

Well done - thumper bream that you caught! Welcome to the addiction :-)

Love the photo - especially the T-Shirt. My son is now 17 and he still loves coming out in the tinny with me. It is a great experience as father and son on the water together. Great catch too - well done

Awesome - enjoy!

Awesome job - what are they like to eat? As good as Kingies?

great read - well done on teh capture. mean critters those bull sharks - even the small ones!

Well done - that will give you a nice feed:-)

Love the story stormy - if you want to fish - get up! HaHa - Even my sleepy head teenage son who can sleep in till midday on weekends and holidays can do the 5am wakeup for fishing. Glad you got some - nice haul cheers The Rev

well done

great to see the squid being caught in numbers - well done

they taste nice when filleted, skinned, blood lines and quadrilateral line / bones cut out - then just a light pan fry with olive oil and finish with some lemon juice & butter to at the end. Best 3/4 cooked as they get quite dry if over cooked. Also good as sashimi - though be careful cutting as the flesh is quite delicate. cheers The Rev

Awesome fish and story - thanks The Rev

haha - love the story!

Unbelievable! What was he thinking??? Great video - sorry about the lost marlin

Well done - cool set up for a canoe!

Great to hear that the kings are starting to appear. Going out Friday - Can't wait!

Got my vote - well done!

Love that Photo of your son with the fish. That memory will stay with for life. Well done!

Just a quick post today. Went out with my son today (he had the day off as well today). It was one of those slow days where every time you moved you found a few more fish but no real stand out bites. I think that the southerly front that came through might have affected the bite around the high tide mark? We left from the Manly boat ramp about 6am and fished on the inside of Quarantine Station for a nice Tarwine of 31cm (first for me), a leather jacket and a just legal Trevally - also 31cm. Then we moved to off Grotto point. More burley, more bites and a few nice fish - a 32cm Bream and a 36cm Trevally. Things starting to improve I thought as we approached the 8:35am high tide but before the bite petered out again :-( For our last move we went into the moorings at Balmoral. A fortnight ago we had snared 8 Trev's on the top of tide - maybe again today? No such luck. We got just one more Trev of 34cm. What we did snag was a nice blue-swimmer that managed to hook himself while munching on the peeled prawn :-) After 5 minutes of untangling him from the net we finally got him in the esky. Happy days! Anyway - not a bad little feed for the day. Headed home after a coffee and bacon and egg roll at Balmoral. Cheers The Rev

Hi Groper - no it is a new cafe that opened around Easter this year at the Balmoral Boat shed - called the Boat Shed! It is right next to the harbour swimming enclosure down the south end of Balmoral. Very nice food and coffee!