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cuttlefish taste fantastic, meatier and more tendoer than the boring old squid.

Use the candles and tentacles for bait, the guts and skin and inc sacs for burley, the giant slab of firm white meat, you keep that cut it against the grain, in to squares, score it with a criss cross patern, soak in kiwi fruit and lemon juice in the fride for about half an hour and coat in cornflour, salt, pepper and a pinch of curry powder, uding beaten egg white as your glue. You'll think twice about ever throwing one back, tastes so good with the kingy or snapper you just caught using the rest off it as bait/burley.

nice fish, that groper would have gone like a steam train!

hey guy's yesterday was the day to be out trolling, plenty of surface action, rat kings were busting up everywhere, two guy's i was with scored 10kg kings (spear). They had medium sized yakkas in their guts!

the wagonga is awesome and is great for tailor spinning and flathead fishing, i've crossed the bar a stack of times, as long as the swell is down its easy, its when there is some current running and a bit of swell, the biggest mistake people make is backing off when on the top of waves, thats how you stall an outboard and get stuck on sand, you're better off airborne than bogged. as for montague, drift the north end with both jigs and yakkas/slimies you'll get on for sure!

i think i'm gonna give the leadlines a go.

needs a bit of a tidy, but still cracking along niceley.

Sounds like some of you blokes need a speargun! On a serious note, when it comes to baits, netic nailed it, older fish see more detail and have gotten bigger and better by being pickier and more wary. As for lures though the colours and shapes used are not just meant to look pretty they are used to switch on their subconscious hunting instinct, i know for a fact that this is why soft plastics are so effective on flathead, when you jig a bright pink sp past a resting flathead, they might be full as a goog or half asleep, but when their eye's see that colour, moving at the right speed emitting the right vibrations, their little brains switch over without any control and they 'have' to strike the bait. I'd say its fair to assume that kings and lots of other fish have the same effect when a weird looking pink squid/skirt is being dragged over the surface.

yeah that's where i the ocean graphs from, mhl get lots of their stuff from the csiro.

ahhh, mate do not eat them unles syou like the taste of weed, they are called 'rock cale' or sea carp, they aren't red rock cod. this is a red rock cod (good eating) AKA eastern scorpionfish

this looks very exciting

try cartoscope, you can print their's!

More like, 'Super cheap land fill'

Thank you very much Kingpig, i can see a few nights being wasted on the beaches for me this summer!

no worries, they're creepy looking buggers, catch a few yakkas and you'll get a couple creeping around the place!

Its called a 'doctor' mate, they are alway's in jackets, quite often in yakkas and the odd trevally, they are just a parasite that feed on whatever the fish is easting, they don't harm or affect the eating qualities at all. here's one

Awesome kingpig, cheers mate!

Mate i've never had a problem with bones when filleting them, they have no more or less than a bream, you just have to know where they are and have a sharp knife, i just got a new victorionox fillet knife, its a bit too sharp, i can sense and injury coming on.

Mate, they don't call them poor mans lobster for nothing, after filleting and skinningyou are left with a fat white slab of prime eating meat. They are the coral trout of our temperate waters! Try this, after filleting boning and skinning, dust in some four, then beat some egg whites, mix up some cornflour, a pinch of curry powder and some salt and pepper. Dip the floured fillets in the foamy eggwhite, then coat with the cornflour mix. Shallow fry in some hot oil! enjoy with this easy dipping sauce, dice up about 2 table spoons of chives, one tabel spoon of sweet chilli sauce and about a cup of mayo, mix and serve cold!

Hi Guy's, I've been getting a few beachworms lately fishing for whiting, and was thinking when the tides right, i should throw a whole heap out in search for a jew, first question is, how do people rig beachworms on a hook for a jew? And secondly, what rig do people usually use?

Hahah, that's fair enough mate. Pretty much the only occy you're gonna pull up in sydneya nd surrounds is the common red one, they're harmless (certainly not armless) just bash em over the head a few times and turn them inside out, remove the guts and boil them for about an hour, the skin and suckers all fall off and leave you with beautiful white meat!

mate it sounds like a sgt baker

stuff using occies for bait, they taste awesome!

Jes ski's are the Aids of Port Hacking, i hate them.

Nice work Sammy. Mines coming along nicely