Lugarno

[robeebee]

couldn't resist getting out for 15 minutes yesterday

even though i'm still crook with the chest flu from Hell

Byron put me on to a nice landbased spot and i went to check it out

had about 5 cast's but the breeze didn't like me , got snagged and called it quits

beautiful spot though

[Nathan L]

go lugarno!!!

i've been there at night and seen guys fishing for whiting. they catch some real thumpers too.

might be a lb sport worthy of more attention

opps, no, my mistake. its a terrible spot. there's no fish, its windy all the time, and it smells terrible.

it's not worth anyone wasting their time.

[robeebee]

i don't like graffiti BUT

[jewgaffer]

Nice photos Robbie and I am glad you like Lugarno. I thought the walkway type fishing platform would the ideal place for your Dad. Land based fishing doesn't come much better than that and being right down the bottom of Forest Road at the dead end it never get's overcrowded, even on the weekend. Hurstville Council did a first class job on it as a walkway type fishing platform.

You don't get enough quality time after the early morning though. It's best to start mid to late afternoon.

Wouldn't mind having one of our canoe or kayak members on standby to drop the jew lines down a little bit further out from the moored boats when fishing the walkway part as I've often seen boil ups in the restaurant lighting in a natural thoroughfare, but the spot is out of casting range from the walkway and requires a bit of surf rod casting off the waters edge of the old ferry ramp.

Cheers

jewgaffer

PS. Nathan good to see you warned others about the terrible smell, the putrid conditions, and the lack of edible fish and the waste of time down there I think it's because the fish are all wrinkled up and dry with the elderly ones staying dwarf like and undersize, being subject to a phantom metallic poisonous pregnancy in contagious quarry type conditions and they become nauseated and go off the tucker for several seasons before they wobble back to the reefs where their spincters explode and they die as they hatch . Nice view though

Edited November 13, 2007 by jewgaffer

[suttonscurse]

Hi Jewgaffer

I reckon that you have missed your calling in life . You should seek employment writing the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the water desalination plant planned for Botany Bay . It might wake up some policitians before they cause even more problems to the bay

cheers.

Bill

[jewgaffer]

Very soon bream fishing will be great down there. Last Sunday, late afternoon it was though, old mates of mine and relatively new Fishraider members Cungee George and Occy1, top old school style Greek fishos, fished the drums in Botany Bay giving the tide enough time to bring in some really good water in the warm north easterly currents. Early in season changes, it's the afternoon times during an influx of warmer currents that the seasons fish leave their comfort zones and come back into estuaries conditions and stay on as conditions improve, remembering that early morning activity is dictated by atmospheric and water conditions overnight . For George and Larry, guys who can literally sight the best waters when preparing to anchor, the place came alive at sundown.They bagged out on trevally first and the big bream that have been absent for months came in and they must have caught over fifty fish. George sent me photos in a phone message on multi media on my messages. I was going to do a report for George and Larry, if some one can tell me how to put multimedia message photos into my pictures, I'll do the report with times tide conditions and all and I know the news will excite the up river bream fishermen after last year's feeble fishing in the Georges and up and down the coast of N.S.W. due to freaky conditions where the end of winter warm currents did not arrive untill well after Christmas. ( I think I can forward message the pics I have to someone elses mobile phone to email back to me ? But I couldn't find an option for downloading them into my own computer.

jewgaffer

Oh to Suttons Curse. Bill I really respect your point of view and it being made at your very experienced age, and you're talking hands on stuff living at Carr's Park. I used to swim in the Carr's park baths as a kid in the early fifties and my Dad used to get buckets of motza sized bream off the baths at night and plenty of jew even boiling up in the shallow water and my Dad and I fished on together into the early 1970's for consistent results at Carr's Park, when the Tom Ugly's wall was too crowded to fish, you'd recall those years.

Cheers

jewgaffer

Edited November 13, 2007 by jewgaffer

[robeebee]

if some one can tell me how to put multimedia message photos into my pictures,I think I can forward message the pics I have to someone elses mobile phone to email back to me ? But I couldn't find an option for downloading them into my own computer.

jewgaffer

depending on the phone, you may have to save the photo (message ) to your gallery

then you should be able to transfer to PC

[robeebee]

here you go mate

[suttonscurse]

Hi Jewgaffer

Now you have stirred up some long lost memories . I can remember back about 50 years ago , buying some bait from the Tom Uglys bait shop ( the 1st one , there used to be 2 side by side) with my father and Grandpop, getting a rowing boat from the hire boat shed and catching leatherjackets between the 2 bridges using a line attached to a 26oz beer bottle ( my Grandpop was very generous with his empties - Must admit he had plenty of them) . The other thing I remember from that day is watching him hand roll cigarettes with his left hand whilst using his right hand to bait up his jewfish cord line with mullet gut. Ah! - much simplier days then

Cheers Bill

[bart]

They were great days.Both the tackle shops were always flat out serving customers. I used to hire a boat at Humphrey's Boat Shed regularly and fish the Georges with the young brother.

Cheers Bart