Foster Fires Again

[Lukeanna]

G'Day,

we had another week up at Coomba Park with plenty of fish and swimming. Good Flathead again and some really big Bream, biggest Bream went 43cm, caught under the oyster leases in the main channel leading up to Coomba. Heaps of Garfish, one of my favorites Plenty of Shovel Nose Sharks, but as we haven't yet found a way to cook them so they are at least edible, we let them all go. No crabs this time but there must have been close to 100 pots out in the bay and channels, so they must still be on.

good fishing

Matt

[glennmreid]

well done on catching some great fish. Lovely part of the world.

[royboy]

That's a great mixed bag. Top feed there but shame about the crabs .

Cheers.

[slinkymalinky]

Looks like you got yourself a lovely feed there Matt.

Cheers, Slinky

[Hodgey]

Great feed of fish mate.

Sounds like you had a terrific holiday in a very nice part of the country!

Mmmmm .... fresh gars

Cheers

Hodgey

[arpie]

Well done Matt & co!

Terrific mixed bag! That bream is a cracker!!! Did you use bait or sp?

Hope to get out today (if not raining too much) with Jani & Saja to try & catch some flatchaps!

Cheerio

Roberta

[adjustedpete]

Just my kind of fishin'. I love the fact that you eat all you catch and the rest go back. Mmmmm gar, My wife goes nuts for them.

Ps ..you can eat the shovel nose. just treat it like any other shark. I dont eat big ones, to much mercury for me. but lets face it who can beat a weekend away fishing.

[johnsparky77]

Nice there matey, good stuff

sparky77

[fishy_buisness]

GR8 stuff there mate............. Well done........

[Lukeanna]

Thanks for the replies, all the fish were caught on Striped Tuna. I have been using Mullet, but my uncle put me onto the Stripey and it worked a treat.

Matt

[cut_loose]

Great report i love forster !

I got these crabs up there 2 months ago

Didnt get as many fish as you did tho !

[Spanker]

Well done mate.

Can you offer two tips please.

1) Who do you catch garfish? Can they be caught anywhere?

2) How do you prepare and cook the blighters?

Thanks

Spanker

[Lukeanna]

Thanks again for the replies, Re. the Garfish, I make up a burley of Sauagae mince, breadcrumbs, tuna oil and the end crust bits off a loaf of bread, it can be frozen in bags big enough for one session, when out fishing, I then fill a bucket and sit the whole mix in sea water, over time the mince becomes water logged and I throw spoon fulls over every ten minutes or so, the heavier bits sink and the other is distributed through out the water. Anyway, this usually attrachs the Garfish up at forster, and it doesn't seem to matter how fast the current is. My prefered bait is bread and I always have a rod set up with a pencil float in the boat for this type of fishing. One thing I have learnt, is always use the small suicide pattern hooks rather then the long shank ones, I reckon the hook up rate is 2 : 1 in their favour. Also I find fishing with one hook is more succesful then with 2 droppers. I simply cook mine by shallow frying them in really hot olive oil, mmmm love em.

Thanks

Matt