rickster Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hi all, just joined fishraiders and enjoy the reports. I mainly target the blackies, both rock and harbour. Mate and i ventured to the eastern suburbs on saturday but swell a bit howyagoin so headed further south. we ended up with 7 nigs and i silver drummer so wasn't top bad. were still biting before that "unpredicted" southeaseter got up and spoiled things. anybody else get out and how did you end up? cheers, Rickster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpreston55 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hi Rickster Top effort and welcome to Fishraider. I have been looking for blackies in quite a few places down here in the Illawarra. Some days I find them and have quite a good session only to return to the same place a few days later and not even get a bite. Haven't tried them off the ocean rocks as yet except for the breakwall at entrance to Lake Illawarra where I caught a lot of undersize ones. But same old story went back there a week later for nothing. Finding weed is the main problem down here at the moment. The good old howling westerlies of the last couple of weeks destroyed most of the growth in the lake. All the best for future trips. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickster Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hi Rickster Top effort and welcome to Fishraider. I have been looking for blackies in quite a few places down here in the Illawarra. Some days I find them and have quite a good session only to return to the same place a few days later and not even get a bite. Haven't tried them off the ocean rocks as yet except for the breakwall at entrance to Lake Illawarra where I caught a lot of undersize ones. But same old story went back there a week later for nothing. Finding weed is the main problem down here at the moment. The good old howling westerlies of the last couple of weeks destroyed most of the growth in the lake. All the best for future trips. Howard Hi Howard, Weed is hard to get. suggest you check some of the flatter rock platforms in your area as it does grow on these as well as cabbage. also, never a great fan of lake illawarra weed, find it a bit too stringy and bulk of it floats when you throw in your berley. i know the breakwall that your talking about, if you're getting a lot of smaller fish then maybe persevere just with cabbage as smaller fish don't seem to go for it as much. also try fishing there when the seas have been big as the fish will look for somewhere to shelter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpreston55 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Thanks for the advice Rickster. I'll give that a try. Cabbage is reasonably common down here at the moment on ocean rocks. All the best - Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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