budzsta Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) I suppose it's time to write up my first Fishing Report! I drove up to Port Stephens early Saturday morning, arrived at around 6 am. I was on the break wall by 6:30 with some prawns and pillies, while trying to catch some yakkas. No Yakkas however did catch a good deal of baby snapper and bream. That afternoon, I met up with a friend who lives on Stockton Beach and we headed down. We both had surf rigs set up with a popper and a ganged pillie on the bottom. After about an hour of watching the sunset with a few beers we saw a few guys on our right hook up. They pulled in two 45 cm flat heads. While we walking back to our rods we saw a massive school of salmon pretty much on the shore chasing a school of baby tailor. I have never ran as fast as I did back to my rod. We wound in and put on some silver lures and trolled across the sides of the school. By this time a few other guys had ran over to chime in on the action. We managed to hook up 3 tailor and I managed to land a pretty good salmon. After that, the mossies got the best of us and we headed in. The next day, we headed out on a small tinny around nelsons bay and drifted along the break wall. We hooked up almost every time we dropped our bait. We caught 26-27 cm snapper all day I also had a ganged pillie down which managed a rat kingie. On Monday before driving back I wanted to try the Beach again and so using a whole pillie on one rod and a lure on the other I hit up the beach. After about an hour, the pillie rod went pretty crazy and pulled in (I think) a Ray shark? or Shovel nosed shark. I happened to have my phone on me so took a quick photo, before sending it on its way. I hope this report is up to scratch Will Edited December 21, 2010 by Budzsta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasty1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Nice weekend mate stockton is a hard one but nelsons bay would have been nice,maybe next time,thinking of giving stockton a go myself in the break of the beach some where away from the crowds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budzsta Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Nice weekend mate stockton is a hard one but nelsons bay would have been nice,maybe next time,thinking of giving stockton a go myself in the break of the beach some where away from the crowds... Yeah should be pretty awesome man. Let me know when you go. Would love to head up that way again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHARK Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Sounded like a good trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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