tentonner Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Gday raiders, managed to get out this morning with dad. With the abysmal reports of squid around we didn't try too hard with the squid, and resorted to yakkas. ended up gettin about 15 yakkas but most were horses so wasn't too confident. Met up with Josh88 and he said they were headed to Longy so thought I may as well go to. Pretty much as soon as we got there everyone was hooking up, we caught them today trolling yakkas, drifting yakkas on soft plastics and I puled out a little 80g knife jig and was outfishing the livies about 4:1. From what everyone said they were all rats today (i managed one keeper of 67cm, the rest were too small). Fun way to spend the morning but can't wait to start some cracking some bigger models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmon_Hunter Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 (edited) I was lucky enough to be doing an aerial run in a Cessna today down that coast. There was about 9 boats or so that I counted huddled together off longy? I dont spose that was where you were? I believe I also spotted a pro there as well? Also for anyone interested in Aussie Salmon, Wattamalla heads (North Side)is holding a school the size of a football field. They are THICK! Edited November 11, 2011 by Salmon_Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentonner Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 I'd say I probably was one of those boats, hate to see what that place is like on a weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdudfield Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 we were out at long reef as well but stayed away from the huddle ... landed 9 with 4 keepers plus we had 2 big bust offs. also got a couple of bonito and rat kingies trolling near north head on the way back. what a great day to be out on the water!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisecraft Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 I was lucky enough to be doing an aerial run in a Cessna today down that coast. There was about 9 boats or so that I counted huddled together off longy? I dont spose that was where you were? I believe I also spotted a pro there as well? Also for anyone interested in Aussie Salmon, Wattamalla heads (North Side)is holding a school the size of a football field. They are THICK! Salmon-Hunter, Thanks for the aerial reconnaissance. Any chance this would be a Friday arvo regular feature :biggrin2: Regards Kit ps tentonner Thanks for the report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finin Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 tentonner, well done!. Looks like you were using very light gear, rod looks very light! wondering what u were playing with. Looks like good fun. Salmon Hunter, saw you fly by heading sth. We were off Nth Bondi, nice day for a fly and a fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilp Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Gday raiders, managed to get out this morning with dad. With the abysmal reports of squid around we didn't try too hard with the squid, and resorted to yakkas. ended up gettin about 15 yakkas but most were horses so wasn't too confident. Met up with Josh88 and he said they were headed to Longy so thought I may as well go to. Pretty much as soon as we got there everyone was hooking up, we caught them today trolling yakkas, drifting yakkas on soft plastics and I puled out a little 80g knife jig and was outfishing the livies about 4:1. From what everyone said they were all rats today (i managed one keeper of 67cm, the rest were too small). Fun way to spend the morning but can't wait to start some cracking some bigger models. Hey tentonner When you mention "Long reef" do you mean " long reef wall or long reef wide ? do you know where I could get Gps co-ordinates for the location. Thanks Kilp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmaniac Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 (edited) Hey tentonner When you mention "Long reef" do you mean " long reef wall or long reef wide ? do you know where I could get Gps co-ordinates for the location. Thanks Kilp Just follow the flotilla of boats. Sounds like you had fun tentonner! Edited November 13, 2011 by fishmaniac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentonner Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 Just follow the flotilla of boats. Sounds like you had fun tentonner! yeh haha sorry mate i dont have gps co ords for that but it wasn't out wide and we just sounded out a fairly large area and would drop where we marked fish, however like fishmaniac says just follow the masses out there and you'll see where everyone is hooking up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentonner Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 tentonner, well done!. Looks like you were using very light gear, rod looks very light! wondering what u were playing with. Looks like good fun. Salmon Hunter, saw you fly by heading sth. We were off Nth Bondi, nice day for a fly and a fish! hey mate the combo is a stradic ci4 4000 with 30lb tufline and a Sakana Zion 10-17lb stick. Yeh mate was a blast on that gear, the zions got such a good blank and the ci4 is so light so yeh was a lot of fun. After a while you get sick of skull dragging 60cm rats on 50lb braid and 80lb trace locked up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingwhiting Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 nice king! kings are fun on light gear. It is especially fun when they are legal! awesome dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmon_Hunter Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Yeah possibly, as I will be soon signing up to get my Private Pilot L.. Watch this space! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisecraft Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Yeah possibly, as I will be soon signing up to get my Private Pilot L.. Watch this space! As the Yanks will say, "You de man bro". Looking forward to your "reports" Regards Kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puregeek Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Just got back from a 4 hour session of long reef and ended up with a donut. Fished everywhere wide, wall and even went to check out a few wrecks. I think i must have the worst luck. Did anyone else try today. I did see 2 other boats but didn't look like anyone was getting anything. Yee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryboy Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I was out walking yesterday and saw 13 boats on the north side of Longy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongy Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Just got back from a 4 hour session of long reef and ended up with a donut. Fished everywhere wide, wall and even went to check out a few wrecks. I think i must have the worst luck. Did anyone else try today. I did see 2 other boats but didn't look like anyone was getting anything. Yee Thats a surprise. What time were you out there? What technique were you using? Did you try livies, squid, etc? J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisheyes85 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 (edited) hey mate the combo is a stradic ci4 4000 with 30lb tufline and a Sakana Zion 10-17lb stick. Yeh mate was a blast on that gear, the zions got such a good blank and the ci4 is so light so yeh was a lot of fun. After a while you get sick of skull dragging 60cm rats on 50lb braid and 80lb trace locked up! good job on the kings mate... were you using this outfit when you dropped the 80g knife jig down? If so, how did it handle jigging this lure weight? I'm heading out to our FAD in Forster this week hoping to tangle with some kingies that have shown up. Just got a sweet G Loomis force light 12-20lb 7'3" stick (for a bargain) and was tossing up whether to drop similar size knife jigs and 85g raiders on this running 30lb braid. I'll mainly be using it to toss big plastics at the FAD, but thought I'd give the metal option a whirl also. Did it feel like you were going to bust your rod? Cheers Tom Edited November 14, 2011 by fisheyes85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentonner Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 yeh mate handled the jig surprisingly well, wouldnt want to cast but just dropping it down and jigging was no probs at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puregeek Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Thats a surprise. What time were you out there? What technique were you using? Did you try livies, squid, etc? J We were there from 6am - 11am. Used fresh squid and pillies as baits. Used a few different lures. No lives though, we lost our anchor so we couldnt anchor up to get em. What was everyone else using? Very disappointed with todays result. Yee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim77 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 1321257439[/url]' post='422787']Used fresh squid and pillies as baits. Very disappointed with todays result. Yee Yee when you say fresh squid do you mean "fresh squid" you caught yourself or fresh you bought somewhere? if its not freshly caught I.e you bought it I wouldnt bother using it. Learn how to catch livies and your kingy catch rate will soon go up. If you are on the water early at 6am at this time of year you should be able to get a tank full of livies in about 10 minutes! Also by anchoring you are cutting down your chances - sound around and find the fish and then start dropping livies on them or plastics etc those are just my observations - others might say different. Better luck next time you head out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puregeek Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Hey Jim, Yeah the bait i used was frozen dead baits i had. We couldn't get live baits because we lost our anchor as soon as we got there, so the lives idea when out the door. I guess i should have known we would of had a bad day since we didnt have any lives. We did also try 5" plastics without any success either. Oh wells maybe next time. Im thinking i should buy a down rigger. Is this a must for targeting kings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim77 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 1321260224[/url]' post='422796']Im thinking i should buy a down rigger. Is this a must for targeting kings? no. It does help at times but you will still catch plenty without. Where did you try for livies? Plenty of spots you can get em without anchoring.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puregeek Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Looked for them around rosebay, near the boat ramp. Is there better spots to get them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimyo Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 We were there from 6am - 11am. Used fresh squid and pillies as baits. Used a few different lures. No lives though, we lost our anchor so we couldnt anchor up to get em. What was everyone else using? Very disappointed with todays result. Yee I was off north head this morn and the rats were going nuts on the live yaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosan Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Were you fishing with weight or unweighted? I was off north head this morn and the rats were going nuts on the live yaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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