redpump Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) Hello everyone! My partner and I went fishing on Sunday at Botany Bay. At 9am we headed out and was amazed at the beautiful day (cloudy, but warm), we caught about 20 yabbies and fished the beach with them, caught 6 undersized bream tarwhine, 3 undersized flatheads and 1 barely legal bream tarwhine(20cm). There was a few big splashes in the water which made me pretty excited (but still no big fish). The tide was going down when we started fishing (10am) and reached the lowest point at 12.43pm (tide chart), at this point we had a few nibbles and fewer hook ups. There was a lot of puffer fish swimming around our feet for the scrapes, they are so cute. After using all our yabbies, we decided to pump out some more (30-40 yabbies) and went to lunch (fish and chips ). We then went along Botany Bay again and fished off some rocks. There were a lot of undersized bream tarwhine and juvi snappers that I lost count (10-20 altogether?), we managed to get another barely legal bream tarwhine. Around 4pm (tide is going up) we caught our whiting (30cm) and our first kingfish a yakka!! (30cm - released), we caught a few more undersized bream tarwhine before my partner hooked a stingray. I went to grab it with a net (scared of it's barbed tail) and ended up slipping on the rocks and ended up with a 1cm gash near my wrist . I went to wash and disinfect it and slapped on a band-aid. I went back to my partner's location (where he informed me of a few more undersized bream tarwhine) and we packed up and were on our way back when we were hit with the downpour (approx. 5.30pm?) Soaked and on our way home, I was feeling great with the amount of hook-ups we got today (normally we only hook a few fish, lucky to get 1 legal sized). We fried the 2 bream tarwhine and whiting for dinner and made stingray soup. The soup was amazing, but, the meat wasn't very nice to eat... All in all, it was a great day! It was cloudy in the beginning, sunny during the middle of the day a few sprinkles in the afternoon with the downpour in the evening. The rig I used was a sliding sinker attached to a swivel attached to a leader to a shank hook. My partner used a 3 ganged hook (different height along the line) with a pyramid sinker at the end. Happy Fishing The Whiting was making a lot of splashes (not letting this jump out like the last) so I pinned it down!! Bream Tarwhine + Whiting sandwich anyone? Doesn't look very good here, but it torpedoed off when I released it. Lastly, my gash (healing nicely) Edited March 8, 2012 by redpumpkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim77 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Nice report red pumpkin - sounds like an action packed day! That fish that you thought was a Kingfish... That's actually a yakka or a Yellowtail Scad. They are a totally different species. They are a popular livebait and normally pretty easy to catch. Next time you catch one throw it back out with a hook through its nose and you might get lucky and have a Kingy eat it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 well done on the fish redpumpkin, sounds like a great day, but just a correction if I may, they are actually tarwine not bream, but yeah they look very similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Knot Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Well done on the fish redpumpkin sounds like the nippers got em going - as others have pointed out you had Tarwhine (legal length 20cm) if they were Bream they would have to have been 25cm. Cheers Blood Knot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Hooked Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hey Redpumpkin, great report. It’s been a terrible season. My mate and I got stuck in that downpour heading back in. We were drenched to the bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redpump Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) Thanks for the help everyone! I fixed up my report How do you tell the difference between the yakka and the kingfish (other than the difference in size). Edited March 5, 2012 by redpumpkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thanks for the help everyone! I fixed up my report How do you tell the difference between the yakka and the kingfish (other than the difference in size). Don't worry redpumpkin, you'll KNOW when you hook onto a kingfish... just make sure you tighten the drag and hold on tight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinsoi Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Nice report Redpumkin ..... the first of many. Well done and keep up the great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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