Sydney Sunday

[finin]

Gday All, well what a difference a day makes!. Fogwise seemed alot worse than yesterday. We left with 50m of visibility but once you went east of the bridge things cleared up a bit. Water in the harbour still poo brown but as you get past Bradleys Head it starts to clear to a dark green. Few more boats out around the Hrbour this morning, counted 10 at sow and pigs.

Once outside again a lovelly est ground swell up to 2m and about 6secs apart. Water still green up to the 5om mark and sitting around 22.4-23.8deg. Once past the 50m we hit beautiful electric blue water at a constant 25.0deg you can see the change in colour as plain as day. Well worth trolling along for marlin and less than 3mile offshore. Current running downhill at just on a knot. Headed out to 68m and found plenty of flatties and some great sized nannygai from Manly through to sth head drift at .7kn and se. Found it a little hard to hold botton as the ne got up at around 830am. Decided to head in around to 46m and found we were nearling fishing the current line on the dirty side and scored some great mowies. All in all a suprising day with plenty of dolphins about and good weather.

[Spooooled]

Gday All, well what a difference a day makes!. Fogwise seemed alot worse than yesterday. We left with 50m of visibility but once you went east of the bridge things cleared up a bit. Water in the harbour still poo brown but as you get past Bradleys Head it starts to clear to a dark green. Few more boats out around the Hrbour this morning, counted 10 at sow and pigs.

Once outside again a lovelly est ground swell up to 2m and about 6secs apart. Water still green up to the 5om mark and sitting around 22.4-23.8deg. Once past the 50m we hit beautiful electric blue water at a constant 25.0deg you can see the change in colour as plain as day. Well worth trolling along for marlin and less than 3mile offshore. Current running downhill at just on a knot. Headed out to 68m and found plenty of flatties and some great sized nannygai from Manly through to sth head drift at .7kn and se. Found it a little hard to hold botton as the ne got up at around 830am. Decided to head in around to 46m and found we were nearling fishing the current line on the dirty side and scored some great mowies. All in all a suprising day with plenty of dolphins about and good weather.

thanks for the report

[trunklegs]

Again, great report thanks. Interested that fh at 68. Deeper than i would have expected!

[lostproperty]

Again, great report thanks. Interested that fh at 68. Deeper than i would have expected!

We caught a whole heap in about 60-70m at Easter drifting off deewhy, wouldnt touch pillies yakkas or frigate but they smashed our squid every drop !

[Luringbream]

We caught a whole heap in about 60-70m at Easter drifting off deewhy, wouldnt touch pillies yakkas or frigate but they smashed our squid every drop !

Hey guys, any size to the flathead?

Regards,

[cogo44]

Gday All, well what a difference a day makes!. Fogwise seemed alot worse than yesterday. We left with 50m of visibility but once you went east of the bridge things cleared up a bit. Water in the harbour still poo brown but as you get past Bradleys Head it starts to clear to a dark green. Few more boats out around the Hrbour this morning, counted 10 at sow and pigs.

Once outside again a lovelly est ground swell up to 2m and about 6secs apart. Water still green up to the 5om mark and sitting around 22.4-23.8deg. Once past the 50m we hit beautiful electric blue water at a constant 25.0deg you can see the change in colour as plain as day. Well worth trolling along for marlin and less than 3mile offshore. Current running downhill at just on a knot. Headed out to 68m and found plenty of flatties and some great sized nannygai from Manly through to sth head drift at .7kn and se. Found it a little hard to hold botton as the ne got up at around 830am. Decided to head in around to 46m and found we were nearling fishing the current line on the dirty side and scored some great mowies. All in all a suprising day with plenty of dolphins about and good weather.

[cogo44]

Nine of us drifted around Long Reef and then to Dee Why bagging 83 fish including 50 good sized flathead. The cobalt blue water beyond 60 metres was brilliant, the swell was gentle, the water temperature was over 24 degrees, the wind was not more than 10 knots for much of the day and the overcast day held off any rain until we returned to the murky waters of the harbour. Only the current picking up from around midday, a few jackets and the occasional toad fish marred an otherwisw brilliant day. We also witnessed the biggest pod of dolphins who circled our boat for a brief period. When the conditions are favourable Sydney can turn on some great fishing.

[lostincable]

What sort of line, hook and sinker rig where you using to get that deep?

And if you don't mind me asking where you jigging or just dropping?

Cheers!

[lostproperty]

What sort of line, hook and sinker rig where you using to get that deep?

And if you don't mind me asking where you jigging or just dropping?

Cheers!

Just dropping to the bottom and drifting Using a 3 hook snapper snatcher and sinker probably about as long as my finger not sure wat size it is tho sorry - forgot to mention using 30lb braid and 6000 penn reel (braid cost double what the reel cost) and some rod my mate gave me for free haha works a treat use the same setup for kings

Hey guys, any size to the flathead?

Regards,

Bout 55-60cms but alot thicker than normal if that makes sense ? hasn't had much luck other than this day, if we didn't have squid we wouldnt have caught anything, we had it left over from chasing kings a few months back been in the freezer since!

Edited April 23, 2012 by DownToFish

[cogo44]

What sort of line, hook and sinker rig where you using to get that deep?

And if you don't mind me asking where you jigging or just dropping?

Cheers!

Just the normal paternoster rig and holding the bottom. Old fashioned but if you know the good marks it's very effective.