Guest hawkesbass Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 hit up botany bay today with ddaniel land based this arvo armed with fresh cabbage and a kilo off salted pillies and a kilo off school prawns the plan was to burley up the blackfish and fish for them while slowly burleying up the bream we started fishing for the blackfish after burley was out for 1/2hr with the first blackfish landed after 5 minutes this fish went just legal so it was returned to grow bigger then for the next 2 hours the bites were consistant with ten blackfish landed smallest went 25cms with the biggest landed being 34cms we lost some cracker blackfish in the 40cm range to the lower ledge and straightened hooks we kept 6 for the table 1 hour before dark we switched over to unweighted pillies and prawns to try for a bream the first bream bite went to daniel with a 33cm bream landed then i got a wrasse which was returned then daniel got a bream bite set the hook and was clean bitten off then i got a hit and set the hook on a bream which went well on the blackfish gear when landed went 43cms on the bragmat then daniel landed another bream in the low 40cm range which went in the keeper net by this stage the light was fading and the bites kept on coming and so did the bite offs and brickings so with the last light of the day we walked out to the car and went to botany boat ramp to take photos and clean the fish Cheers trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Good catches there mate. Never caught a luderick before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Good catches there mate. Never caught a luderick before. Be careful here Formosan... as they say, once you go black you will never go back! I'll stick to yellow kind if i were you... yellowtail kingfish that is. Trung btw.. great catch of fish you got there hawkesbass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keflapod Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Hey Trevor, Very nice bream and some lovely blackfish as well. I used to fish blackfish for a very long time, years ago. I gave it up bcos of the trouble from other people - fishos, divers, spectators, etc.... Trung likes to rhyme with: "Once you go black, you never go back". But he should consider: He likes to be mellow and stick to the yellow... Kings go hard, we all know, but, beware of the donut ! Tony Sorry Trung - just kidding - I still respect your fishing prowess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 The blackfish are certainly about in numbhers at the moment lads theres plenty for the taking off the stones and in the harbour and bay. It's turning out to be a cracker of a season for them when you locate the schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumperbream Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Very nice feed of fish there. Im interested in giving black fishing a crack. Are they about in the colder weather seeing that Winter is coming or are they more a summer fish. Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 The yare all year round mate they migrate about but can be found in the estuaries and the rocks just depend where they decide to school some spots are predictable whilst others they turn up randomly out of season an example is the thumpers we caught well west of the bridge this year at our usual winter haunt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawkesbass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 We had the school of blackfish at our feet for a good two hours and dropped more fish than we landed as luderick angler says we catch our blackfish all year round from the rocks and bays some days they are on the smaller side and other days only thumpers are around blackfish are like all fish species they will congregate around the best food sources and once their food source tapers off they will move to a new location Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOE^MOE Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 thats some nice blackfish and bream there mate i been getting a few big blackfish at the hacking on unwieghted bread on really light gear there really good fight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 We had the school of blackfish at our feet for a good two hours and dropped more fish than we landed as luderick angler says we catch our blackfish all year round from the rocks and bays some days they are on the smaller side and other days only thumpers are around blackfish are like all fish species they will congregate around the best food sources and once their food source tapers off they will move to a new location Would it have been the pair of you I was spying on from up top of the container wall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawkesbass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No we were further around looking back towards bare island near the lttle beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No we were further around looking back towards bare island near the lttle beach Ah missed you two lads then there were acouple guys out the very front near the cyclone mesh fence doing no good! I was fishing that spot around Xmas and doing very well on cabbage about a quarter the way along the wall from the carpark gates. Have you treid the rocks and old inlet right up in the base of the bay at all? Ca nbe very fgood at times and is a known spawning ground for them. Might have to catch you out there one day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawkesbass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No we have looked at the wall before but i have crook knee and the uneven construction puts me off going down there incase i bugger it up more we are always looking for more spots to try to broaden our options on any given day i will defineately look into the spots you suggested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 No we have looked at the wall before but i have crook knee and the uneven construction puts me off going down there incase i bugger it up more we are always looking for more spots to try to broaden our options on any given day i will defineately look into the spots you suggested Check your PM's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullidug Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Awesome catch and great report Hawkebass. How were the blackfish biting? Were they timid at all. I fished the Woolich area west of Sydney yesterday for 5 blackfish on cabbage on the run-up tide. But they were the most timid bites I have come across whilst blackfishing. It was as if they put the cabbage in their mouths and just sat there with it, The water was still pretty brown from the rain though. Have you come across this in that area Royce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Some nice fish, love the stonker Breambo cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawkesbass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 For the most part the bites were timid and very slow downs but some off the bigger blackfish we dropped the float went straight down and stayed down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Awesome catch and great report Hawkebass. How were the blackfish biting? Were they timid at all. I fished the Woolich area west of Sydney yesterday for 5 blackfish on cabbage on the run-up tide. But they were the most timid bites I have come across whilst blackfishing. It was as if they put the cabbage in their mouths and just sat there with it, The water was still pretty brown from the rain though. Have you come across this in that area Royce? Could be a number of things but the one that comes to mind is your are either fishing a little bit too deep and the yare sitting in the kelp and laying on the bait or your are fishing too close to the kelp beds and drop offs and they are doing the same thing, try and burley to keep the fish out off the kelp beds and in open water your downs will improve as will the hook up rate also adjust your depth 6 inches at a time if the downs are proving to be timid. If this fails they are just being plain difficult as they can be! I have come across this many a time in many places s oits not unusual you just need to try something different. Edited April 27, 2012 by luderick -angler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullidug Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Could be a number of things but the one that comes to mind is your are either fishing a little bit too deep and the yare sitting in the kelp and laying on the bait or your are fishing too close to the kelp beds and drop offs and they are doing the same thing, try and burley to keep the fish out off the kelp beds and in open water your downs will improve as will the hook up rate also adjust your depth 6 inches at a time if the downs are proving to be timid. If this fails they are just being plain difficult as they can be! I have come across this many a time in many places s oits not unusual you just need to try something different. Wow!!!! Thats great insight Royce! I was fishing off the bottom at Woolwich. Quite often I got caught on the kelp. That explains it all perfectly Cheers buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvillanova Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Could be a number of things but the one that comes to mind is your are either fishing a little bit too deep and the yare sitting in the kelp and laying on the bait or your are fishing too close to the kelp beds and drop offs and they are doing the same thing, try and burley to keep the fish out off the kelp beds and in open water your downs will improve as will the hook up rate also adjust your depth 6 inches at a time if the downs are proving to be timid. If this fails they are just being plain difficult as they can be! I have come across this many a time in many places s oits not unusual you just need to try something different. Excellent explanation Royce, thx for that.............cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfisherman Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Good haul mate. Fishingphase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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