Pittwater squid and beach session

[Kizza]

G'day all first report and it's been a long time coming. Thought i had better stop reading and start contributing to this awesome site! This site has helped me so much since I started getting right back into fishing about a yr ago so thanks to all the guys and gals for sharing there knowledge and experience.

Bit of a late report but better late than never. Launched the yak at barrenjoey in search of squid for a jewie beach session that night and got two stonkers (well stonkers for me as I'm pretty green when it comes to squid fishing) on the first drift of about 32cm hood. Then a smaller model of 20cm hood on the second. I was stoked but it was looking like I was going to have to submit my catch to the mrs as I never catch enough for a descent feed but promised if I did it would be a feed. Lucky for me my persistence paid off. Over the next 2-3 hours I bagged 14 including my pb of 34cm hood. Which is the best session I have had in sydney (have only done better in JB). So a happy mrs and bait for me and my mate for the night. All caught on yamashita LIVE jigs from 2.5 to 3.5 in pink orange and natural. The natural outfished on this particular day 10-4. Also trialed leaving a jig out while I fished on a rod in the holder and picked up two and dropped two which was a cool first.

Knife is 30cm

So that night fresh squid in hand I headed to the northern beaches and could not find a descent gutter on a beach without someone fishing it for the life of me. So I ended up in a half descent gutter on mona vale beach which was the first time I had fished this beach. So we set up and have a line out just before 7. Doesn't take long and we have two blue spot flattys in the esky but no Jew. Over the next hour I lose a lot of squid to pickers. Then just before the sun has totally gone down my rod buckles over and I pick it up and there is a lot of weight and a very strong first run and I think finally my first Jewy! A couple of short runs later and has taken me about 70 meters up the beach and I see a bloody shark thrashing around in the wash and my mate grabs it by the tail and have a quick measure and snap and threw her back. She was 1.1 metres long and I'm pretty sure a whaler. Pretty quiet after that apart from a banjo shark my mate caught that had to be 10kgs minimum biggest I've ever seen and I have caught hundreds in jb. So yet again no Jewy after about my 10th dedicated beach jewy session in the last year. I just can't crack one and I need to feed this addiction I have haha

I think i finally cracked the squidding code now so hopefully that first Jewy won't be far off.

Sorry for crappy pic and long post

Please let me know if pics don't come up and I'll try fix it

[SMn]

Gday mate!

I was stoked to land 3 squiddies last weekend, was my 1st time! Got to love the kayak too! Well done!

¤ don't know if it's just my phone/computer but I couldn't view your pics...

[onearmedfisho]

G'day all first report and it's been a long time coming. Thought i had better stop reading and start contributing to this awesome site! This site has helped me so much since I started getting right back into fishing about a yr ago so thanks to all the guys and gals for sharing there knowledge and experience.

Bit of a late report but better late than never. Launched the yak at barrenjoey in search of squid for a jewie beach session that night and got two stonkers (well stonkers for me as I'm pretty green when it comes to squid fishing) on the first drift of about 32cm hood. Then a smaller model of 20cm hood on the second. I was stoked but it was looking like I was going to have to submit my catch to the mrs as I never catch enough for a descent feed but promised if I did it would be a feed. Lucky for me my persistence paid off. Over the next 2-3 hours I bagged 14 including my pb of 34cm hood. Which is the best session I have had in sydney (have only done better in JB). So a happy mrs and bait for me and my mate for the night. All caught on yamashita LIVE jigs from 2.5 to 3.5 in pink orange and natural. The natural outfished on this particular day 10-4. Also trialed leaving a jig out while I fished on a rod in the holder and picked up two and dropped two which was a cool first.

Knife is 30cm

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So that night fresh squid in hand I headed to the northern beaches and could not find a descent gutter on a beach without someone fishing it for the life of me. So I ended up in a half descent gutter on mona vale beach which was the first time I had fished this beach. So we set up and have a line out just before 7. Doesn't take long and we have two blue spot flattys in the esky but no Jew. Over the next hour I lose a lot of squid to pickers. Then just before the sun has totally gone down my rod buckles over and I pick it up and there is a lot of weight and a very strong first run and I think finally my first Jewy! A couple of short runs later and has taken me about 70 meters up the beach and I see a bloody shark thrashing around in the wash and my mate grabs it by the tail and have a quick measure and snap and threw her back. She was 1.1 metres long and I'm pretty sure a whaler. Pretty quiet after that apart from a banjo shark my mate caught that had to be 10kgs minimum biggest I've ever seen and I have caught hundreds in jb. So yet again no Jewy after about my 10th dedicated beach jewy session in the last year. I just can't crack one and I need to feed this addiction I have haha

I think i finally cracked the squidding code now so hopefully that first Jewy won't be far off.

Sorry for crappy pic and long post

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Please let me know if pics don't come up and I'll try fix it

nice report mate but pics didnt work...

[adfrew]

Great report, nice work on the squid, keep the mrs and yourslef happy that's a mighty effort