rockfishing - northern beaches

[toboggi]

My mate and I decided to head out early for the rocks up north

Were looking to target breams, blackfish, drummer and trevallies.

Was on location before first light - conditions were a bit more rough than expected.

Started to fish our preferred ledges using a floating rig. Was starting to get rough with the rising tide so after an hour or so we moved to a more sheltered location.

Continued to burley hard with bread and my mate started to pick up bream after bream

I was using white bread and fishing a shallow spot and began to bring in blackfish after blackfish

Before we knew it we had 5 bream and 7 luderick in the bag. I got busted off by a drummer which was frustrating as this would topped the day.

Otherwise quite a memorable day for me as i never experienced such a hot bite with luderick in such a shallow spot. My rig was held at a depth of 1.2m....anything deeper would have resulted in snags and i was casting around 3 metres off the ledge (wasnt even casting - more like just dropping my rig right in front)

Cheers,

Toboggi

[Jew Stalker]

That's a great bag of fish. How long were you guys there for? Also what was your mate using for the bream? I am surprised that the blackies went nuts for the bread. Down here you are lucky to get them on anything aside from weed down here. I have only seen one come up on bread here in my entire time fishing.

Luc.

[thefisherman6784]

Great job boys

Nice bag of fish there

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[rockfisherman]

Fantastic feed there toboggi, some quality fish fillets to be had...

Well done on making my mouth water

Harry

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[toboggi]

That's a great bag of fish. How long were you guys there for? Also what was your mate using for the bream? I am surprised that the blackies went nuts for the bread. Down here you are lucky to get them on anything aside from weed down here. I have only seen one come up on bread here in my entire time fishing.

Luc.

We were fishing for about 4-5 hours. Mucked around for the first couple of hours changing ledges, making burley etc. All fish were basically caught during first 2 hours of run in tide and 1 hr run out tide... could have bagged more blackies but got snagged and lost rig and called it a day as we had enough for a good feed.

The blackies would not touch cabbage/weed at all. I started with cabbage with no downs. I actually got first blackie on squid strip and the rest of white bread. Bread is one of my favourite baits as I can catch all my target species with it.

Great job boys

Nice bag of fish there

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Thanks!

Fantastic feed there toboggi, some quality fish fillets to be had...

Well done on making my mouth water

Harry

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Thanks! - Had the blackfish for dinner. Yum.

[atadpole13]

That's a great bag of fish. How long were you guys there for? Also what was your mate using for the bream? I am surprised that the blackies went nuts for the bread. Down here you are lucky to get them on anything aside from weed down here. I have only seen one come up on bread here in my entire time fishing.

Luc.

The breams were caught on peeled hawksbury prawns. Wasn't easy trying to bypass all the rock cods that were trying to take the bait before the desired depth.

[iamthecowgodmoo]

That's plenty of inspiration for me to hit the stones around Collaroy this weekend....if the weather holds out. Nice work!

[toboggi]

Definitely should get out there. Blackies and bream in very good numbers. Although swell looking a bit hairy next week.

[scratchie_junior619]

great catch mate!!! I bet that was a nice feed

[chokpa]

We were fishing for about 4-5 hours. Mucked around for the first couple of hours changing ledges, making burley etc. All fish were basically caught during first 2 hours of run in tide and 1 hr run out tide... could have bagged more blackies but got snagged and lost rig and called it a day as we had enough for a good feed.

The blackies would not touch cabbage/weed at all. I started with cabbage with no downs. I actually got first blackie on squid strip and the rest of white bread. Bread is one of my favourite baits as I can catch all my target species with it.

How do you attach the bread securely to the hook? My bread just flings off. If i squeeze it too much it tends to get brittle. Thanks!

[toboggi]

How do you attach the bread securely to the hook? My bread just flings off. If i squeeze it too much it tends to get brittle. Thanks!

Hi Chokpa,

I use the cheapo home brand white bread you get from woolies. $1.15 a loaf.

Get one slice and tear off the crust ...throw the crust into your burley instead of wasting it.

Crust doesnt stay on well so never use the crust.

I then divide it in quarters and wrap the quarter around my hook and squeeze until its a round doughy ball and hook is completely hidden with not air pockets.

The trick is to make sure the bread is always in the plastic bag it comes in so it retains its original moisture. As soon as you take the bread out and leave it in the sun it becomes all brittle/dry and wont stay on the hook. Also make sure your bread isnt wet either.

I normally take one slice out of the bag and take off crust and stick the remainder in my pocket so i can get 4 casts out before getting more bait out.

Hope that helps. I have been told that the more expensive white breads or the those hot dog rolls stay on hook better but i never had a problem with the cheap brand.

Cheers,

Toboggi