hawkesbury after the entrance social

[tide'n'knots]

hi guys I met up with my mate joe on sunday afternoon on my way home from a very unsuccessful entrance social ( 1 undersized bream 1 eel and one large catfish! ) at parsley bay boat ramp and spent the last 2 days aboard his boat fishing the Hawkesbury, cowan and Brisbane waters. Over 2 nights we ended up with 5 hairtail from jerusulem bay and lost 4 others the first night due to them picking up livies on the bottom intended for jew, hence no wire trace! and during the day we concentrated on bream flathead etc and ended up with our bag limit of 20 bream (between 2 of us) 2 flathead and several large wrasse but only kept 2. Most of the bream were averaging 30cm including 1 honker around 40cm. On the way back to the ramp this afternoon we saw tailer busting up in broken bay and landed 7 in about 10 mins . They were all just undersize and they were all returned. It was good to catch up with several raider friends on the weekend and also nice to meet others for the first time but it was better to finally catch a few fish!

pete

Edited May 19, 2015 by tide'n'knots

[Guest]

_{I don't believe you caught anything especially a Hairtail}

[tide'n'knots]

there is photos to prove it now stewy!! lol. I cant believe I caught 4 hairtail! they must be thick!

[Guest]

there is photos to prove it now stewy!! lol. I cant believe I caught 4 hairtail! they must be thick!

I reckon you could walk on em if you got 4 hahahahaha....well done

[Sydneyfisher12]

great work mate I'm gonna have a session soon on them hairtail seem to be plenty around

[reese]

What are hair tail like to eat?

[leonardgid]

hairtail are moist/juicy , soft white flesh slightly fishy but in a good way, i cant fish for them so i look forward to the winter glut when allot of them get trawled , the chinese and Koreans have special recipes for them that are worth looking for , also this year i noticed line caught hairtail selling at asian fish shops for $29.99 per kilo , way over priced but some people just have more money then you and i.

[Scratchie]

Couldn't agree more Pete! It feels good to come up with tight lines. Well done on the hairtail, it wasn't on my spot was it???

Cheers scratchie!!!

[tide'n'knots]

Couldn't agree more Pete! It feels good to come up with tight lines. Well done on the hairtail, it wasn't on my spot was it???

Cheers scratchie!!!

are you kidding? your spot is crap!! last time I fished there I couldn't get a bite! lol we found our own spot!

[kyngfish]

Nice work.

Did you measure the Hairtail, how long do you think they were if you didn't?

Regards Greg

[Scratchie]

are you kidding? your spot is crap!! last time I fished there I couldn't get a bite! lol we found our own spot!

Lol. Don't think it's the spot, more the angler!

[tide'n'knots]

Nice work.

Did you measure the Hairtail, how long do you think they were if you didn't?

Regards Greg

Didn't measure them mate but they were probably between 3 and 4 foot at a guess

[tide'n'knots]

Lol. Don't think it's the spot, more the angler!

I guess we will find out during the hair tail social:-)

[jandmsullivan@bigpond.com]

Nice haul of fish guys. I'm hoping to get out on the river Friday week with my mate to chase a few bream and flatties. Which section of the river did you have the most luck on the mentioned species?

[tide'n'knots]

Nice haul of fish guys. I'm hoping to get out on the river Friday week with my mate to chase a few bream and flatties. Which section of the river did you have the most luck on the mentioned species?

we caught a few near bobbin head several around lion island and probably half of what we caught at half tide rocks in Brisbane waters. the idea is to fish the turn of the tide and fish very light with little or no lead.

pete.

[jandmsullivan@bigpond.com]

thanks Pete, so they seem to be near the mouth of the river. We normally drift the middle ground near Juno/lion for flatties and go and pump nippers up river and fish the vines or further up for the bream. What bait/lures did you use on the bream?

[Ryder]

It was good to meet you Peter.

Glad you got on to the fish in the end .

Santa Claus said you were fishing too deep.