Yowie Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Headed out to give Bate Bay a try today, dropped the first bait at the leisurely hour of 11am, and finished at 3pm. Saw that the swell and wind forecast was in the calm mode, and when I first started, it was dead calm. Later a light breeze picked up from the east then south-east. Caught my 10 flatties, not big fish, with one near 50cm, some not much over the limit, but enough fillets for a couple of feeds. Threw back more undersized ones than legal ones I kept. Mostly blue spots, with a couple of tigers as well. Spikey flatties in patches as well, pulling them up 2 at a time in some places. Used mullet fillets for bait, some that I had frozen from a couple of months ago. Heard a couple of penguins calling out, and one whale hit the surface, but nothing else to see. Better than fishing in the Port last Monday, where I tried Lilli Pilli for no bites at all, then drifted with nippers at many places for a whiting, a flounder and 3 duskies, all undersized. Last week was a few little reddies in Yowie Bay, with a couple of dolphins swimming near the boat. Inside the Port it is cold and clear water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no one Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 That's really late for you Yowie!! Good for you going outside, good to know not to waste time in the hacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Great result mate that is an awesome feed If u don't mind me asking, what depth were u fishing ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Great result mate that is an awesome feed If u don't mind me asking, what depth were u fishing ? Don't know the depth, as I don't have a depth sounder in my tinny. I was no further out from Cronulla than a line south of the Kurnell lighthouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbox Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Thats great ill be out bate bay i think next week we fished NTH bellambi yesterday Stanwell park not a lot but We where circled by a monster shark i recon it was as big as the boat, checked the Fin type on the net when we got home looked like a great white fin I had shivers when it when around the boat dogbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchie_junior619 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Great catch yowie! That's a lot of flathead just surprising with that many around there were no big ones! Cheers scratchie_jnr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thats great ill be out bate bay i think next week we fished NTH bellambi yesterday Stanwell park not a lot but We where circled by a monster shark i recon it was as big as the boat, checked the Fin type on the net when we got home looked like a great white fin I had shivers when it when around the boat dogbox Well, you can keep your big shark down that way. I don't need that circling my boat ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Great catch yowie! That's a lot of flathead just surprising with that many around there were no big ones! Cheers scratchie_jnr I caught plenty, and only one reasonable sized one amongst them. Most of the flatties had roe inside them, the tigers had big fat roe, so they are now getting into breeding time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock&Beach Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Sounds like a nice day out though. Can't be fresh flathead filets for taste. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krispy ! Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Well done yowie the hacking has slowed down a lot, few nice trevs though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Well done yowie the hacking has slowed down a lot, few nice trevs though Are you still getting a few trevs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krispy ! Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Are you still getting a few trevs? Yeah been abit tough but some real solid ones are showing up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 A few good ones turn up during winter, but they can be scattered throughout the Port. A bit of distance to travel out to Bate Bay for the flatties, but the ocean flatties taste a bit better than the duskies up river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adkel53 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I tried the "Cronulla flathead drift" that is out from the Osborn Shoal this morning. Landed a legal blue spot and a legal sand flathead and about a dozen or so undersized ones. Used pink and fluoro green "snapper catcher" jigs baited with fresh squid strips and pieces of fresh pike. Fished in water around 33 metres deep. Sounds like I should have tried in closer! Also saw penguins but no whales today. Huge amounts of bait in the water in places. They surfaced a few times but didn't look like anything chasing it and no takes on a small Halco slice retrieved through them. Hundreds on smallish grey birds sitting on the surface and feeding around me. Anyone know what they would be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 I tried the "Cronulla flathead drift" that is out from the Osborn Shoal this morning. Landed a legal blue spot and a legal sand flathead and about a dozen or so undersized ones. Used pink and fluoro green "snapper catcher" jigs baited with fresh squid strips and pieces of fresh pike. Fished in water around 33 metres deep. Sounds like I should have tried in closer! Also saw penguins but no whales today. Huge amounts of bait in the water in places. They surfaced a few times but didn't look like anything chasing it and no takes on a small Halco slice retrieved through them. Hundreds on smallish grey birds sitting on the surface and feeding around me. Anyone know what they would be? The flatties are scattered, just a matter of drifting along and finding the fish. Saw a school of those fish on surface the day before, threw in a small lure for nothing. Previous years found some of those schools to be yellowtail, feeding on surface microbait. The birds might be a type of shearwater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Thanks for the report Well done Nice feed you got there Hope we can get some tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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