Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Headed out early to near the mouth of Yowie Bay. The trevally only just made the size, hooked in the gills while swimming amongst the yakkas. Was going to use it as bait, but it will be eaten instead. Apart from the jackets, the other fish were taken on squid and fish strips. A few throwback reddies were just under size, so they are getting bigger over the last few months. The jackets were taken on squid pieces. Not large ones, and some others were thrown back. The biggest of them was a male, the others all female. One thing I have noticed with the yellow finned jackets is that most of them are female, very few males caught and the males are usually slightly larger in size and have bigger spikes near the tail. No tailor about, the occasional rat kingie splashing and a lot of smaller fish hitting the surface. I think these were frigates, they appear in the Hacking in February and no takers on the lure as usual. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil D Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 nice mixed bag, snapper that size are very sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 NIce work yowie! We had a school of frigates the other day smashing about. Same for me, no takers on lures! Good little feed. Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berleyguts Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Nice catch, Yowie! Can’t complain about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naughty1 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Thanks for the post Yowie, a great mixed bag there. Got me motivated to have a crack at the Hacking over coming weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Basil D said: nice mixed bag, snapper that size are very sweet Thanks Basil, just finished the reddie fillets and they were quite tasty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 56 minutes ago, Scratchie said: NIce work yowie! We had a school of frigates the other day smashing about. Same for me, no takers on lures! Good little feed. Cheers scratchie!!! Thanks Scratchie. Shared the fish amongst the various family members, 2 feeds for the missus and myself. Reddie fillets tonight, flattie fillets in a couple more nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Berleyguts said: Nice catch, Yowie! Can’t complain about that! No complaints today. Edited February 22, 2018 by Yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Great bag some fine fish Yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Just now, masterfisho7 said: Great bag some fine fish Yowie Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 10 minutes ago, naughty1 said: Thanks for the post Yowie, a great mixed bag there. Got me motivated to have a crack at the Hacking over coming weeks. Better than last week's catch, only a couple of bream and whiting, not worth a report. A good dump of rain would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 are the males with larger spikes actually six spined jackets.???.....nice feed yowie looks like your eating well...rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 9 hours ago, rickmarlin62 said: are the males with larger spikes actually six spined jackets.???.....nice feed yowie looks like your eating well...rick They are yellow finned jackets, and have 4 spikes near the tail. I was hit by the tail spikes of a large male and it drew blood, so have been careful since. Yes, I like a couple of feeds of fish a week, more than the missus and grown up kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam bros Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Nice feed there Do you fish landbased or on boat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 4 hours ago, sam bros said: Nice feed there Do you fish landbased or on boat? Cmon Sam, haven’t you seen one of yowies thousand posts from the hacking? Its a full pimped out tinnie isn’t yowie??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Scratchie said: Cmon Sam, haven’t you seen one of yowies thousand posts from the hacking? Its a full pimped out tinnie isn’t yowie??? Just an older tinnie, still with most of the paint on it. Nothing fancy, I don't want to stand out like dog's b#lls so that everyone can see me. The previous one was almost paintless and 42 years old, held together with waterproof silastic but some of the holes were getting too hard to repair. Edited February 25, 2018 by Yowie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydney south Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Great mixed bag..... Always look forward to your reports....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrxter Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Great catch/report as always Yowie, I catch a few of the reddies as well on squid strips but never as many as you! What do you find is the best way to cook the fillets? Wrxter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smasher Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Nice catch! I was hanging around the sand bar off lilli pilli on Saturday. Plenty of good sized whiting cruising around. I flicked a whiting popper around for a while, right passed their noses, they weren't interested. Others on a nearby boat were using with live worms, not one caught. Any tips for pulling them out? I supposed live nippers could be the go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 15 hours ago, wrxter said: Great catch/report as always Yowie, I catch a few of the reddies as well on squid strips but never as many as you! What do you find is the best way to cook the fillets? Wrxter I have a couple of different recipes I found in fish recipe books, on the internet, and sometimes just crumbed and pan fried. I have several fish cook books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 25, 2018 Author Share Posted February 25, 2018 37 minutes ago, Smasher said: Nice catch! I was hanging around the sand bar off lilli pilli on Saturday. Plenty of good sized whiting cruising around. I flicked a whiting popper around for a while, right passed their noses, they weren't interested. Others on a nearby boat were using with live worms, not one caught. Any tips for pulling them out? I supposed live nippers could be the go. If you can see the whiting, they can see you and it will be rather hard to have them bite. Shallow water makes them more cautious, deeper water not so bad. Have tried blood worms, squirt worms and nippers. In clear water and no wind, very difficult to get them to take a bait, with the water ruffled by wind, sometimes they are less cautious. Early morning or late afternoon better than with the sun sitting up in the sky. Cloudy days can also make the whiting come on the bite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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