fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 hi raiders hit botany bay again hoping for a hoody got to the ramp around 4am and the carpark was almost full quickly loaded up the boat and headed straight to molly plenty of boats already sitting at the point got to our spot and there were already 4 boats sitting there quicky made the burley and starting catching yakkas and slimys set out our first yakka on float one of my bff basil gave my a new float to try he thinks ill get a better strike rate with the new float he had half a dozen strikes using the new float landing 3 losing 3 with only 1 keeper at 76cm drop the yakka to about 3m under the float by 6am there were dozens of boats around us one boat was getting too close to where we anchor and the skipper kept on going around us coz we were catching and they werent some people just got no manners whatsoever got fed up with the smart comments from the other boat so i told them to get lost anyway filled up the esky with slimys amd yakkas landed 9 rat kingys up to 60cm lost over a dozen on the side of the boat with the hooks coming off and got busted half a dozen times on the 2000 and 2500 daiwa combos using 10lb line 10lb trace size 4 circle hook we were using chicken pillys slimys for bait also landed 1 oz salmon over the 60cm which took the yakka on float half a dozen kingys took the live yakka more than half a dozen on bait even got a kingy hang out on the side of the boat feeding on the pilly burley decided to pack up around 10am due to other commitments on the way back to the ramp we noticed that our boat had water on floor and we can only do about 5knots in full throttle the bilge pump didnt work so my mate richard had to use the bucket to try remove some water from the boat while i drove the boat back to the ramp took awhile to get back to the ramp got back to richards house and we noticed that the right wheel of the boat trailer was about to come off we were very lucky that it didnt come off while we were doing 80kph on the freeway thanks for reading we all felt very lucky today that we got home safe we could have made the news while we were on the water and when we were on the way home big lessons learned be safe everyone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smasher Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Nice haul! Do you eat slimeys or are they for bait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Plenty of slimey macks there. Will make good salted baits. I have cut off the fillets and removed the bones from them a few times, bread crumbed and pan fried them. Fairly good eating, and high in the good fish oils. Bleed them if they are for eating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Well done on the keeper and the stack of baits for future trips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Great report well done Fisho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welster Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Awesome morning on the water. Sounds like you have a few jobs to do before hitting the water again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Nice report mate. Sounds like an action packed day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 11 hours ago, Smasher said: Nice haul! Do you eat slimeys or are they for bait? http://www.fishingmonthly.com.au/Articles/Display/17647-Slimy-Mackerel-Cooking-the-bait Being quite oily they are also great smoked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 13 hours ago, Smasher said: Nice haul! Do you eat slimeys or are they for bait? we eat ad use slimys for bait just fillets and pan fried cutlets with coconut cream we give all our friends slimys and they love eating them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 12 hours ago, Yowie said: Plenty of slimey macks there. Will make good salted baits. I have cut off the fillets and removed the bones from them a few times, bread crumbed and pan fried them. Fairly good eating, and high in the good fish oils. Bleed them if they are for eating. yes mate excelllent bait we fried smoked and all our friends love eating slimys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 11 hours ago, jenno64 said: Well done on the keeper and the stack of baits for future trips! thanks mate yes plenty of baits save us alot of money on bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 11 hours ago, masterfisho7 said: Great report well done Fisho thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 10 hours ago, Welster said: Awesome morning on the water. Sounds like you have a few jobs to do before hitting the water again. yes mate weve been having excellent fishing trips since december when the weather permits we wont be going out until my mate richard fixed the trailer the pump the bung not worth taking the risks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, kingie chaser said: http://www.fishingmonthly.com.au/Articles/Display/17647-Slimy-Mackerel-Cooking-the-bait Being quite oily they are also great smoked. yes very good when smoked our friends love slimys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankS Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Slimy's are excellent on the table, any pommy recipe book with mackerel will be referring to the Slimy . I sometimes target them for the table. But don't tell anyone or they might become hard to catch. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I was out there yesterday & didn't see anyone catching any kings at molly. I trolled for roughly 30 minutes then gave up & went chasing some bread & butter fish. Came home with a couple of nice flatties & a decent flounder so got a feed which was nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 You were indeed very lucky not to be on the news mate. What were the causes of the 2 problems which you had (the water in the boat and the trailer wheel)? Hope you manage effective repairs and can get back on the water soon. Cheers, bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 8:45 AM, frankS said: Slimy's are excellent on the table, any pommy recipe book with mackerel will be referring to the Slimy . I sometimes target them for the table. But don't tell anyone or they might become hard to catch. Frank plenty of slimys out there atm just need to burley and you will definitely catch plenty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 6:58 PM, big Neil said: You were indeed very lucky not to be on the news mate. What were the causes of the 2 problems which you had (the water in the boat and the trailer wheel)? Hope you manage effective repairs and can get back on the water soon. Cheers, bn one fo the bungs got a leak so need to replace it and need to replace the bilge pump too need to replace the wheel bearings on the wheels or just replace the whole trailer with the new one wont be using the boat until we can fix the trailer and the boat wont be fishing until the end of feb atm due to work commitments so hopefully we can find the time in between to fix everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 8 hours ago, fisholb said: one fo the bungs got a leak so need to replace it and need to replace the bilge pump too need to replace the wheel bearings on the wheels or just replace the whole trailer with the new one wont be using the boat until we can fix the trailer and the boat wont be fishing until the end of feb atm due to work commitments so hopefully we can find the time in between to fix everything Good luck for speedy repairs mate so u can get back out there. bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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