Port Hacking Monday 14th

[hookerbruce]

Headed out from Grays Point ramp yesterday morning went out off Jibbon looking for some flathead. Had a troll around the Bonnie on the way, no interest from the fish. Started drifting in 25 m of water and worked my way out finding a few legal fish when I reached the 40 m mark. Kept 5 fish 35-42 cm . The south easterly freshened up just after 9 am and the wind fighting with a strong southbound current made me head back into the river.

Water in the river is still very dirty, anchored in about 15 m of water out from Lilli Pilli baths after about 30 mins a few slimies, yellowtail and pilchards turned up. Didn’t take much longer for a few kings to show up ended up landing 10 biggest 64.5 cm , have to try and catch that again next week when it’s bigger.

Kept a legal reddie and some slimies etc for bait. Only had one shower of rain and the canopy kept me dry. Very few boats out.

Not an exciting report but at least I got out for a fish and had fun with the kings.

Edited March 15, 2022 by hookerbruce
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[Isaac Ct]

Better than nothing mate, still a nice feed and some baits for next time.

[Rebel]

That is a good haul.

Well done.

[Restyle]

nice to see the kings heading back to lilli, haven't seen pillies there in while, they get demolished by kings near instantly if they stay alive

[Fab1]

I'm just glad there's 5 less fish for that Yowie to catch.Watch him struggle to get a feed now!🤣😂 Good effort mate.

[Yowie]

Nice work Bruce. The flatties are better than having to eat the slimies and yakkas.

My mate had a fish 2 days ago up river - small kingies, salmon and a 42 cm tailor, and had a bigger tailor bite him off at the boat.

I'm currently in the central Gippsland area of Vic - the water around Bairnsdale is like murky like Sydney water.

[leonardgid]

i would be happy with it 

 

[Larkin]

Nice fisherman’s basket!

quite a few kingys in and around the hacking at the moment. Most under legal, but the odd few over.

[Pickles]

Lovely bag of fish Bruce, great report.

[papafish]

On 3/15/2022 at 12:42 PM, hookerbruce said:

Headed out from Grays Point ramp yesterday morning went out off Jibbon looking for some flathead. Had a troll around the Bonnie on the way, no interest from the fish. Started drifting in 25 m of water and worked my way out finding a few legal fish when I reached the 40 m mark. Kept 5 fish 35-42 cm . The south easterly freshened up just after 9 am and the wind fighting with a strong southbound current made me head back into the river.

Water in the river is still very dirty, anchored in about 15 m of water out from Lilli Pilli baths after about 30 mins a few slimies, yellowtail and pilchards turned up. Didn’t take much longer for a few kings to show up ended up landing 10 biggest 64.5 cm , have to try and catch that again next week when it’s bigger.

Kept a legal reddie and some slimies etc for bait. Only had one shower of rain and the canopy kept me dry. Very few boats out.

Not an exciting report but at least I got out for a fish and had fun with the kings.

Very nice champ!!!

I went back on Tuesday Arvo, lilli bath were good packed, took my son out for a session, got their and there were 5 people, 2 left. So we ended up with a decent spot. 5 minutes later came another 2 bloke and asked if can cast on the right side… I said sure since I’m a nice guy. Another 30min later came another bloke😅 so there were 7 people

fishing in a line of 10 metre or less.

 

managed 9 good size yellow tails 5 mullets!!!? Strange. And a bream. Might try and go during the day one time and see what happen might bump into ya😁

 

 

[jenno64]

Nice work Bruce

Did you catch and use the pillies for bait?