Port Hacking

[Yowie]

Headed out early this morning to Maianbar flats, arrived about half light and started pumping nippers. A bit quiet at first, then some whiting turned up. Fairly constant bites until the tide slowed (run up). Not big whiting, biggest at 34cm and some just over the limit. Half a dozen or so released just under the limit. 

That was enough for me for a few feeds, so I decided to head home. Looked at the clock and it was right on 7am, so an early trip back to the ramp.

I caught them all by wading in the water, less than knee deep.

[jenno64]

Very nice catch Dave! Good to see the tings are coming on!

 

[Ryder]

Very nice bag. A few tasty meals in that.

[Yowie]

1 hour ago, jenno64 said:

Very nice catch Dave! Good to see the tings are coming on!

 

Thanks Rob. Surprised by the number of them, though not big ones, plenty of fillets.

[Yowie]

22 minutes ago, Ryder said:

Very nice bag. A few tasty meals in that.

Thank you. A few meals alright.

[Larkin]

Some nice fillets! Your wading technique seems to do the trick. I think the sand being kicked up can attract them too.

I Must of just missed you at the ramp - was there at first light.

[blaxland]

What a lovely fishery you have

 

[Yowie]

2 hours ago, blaxland said:

What a lovely fishery you have

 

Happy with what is available down this way.

[Yowie]

3 hours ago, Larkin said:

Some nice fillets! Your wading technique seems to do the trick. I think the sand being kicked up can attract them too.

I Must of just missed you at the ramp - was there at first light.

Thank you. Pumping the nippers, and wading about stirs up the sand, attracting a few, though I do find some up current as well, where there is no sand being stirred up. 

Saw your van there after I returned, parked not far from me, so I guessed you were not far behind in launch time.

[SpeedyGiraffe49]

Nice one Yowie, that’s a great haul. Sounds similar to what I do on that sand flat - if find yourself interested in some company you’re welcome to flick me a message.

Are you fishing the yabbies unweighted? I’ve been fishing them with a sinker to get additional casting distance from the Spit.

[Yowie]

4 hours ago, SpeedyGiraffe49 said:

Nice one Yowie, that’s a great haul. Sounds similar to what I do on that sand flat - if find yourself interested in some company you’re welcome to flick me a message.

Are you fishing the yabbies unweighted? I’ve been fishing them with a sinker to get additional casting distance from the Spit.

I use a size 0 ball sinker running free, helps with the casting. I have tried unweighted nippers to float along in the current, but not for a while. The seagulls can fly down and grab the floating nippers, then the fish are scared off.

[Basil D]

On 10/4/2024 at 11:24 AM, Yowie said:

Headed out early this morning to Maianbar flats, arrived about half light and started pumping nippers. A bit quiet at first, then some whiting turned up. Fairly constant bites until the tide slowed (run up). Not big whiting, biggest at 34cm and some just over the limit. Half a dozen or so released just under the limit. 

That was enough for me for a few feeds, so I decided to head home. Looked at the clock and it was right on 7am, so an early trip back to the ramp.

I caught them all by wading in the water, less than knee deep.

Yowie, Im Betting your retired , what a nice way to live, catch your feed and enjoy the water ways , this is living .

[Yowie]

2 hours ago, Basil D said:

Yowie, Im Betting your retired , what a nice way to live, catch your feed and enjoy the water ways , this is living .

Yes Basil, retired since 2010. Have been fishing The Hacking since about 5 years old, that is 40 or 50 years ago, well, may be a bit longer. 😂

Certainly like fishing there.