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  2. Haven't had boat in water for nearly two months due to health and family issues and freezer was low for Good Friday. Decided to try repeating last years effort when we landed 4 jewies within 40 minutes. A night fish on Botany bay was planned for when mate got home from work at 6pm even though we had little bait. Not so lucky this year tally was 2 undersize jew released, 3 huge pike eals, 3 shovelnose, 2 tiny wobbygongs and a 4 ft hammerhead shark. No squid due to plage of small tailor but a few yakkas kept us going. Started packing up just after midnight when my mates rod went off and he landed an 80cm mulloway. As his family doesn't eat fish my family ate fresh fish instead of frozen for lunch today. Surprised to find fish wore a tag # A663746 so I froze head and frame if it will help. Due to minimal use in past 12 months I was pleased my old tub performed well with no major issues but steering was a bit stiff and sqid lights didn't work so I have a little maintenance to do. Boats don't like being ignored and deteriorate more when not used. Will try to upload photo. Ron
  3. The words " best and cheap " should never be used in the same sentence. Sure catch brand from the big snake would be my pick. Frank
  4. hi guys, I know I’ve been asking a lot of questions lately but that is because I want to get ready and have all the answers for the holidays where I will be fishing frequently. I have a question regarding bait aerators, just wanted to see which ones worked well for you and looking to spent maximum 50$. I’ve got a 25 litre esky that is decently narrow and was looking to slice open a side to create an opening to put the mount in. Yakkas, slimies and squid will be used in here. Thank you guys
  5. @squidjigga all of the above reports reflect my experience with sabiki jigs for bait…. Including yours. They manly work dropping through a school of bait fish - and you need to experiment with size of jigs and the speed of the drop on the day to get consistent hook up rate. Because you are relying on dropping through the school it implies you need to be in fairly deep water given Sabiki rigs are generally around 1.5 - 2m (5-6ft). No point trying to drop that length jig in 5m of water. The only way I have been able to get a bite on a sabiki in shallow water where you can’t drop is to use an attractant scent on the jigs - something like Gulp or Squidge Gel. This corresponds with your experience of needing to bait the jigs. But on that point, from memory the DPI site states you can only use a max of 3 hooks when line fishing (sabiki are excluded as they are jigs/lures) but once you add bait technically you have a 6 hook paternoster rig. Happy to be corrected on this point. Anyway, since I mostly catch my live bait in less than 6m of water I have reverted to a simple handline. I do carry a string or two of sabikis in case we encounter baitfish offshore in deeper water. cheers Zoran
  6. Thank you Rob. I have seen turtles feeding in the Hacking on sea grasses, but not fish frames.
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  8. Big thx my master. I will try it soon. Hope I can access it easily
  9. @kbraggy I was re-reading some ARTICLES and remembered your post. While the following relates to Forster, the general information may help you. Arpie knows her fishing!
  10. Maybe you would be better heading down to Jindabyne I have a mate down there at the moment and he tells me they are landing Browns to 3kg and Rainbows almost as big. Frank PS Be careful if you are driving .Mate tells me he has never seen so many police in the area in his life, they are everywhere for some reason, maybe there are some polititans fishing down that way.
  11. That mission was a success 🤣🤣
  12. Very nice bag Yowie! The turtle would have been a sight too!
  13. You got a feed Chris! now it’s if to the tackle shop to stock up on terminals😜
  14. Probably would've ended in tears 🤣 But a small price to pay for such a thrill!😎
  15. A nice session for sure. You would have been telling a different story if a kingie hooked up. 🤣
  16. This morning I took the chance to fish with @Mike Sydney at Iron Cove. We were hoping to see a few bigger tailor that he gets into during the colder months. Mike was on the water by 5:45, catching me off guard as I was still mucking around at home. Quickly got my stuff together and dashed out the door. By the time I got there at about 6.15 he had already caught so many choppers that he was bored of it and watched me get one on a bent minnow. Mike had recently got himself a bumper haul of lures and hearing of my recent lure losses, kindly gifted me a little Halco Roosta Popper. I've been wanting to try one of these for a while, thanks mate! Anyhow, we cast on, trying a variety of bibbed lures, crankas and plastics. Mike hooks onto a flatty on a Jewie plastic, but unfortunately dropped it. By that time I had given up on top water and had tied on a Austackle Shimmer Stik (a sinking stickbait). I think sinking stickbaits are a very underutilised style of lure. Working this over the bottom, I felt a tap, but missed it. Next cast, felt a similar tap and hit it hard. Up came a flatty: As I was dealing with the photographing and release of this fish, we see some other anglers fishing for kings. One of them yells out that they are on and we hear a singing drag. Mike runs over to first have a cast, and then help with the landing of the fish. I didn't see it, but Mike said it could have been 1m and the guy was understandably ecstatic. First king ever too, what a lucky catch! After that Mike needed to get home to his family. I had a little bit of time left on my leave pass, so I fished further around the bay with a bent minnow. Had a few visual follows from big bream, but no hookups. Towards the end of my session, a school of big kings swims by and one of them splashes at my lure, scaring the daylights out of me. I didn't hook up and I was somewhat thankful for that; I'd had enough of losing lures over the past month and on ultralight BFS gear, I wouldn't have stood a chance!🤣 Packed up and went home. Might need to sit out a couple of mornings before I head out again, can't wait for the next session. Thanks for reading.
  17. Well we ended up trolling various lures ( inc tas devils ) from the surface down to around 15m , cast lures , jigged lures , used bait ( worms & power bait at various depths from the surface to 30m depth ) and finally in frustration I even tried a small popper as we had a fish snatch a Santa Claus off the surface and another swipe at a bubble that was rising from the bottom - didn’t even get a follow or lose a bait . I don’t recall ever fishing so hard for zip! Went up the Eucumbene river which used to be river pebble bottom but for some reason it is now mostly mud which isn’t good for trout breeding. Of all the other boats we seen , I didn’t see a bent rod or hear of anything being caught , other than fly fishing I don’t know if there was anything more I could have done . With winter approaching I think the next trip will be north coast luderick! The weather was great up until midday when a stiff NW breeze hit town .
  18. Thanks mate, cant really catch live squid and i dont have an aerator either. Any tips on how to catch them using butterflied yakkas, drift it or work it like a lure?
  19. Harbour kings are very fussy. Live bait or very fresh squid would be a better bet. Also small snapper and other pickers will make short work of pillies.
  20. Just wanted to know if using half pillies or even whole on a long shank with a half hitch would work to catch Kings, I am landbased and looking to fish in the harbour. Could any of these particularly catch a decent kingy? Thanks guys.
  21. Yes, and thanks Derek, I have just about read all the squidding articles across the community and have gathered some decent information. Any tips on colours for jigs and what conditions to use them for? Plus, is the piers a good spot for squid, and if so which pier? I was looking to head out Sunday to catch some kingies with live squid and butterflied yakkas. Thanks
  22. Thank you for the tips, again, I have decided to probably not use the scent and this just reaffirms my decision. Thank you
  23. noelm

    Men's shed ?

    Geees, a couple of those chainwheels on the bikes hanging up have got cotter pins…….nothing uses them these days. Way back in the ”old days” the cotter only had a small flat on it, and you had to file it to fit the bottom bracket axle/shaft. These days they are just soft cheese and you whack them in with a hammer, but they bugger up in no time. That’s quite a bike workshop, I guess you spoke your own wheels and true them?
  24. Bail arm open and drop-in current i will stick crew down the back of the boat and slowly drive backwards into the current to keep the line vertical -in my experience jiggling the rod tip up and down doesnt work all that well.
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