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Yowie

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  1. Well, let's see, photos prove something, rather than no photos at all.
  2. Same as Zoran, catch the occasional one drifting off shore for flatties.
  3. Thanks Bob. a couple of feeds in there.
  4. Thank you Donna. I guessed that from trial and error. It will help others, and alleviate Zoran's concerns (not that he worries about too much, except me catching more fish than him)
  5. Very nice Chris. It certainly is a great size samson for Sydney. Even the small ones put up a fight.
  6. One flattie for your troubles. Sea mullet, not usually taken on a hook. Small flies sometimes work.
  7. Nice jewie there Bob. Sounds like the fish are about.
  8. Zoran, also @Zoran, Zoran the Fisherman, etc etc. That is how your name pops up at times when others quote you. I can tell you, there is only one Zoran here. 🤣
  9. Yes, looked good, 2 more skin cancers cut out. No swimming or beach for 2 weeks.
  10. A couple of meals a week. Most of my family are not big fish eaters, so they wince a little when I mention "going fishing." 😂
  11. A couple of feeds. Felt like a decent tailor, although only on for a very short time. Should be bonnies up river - have not yet seen even a frigate.
  12. Nice couple of feeds. I have used plastics before, but not very often. Zoran has threatened me before with his plastic bonito, however, I keep my distance when he mentions it. 🤣
  13. Thanks Issac. Thought the jewie was close to size, until I pulled it out and onto the measure mat. Pillies jumping, but nothing else near me. One rat kingie swimming around the boat at times, but nothing else.
  14. Thanks Rob, a couple of feeds there. 4 whiting would be a good meal. I have seen flatties do it before, though not very often. The pillie was some distance from the boat, bouncing along the bottom, so as I retrieved it, it probably attracted the attention of the flattie and it took off to see what was happening. Many people think flatties just sit on the bottom and suck in anything that swims past it's nose, that is not the case.
  15. Headed out early this morning, up past Lilli Pilli. Various baits, all attacked by small reddies, though 2 were just over the limit, and the bream as the first fish caught. Also a just over size flounder, too small to keep, and a jewie at 65cm. Nothing on the surface apart from pillies. There should be bonnies and frigates at this time of year, none to be seen anywhere. No yakkas to be caught. I hooked a solid fish, bit of weight to it then the hooks chewed off almost straight away. I'm guessing a good sized tailor. As I was heading home on the run out tide, I decided to have a fish on the drift, sitting just off the sand bank near the ballast heap. A soft plastic prawn thrown over the bank, and an unweighted pillie on ganged hooks out in the channel. After a while the smaller flattie grabbed the plastic, but that was the only hit. Spooked 2 other small flatties as I was drifting along, and they swam off. Decided that was enough, so I wound in the pillie at a bit of speed. When it was near the boat and just under the surface, a brown rocket followed the pillie at speed. It was the larger flattie, it was way off the bottom and obviously hungry. I slowed speed and the flattie slowed speed, and swam around the pillie a couple of times. I jigged the pillie and the flattie swam up to it and away from it, mouth opening and closing a few times. I jigged the pillie right past the flattie's mouth, the mouth opened and the pillie disappeared in one gulp, like being sucked up in a vacuum, the pillie was just inhaled. Interesting to watch the flattie's reaction to the bait. A bit of a fight by the flattie. When I hauled it up, the 3 ganged hooks holding the pillie were sticking in various parts of the flattie's mouth and not coming out easily, so I decided to keep it, otherwise it would have been released. Headed home after that.
  16. I'd be keeping half for the plate, Zoran and Bob. Bugger giving them all to the kingies.
  17. Nice work, good tuition by Derek (especially the boomerang throwing) Plenty of species. Be very cautious of long toms. As you saw, they can twist their head around to nearly the tail, and if those teeth grab hold, they will not let go. The blue crab you caught is a soldier crab, do not grow very large, and are good bait as well as nippers, though I would be sticking with the nippers.
  18. Nice feed there, entree and main feed of fillets. This time of year a few larger tailor will turn up.
  19. Same for flatties caught off Sydney. The little eels are half decomposed by the time they are spat out, so a bit hard to I.D.
  20. A nice effort on the lures. Consider that the smaller bream are not hooking up due to the size of the lure. They may be hitting it side on which does not afford an easy hookup.
  21. Sounds like the roe with the description and taste. Abalone is another good food from the sea, though not many around here any more.
  22. More like a foul hook-up rather than attacking the lure.
  23. Something different there Chris. Never eaten turbans and urchins (the blue groper always liked the urchins being opened when I was in my diving days) Nice to visit a different area.
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