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is 66 legal? sounds like a bit of a tail stretch...

Hi Gents, I do a fair bit of blackfish/ drummer fishing south of era but have not fished the ledges at Wottomulla, any chance of giving some intel as to where the best ledges are around there? cheers

I whitnessed jet buying whole Whiting from the local fish monger on Friday last week.... I predict he took one down to the flats and took a pic in hope of winning a competition.... he's desperate.... ha ha .... nice fish Jerky...

Hi Gents, Just thought i would point out that the reason the limit has gone up to 2 fish only and over 70cms is so we see MORE of the these larger fish in the system. thats is the reason why you cant catch 70+cm fish often due to people keeping 45-50cm fish regurtlarly. look at the difference in teh kinfish population compared to 25 years ago... the Kingies are bigger and more prolific than ever measured in history. common sense i think gents.

hi all, only my second post, though i thought you would like this one. I was recently up Ballina way for a holiday and had a chance to catch up with a firend who said we should get out on his boat and chase some school jews in the Ballina river. So with that suggestion we headded out on a sunny October moring armed with a 2-4kg flick stick loaded with 6pd braid and 6 pound leader. we were flicking 5 inch curly tail grubs at structure, pilons, snags, storm water outlest with no joy for about 30 min. Thats when all hell broke loose, my mate casted toward a pilon and snagged himself, he then said we should probably try somewhere else whilst i had one last cat as he attempted to de snag wimself. about 4 seconds after my cast dropedZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ the ZZZZZZZZZZZ didnt stop for about 3 mins. I lost about 100m of line. We clicked on the electric motor and started chasing, we chased the fish a total of about 1.4 km from start to finish up and down the Ballina river and finally into a side creek. over this time we hypothisised over what it was, we did not see it surface until about 25 min into the fight and that was about 40m away 'it was a big white flash' we still didnt know what we were looking at, a big Jew, a ray, a shark.... It took another massive run and we continued to chase. the fight lasted 45min in total with the final result being a 105cm 10kg Bull Shark.... It was most definitely the most enjoyable fight and biggest achievment on light gear i have experienced. the beast was released to grow big and eat livestock in the years to come... tight lines

Hi all, well i did head out on Saturday morning, fished the outgoing for 2.5 hours. berlied up with bread. NO JOY.. managed 5 kelp fish one after the other ... switched to cabage for something different... NO LUCK... i was no doubt fishing too deep, but tried to fish a little shalower and still NO LUCK.. I have only ever managerd a DRUMMER on cabage at this spot, i have not tried prawn yet so i guess thats the next step.. HELP...

DRUMMER!!!!

DRUMMER!!!!

Fantastic help gents... im heading out tomorrow morning with a mate to test the theories put forward. conditions look solid with a 2 foot NE swell and light winds high at 6am ... look out for some drummer pics on the follow up post...

many thanks guys, think i might upgrade the line strength! at this point i have not been slammed to the point where i am regreting the light line. though it seems a bread/ prawn mix will help the situation.

Hi all, I have been targeting Drummer of the rocks at Kurnel over the past 4 months with little success. I managed to jag these two guys last session ... It was high tide going out and i fished for about 1-1/2 hours. I am using the green cabage of the rocks there and have found the pigs to be tempremental. I have not used anything else at this point I am using 6 pound dango wax to a float with about 20cm of running sinker line, then to about 30cm of 7 pound leader to a small 12' hook. i am fishing the middle to lower 1/4 of the water column. I was hoping for some adivce on the right bait/ depth/ tide/ berley/ rig to boost up the catch next time around

Great haul mate, Just wondering were your are getting your big yacks from? I can't seem to find them in the bay... Cheers

Great haul, Ive been lucking out on my usual squid spots in Botany bay of late, was wonderig if you could share where your squid grounds are?? thanks