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hey mate, the question I was asking was 'is Trung still alive?' haven't heard a peep from you for a while! good to see you getting back into it. you are right about the squid though, hasn't been as easy as past summers, need to move around a little for them, but even then, we're just feeding them to rats still anyway hehe see you out on the water soon.

Was a decent day out even though we didn't run into any big kings, but will definitely be giving the other spot a good go next time, the showings on the sounder looked very promising. Squid were a bit hard to come by, even the yakkas didn't want to play ball, and those baby kings were funny, they even fought harder than the bigger dollies.

That's an awesome king! And congrats on the new pb.

Nice one mate! Good to hear the kings starting to turn up in the bay. Hopefully it'll be an awesome summer of kings.

well done again buddy! can't wait to get back from OS and get back into them. Hopefully they are still around in a couple of weeks, but if not, hope the kings would have turned up by then. and guys, Formosan can edit videos with his eyes closed now

Nice one Pete!!! yeah you ended the season on a massive high buddy! well done! can't wait till next year to do it all over again hehe Now onto them kings! be back in a few weeks, we'll catch up then mate.

Nice one Luke!

Hopefully they get it sorted Bas, as you say, just unfortunate to get a bad egg in a thousand. My Yammie 4 stroke is a 2007 and never had any problems with it.

cheers chewie, yeah we know how tough those poly's are. They can withstand being dropped off the trailer whilst driving and still be ok as a fellow raider has proven earlier this year yes I do remember. I do take every precaution when I go out solo, having all the necessary safety gear and logging in with the coastguard. For those that don't know already, there is an smartphone application called SafeTrx, let's you log in and out easily with the coastguard. Real simple to use as well. well done on those solid reds, I reckon they taste the best at that size. Those wrigglers are pretty good, but I usually do better with the berkley jerk shads in the 7inch. Give them a go next time, make sure you work them real good. I always seem to hit the fish in the bottom 1/3 of the water column. Usually the big bait schools I see on the sounder are jackets, so I steer clear away from them. I look for defined arches hugging the bottom. thanks mate, just a couple of scratches here and there, no biggie. wayyyy worse! yeah the bigger the boat, the worse it'll be on that ramp. I did see some smaller tinnies come in after me, and they didn't have too many issues in getting in. LOL, yeah felt like I was torturing him keeping him on the water, so I did the humane thing and ditched him at the ramp

Hi Raiders, I wasn't going to make a post but seeing that I've had a few PMs asking what happened at the ramp, I decided just to make this post to warn others about what can happen back at the ramp at Bellambi when the swell is up. But to start off with, I'll just start with the fishing report seeing that I am in this section... Headed out on Friday morning with my dad to see if I can put him onto some reds, my dad is an old school fisho, so just bait all the way! and he's seen my recent collection of plastics and been quite skeptical with the reds I've been landing recently with them. (NO WAY you have been catching those snappers with these plastic things! he says). Well I wanted to show him and prove to him how effective they are. Swell was a little up in the morning but manageable, so we headed out. First cast with the nemesis nuc chicken, and I am on and it's a big mutha!! runs, head shakes, runs, and doesn't stop. I am just about to palm the spool and then pop. Leader comes back all frayed, and nothing but coming from me. Then it goes all quiet, knowing the high was at 1pm, we moved to deeper waters (50m), and the sounder shows some good readings. By now, my dad's gone green from being seasick and he's on the floor LOL. So I am fishing on my own, land a couple of pannies, a mowie, and then a pigeon pair of 67cm snappers. Still not the 70+ or 80+ ones I am after but pretty happy nonetheless and happy to prove to my dad that reds can be landed on plastics. Decide to drop my dad back at the ramp as he is totally gonskies! and he decides that he'll just go walkabouts around Bellambi whilst I head back for a couple more hours, but nothing. Headed back in around 3 and the swell has gone up and this is when it get's quite hairy with the following seas coming back in, you need to watch out for those big swells following you! so keeping an eye on the swell behind you is essential! seen enough of those videos on youtube with guys trying to cross bars to make you crap your pants! Finally made it back to the ramp, and thinking to myself, how the hell am I going to manage getting the boat back on the trailer myself, but I had no choice. Quickly tied the boat onto the wharf and ran to the car, looking back I can see the boat being smashed around DOH!!!! quickly backed the trailer down and jumped into the water to try and quickly get the boat on, and then a massive surge comes in and the bow is centimetres away from smashing into the back of the car, and then another one coming so close again. Thinking to myself, I am F!@#!@##!@#!@, then out of no where, fellow raider marto1976 jumps in the water and helps me out, we finally get the boat on the trailer and I jump in the car quickly to get out, but another massive surge comes in and picks the boat up off the trailer and wedges the boat against the wharf and trailer, the boat is basically stuck now, I am really F@#&*@#^@#&* now! then marto's mates come to the rescue, and we finally manage to get the boat unstuck and finally onto the trailer! Oh man, what a relief when I finally get it off the ramp. Quick inspection sees a broken rod holder, scuff marks and a damaged mud guard but nothing else, so all good. Thanked all involved in helping me out and spent the next 30 mins having a chat to marto and his mates, top top guys! Picked my dad up from the RSL and so relieved to be driving home with my boat on the back. Dad asked how it went, and my reply was, ah all good no dramas Well, sorry for the long post, but just hope I have passed on some warnings about what can happen at an exposed ramp when the swell is up. Just a quick pic of the pigeon pair of reds.

Darren mate! I know I said thanks a hundred times already but here's another one. Thanks again to you and your mates for helping us out at the ramp. I would have been truly stuffed if you didn't come to the rescue. That swell surge is a bitch!!! And mate, that red is a cracker!, well done and well deserved! thanks for the frame as well, every bit of it will be eaten I managed 4 reds today, 2 x 67cm and 2 pannies, and a bust off that felt like an 83cm LOL, I will get him one day! Also, check your PM!! =)

nice one buddy! seems like you did some exploring around the bay, from the heads all the way to woolooware, good stuff. which simrad sounder did you get and how did it perform? I have seen them in the past coming and and blast the muck off the ramp, looks like it's due for another blast.

great vid buddy! soon, you'll show us what a hoodie looks like in the water. i need to get into that underwater action as well, Hero 3+ coming soon

cheers mate! thanks buddy! been hitting the bay lately? thanks Larry, not too hard, well maybe just the netting part, my bigger net broke so had to resort to my kayak net which is way too dam small. thanks mate! always drifting, fishing between 30-65 metres so too deep to anchor. I use 2 sea anchors if the drift is too fast.

that's an awesome haul mate! looks like the bay is starting to come alive again, think it's time to pay the bay a visit =)

cheers mate... getting into any kingie action yet? or have you had a chance to take that hobie out yet? the water is still cool, so hopefully they'll hang around for a little while longer. thanks mate Hi mate, assume you're floating bait? yeah when the birds around, there'll be no way to float bait past them. I mainly flick plastics for reds.

that's awesome mate! congrats on the YFT.

that's a cracker red! at least the size of it made up for the number. but another raider was also fishing reds today, and he smashed it, I call him the snapper master I'll let him report on his day....

nice one Basil! bring on them hoodies! can't wait hehe

ehehehe i think you're the lucky bastard, having the chance to hook up onto a marlin! can't imagine what the thrill would be like. One day man one day! =) cheers buddy! say hi next time... I am in the quintrex 480 coast runner, nothing flash either but does the job as well. cheers Dan, yep we'll let you know when we head down again. mate, you should have let me know you had the day off... we missed out last time, anyways plenty of chances left. Cheers mate.

Nice one mate! Can't wait to take my kids out for a fishing trip on the boat.

they're some awesome reds mate! what boat were you in? looks like we both did pretty well =)

cheers mate, i was working! from my office away from the office ehehhe you been fishing? kingies will rock up soon, ready to hunt them down?

yeah Pete, glad I didn't listen to you about staying home LOL. But was hoping you could have joined me though, but that wind was absolutely howling when I got back to the ramp. At least you didn't waste the arvo and managed a feed. We have to tee up another trip soon.

Taken a while for me to edit the video but here it is... hope you enjoy it. Hi Raiders, Been a while since the last snapper outing and family commitments last weekend meant I missed out going again. Checking the forecast all week, today seemed the most probable, so took a gamble and headed out. Forecast had the wind blowing about 10kts, which is reasonable but I've been down there with that kind of forecast before, and they got it so wrong. But funny that this time, they had it wrong again! but in a good way! it was smooth as! Got to my first mark, and first cast, landed a nice 55cm red. WOOHOO! great start, and then landed a small pannie, then the next one gave me a bit of grief and knew it was going to be a good size, came in at 67cm. YEAH BABY! beat my PB by 2cm. Soon my little bream stick with a 2500 reel buckles over and the drag is singing, and this thing wouldn't stop, I was down to backing soon and crapping myself. Some head shakes and it felt like a snapper, but then it stopped and I believe it might have ran into the grass bed or kelp or something because I all feel is dead weight now, and then gone, it spat the hook. DOH! By about 11, the conditions went glass, there was absolutely no run at all, and with that the bites stopped as well. So moved off to deeper waters, and with the change in the high tide, the water started to run again, and you guessed it the bites started coming on again, landed another 3 between 45-55cm. All caught on plastics, used every plastic under the sun. hehehe nemesis, jerk shad, z-man, wrigglers. went through the entire range of jig head sizes as well, from 1/2 all the way to 2.0oz. I have all the action on video, so I'll post it up when I finish the editing. thanks for reading.