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  1. Well done on the hook ups mate. good fun whey bite a fast moving metal lure. Ive had the same issue with pickers every time i went out this summer . Spend hours gathering squid in the morning only to feed those pesky little buggers. If you dont mind letting us know, what type / size of lures did you have most success with?
  2. Looks like they are everywhere. Lost a heap of hear to them yesterday in the bay, mostly around the oil wharf and drums. Got to the point where we had to stop berleying.
  3. I went there last week to flick a few plastics. Tried the beach area and the wharf new the boat ramp for a big fat donut. Some guys next to me on the wharf were fishing with prawns. They got nothing also. Strange cos that spot is usually ok for a couple of bream and the odd jew. I wonder if anyone has had any luck up the parra river lately?
  4. +1 for Squidgy 80mm Bloodworm Wriggler got a few undersized ones last summer on those SPs near drummoyne boat ramp (sandy area to the right). Size 1 hook on a 5g jig head (Starlo & Bushy ones which have a really fine gauge hook). Good luck
  5. Reports seem to suggest Roseville boat ramp and under Roseville bridge have been productive for some people. Balmoral would be my plan b for bream. Let me know how u go with the plastics. On that note I would be interested to know if anyone has had much success with soft plastics at night. If so, was there a bit of light around? Cheers
  6. Wow mate. Well done. What a great catch. Congratulations.
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    Boat Mechanic

    Hi all The boat mechanic I used to use in Toongabbie seems to have closed down (or moved - no idea). So I am now after a boat mechanic to sevice my 2003 Yammaha 40 (oil injected). It sits on 4.83 Quintrex which I purchased (both boat and motor) arouund May last year. Here she is. It has never missed a beat but i was thinking of giving it some TLC (change lower end oil, change impeller and a general service and grease up) as i have owned it for over a year and havent done any servicing (although i havent really used it all that much, maybe 15 times all up) I am in Dundas (a few ks east of Parramattra). I know Huett Marine is a site sponsor and gives members lots of great advice on this forum. I would love to become a customer there but Cowan is just too far for me. Just wondering if anyone knows a good workshop or even a good honest mobile mechanic they can reccomend. If its a workshop i dont want it to be too far from Dundas. Feel free to PM me as im not sure if this breaches any site rules. Cheers Tony
  8. If minimal boat driving time is your goal and u don't care how long it takes to drive there, then tunks park at cammeray would be the ramp your after when rose bay is closed. Personally I would use drummoyne or bay view park if driving from Liverpool as tunks park is about an extra 30 mins away in the car.
  9. Wow. Very nice fish mate. Congrats.
  10. Nice catch. Whose birthday was it?
  11. Well done getting a day off midweek mate. Best time to go fishing I reckon. Personally I wouldn't take a rig like that anywhere too exposed. Flint and steel and most of the lower hawksbury can get choppy and with a bit of wind quite dangerous on a boat that size. Consider going to middle harbour. Launch at Tunks park and go as far out as balmoral. Or as far upriver as u like. Heaps of sand flats for drifting and heaps of structure for kings. The entrance is also suitable for a boat like that. Flick plastics for flatties or soak worms for whiting on the runout tide.
  12. Hey Raiders As the subtitle suggests, Sunday morning was a cracker for my mate and I on Sydney Harbour. We headed out super early from Drummoyne boat ramp. It was still pitch black dark when we cruised away from the ramp and i found myself dodging half a dozen boats on the water with absolutely no lights whatsoeverer. Crikey, do they have a death wish or what. One guy even started shining a torch at me to let me know he was there. Anyway, the plan was drift the sandy areas around mosman and drift past the usual harbour markers in the hope of catching a king or 2. We were armed with fresh squid for the kingies and live nippers and prawns for the sand drifting. I also had my trusty soft plastics outfit which consists of a Shimano Starlo Stix rod, Stradic 2500 reel, 6 pound Finns braid, 12 pound flouro leader. I tried a few plastics while drifting but the one which fired on the day was a Squidgy wriggler in sparkle black and orange. No Kings at the markers unfortunately. Our squid baits kept getting demolished by juvenile snapper. So back to drifting the sandy flats around mosman. First drift, baits ouI'mand im flicking my plastic. The rod with the live nipper goes off. Line is peeling and we are thinking rat king. Eventually saw colour and i initially thought rat king when i saw it. Once it was in the net, we realised that this was no king, but the biggest fattest whiting we had ever seen. measured 45 cms and was fat. my mate claims a PB whiting. (sorry no pic of that one). I also picked up a couple of undersize snapper and flatties on the plastic. Drift no 2, same area, baits in and im flicking plastics. Not much biting on the baits except juvenile snapper. We were drifting into a shallow area and I called last cast before we would start the motor and take off. Flicked the wriggler, hit the bottom, turn the reel slowly, slight flick of the rod and 1 second later im on. Felt heavy, drag peeling slowly with the odd shake. When it saw the boat (and we saw it) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz back to the bottom. I must have got it to the surface about 3 or 4 times and each time it zipped straight back down when the net came within a metre of it. We were seriously running out time before the boat was going to bottom out on the sand and rock. My mate nets eventually and i drop the rod, start the boat, pop it in reverse and just make it out of there before we hit. Real James Bond sort of timing and suspense and excitement all at once (you had to be there i guess). Here she is. My personal best Flathead at 61cm caught on a squidgy wriggler (no monster i know but i am fairly new to lure fishing). The wriggler which i caught it on is also in the picture. The can is for the COTM. My first attempt at that. Cheers and tight lines all. Tony
  13. tonez

    Tapatalk testing

    Just got tapalk and testing how easy it is to post pictures. Here is one of my 4 y old hooked up to a snapper at balmain. Hope it works.
  14. Why not try both. You will cover more of the water column. Let the floating yakka drift in the burley trail and the other just off the bottom. Not that I'm an expert. But most of my research suggests that you should cover as much of the water column as possible. I have soaked live yakkas with no hassles using a simple running sinker rig with about 1-2 m of leader from the swivel (sinker above the swivel of course). Drop it to the bottom and wind up a meter or so. But having said that, the rats always seem to prefer the fresh squid strip. Figure that? The strip must look like an easier feed. Good luck I hope u get them. I have yet to land a legal king.
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