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nice day, nice action

Great report, blackies are fun and tough fish. The above quote cracked me up.

south from Bowen yes, bit of backwash from cliffs but some great little holes

Had another JB weekend, becoming a nice habit this is. Lovely seas and not to many boats out, headed south towards Caves Beach this time, 5 Kings landed, 2 legal, smoked again by bigger ones. Surprised to get 3 big Sargeant Baker on knife jigs, they hit them very aggressively.

Hey Squidmarks, yeh aware of it we were further up past Mermaid inlet. Just spectacular cliffs to look at getting up there.

Been awhile since have posted, so thought about time. Bit long, but was fun morning, bear with me.. Have spent a fair bit of time down at Vincentia recently as a mate has moved there and only an hour from Shellharbour. Been years since used to fish around Currarong so first opportunity we headed out in his new boat to try some Kings. Magical morning, once we got past the 50 or so boats just inside Pt Perpendicular and started our way north around Beecroft we had it all to ourselves. Tried a few ways to locate them, both by using sounder and by trolling which found to be very effective. We'd troll some Xraps and Rapalas in 18-30m of water until get rats hit, then let rats go and drop the knife jigs. Every time we did this the Kings that would hit jigs were all 80-100cm size as opposed to the 60-80cm models that hit the trolled lures. As usual the big Beecroft Kings were very tough to get off bottom, but one double hookup later both my mate and I had their heads up and had moved them out to 50m depth and was just a matter of patience. Unfortunately at this point a huge Seal turned up and proceeded to firstly grab my mates fish, rip it apart, then throw the pieces in the air next to boat! I was desperately trying to get mine to boat while he was busy playing with the other one, but sure enough he then turned his attention to mine and smashed it, then did same Sea World throwing in the air trick. Though devastated we appreciated the show of nature and motored back to hook up spot and proceeded to hook another big King only for Mr Seal to come and grab it too, this time he just held it and took line. There was one funny moment where I saw him throw this fish and then saw the knife jig dislodge from fish and fly through air before plopping in water next to boat. - at least got the jig back. We then motored a few hundred metres away and picked up a couple of smaller Kings, 72 and 76cm respectively, which to be honest are my preferred eating size. Satisfied with the feed in store we headed back in. Skinned, boned and filleted, we divided fillets into some for Sashimi and some for BBQ that night. No better Sashimi on the planet than Kings. I'll be down there this weekend looking to get a metre version and avoiding Seals

beautiful fish, very lucky well done- good to see such healthy big ones

I used to use long shank for Flatties, be it from land or boat. Never wire leader also. Last year started using circles (only off boat) and no doubt hook up rate massively increased for me (maybe the angle from boat?), and 95% time they are hooked perfectly in corner of mouth for easy removal. My 2 bob. Cheers

Well done great fish

I actually saw a number of Bonefish when snorkelling of Waikiki and surrounds so they're there. Went gamefishing off Kona (big island), didn't wet a line on Oahu.

Well done no better feeling and you described it beautifully

Nice reds for Sydney. On plastic too by the look, well done what a feed.

Good catch of Flounder, do you often get so many in a session? They're more like the odd by-catch for me.

Lovely catch of Gar, beautiful eating

Nice, had a plan, stuck to it, and rewarded.

My trailer got nicked at Oatley boat ramp last year. Not happy it was brand new. Padlocks were cut off. There was a council clean up on at the time, I'm figuring it was opportunistic by one of the rubbish scabs. Low, low act.

Oatley ramp is good and only 5 minutes from Tom Ugly's by water. Used to fish the Georges/Botany Bay quite a lot as lived in Hurstville Grove and worked many years at marina next to bridge. Seen many big Jew caught from under the bridges but Captain Cook outfishes Tom Uglys 2-1. You can anchor easier under Captain Cook as wider and boat traffic tends to stay between middle few pylons. Also has deeper hole. Best Jew hole I've fished on river is Bald Face point. All Jews have seen caught and caught there on livies, with many hours of waiting. I remember one bloke used to hire a tinny every weekend aft6er his first Jew, took hime 6 weeks to keep one of any size but he was day fishing and he got many nice big Flatties as by catch. Curiosity what boat you re powering and what motor?

Nice fish Stew, plastic again?

There's a few, but for isolation and variety of fish I like Windang. You'll get everything from Whiting, Bream, Salmon, Tailor, Gummies, Jewies etc. Stretch behind golf course & aboriginal land my fav, bit of a walk.

lovely catch and feed there

If you're not experienced stick to land based for Currarong, head off rocks or beach. The ramp on ocean side is not concrete, and as earlier mentioned if you don't know the reef it has numerous hazards. The creek ramp is fine but access to open water can be highly dependant on depth of creek and swell at creek mouth. Mermaid's inlet a half hour walk and can catch anything off rocks there.

dream trip

Could've been anything but probably Salmon. So much bait around even the Dolphins been smashing them up.

Seafarer Viking, 18ft. Conditions were so good a tinny was on way FAD when I left it- and FAD 13km from my ramp. One of those days where it got flatter as day went on, wind switched west.

all the bait action was maybe 5km off the Farm on way Bass point. Basically in a line between Bass point and Kiama FAD.