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Mate I feel your pain, I get sea sick in the bath. Although since I’ve started taking specially made tablets from a compounding chemist I haven’t been sick in years. Best evidence was when I went on a live aboard charter a couple of weeks ago in the Montobello islands in WA and we were in 4.5 metre swells for a day. I was one of 3 people on the charter who didn’t chuck. Not surprisingly the 3 of us were on the compounding tablets. If you’re interested send me a PM and I’ll pass on the details.

Nice haul! Would have been awesome being out there today, the fish would have just been a bonus!

Great report and congrats on the Jew Jonno and hats off to the Mr Swordie!!

Brilliant catch, well done. It goes to show you don't always need big baits/lures to catch big fish

Cheers mate thanks for the reply. Will hopefully post something up in the next couple of weeks ?

Nice haul, I've never fished brows deep dropping before, though my old man just picked up a couple of electrics and we plan on heading out to the mountain in the next couple of weeks. Can you tell me we're you on the mountain or how far off? Do you sound the bottom looking for fish or just drop when you find some structure? Cheers & thanks for the report

That sounds good, will give it a go next time I land a dart. Cheers

Nice catch especially in only an hour. Re the dart, how do you cook them and what are they like to eat?

Great post and nice fish. Love fishing with the family.

Stewy and Donna you guys are fantastic; thank you so much for all your great work and saving this iconic site. You have made my week ??.

Well done on the beakies, was wondering if anyone had been having any luck lately.

Oh wow... I can't believe it! The passing of an iconic site.ive been a member here for years and a visitor for years before that. A massive thanks for Stewy and Donna for all your hard work over the years and to the moderators as well. I have had many hours of enjoyment from fishraider. It's been my holly grail for fishing. I've gleaned so much from all the fishos over the years and thank you to all who contributed to the site and expanded my knowledge and given me heaps of laughs. I'm going to miss everyone's reports and seeing what everyone has caught. Thanks again Swordies for everything over the years and running a tight ship. To all the members out there good luck and tight lines. cheers, Steve ? PS: please, please, please someone pick up the reigns, we'll all be the more poorer is FR disappears....

Wow that's committed to the cause!! Sorry to hear about your heart troubles but glad to hear you're on the mend. Nice feed of blackies. Get well soon and tight lines ?

Congrats on the win

Nice haul. I love a feed of jackets, hugely underrated fish in my opinion!

awesome report Damo, what a massive tank of a fish

Nice work on the dollies ? One of my favourite eating fish. I feel your pain re sea sickness; I get sick in a bath tub! I've packed in the Quells and now use a compounding chemist who makes 'bullet proof' tablets. They ask you a number of questions and build the tablets to suit. I've never had a problem with getting sick on them and you don't get the tired feeling of quells. If you're interested PM me and I'll send you their details.

Nice pair of dollies; well done ?

A late report from Saturday. Decided to go wide on Saturday in the hopes of landing some dollies and Marlin. We wanted to hit the fad at before dawn so we stocked up on livies on Thursday arvo and kept them swimming in the live bait tank. It was hard going but we managed to bag about 20. Some of the smallest yakkas I've ever seen had our hopes set high that the little Jellybeans would be irresistible. left he marina at 4:45am Saturday and steamed out to the botany wide fad which we heard was holding some dollies. On the way there we went through a big bait ball and saw a free jumping Marlin of about 40kgs in about 100m. Did a couple of passes but couldn't interest him. Got to the fad to find 3 other boats there. Did 5 drifts throwing plastics, metal slices and livies with no takers. No one else was hooking up so moved on. Water temp was about 23degrees. went a little wider and pulled skirts for 4 hours finding temp breaks which flucteraited between 23.5 and 24.5 degrees but unfortunately no takers. Went to longie to about 33m depth to catch a feed. Bagged a couple of just legal kingies on livies, lost some bigger models which bricked us. Two fins swam past both looked like whalers but weren't interested in the lump of bait we threw out. Flicking a soft plastic (nuclear chicken my favourite go to) felt a good hit and solid weight, finally a decent fish. Was thinking a snapper then up comes a tank of a grouper. Put up a good fight and a first for me of this species. Went 77cm; was surprised to see it was a female at that size. Then we trolled home for two Bonnies. All in all not a completely lost day, at least we came home for a feed. Did hear of a couple of small blacks being landed in close around Barrenjoey.

Cheers. Hopefully I be posting some pics soon

Some nice crabs and what a great way to spend time with the grandkids. I've always wanted to target blue swimmers and get consistent at it. What depth are you in when you set your traps?

If you live in Seaforth hit up Clontarf and Sandy Bay. Middle Harbour is my main fishing haunt and 95% of my fishing is with soft plastics. There's plenty of flatties and bream, the salmon schools also move through the area. Wade out on the sandy sections and cast all along the sandy drop offs. You're doing everything right, it's just coming down to right time right place. Flatties I've found are good at high tide and they can be right up in the shallows then at low tide along the deeper drop offs where they lie in wait for baitfish coming off the sand flats. I haven't wet a line for a while due to work and uni, but will have plenty of time from early November. I live in Balgowlah and more than happy to catch up for a fish. PM me I you're interested!

Hi Adam, hugely jealous of your trip. I just got back from two weeks in Fiji...feels like it was forever ago. Mana is surrounded by a brilliant reef and where the cat docks there is a big bay of deep water surrounded by reef. There are options to go out of the resorts boats which I'm pretty sure are crewed by locals from the village on the island. If you're looking at doing some solo fishing just make sure you ask management and the locals before you start out of courtesy they're usually pretty good about it! If you do a charter (or 3!!) and they don't offer bottom bashing with bait/lures ask the skipper, it's a great way of picking up some brilliant coral trout!! I'd definitely suggest taking a lighter outfit as well, I took over a 3000 aeronos on. 2-4kg stick, it was brilliant for flicking along the edge of the reefs and having a ball on some decent trevallys and cod....did loose a few lures though, but it was awesome fun!! My theory is take as much gear as you can (or the wife allows), you don't want to get there and run out of something or wish you'd packed those extra poppers or gear!! One of our bags was a rod tube filled with 5 roads and gear...cost a bit because it was oversized but it was definitely worth it...Im just luck the wife loves fishing as well!! If you've got some soft plastics take them! And stock up on poppers of all sizes here's nothing like seeing a 15kg+ GT come up and smash a surface lure!! and metal lures which can be jigged as well as cast. Have a fantastic trip and looking forward to seeing your post when you get back!! Also, if you're feeling generous and the charter was good, I'd suggest giving the skipper a lure or two to say thanks, I've found it also helps get your charter extended for a couple of hours for no additional cost!! Good luck, Steve

Just heard it on 2UE, hope they catch the lowlife(s) and your son gets his buggy back. Hopefully they've heard it on the radio and bring it back

Just got sent this link from a mate, sorry if it's already been posted. For all those land based what an awesome idea. And how good would it be to take it out wide...it'd be like a spotter plane!! I know what I'm asking for Christmas!!