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i gave the harbour off rosebay a try last week. Couldnt interest the kings but picked up a 75cm jew around the first wooden channel marker. Pesky leather jacket kept smashing our squid baits and apart from a few small flatties it was pretty dead.

i find the best method is a plastic bottle trap with some bread pieces. Simple to make and it works.

Thanks for the report mate. I used to love catching a feed of fantail off darling street wharf when i was a kid. I remember we used to sneak into the admirals yacht wharf at Kirribilli and get abnormally large fantail just after daybreak. We'd get thrown out as soon as someone started work and spotted us. Biggest i've ever seen till this day. They are useless sport wise and can wreck some gear but they are wonderful eating the old jacket.

awesome jew. Only 2 failed attempts and you land that, lol? krikey!

good stuff mate, well done. jewys are a little special and are no doubt a species most fishos want to tick off the list.

awesome!

Thanks for the report mate. i got a really nice whiting up from como bridge last year on the gulp 2" shrimp, i think molting and natural colours worked best for me.

i know this is an ancient topic but i felt i had to defend the gillmaster name. Yes the gear is chinese made but they are not cheap shit. The brand names outsource to some of these same factories. Gillmaster was actually an aussie company in WA and had a decent size storefront. The owner "cooly" also had an abay shop and sold a few things on there. They sold entry level gear but also had some higher level. They did have quality control and their better rods and reels were made to a decent specification, unlike a lot of the junk spewing from no name factories. As with most things, you get what you pay for but the gillmaster rods especially were actually excellent value. I have a couple of their IM8 carbon baitcast rods for 10 years now and they are still going strong. The chinese have come A LONG WAY in the last 10 to 15 years. They got hold of all the CNC machines and technology. All you have to do is hand them an order to specification and they will make it. There is so much junk because sleazy operators dont care about the quality of the product or the materials used.

nice catch salmon are great value when they start leaping hey.

top catch and a very entertaining report. cheers

wow, just wow

top stuff and congrats on the stonker PB. Thanks heaps for the report guys

what a grouse session, great variety. Look at that bream?

top session, wish i had half the nack of picking up jewies as some raiders. I think you did the right thing not eating the cray, especially if you were around or west of the bridge. It probably would'nt do a lot of harm eating it once every blue moon When you think about it, not knowing for sure if and how it may effect us, is it really worth the chance? lol, its a new spot he just found so I think sydney harbor is about all we are getting plankton. Thanks for the report

Thanks for the report Adam Good stuff Well done on having a heads up when handling cat fish A hit from one can certainly ruin your day. You must have some crazy tolerance to pain gianni? I remember my old man getting stung on the hawksberry years ago and his hand blew up like a balloon in minutes. The last thing he was thinking about was fishing on, lol. Before long we were back in the car and racing back to sydney and he was off to the hospital. My old boy was fairly big and a bit of a tough nut but he was in a fair bit of pain. I suppose it can depend on each persons reaction to the venom. Some are more effected than others to things like, venom, insect stings and allergies etc