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  1. I took my 4 year old Grand-daughter down to Gunnamatta Bay baths for her first go at fishing on Sunday. With a cold Southerly blasting up the Bay, there was nothing biting, but she had a good time anyway and showed much more patience than I would have had at that age. It is a good spot for kids, and under better conditions, we would have had something small to show for the effort. Gymea Bay baths gets a vote from me too, as does the new jetty at Swallow Rock, Grays Point. If the jetty is crowded, then there will be a spot along the beach/picnic area anyway.
  2. Just adding my sadness, and my sincere appreciation for all the hard work by Donna, Stewie and our mods. Summed up in one word; irreplaceable. To the Swordies, my best wishes for many many years of good health and every happiness ahead. Love you both.
  3. I have had lessons with this bloke and I recommend him very highly. Money well spent, and a top bloke too;
  4. That looks like the spot where a mate and I were in his boat last year tossing saltwater flies at the wall, hoping for a Kingy, but would have been more than happy with anything at all. Would have been there for maybe twenty minutes with zilch happening, when I noticed this strange splashing coming towards us. When it got closer, we could see that it was an idiot wearing some sort of webbed gloves splashing his way along, about ten feet or so out from the wall. Didn't seem to be using flippers at all, so maybe he was trying to bulk up some gorilla arms and shoulders or whatever. Some people have strange ideas..... And no, we finished the day with donuts.
  5. Most boundaries like this extend to the Mean High Water Mark. If you go to the Sutherland Shire Council home page and click on Shire Maps, you will be able to see exactly where the boundaries of the properties in Neil Street extend to;https://mapping.ssc.nsw.gov.au/Sutherland/
  6. This article is interesting;http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-30/tasmanian-fishing-identities-held-after-record-cocaine-bust/8154188 The cynics amongst us will draw our own conclusions re how some decisions are made these days by those entrusted to act in the public good.....
  7. As the holiday season is well underway, I thought that I would urge those of us who are unaware of Mosquito borne viruses to take good care. I was bitten by a mosquito several years ago while on holidays at Forster. Some people recover well, others do not. I ended up with Post Viral Syndrome/Chronic Fatigue problems. It come and goes, but this year has been particularly bad, resulting in very little fishing being done, because of low energy levels. I have had all the tests, seen specialists etc. stress tests, angiograms, the lot. Pyhsically, I am a healthy 76 year old bloke, but my energy levels are ratshit. I think about getting out to the ledges after some Luderick or Drummer, or taking my flyrod over to the sandflats, but being tired all the time means that I never get around to it. Please, no expressions of sympathy etc. I simply want you all to learn what you can about the risks that mosquitoes pose to you and your loved ones and take the necessary precautions. This is a good place to start;http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/ross-river-fever.aspx BTW. I also know of a case of Barmah Forest Virus at Tuncurry, and of a Dentist up there who had to give up his practice because he contracted Lyme Disease from a tick that dropped on him when he was pushing through a bit of scrub on his property to launch his kayak. Please learn what you can and take good care. Happy New Year Raiders.
  8. Just enter Shire Maps Sutherland Shire Council. When it comes up, click on Accept, which will open Shire Maps for you. In the address box, enter Ellesmere Rd. You then will see a long narrow strip of bush labelled 38R. Under the tree cover is a bitumen roadway going halfway down the hill. You will be able to park there and walk the rest of the way. Tight Lines and Merry Christmas. Gunsmoke
  9. Better to avoid the word "Hookers," I think
  10. I tried using a 2inch grub on an unweighted jighead on my 8wt a few years ago at Forster one afternoon. I hoped to get Bream, but instead landed a couple of flatties, which I was stoked about anyway. The only problem I found was that during my false casting, the tail would pin itself on the hook and I wouldn't notice that while it was whizzing back and forwards past me at a zillion miles an hour. I had no idea how many presentations were wasted because of that. A worm hook would be better, and I have a few already set up and supaglued in place to try out, but keep getting distracted by the other conventional flies that work ok for me, especially Clousers, bread and weed flies. Good luck. It really is a fun way to fish- even though my wife refers to it as; the fishing I do when I don't want to catch fish. But that is just me. Other guys catch heaps of saltwater fish on fly (Hi Royce :-)
  11. I bought a Minnow, a NZ product very similar to HenryR's Australis Bass in the 90s. It was early days and there was only ever one other kayak fisho that I ever saw in my part of the Port Hacking, up from Swallow Rock boat ramp. It was well before soft plastics arrived and it was all hard bodied lures then. I stopped using it a few years ago after I contracted Ross River Fever, courtesy of a mosquito on Tuncurry Golf Course, playing there early one morning while on holidays (if you don't know about RRF, I do advise you to check it out) and it left me with a legacy of tiredness and lack of the energy needed for the kayak. Anyway, here are a few thoughts: (A) I had holes drilled and flush rod holders fitted either side just behind my seat. There is a risk of boat wash splashing ones reel, but I thought it was an advantage anyway, especially for sticking the landing net out of the way but within quick reach. ( Get some marine carpet and cut it to lay neatly on the kayak floor. It really deadens the sound when you are fiddling with tackle boxes etc. © I used a hessian bag to keep my catch in. Soaked in water and stuck forward in the shade, it worked well, especially as I would give it a fresh dunking now and again. (D) I used a hammer handle to subdue my catch while it was still in the net. This is where I learnt the value of barbless trebles, as a lively flattie threshing around in the net would result in a few treble barbs hooked up in the net cord and time wasted sorting that problem out. (E) The sit on top kayaks have an advantage as far as minimum profile exposed to the wind is concerned, but I did notice a sit in model recently with quite a low profile. Not sure how the flush mounted rod holders would go there though. (F) There are regulations regarding compulsory wearing of life-jackets in a kayak, and that decision is one that I will leave entirely up to you to consider. When the regulations came in, I had a look at my local haunts via areal photography (Sutherland Shire Council Shire Maps) and found that whenever I was further from one shore than the regulations allowed, I would still be legal because I was then within safe regulation distance of the opposite shore. There were a couple of spots that I had to give up, such as areas accessed from Bonnet Bay boat ramp, but a favourite area up from the Prince Edward Park boat ramp were still fine, as was upstream from Swallow Rock also of course. Places like Wyangla Dam for instance can be unexpectedly hairy at times in a tinnie, so please keep that in mind. If I had taken my kayak out there, I would definitely have bought a good lifejacket. (G) This is important. Learn correct paddling technique! Ok, so you might be sitting in a cheap and unglamorous tub like mine, but good technique is really easy to learn. It keeps your paddle shaft out in front of you so that it doesn't collide with rods stored just behind you like mine were and allows you to easily reach the optimum speed that your kayak is efficiently capable of. It was handy for me one time when I came out of the marina at Forster to find that the tide had changed and was running out at a healthy rate. Keeping in close to the wall and working hard, I got out of there safely, but I think that with slack paddling technique, I might have been heading out to the ocean that day :-) There is a heap of great and interesting advice from everybody else on this thread. Mine is relevant to quiet estuary locations, which I think is a good starting point. I hope this helps. Ron
  12. Thanks Jewdreamer. There is a lot to look at on Shire Maps; the Maianbar Sandflats show a lot of detail on the current image as one example. Tossing soft plastics into Fishermans Bay on an afternoon low Spring tide has worked for me and is my favourite land-based spot in the PH. As soon as the tide turns the little rays start to get active and that seems to indicate that the flatties are going to start biting. I have always preferred tossing in from the Northern edge over the weed beds. Not a good place for hardbodies though, as the broadleaf weed will hang on to their trebles and not let go. I first fished there using the old Mister Twister plastics that the old guys my age will remember fondly. The flats are excellent nipper grounds. Gunnamatta Bay is a no go as pumping is banned there and the flats at Grays Point are too much hard work for me and nowhere near as productive as Maianbar. If we look at the rocks in front of Neil Street Bundeena, you will see that the land boundaries of the houses there do not extend to the waters edge, so it is public domain. A bricklayer mate of mine used to fish there during the week on wet days instead of going to the pub with the rest of the boys. He did well there.
  13. I mentioned to a couple of Raiders at the Soft Plastic Day today that on the Sutherland Shire Council webpage there is a feature called Shire Maps. Might be useful for checking out a few spots with a bit better detail than Google Earth IMO. If anybody wants to have a look at it, here is the link; https://mapping.ssc.nsw.gov.au/Sutherland/ Land based fishos will discover little known access to spots such as below Bell Place Burraneer, which puts you right on the edge of the Gunnamatta Bay channel opposite the Darook Park sandflats. Hope this helps.
  14. My thanks to Donna and Stu for organising the gathering. So nice to meet you and all the other great folks there too. What a top bunch of people! A special thanks to Royce for giving me heaps of good info re Luderick on Fly. I have only been home a few hours and I am already looking forward to the 2017 day!!!
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