longy509

Hey according to the council web site sure Chifley is open to all water activities

Cheers mate, Had a drift around a few of the beaches with some bait and flicking plastics for a couple hours but nothing wanted to play the game unfortunately . I will just have to try again next year If anyone is after some chopper tailor they are in plaque proportion's out towards the heads all along the brown water line

Cheers mate i was only going off willy weather prediction 2m swell and 10 to 15kmh winds i might go for a look up the heads first in the morning and reassess.Ill be buggered if i could find the flatties in the bay today im pretty sure i sounded a few jews up but couldnt get any takers.

Hey mate did you have a fish we tried our luck today in the bay the water is like chocolate only got a couple of baby snapper and a whiting tried for some squid at shoal bay but no luck.Tommorow was actually looking alight for a trip to Broughton last i checked but that could change by the morning.

If you have the room for longer shaft when stowed i would go with the 72" then you can just drop it when its a bit choppy

Yeh mate its pretty average iv been up here since friday and only got out for a couple hours if its not rain its swell. the only thing i can think this rain might be good for is try chasing some jews where the dirty water is coming out of the rivers

Nice work mate

Thanks Donna that makes sense i have just been usinging the general search feature

Haha yep Scratchie it got the better of me i have booked in at Port Stephens again for the 1st week of March. Hopefully the weather likes me and the fish on on the bite. Also i have been trying to find the write up you done on Port Stephens could you post the link to it pleasae mate i need all the help i can get lol.

Hi i have finally got a week of work at the start of march will i go to Forster or the old faithful Port Stephens.Whats everyones thoughts im pretty set on Port Stephens as thats the only place i have been for holidays in the last 10 years or more but a little interested in trying somewhere new. If you have any ideas on somewhere worth trying within 6 or so hours of Bathurst let me Know. Cheers, Longy

Have you tried a deck wash pump

The other thing to consider is will you be motoring along with the outboard enough to charge a 24v system or are you just better off charging it when you get home

Your spending to much time on the water mate your starting to look like this bloke with those bananas in your mouth HaHa

Nice work good to see you back on the board and all the best to back cruncher

I agree if you dont put something on the anderson plugs you will be putting new ones on every 3 to 6 months due to corrosion and you will work that out when you are out on the water and your trolling motor stops. I have just bought some di electric grease to try on mine because im sick of replacing them so frequently.

Hey mate how did you end up going i tried to give you some early updates but for some reason every time i tried on my phone it kept saying content not available.We ended up have a pretty good couple of days getting the majority of flatties trolling and flicking plastics i didnt keep count but im guessing we got around 15 to 20 flatties with the best being 59 and 69.5cm also a few whiting/trevally/bream/squire and a stinger.

My wife and i are heading down there on Tuesday night to flick a few plastics and troll a few lures for a couple of days.Hopefully the wind is nice and plays the game for us.I will let you know if we find the flatties

It sucks But better safe then sorry

Im Interested but i wont give a definite answer until we are a bit closer

Hopefully these clouds start sharing the love around we have had not much more then half a dozen drops here in Bathurst

Cheers everyone it was a nice suprise.Berly & Scratchie It was straight out in front of the dog beach about about halfway between the sanctuary zone and the danger marker

Hi just a quick report we went up the port last week.We done two trips to Broughton but had trouble catching live baits the few that we got were demolished by a couple of sharks im assuming so i trolled a few lures around and landed a couple of little kings other then that we got a few flatties. So day 3 we decided to head south and had a crack of Birubi i flicked a few plastics around and my wife fished some squid and prawns on a dropper rig she landed a few baby snapper and a couple of flatties again. After a couple hours we decide to troll the coast line back hooking up and landing half a dozen or so Bonnies.Then on the last morning we decided to put the boat in one last time for a couple of hours and drift around the bay for a feed of flathead we didnt get any but i was pretty happy when i hooked up this nice snapper out in front of Corlette in 8m of water on a piece of squid he measured up at 69cm.We also had a crack at catching some squid around shoalbay and jimmys beach but couldnt get any takers only a few followers i think our jigs might have been a bit big. Overall reasonably quiet week on the fish but still beats working.

Cheers mate we need all the luck we can get lol. Yeh that was me i had a ball fighting that mac tuna.We went for a quick run out to broughton today with not much i was going to flick a few plastics around until i realized i left them all in bathurst grrr so we just fished with bait for a few little flatties then tried for some squid at jimmies and shoalbay had a couple of followers but no takers. i think i might have the day on land tomorrow and take the missus to newcastle for the day.Then get back on the water monday and try again when the traffic has calmed down it is bloody chaos at little beach ramp/

Cheers for the advice everyone, we ended up getting a little place for the week at shoalbay just on our way up now. Hopefully the weather stays good and the fish are biting.If any one is out and about on the water over the next week and wants to say gday shoot me pm. If we are having any luck i will post a report during the week

We dont normaly go away on public or school holidays but unfortunatly with work tgis is the only time we can get away for a few months. We will have to pay a bit more but it will be worth it just to get out of Bathurst and get the boat on the salt water for a few days.