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  1. Answered my own question: " Alter the length of a fish or invertebrate by filleting/ shucking and/ or removing the head/ shell until well away from the water. This rule does not apply at areas normally used for cleaning fish such as boat ramp cleaning tables, if the fish are for immediate consumption or immediate use as bait, or for fish that do not have a legal length. You may clean fish by gilling and gutting only. " http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-rules-and-regs/perm-prohib-saltwater
  2. My understanding was that provided you leave the head and spine intact, that it is okay, as the fish can still be measured. That may apply to gilling, gutting and scaling only though! I'm not sure how this rule applies to something like mullet, where it wouldn't be unusual to fillet it for strip baits... Great to hear about the luderick though! I am yet to get out to the rocks, as I'm not keen to go solo and the friends I used to go with have recently got married and are figuring out how to do married life - fishing is the last thing on the agenda! Best, Adam
  3. Yeah that's where I look - normally near Manly head. I have found previous winters that the string weed tends to die back in winter, and even the cabbage grows slowly so gets smashed pretty quickly. I have to admit I don't do a lot of luderick fishing in the warmer months cause other species are biting, so I save them for winter, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. Thanks for the advice.
  4. Where can you find weed? I've always struggled to find any in winter, but in the summer months it is everywhere. Kind of a cruel irony for me: luderick in winter, but the weed to catch them in summer. Any advice?
  5. In case anyone is interested, the aussie salmon sashimi was excellent. Great use for this fish.
  6. Went out at about 9pm on Wednesday Night, with live poddy mullet in the bucket to Careel Bay Wharf. Put out a couple of live mullet in the hope of picking up a lurking flatty (or pretty much anything would be nice) and set about casting squid jigs across the lights. Stayed until about 4am. Had lots of mullet come back bitten in half. We tried hooking through the shoulder and then tried further back a little before the tail, but kept being bitten off half way. Sadly, the little guys don't seem to survive very well with two hooks in the back. Managed to pick up a fair size eel of about a metre, which is what I suspect was biting off our mullets. He promptly went back in the drink. Picked up a yellowfin pike on one of the mullet and since he went belly up when returned to the water, he became a strip bait for later. In the meantime we picked up a couple of squid, and one went out as a bait under a float. Had something take the squid for a good run, but no hookup, despite having a hook in both the head and hood =[. Sad times. Pretty much went quiet when a couple of commercial fishers moored up and started clearing their nets and throwing stuff to the pelicans... for at least an hour =[. Realised late in the night, that the wharf has a no fishing sign, which faces the water?! So didn't see that you're not supposed to fish there, so I guess we won't be going back =[. Left at 4am with 6 squid to take home which ended up as salt and pepper squid later. Then at about 5:30am we headed out to Narrabeen Beach to try to pick up something to take home. Swell was a bit rough so it was a bit tricky to hold ground and the hopes of putting a live mullet out in the gutter for a flatty soon faded. Still, out went the 3 big rods, baited up with strips of pike and surf poppers and finally at around 7am in came an Aussie Salmon on the surf popper. Bled immediately and into the ice. I've been meaning to try it as sashimi. Sadly, nothing else to speak of at the beach, despite sending out a few salted yakkas on gangs, so at about 8:30am we called it quits and packed up. The squid was delicious and it was actually our first time catching squid. I just tried the salmon sashimi and it's not bad. No stronger in taste than the trevally sashimi I made not long ago, and with a little soy and wasabi is quite pleasant. Certainly a nice way to use this oft disregarded fish, provided you treat it well upon catch. Will let you know tomorrow if I survive! Attached a quick pick of us preparing the S+P Squid. Sorry about the lack of other photos.
  7. normally in the morning. Green has seemed to work fine. I use the $2.50 pre-made surf rig you can get from kmart or bigw. Just the components alone seem to cost about that, and I don't have to bother tying it. I sometimes replace the gangs if they get a bit tired looking. You going to head out to the beaches?
  8. Every time I have caught a salmon off the beach it has been on a surf popper. Perhaps the scent of the pilchard gets their attention, but it falls off before it can catch anything... The trevally was caught on the ganged pilchard though.
  9. Headed out to the southern part of Narrabeen Beach at first light around 5am. Small swell and low tide. Not much structure to be seen watching the waves (though I'm not great at this) so just picked a spot and put out 2 rods each with a salted pilchard and a surf popper. Burleyed with random bits and pieces of prawn and other leftovers. No action until around 7am with a 32cm trevally taken about half of my max casting distance out on the ganged pilchard. None of the usual aussie salmon to be seen. Gave up at about 9:30am. Pretty quiet but at least I got to have sashimi for dinner.
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