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Dave keep the posts coming... Helps with holiday planning! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I was desperate for a fish on Sunday given the sunny warm weather. We were already up at Terrigal for the long weekend. It was a bit windy and I was wanting to go beach fishing in the afternoon so managed to convince hubby to hire a tinnie at Hardys Bay for a half day session. We got the tinnie at 11am (not sure if you can mention operators - PM me if you want the info, new management as of last month). His dad also came out with us and wanted to try the flats near Ettalong beach. There was so much boat traffic and annoying jet skiers going above the designated speed limit that we decided to move - that and there was absolutely no bites. We moved over near the oyster leases in Hardys Bay where we had some luck last winter (tailor, bream, trevally - on chicken fillets with garlic). We were using soft plastic, pilchards, squid and prawns. We had a few bites and I caught my first tailor on a pilchard tail. It was undersized so it went back. It would have been around midday at this point and we stopped getting any bites so off we moved again. Putted over to Rileys Bay and was throwing soft plastics and bait around the old moored boats. I was convinced there would be some bream under the boats. Got a few nibbles and lost one near the boat - couldn't distinguish species. We were just doing drifts up and down the area. Got lots of nibbles but nothing hooked up. Before we knew it, it was time to return the boat. Fishing with light gear, 7' rods with 2500 reels - soft plastics, prawns, squid strips and pilchard. For burley we were using chicken pellets with mushed up pilchards and a bit of water. Probably the wrong time to fish but when you have the itch you gotta go. Hope you all had better luck out there.

Went up to Terrigal for the long weekend. Had a new light beach outfit I wanted to test out (bought without hubby's permission on Friday night all set for the long weekend) - Stradic Ci4 4000 and Catana Coastal Light (10'6" 3-5kg) spooled with 15lb braid. Got out for a fish on Saturday night with hubby and father-in-law without much luck. We were fishing on the beach side, opposite the lagoon (closed). We were using a mix of soft plastic, pilchard, prawn and worm. There were blue bottles about and there was a bit of a swell. Sunday night, tried the beach again from 6:30pm. Quite a few more guys fishing the same area. Glassy water with small waves breaking. Got my first ever whiting but it was under sized so back it went. Was awesome to christen the new outfit. Got if off beach worms. Getting whiting off the beach is one of my goals this season - along with a kingfish that is legal size. Monday morning, the boys were headed out for golf so I snuck another session in - a few hours from 7:30am. Lots of morning walkers, no fishos. Tried further north on the beach, between Terrigal and Wamberal. A local who lived right on the beach came by asking if I was getting any bites. Told me his favourite bait was king worms bought from Freddy's at Erina. He came back an hour or so later with rod in hand as I was packing up. Within 15 min, he was hooked on to a nice salmon. I actually saw the salmon in the waves earlier. He said it spat out a bunch of white bait. Deadly bait. He was nice enough to give me a bit of worm "from one fisherman to another" - but geez it was longer than my arm in lengh! Aren't fishos the best? Was tempted to re-rig and try the bait but it was getting hot and needed to get home before the hubby found out I snuck out to fish again Hope everyone had a good long weekend and had better luck!

I see so many people keeping undersized fish in the harbour. Terrible.

Awesome fish on the hard body! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Monster catch! What do you do with all that fish? I wouldn't have thought it would be good to freeze... Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

First saw this on a night dive in the Philippines... Trully awesome!