Holls
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After 3 months living here, finally working out where/when what of fishing in Burrill Lake. Now catching some very good bream and worked out the flattie situation as well. Landed this big girl yesterday. Kept in a net beside the yak, she seemed to swim off ok. (Though recently I've found two very big girls 90-100 dead on the lake shore with fishing line inside them. One with a massive lure in its stomach may have broken off rather than released.)
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Bream cant resist live mullet, same as flatties. Got some gamakatsu circles so will give them a go on a second rod!
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That's good advice Ojay. I think I get a bit anxious with rod and net, need to let the net lift the fish from under the water! They rattle like crazy once the head is out. Better put a small extension on my net handle. Have had a lot of misses with circle hooks. My style, I like to wait until the fish starts to run and then strike. Don't go for the passive, 'wait til the fish hooks itself', but I might set up a circle hook rig on a second rod. Thanks.
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I agree, Volitan. I have a good Garmin 350C, but I'm only guessing as to what it shows me. A lump of seaweed floating below the kayak can look exactly like a fish, it seems. Structure VERY hard to interpret. My FF has only been helpful finding holes and dropoffs in the lake. No doubt FFs are more useful finding reef and very large fish out off shore.
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Hi everyone. Been getting into some good sized bream and flatties out of my kayak. But I seem to drop quite a few. I'm using 1/0 or 2/0 longshanks with live bait. Should I go to a suicide or something? I bring them up slowly, but a last shake of flattie spits the hook before I can get the net under them. Bream likewise. Appreciate any experienced fisher!
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Dumb question, but then I'm from interstate... Is "reds" a nsw term for snapper? In other states small snapper are called pinkies.
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Good fish! What were you catching them on?
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Let's know how you go at Ulladulla. Both charter and lakes.
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Thanks Pres and others. Work has taken me away from the lake, back next week so will let you know how it all goes.
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You guys are awesome. Fishraider should keep a record of all the species caught, when, where, how. That would be interesting!
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Thanks for help everyone. Yes, I've heard of the wetbox setup where you pour some water around the transducer mounted inside the hull. Mikei000, I launch my yak over a stony bottom at our lake so might try the 'inbuilt' idea first, and try something else later if I have problems. Seems ppl do mount them internally but just wondered whether there was a discernible difference to the reading. See what happens!
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I'm hoping to mount my Garmin fishfinder transducer inside my yak. That is, attach it to the bottom using marine goop so it reads through the plastic. Anyone done this? Will the transducer work AS EFFECTIVELY as if you mount it so it reads directly into the water? Any experienced advice greatly appreciated.
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Well done! Nice fish.
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Well done! Did you get these off Racecourse Beach by chance? Watched a guy catch a few nice whiting in the gutters there with worms last week.
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Sounds like you are pretty keen, and if you are already getting bites, well done, you are half way there! We all start out the same way and it just takes practice. Try to find someone with a bit of experience to go with you a few times. Nothing wrong with aiming for, and catching, small fish until you get the feel. Keep practising and good luck!!
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Don't wish to rubbish my Kiwi friends but on the south island I once saw a kid running on the beach and shouting, "Ded, ded, ded, come over here!' I thought someone had died but the boy was only calling to his father. On the other topic, do they strip the skin off the leatheries before baiting up?
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Discussed elsewhere, these mullet are breeding sea or bully mullet and won't touch anything. There are a few yellow eyed mullet towards the mouth but the best place to get them with a baitcatcher is at the south end of Mollymook beach.
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Childhood memories! Every season we targeted gars along the coast of Victoria, piers and rocks. We collected 'sandhoppers' from under the beached seaweed. On a small long-shanked hook behind a pencil float. Cast out, slow retrieve, no fail! Roll them out flat with a bottle as andysinmexico says, draw out the backbone, the few fine bones that remain no prob when cooked.
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And here's me now living on the lake and haven't been able to land one decent flattie (so far!) Still trying to work out the good spots!
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Let's know how you go!
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Hi Macca, I live on the lake and Paikea's map above is probably the best though very old and not so relevant. The main body of the lake is teeming with small tailor at the mo, not mentioned on the map. There's a similar map available at the Ulladulla visitor's centre but doesn't give you any more info. Not much of any size being caught at the moment, lots of small snapper, bream, tailor.
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Thanks for all your replies, but I should have mentioned, I'm fishing in Burrill Lake, south coast near Ulladulla. Maybe there are LJs in there? Open to the sea and I've caught small snapper and a blackfish in the lake.
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Seem to be dropping a lot of hooks, clean cut line. Changed to 20lb leader (!) and still lost a good fish that took a livie and left my hook cut off clean. There seem to be a lot of tailor around - is this typical of tailor? Does anyone use a wire trace? Still learning about fish in NSW.
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Ongoing saga: an animal of some kind dug up the putrid carcass. Did a quick autopsy (before putting it back in the lake for the crabs to eat) and found this lodged in its gullet!
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Probably one of the above - fish prob get sick like the rest of us. Top predator in the lake, floated ashore overnight before a sea- eagle spotted it. I collected it (putrid!) and shallow buried it nearby. Later I want to see if it's got a fish hook in it - or a bottle cap. :-)
