Longy

Here are some of the pics we took:

Nice feed of bream. We were at St Georges Basin over Easter aswell, Friday the conditions were great, a bit windy on Sat so didn't hit the Basin (site seeing instead at Hyams Beach), and Sunday was pretty good. We ended up with 5 keeper snappers (largest going 45 cm), a couple of bream and a couple of flathead, all caught using squid, prawns and pillies. There was heaps of just under size bream (between 22cm to 24 cm) and pinkies (between 26 to 28 cm), when you find them, the action was non-stop, just about every cast resulted in a hook-up.

Hope you parents are on the mend, drop by Big W or Kmart, grab yourself a spinning combo, I think there is plenty of shore based fishing spots along that part of the coast.

Mainly down the coast (St Georges Basin on long weekends or if longer than Tathra) when we can, or when visiting parents in Sydney, then its Botany Bay. Want to try and make more time for fishing, but with a young family (3 kids aged 9, 7 and 4), it's not that easy.

Great smile on your sons face, wish we could do that more often with our kids too.

Well done pomey_git, and great to see another "local" Canberrian on fishraider. Fished Yerrabi pond once, I caught my first ever fish on soft plastics there, a tiny redfin.

Hi Erroll, I'm guessing, JB is Jervis Bay? If so, we'll be heading up that way for the first time during the Australia Day long weekend, contemplating wether to bring the boat or not (old girl got fitted out with an 08 90hp Optimax this time last year, and it's only been out on the water once - down in the Bega River), we'll be staying at Callala Beach, the boat is a 5.4 m half cab, will we be able to use the ramp over at Callala Bay? Thanks. Regards, Longy

Great catch, fished out at Windang a few Fridays ago for a couple of whiting too. I was so surprised how many people fishing, every 5 to 10 meters would be a group fishing all the way from the bridge out towards the mouth. Was there a lot of fisherman around today?

That sucks in regards to your car being damaged like that, but why did you take a brand new car like a Lexus fishing? What about the smelly fish and gear placed in the car, that alone would have been enough for me keep a brand new car in a garage.

that is impressive numbers on two counts, the catch and the fuel efficiency. What motor is it by the way?

How were you trying to pull the worms? A trick is to use and old nylon stocking, have you bait in that, hold it to the sand where the worms are popping up, when they grab onto the stocking, they get caught up in the nylon, and its a matter of pulling them out of the sand. Good luck.

We've heard of Dynamo, magician impossible. Now we have dhype, fishing extraordinaire!

Trung, you're still the Bay King!!!!!! Have fun and stay safe.

and not to be confused with the Sargent Baker, first time we ever caught one of those in the Bay, we tossed it back thinking it would be similar to the "mother-in-law" fish, but after the trip and searching the net to ID the first, we learnt that gurnards are indeed a good table fish.

great haul of snapper, don't think I've ever caught a single keeper, just pinkies. but in regards to the post above, about feeling "uneasy seeing so many fish being kept", but we don't know how many fishos where onboard that charter boat, if it had 10+ people fishing, that lot of fish would only be 3 or 4 per person, so not that much considering the legal bag limits ranges from 2 per person to 10 in SA (or boat limits) depending on location and size of the fish.