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  1. That should be Everything likes a live pike!!! but the fight sure sounds like a ray to me!!
  2. never caught herring in the Parra but in the Hawkesbury ive struggled to get them in winter-in fact i dont bother chasing them between May and October, always find them easy to catch around channel markers as long as there is a fair whack of current.
  3. Yeah Justin Duggan-flyfishing guide, good bloke and very articulate when it comes to defending fishing
  4. Write to your local STATE member and tell them your thoughts -let them know how beaches are for EVERYONE not just entitled locals. I live in the North West of Sydney and wrote to my local guy last night-as ive said all too many times the ALP has forgotten its roots and the LNP think we are the great unwashed -these wallies that sit in parliament need reminders here and there.
  5. Sightfishing of any kind , trolling of any kind (i like to cover ground) which would include downrigging-not much of a C&R fisho these days much prefer to catch a feed and go home.
  6. Yep-as ive said many times before-The Greens keep chipping away at the mainstream and wont stop-they dont care that people are out of jobs, they dont care that sustainable use of our resources is more environmentally friendly that importing stuff from China, they want power and are simply a rehash of Leninism at its finest. Our commercial fishing in general is some of the most well regulated in the world(in general) , and managemnet should be continued in that vein-but woke politics has leaked into science . Had a very interesting chat with a Qld Fisheries officer a few weeks ago -Degree qualified, passionate fisho, been in the game for 30 years, his current boss is a young Phd woke green, never fished, anti fishing, cant tell the difference between a bream and a blackfish (his words-not mine), got into fisheries to save Nemo. If we are not careful our future is very bleak.
  7. Unfortunately the anti fishos will never stop-which is why we have to be awake to this stuff AND get off our behinds and respond
  8. Heads up for everyone-there is a move being pushed by Northern Beaches councils to create a "marine sanctuary" around Bongin and Mona Vale-check the Stop The Lockout faceache page and get writing everyone-as i point out to everyone-the Labor party thinks we are a pain because theyve lost the working class roots they had and would rather align with the grreens and the wealthy surfing types dont want the great unwashed fishing on their doorstep-DONT LEAVE THIS FOR SOMEONE ELSE to do.
  9. waste of time-just go fishing-tides are far more important and so is light-tide changes and light changes are killing times in nature
  10. Pretty much it Noel, stop /start retrieves with metals are very effective but a jigging motion is only useful with assist hooks. Different metal lures have different optimum retrieval styles-if its built for speed (streamlined, no planing surfaces , no sharp curves )then just crank it---quick---!!!
  11. I know a couple of guys who have deep dropped it-the wreck apparently has been commercially fished for a long time and has a few nets and commercial droplines badly tied up in the wreck. Its right on the edge of the shelf-I have he marks and keep on thinking about having a look over it but havent been in that direction for a while-maybe next marlin session.(or season!!)
  12. It starts with duck hunting, ends with us being locked in a room!! Greenies simply wont stop-if all recreational outdoors people dont get together then they will chip away at one thing after another.
  13. A few things with getting hooked up on metals; 1. keep your rod tip low to the water , when you get whacked DONT lift the rod up , keep winding until you have the full weight of the fish, use low rod angles to fight the fish especially jumpers like tailor and salmon 2. if you are using braided line have aa shock absorber built into your rigging -tie a bimini double and a decent length of mono leader 3. sharpen your hooks , also some of those cheap metals come with undersized trebles which can make a clean hookup harder to get. In my experience there is no real advantage to singles over trebles as long as they are the right size and quality-trebles get more hookups but singles stay in better once you are hooked up-personal observations from 40 odd years of metal chucking going back to point number 1, KEEP winding dont stop and dont strike
  14. I caught the cod in about 15 m of water on a downrigged pike , i wasnt 100% happy with the release , towed him for a bit which he didnt like at all , he kicked off the gaff, floated and thrashed for a bit so we spun the boat back to try again but he'd disappeared , i think if i ever get one again i will try to deflate , actually the fight is pretty distinctive so i will just bust it off down deep. Hopefully he was OK
  15. Caught plenty on paternosters even in suprisingly shallow water, i usually have one out while drifting around and flicking a jig out with another rod.I just use same old jigs i use to catch them in the normal way.
  16. Ive tried them Rob-i must admit they just taste like raw fish blood to me as do striped tuna-AND -when what you hope is a spannie or wahoo turns into a mack tuna -well---but you are right they an excellent sportsfish.
  17. That there was-it is funny how familiarity breeds a degree of contempt-as a young bloke a mack tuna was a prize-my first decent tuna was a mack tuna, we had plenty of hookups, spotted a couple of marlin freeswimming , got smashed up a few times , swore a lot at the fish we lost, fished really hard and had a thoroughly enjoyable time away. Found a few new (to me anyway) mackeral spots and bait grounds-if you aint learning you aint living!! The coast between Urunga and Wooli just keeps sucking me back-its a great area.
  18. Just got back from a bit of frustrating but none the less very enjoyable week in Coffs. There was reasonable numbers of macks around of both the spotted and spanish kind but we found all sorts of interesting ways to lose them , bustoffs, biteoffs , crossovers,sharks , missed gaff shots. We spent one day looking for wahoo which had been around in good numbers the week before but spent the day hooking tuna after tuna-mainly mack tuna of course but did get one small yellowfin of about 7-8 kgs. Live bait were very hard to get but i did get a lot of pike which proved to be the bait the mackies wanted and this guy-50kgs plus of black cod (protected species so released of course).To put it mildly it was like hooking a freight train -not something im sure i want to repeat in a hurry!!. The sharks were a real issue this trip- we hooked a couple on livies as well as the ones that were eating our macks. In terms of fish for the freezer it was a lean trip, in terms of action with everything else it was great fun. Booked again for next year already.
  19. Yep i run a 9 and a 7 out of my 5.4 m centre console-two trannies the side scan and a through hull set up on medium chirp-no issues works well under conditions from shallow to the shelf.
  20. Hi Neil-not dissillusioned at all just brutally realistic these days. I explained my point of view to a few friends as this-I am a single issue voter-i vote for freedom-if my actions do not hurt someone else then i should essentially be free to carry on as i see fit. There are large numbers of busy bodies these days who see my chosen recreational activities (hunting and fishing) as things that need to be stamped out-not because i have any adverse effect on their lives or any one elses for that matter, i have no adverse impact on the environment (other that being a human being-dont get me started on that). So essentially other than some sensible scientific regulation (even this has been hijacked by ideology) I should be left the heck alone-and so should everyone else.
  21. Neither of the majors are our friends-Labor has forgotten that the working man wants to fish for a few hours to escape the drudge of every day life and have become obsessed with keeping the far left happy (to which they will never succeed).The LNP think we are the great unwashed and spoil their water views and inconvenience their Wednesday afternoon sailing races on the harbour.
  22. Latest is that Montague Island lockout is very much on the agenda-SFFP and Stop The Lockout are organising a rally in Narooma on the 11th of April I believe.
  23. This is one of the most important elections we will face-the lockups will explode if the Greens get their way
  24. To add to the mix-heard a rumour today that certain parts of the political left think they have a very good chance to shut Montague Island to fishing AND diving. Hopefully a rumour but as i said before -they will never stop.
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