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    Hawkesbury river monster?

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

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    9 hours ago, squidjigga said:

    I was fishing today with a mate in some deep water and one of our hooks came back looking like this...
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    Any ideas on what could have mangled the hook so badly? We were on to some big bream on our other rods right before it happened but I can't imagine a bream bite causing that damage.

    That’s some serious damage, I’d be questioning if I hooked onto the Loch Ness monster  

    beach combo advice

    in Tackle Talk

    Posted

    7 hours ago, slothparade said:

    Been meaning to ask, do you have a smaller tackle box that you pack for traveling? Or do you just take everything? 

    Once I have the fridge, recovery gear, sleeping arrangements, spare parts, fuel, water, ECT, really not much spare left. Have you had any experience with a 3 piece rod? Are they any good? 

    I take everything, I got a large tackle box which fits perfectly in the space between the rear drawers and the side of the car. My 3 PCs 15ft sensor surf is perfect for travel and is a really good rod for beaches like Stockton which are quite turbulent and also casting out larger squid and 8oz lead. 
     

     

    7 hours ago, slothparade said:

    Other than the dawia sensor, can you please recommend any other brand or rod? I've had a couple of bad experiences with dawia and now don't buy from them anymore. Got 2 saltists, within 4 weeks, a few of the guide inserts fell out while just sitting on the shelf, called dawia and they said I can either send them back and wait 6 weeks for them to make up their mind wether it's a warranty or I can go fix it myself, (they wanted me to pay shipping both ways). 

    Looking to get a heavier rod for baitfishing for Jews, something in the 15kg range. 

    Do you ever target Jews on lure off the beach? What setup would you use? 

    I’ve had no issues with Diawa rods outside of misuse on my behalf. One sensor surf I’ve had for 5 years now and looks like new. But I do take very good care of my rods.

    I don’t use lures of the beach but if I did I’d probably use a 9-10ft rod which is whippy. the penn prevail is more of a bait rod. 

    29 minutes ago, slothparade said:

    Sorry, how are you finding the Saragosas? Are they giving you maintenance trouble? I'm currently looking at the 6000hg as it's very similar weight to the slammer 4500 but has a bit more line capacity. I'm planning on going to a shop and actually having a play with both. 

    I do recommend the saragosa over the stradic, it’s light and also sealed. On a recent trip near Forster I had a double hook up on mulloway and had the rod holder fold over in the soft sand so I had to stand on the butt off the rod to prevent the rod and reel sliding away while fighting the other fish. One fish was 86cm other was 91 with a pretty bad tangle. Abit of wash from a bottle and the reel was like new 

    beach combo advice

    in Tackle Talk

    Posted

    1 hour ago, slothparade said:

    Agree with the 2 setups, and I actually do have multiple beach rods. Just to elaborate my situation, I am getting into long distance touring so having multiple rods just doesn't fly, hence why I'm looking for a more multi purpose one. 

    What influenced your decision to choose a 9' rod for spinning on the beach? I found with my 9' rod, I was struggling to get lures out any reasonable distance. 

    How robust do you find the Stella? Often looked them, but then considered what my gear goes through. My rods get strapped to the front of the car and run up and down the beach. They also get dunked, dropped in sand, splashed on the kayak ECT, hence I transitioned over to Penn as the stradics were giving me trouble. 

    As for the bait fishing, would you ever use your lure setup if say you could only bring one setup? The nice thing about the 4500 slammer is it has the line capacity and the drag to stop most things on the beach while being light enough to cast. As for the rod, what do you think of 8-12kg, would that be a reasonable compromise? Can still flick smaller lures for tailor, salmon, ECT and reasonable lures for jewfish. 

    As for my dedicated jewfish bait setup, I already have a baitrunner and just need replace the rod as it fell out of the rod holder and was run over. But at the moment, have been using a 8-12kg heavy rod. Do plan to get a 15kg. Use to have a 24-37kg but that one was unfortunately snapped. 

    i took 3 beach rods, 2 7ft 1 pce terez rods & a light spinning down to south aus for 25 odd days and had no issues with space ontop of food, water, tackle etc

    beach combo advice

    in Tackle Talk

    Posted

    Rods for both soaking baits and lures can be challenging as you want a fairly long rod to get the line above the breakers when soaking Bait but you also want a fairly short 10ft or so rod for the lures so it can be much lighter and easier to handle.

    my goto bait setups are

    Lighter surf for salmon, tailor is a sensor surf 13ft with a 8000 saragosa 

    Heavier surf for mulloway, big rays and sharks is a sensor surf 16ft with a 10000 saragosa

    both rods work well off Stockton and other high energy beaches where the water can be quite turbulent and a lot of sweep  

    the light surf has 14lb main line with 20lb leader and the heavy surf has 30lb main, 30lb or 40lb leader. I also have a penn prevail 12 and 13ft but much prefer the sensor surf. You can easily cast out much heavier baits, the rods 10x lighter, good action and a very long butt which makes casting a breeze. I only use the penn prevail in areas where I don’t need to cast far or as a loan rod to mates.

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    Waging " Grub " war

    in The Bar

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    Although I haven't had any issues with curl grubs in the lawn, i grow a solid amount of natives and get the odd one or two, but the natives which prefer richer, moist soils there would  be 15-20 of them they, seem to like rich, moist soils. My current war is trying to convince a neighbour to erase the weed asparagus they have growing everywhere so it dosnt spread like a fire into our yard, 

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    port hacking

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Larkin said:

    Mate, at least your getting out there!

    Pick a flat day with no wind and you could probably have a go around the entrance to bate bay. The council website surf cams are a good way to check out the live conditions.

    ive stuck my head out on the protected side of jibbon and do pretty good on calis around there but yet to venture on the northen headlands yet

    port hacking

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Yowie said:

    That's not good.

    If you keep a few of those squid for the table, there's a feed or 2 there.

    If you didn’t take all the fish this wouldn’t be a issue. Sharings caring. Anyway, The squid are generally all bait size with a mix of arrows and calis. Get the odd decent Cali which I do sometimes eat. I havnt grown big enough balls yet to take the kayak along oceanic reefs yet for the bigger calls 

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    port hacking

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

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    seeing i havnt posted a report as of late, i thought i post the pretty fishless day today was. after spending a day re wiring & giving the kayak abit of maintenance i went out this morning into the hacking around yowies haunts in lilli pilli at 5.30am and caught basically nothing. Clearly yowies taken them all and eaten them. theres the usual baby snapper and i caught what looked like a cooked mud crab but was still alive. Absolutely no bait around & almost lifeless. great weather though. not too hot or cold & no wind.

    Over the past few weeks theres been plenty of squid on the inshore areas like dolans, lilli pilli and yowie, averaging 7-9 squid a session at the moment so thats a positive  

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    Gummy Shark NSW

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

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    12 minutes ago, BaitDropper said:

    Yep, if you bleed them straight away....

    hear its also good to remove the head and tail to limit ammonia. heard this from a few shark fishos in SA not sure if its true or not

    Gummy Shark NSW

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

    Posted

    I’ve caught all my gummy sharks off bundeena wharf and jibbion beach. Biggest was 130cm in 2016 of the ferry wharf but I’ve pulled up quite a few around 70-90cm off jibbon beach on both land and boat. 

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