pompom

Forget corn , carp are not the brightest of fish but they will avoid it once they see a few of their mates disappear and never return .easy baits to try are tined chick peas luncheon meat and peanuts goggle the "knotless knot" and use a hair rig I know it goes against nature not putting the bait on the hook but it does work as for burley soak mixed birdseed in boiling water add sugar and leave for 48 hours , ( dried chick peas and peanuts also need soaking or boiling ) add coles bread crumbs and mix into a ground bait everything you need can be bought from coles or Woolworths, also you can add small amounts of salt to your bait carp love it

it took a 20lb fluorocarbon paternoster rig with a size 6 uk carp hook looking at the photo's I took it seemed to be nearer 140cm than 120cm but the wind was proper howling last night and being a female we wanted to get it back quickly , the jetty was alive with 12" + mackerel yesterday at high tide, seemed like the wind or something had pushed them right up against the shark nets there but we didn't see anything chasing them

Great photos mate ??

Will do mate , thinking about Saturday night at cabbage tree , but not 100% sure as of yet

I'm a little bit lazy so I release 99% of fish I catch ,would rather let them go than leave them in the fridge and end up giving the neighbors cat a dinner however I do have a John Dory on my wanted list and if I get one it might come home with me

I've just moved over from London and have started fishing the harbour, fished a couple of weeks ago on the jetty at Clifton gardens ,two rods out on sliders with livebait and my spinning rod catching bait after an hour missed a take on one of the live baits , on inspection just one small puncture wound on the bait but something definitely had hold of it as it took line on a run then about 11am had another hit , this one was hooked and landed what I believed is a tailor apart from a flathead and a flounder that was it for the day and I packed up about one Fished again this Monday evening on a beach north of Norah head had squid , prawns and salted pilchards first cast small flathead then three port Jackson sharks on whole squid , also had a fiddler ray, two small stingers ,three tailor and a 2kg bream which took a 6/0 circle hook, all fish returned .still getting used to measuring fish as we weighed everything in the uk fishing is a bit different over here to my usual carp and beach back home , but I'm here now full time so I better get used to it lol waiting for my first king and jewie