HookemDano

anywhere from 12 to 22 feet

Pittwater, drift with yabbies make sure your bait is drifting on the floor and you cant go wrong....

There was four of us, so not so bad

Kicked off the summer with a 4.5 hour session at Barrenioey armed with 150 yabbies and 3 mates, target species was the good old Whiting and flattys and we didn’t miss.......It was a surprisingly good session for the lack of tidal movement and zero wind we encountered between 6am and 10:30am. I usually fish the bay for the same species only because its closer but every now and then..... I really want to fish I head to Barrenjoey and it never disappoints.....

Wow that whiting is up there with the biggest I've seen!!

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone owns a portable jump starter that would be able to jump start at minimum a 50 horsepower outboard? And if so do you recommend them? (as in do they do what they say they can do?) I have been thinking about getting the HYPER PS for around $55 (which is multi functional)

I've been hearing and reading rumors about Rosebay holding some massive whitings on the flats. So I decided last night I would go in search of these beasts armed with none other then fat juicy blood worms....It was a bit choppy and blowing a fresh breeze around the 27km mark so not the best conditions to eye out the sometime fussy nibbles of the great whiting. We hit the shallows at 9pm and it took a good 45 min before bang and the delicate tip of the rod dipped and as I picked it up it curled like the maccas arches we were dreaming about before hand. No mistaking it, I knew it was a whiting and I knew it was above average. I proudly landed a 37cm fat stonker of a whiting. The rumors are true they are huge, it wasn't long after that I lost a slightly larger model at the engine as I tried to whisk it out (with no net) stupid I know but I got to excited. 11pm and 2 breams later we called it a night with still half a bag of blood worms to go...the wind would'nt let up and we were rocking mad but happy to live the rumors...will do it again but this time I will be making sure the wind is non existent. I hope the pictures uploaded

I went out fishing on Saturday with the aim to get a newby onto some nice table fish for him to take home to the family and hopefully enough for my family as well. Target species Whiting and finish off with some bream. Bad start to the day local bait shop "no blood worms" , your kidding!!....... $10 of your best frozen prawns will have to do......we hit the local whiting grounds at around 6am (approx 500m opposite the Novotel), weather was slightly overcast and the track was a choppy 5 with the boat going one direction when anchored and the baits floating off in the other direction.....not cmfortable but fishable, well well the prawns did the job A ok and with a dozen whiting landed, 1 taylor and 1 bream in 3 hours we decided to call it quits on the whiting and move on and spend the last hour chasing bream so off to the bream grounds up and down the kurnell penisula to Towra point found a nice patch of sand surounded by weed (sea grass) burleyed up and first two in the boat were trevally, 1 of which bounced off the side and swam away to play another day. We preceded to land 4 bream one of which I have on video 35cm model and the other 3 tipping the ruler at 30cm. pulled up stupms at 10:30 am with enough fish to split 2 ways,I've also posted a picture of a previous trip of half a whiting, this whiting was split two ways but not by my doing......

Here are some tips from some body who has learnt the hard way. always keep an eye out on your trailers wheel bearings actually bearing buddies are a must if not fitted get them fitted, invest in a grease gun and freely lubricate, steering arms, tilt arms and anywhere else you see a grease tit, invest in battery Jumper and spare fuel tank all of the above have caught me out in imy 15 years of boating but for the last 5 years no issues....... Have fun

Definitely will not be going there tonight.......I honestly feel sick.........I know ignorance is no excuse but there were boats everywhere in this location all clearly fishing not to mention even further past the white buoys some of the kayakers were in amongst the mangroves..Surely the Maritime police need to get out there and police it as well......Once again I apologise for my stupidity.

Yep plenty of Burly I actually believe thats what kept them around and one of the bream we caught when trying to retrieve the hook, pooped and you can tell he'd been feeding up on the burly However all bream were between 25cm and 30 with maybe 2 throw backs, Im hoping as the sun goes the size gets bigger will be trying that theory tonight. back to your question: We caught the one sting ray and yes the chicken caught just as much as the Yabbies. I have just confirmed I will be heading out there this afternoon so will let you know how that goes.....

HI All, I'm a creature of habbit and don't usually like to try new spots unless I know they are going to produce. Sunday fishabout was something completely new. Firstly I usually fish into the night from 5pm to 10pm and 98% of that time it would be around the groynes kurnell area and don't move much if at all. So when I launched on Sunday morning at around 5am and headed towards Towra Pt I didn't have much confidence in doing anywhere near as good as I usually do. I was right and fishing was slow and resulted in many moves.......to name some....... the middle of the bay, to the runway , to the stix, to the oil warf each spot 30 minutes with a total of 1 Whiting, One Bream and one flounder, the final move was around 8:30am we headed down towards Towra Pt from the Oil warf, this time we turned left just before Towra Pt and just after Kurnell Peninsula into Quibray Bay and parked on clear sand bottom with weed to the left and weed to the righ of the boat each side had clear sand of around 30m to the weed beds.....Wow 8:35am going out tide, sun high in the sky armed with Yabbies and chicken Breast we landed 18 Bream that we could keep all between 25cm and 30cm and one awsome Blueswimmer 9:45am pulled up stumps and went home with great smile on the dial can't wait to hit that spot at dusk...... No Pics but expecting them all cleaned today and in the fridge maybe able to put one up this afternoon.....

Hi Raiders, I have been hearing that Botany bay needs a good down pour to get things to hot up? If so, now that that seems to be happening how long after the rain before the supposed hotting up takes place? Is the above generally true? As Im finding the bay at least 50% slower then other years.

Bait for the bream flat head were caught on chicken breast and prawns, we were also armed with fresh squid and octopus for jewies but that didnt really happen

I usually fish the bay and despite the lack lusture reports going around, the plan was set during the week with my dad and nephew to hit the Hawkesbury early sat morning. Try a spot for some bream during the run in tide and then hit another spot for some jewies on the runout. Everything was going to Plan, we hit the beach just on 6am spot located just before flint and steel, started a burly trail which consisted of 2 89cent cans of catfood and chicken pellets and it was a matter of seconds before we were on to a nice 32cm bream. Before I can rig my rod, Nephew was on as well to a Breambo just on the keeper side of 25cm. I finnally got to fish 45min after arrival prior to that I was re-rigging and baiting up my nephews rod because the fish he caught swallowed the whole thing down. After 3 hrs of inefficient fishing we managed to boat 10 bream keepers, 3 flat head just over pan sized 35 to 37cm and 2 tailor. Lost another nice flatty at the boat(at least we saw what it was)got busted off once and bitten off twice, bounced back numerous undersized bream. Must say one of the most enjoyable sessions I have ever had. We managed to drag ourselves away at peak high tide and headed to Flint and Steele for a jewy bash. in 30 min we landed another Flatty, 2 undesized Snapper and most likely got busted off by some sought of monster ray as it made a mini run at first and then it was a larthgic fight to the back of the boat where it just sat there and didn't budge and till ping!! gone....We only got to fish Flint and Steel 45 min before the old man claimed full time!! he wanted to go home, I cant say I was disapointed but I know we would of done ok if we stayed...ummm previewing topic I can't see the picture??