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Well done James you’ve started your holidays firing on all cylinders cracker of a lizard. Can’t wait to see what you come up with for an encore. Bet you dream, sleep & talk fish as well as send positive vibes down your line while fishing Happy Holiday Hunting 👍👍

Looks like you had a great day out with your grandson, nice feed & elbow slapper 👍

Good effort & mixed bag Dave I see you haven’t lost the art of intimidation even after retiring 🤣👍

If someone stripped off & started heading towards me with a pump in hand I’d be bloody getting out of there in hurry to 😂🤣 Great mixed bag of fish, sounds like someone figured you’d caught enough & wanted to unnerve you, I dare say retired coppers have a knack of intimidating people🤣

Great job Bob sounds like Neils bucket list is shrinking rapidly with that mixed bag, great to see raiders getting together enjoying bananas 😂 & the comradery 😎

Sounds like you’ve got the area pretty well sussed out good report & info 👍

Sounds like you had a very eventful few days from ringing your jocks out, saving a beautiful wedgie (pun intended)👍😎 & almost cracking a PB I saw your post in another group & was going to tag you with “is this Gordo retired well now I know. Great report & photos 👍, funny about you mentioning catching a few around midday as I’ve experienced that on a few occasions & done quite well PS you’re making me jealous love smoked trout 😋 yum

I think it’s called the eastern frog fish with a big ugly head & a short small body, brown to olive in colour. Bob I must’ve been lucky as I only got one dorsal %%%%% to my knuckle & didn’t have to strip down to my jocks 🤣 I do agree though the pain was pretty severe, worse than a very bad tooth ache

When the wharf was still there & the blackfish were on, the rocks on the left used to get quite crowded, very rarely do I see anyone targeting them anymore I also remember moving my gear back for when the cockatoo ferry was about to dock as the whole wharf & pylons would be covered in a mass exodus of workers disembarking & it would be all over in less than 5 minutes

Another top report & photos, been ages since I’ve been flats fishing, did any make it home for a feed

Good report & photo, funny how those kings can bring you to your knees 😄 looks almost legal, how did it measure up

I used to be a bit of a wharf jockey frequenting Valentia st & ferry st wharves in my teens in the 70’s & fished valentia st & surrounding area until about 2010. I’m sure we would have crossed paths @XD351 The slow yo-yo technic also worked well for yakkas & a little bit of prawn or minced meat usually always ensured a catch of fish. The ferry wash was another good trick especially with the smallest of sinker & slack in the line

Have had a couple of close calls with fortescues while prawning & a bad experience with a red rock cod, it’s painful enough to stop you focusing or concentrating on the task at hand for a few hours, seen what a catfish can do, major swelling & pain. A mate got barbed by stingray in the ankle a few years back & made the 6 o’clock news because he ended up in hospital & required stitches, the paramedics suggested soaking the affected area in hot water for as long as you can bare till the pain & swelling subsides. I believe that’s the best trick for most fish venom Another one to be wary of is the blue ringed octopus, quite common in & around Sydney foreshores. @PicklesI’m aware of the frog fish(3 dorsal spines are venomous) & similar looking to the dreaded stone fish but haven’t heard of any encounters down this way, have you heard of any in the Sydney region?

There’s a lot of salmon up here at the moment as well as down JonD’s way so you should be able to get them off a good beach gutter around your area at the moment on pilly or metal. Would be interested to hear how salmon sashimi goes. They are roe’d up at the moment (some Asian friends love it) if you are game to try With the bonito if it’s soft try cutting a section & wrapping it in glad wrap or foil & then put it into the freezer for a few hours, firms up & easier to slice 😋

All these photos were taken on a iPhone 8 without any effects Interestingly the early morning mist in the reflection photo makes it look more natural when viewed upside down

Terrific write up & photos JonD. Looks like you two had a fun session working out 😎 When I saw your daughter wearing her work boots I figured you were the water boy

Sounds like a fun short outing & nice lunch to finish the session with, nice elbow slapper Tyran holding up,he wouldn’t be working on a moe-vember by any chance 👍

Hi Adrian I caught a couple a few days ago, had them in a small rock pool & while following the school off the rocks a big wave washed them into a deep pool damn!! Anyway went back the next day after work with net in hand, knife & esky, managed to capture, bleed, gut & ice one of them, the other succumbed to an occy Anyway sorry for the long story but ended up hot smoking it after an overnight soak in brown sugar salt & brine, used mesquite sawdust & it was flakey, golden & tasty. I normally give them to a single Asian mum & in kind she sends a sample container of whatever she’s made & to be honest the flavours are great but the salmon in most cases would be better left out Good luck on the salmon sashimi 🤞

Toughens them up but if you don’t over do it with the salt & time on the salt they come up ok& yes you can freeze they do stay pliable. As @Berleyguts suggested cryovacing is the go & keeping cold as needed

relaxing snoozing without a care in the worldalbino & his matesea eagle in the snowys lake Jyndabine

sunrise on the rockssunbathingenquisitive

Early morning reflection on the Thredbo river

sunrise reflection in June at Lake Jyndabine Early morning lone fisho after a wet nightafternoon sunset from the front yard

Don’t worry many a person including myself have been possessed by the elusive silver ghost with many a sleepless night & at least you’ve done some research, keep researching & spending time out there chasing them & you’ll hopefully get one sooner rather than later & possibly crack the code

I caught a small one years ago (released) & wondered what it would taste like, good to here it was tasty thanks