Squ!rt

That banana 🍌 lure looks like it’s doing it’s job, intrigued to what the secret is, 🤣

That is a dead set monster mate, will have to come out and have a flick out at Yarra haven’t been there for a while due to all those floods but good to see it’s producing sone decent bass again. 👌

@Little_Flatty Maaate, that is a cracker of a croc for a morning, you must have some magic way for these flattys, last time i was in this area near the wharf we couldn't get any of the crocs, only small bream.

Awesome Report @Little_Flatty, i do to myself have found over the years that on the rise of a new moon it almost seems like the fish are sleepy or tired and not much chop until later than the usual time, which i hate to admit it but that supports @61 crusher's theory. 😄 Now that i'm permanently back living in Syd, i'll have to start having a crack at Meadowbank again.

Maybe we should have some ort of cobia comp on lake mac?? never caught one or seen one in lake mac and i live on it at Belmont, that post on Fishbrain does say Belmont Lagoon though, which everyone knows the onl thing you catch in there is the Lochness Monster.

good looking reds mate, bet it was a good feed.

G'day all, been probably close to 6 months if not more of me being regularly active on here, I have been getting out fishing of night on the way up home to Lake Mac, still sussing out different little spots around my side of the lake (Belmont) but recently been starting in all the little inlets on the Morriset side. What I have been doing in all this time since I last posted a fishing report or even the infamous kingy's on the reef vid and write up you may ask?? Well, my daughter's now 4, my son 7 this year and been getting into the 4wding a lot more. almost every weekend consists of some sort of 4by trip with my little fam and my brother and mates. Anyway been doing a bit of filming here and there, out of the back of the landcruiser getting back into night fishing and only using lures or plastics to see how we go of a night in the lake mac region, not much luck so far, and when I have had luck of course the camera has been off or the phone has died. So here is the hopeful start of a mini series, Night Sessions proudly staring a hairy grizzly dread headed looking bum (me) and my mate fluffy. check out the links here, give us a like and follow and hopefully a lot more videos to come, in between working in a 4wd shop in Syd and travelling back and forth to Belmont plus the added fun of 2 kids in the mix. Night Sessions Ep1. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1Lcd6ODEA Night Sessions Ep.2>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIoS9DKAaUI Night Sessions Ep.3>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiB7Qj72pw I will be updating this as each episode or "session" comes out. just thought i'd drop my line in say g'day, watch my vid, listen to me talk some sh1t and hopefully get some fishies. FSF Adventures

@Scratchie you still got some up your way mate? im up your way almost full time nowadays.

Getting out on the water and wetting a line regardless of a fish or not.....every day's a good day for fishing

I'd definitely be going with the stradic and although i do support the view of other people who say you can still catch a fish with a cheap reel, with finesse fishing its all about the smoothness, good choice on the stradic, before reading through i was going to comment and tell you to go with some sort of shimano, a stradic or ultegra, even a sedona, all decently smooth reels and good for that finesse fishing, even if its just chasing bass or its your go to light setup.

Hey all, been more than a long time since last posting on here, Changed jobs, moved around and haven't been able to get upto much fishing lately or cant even remember when the last creek carp sesh was, been out a couple of times on the big rig boat but nothing worth even videoing nor even taking photos of, So been lately just getting my bro's 4by ready for trips and we been doing couple of test nights locally along with making sure everything is right, Here's my latest vid and some piccys of the weekend just gone, went to Newnes (lithgow NSW), checked out Lost City, and the infamous Spanish Steps. Video Link: Newnes 4WD Trip

wait till i finish editing the 4wd video from the day after, busy is and understatement

Thanks guys, i did my best to remember the day as i haven't had time to write the report due to being busy with stuff, plus the editing of vids, was a massive Long weekend for myself, sorting out fishing gear and fixing my brothers 4by on the friday, fish all day saturday 4am start got home round 9/10pm, then up sunday at 5am to go newnes 4wding, got home at 3am monday. then fix and rebuild the 4bys monday, big weekend. more vids to come

Started out Early Saturday morning Long Weekend, Put the boat in at Tunks at around 5/6ish, After we tied up all the rods we started chasing around for bait, we tried middle harbour and only managed to get one squid, we then went over to little manly, and started to get a decent amount of yakkas, well atleast enough to give us some sort of bait for the trip, we already had some decent cuttlefish on board from the last outing on the boat provided by fluffy, We hit up the North Head, and seemed every man and his dog were out doing the same thing, setting up the bombs, trawling around to try and get onto the kings, but as the same as us, not much luck, we headed straight upto Long reef, got there and plenty of marks on the sounder, sweet, then nothing, saw a couple of other guys there too, they were getting on but we weren't, Alright time to change tactics, started using the cuttlefish, and fluffy strted to get some hits, we chucked out a yakka, not much interest untill much later. We had a decent amount of fun trolling and drifting around the reef, unfortunately where we wanted to go there was a "Pro Dive" boat there, so no go to our usual kingy spot. We worked around this kept using the bait and ended up closer in than we thought, worked out very nicely, it was now getting on in the day mabe around the 3/4 O'clock mark, starting coming on decently, then we ran out of bait, Anthony chucked on a 300g jig, and holy sheeeps, did a kingy take it, we had now used all the bait and light was starting to get dim, we were looking back at the land and it was now just a nice sunset, as we drifted over these marks, each time we dropped a decent jig they went for it, it was insane, myself never catching kingy's or atleast any size to write home about, was catching stonkers on Lures, not bait, fricken lures, it was one of the best days and sessions, we were definately all buggered by the time we got back to Tunk's, My Pb for the Day was 82, and i believe on the Boat was 90/91 mark, still didnt get that elusive 1m but we will get there one day Anyway guys thats just a quick report, ill let the pics and vid do the talking Vid Link : Kings Of The Reef Squ!rt - FSF Adventures.

Plenty of Kings at Long Reef Saturday arvo, pulled in close to 20/30 on stickbaits on sunset.

Depends on where your going fishing i guess, flick N fish at thorneigh sells bait but havent been there in years so couldn't tell ya.

i have caught one or two but very long hours, we used corn, your best bet if you wanna catch carp and other local fish is going into parra or more out towards the lakes like Lake woodcroft, parra lake reserve etc. i fish these areas reguarly along with some of the other creeks, parra river been producing the goods of decent sized carp as of late.

im the same @DerekD siennas, sedonas and even higher on the food chain like stella, but if your gonna be using a reel just for landbased for carp or bream/flathead etc with a 1-3kg rod i don't see the need to spend more than a $55 sienna that will do the job, personally i like the sedona over the sienna more, but the new sienna are pretty nice and feel fairly smooth.

Exactly, you can have three or so different setups for the price of one, and if one fails you, your not without a reel. Especially under that $150 mark, could get 3 siennas for that, first siennas with the 1+1bb when they were like $35-45 say 2-3 years ago, still going strong never even washed them or serviced them and still pull in fish.

The reel question you want to ask (haha punny) yourself, is do i actually need to spend $150 or more on a reel that size?? I would personally just get youself a 2500 or 1000 size Shimano Sienna or a Sedona, especially that the new Sienna has the same bearings as the Sedona, and is $55 from Dinga on sale and you get a reel cover, you honestly can't go wrong. I have bought a couple and think the are damn good and 10 year warranty, how can you compete with that??, and even the old Sienna with 1+1 ball bearings and still work perfect, from being dunked in the yak to dropping it in sand, catching decent carp to 40cm bream, for a $50-70 reel its good for "light" fishing. I use a sedona 1000 on my 1-3 and a 2500hgfg on my 2-4 sahara x, and theolder sedona on the other backup 2-4. I know there is plenty of good reels and combos out there and others which can be better or recommended by other people and fishos, but a simple sienna or sedona/sahara reel works great, i have used shimano reels for years and never had a problem. i just dont think its worth spending the extra $$$ on a small size reel. ps. not sponsered by shimano nor dinga i just love them and use them.

Have uploaded a new Video from last weeks carp outing and has some static filming from the good old iPhone plus some action cam footage while moving, eventually getting to the stage that I’m getting better, Static looks good showing some casts and then action when one of us are on, check it out here: Urban Creeks - Carpaholic let me know now what you guys think, don’t wanna make a post about every land based vid I do so I’ll probably just reply in here if enough people wanna watch it Regards Squ!rt

"Unless you have a big boat" ?? wonder what is classified as big?? 7m would be safely able to have three people on it with 1.5m spacing.

yeh eventually will get to the stage of somewhat professional, for most of the simple vids, i just use movie maker, heaps of tutorials online for it @big Neil, its like powerpoint tbh, pretty easy to just drag and drop in music and videos, and cut them, mute audio etc..

On change of tide you can't go wrong fishing Swansea bridge, just depends on how fast the current is and what side you choose, sometimes you get some stonker tailor, i think my pb is around the 46 mark, second pilon from Marks Point/Pelican side facing the RSL with a little walker wobbler, good fun.

I use just an old go pro 3 and an a cheap action camera with a $20 chest mount from bigW, which unfortunately does make the filming a bit jumpy at times, for static i have a simple tripod and attach the Canon 540D, but don't always want to cart this around especially for a 5 minute fish video, to do it on the cheap and to make average to ok videos, i use my voice recorder on my Iphone, film with the action cam or gopro then mute the audio in the video and line it all up or add in music from youtube's Audio library in the editing stage, so you don't get in trouble for copyright... Then normally use Kdenlive or Movie Maker depending on what i feel like, along with using audacity to cut and crop audio, and sometimes use Adobe After effects to add in funny things like lightning bolts and that if i can really be bothered, but takes a long time, to make a 45min video with full effects and completely proper audio it was abut 7 hours of editing when i made a mini film back in the day for the HSC.. A cheap Action cam that does HD video and something to record Audio directly to it, even using headphones with mic from the iphone produce better audio than the camera, makes it sound better or you get muffled audio with those (built in) gopro/action cams, plus almost impossible to hear the audio as they are normally in a case to be attached to the mounts, either chest or head.