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1 minute ago, Fried Rice said:
First I heard about it but here is an article. Animal Justice Party behind it which is not a surprise.
Yeah, doesn’t say when it comes into effect though, gonna tick the fish off my list before they ban it 😂. Stupidest decision I’ve ever seen by dpi, completely ignoring the species that actually need assistance through increased size limits (e.g kingfish) and banning fishing for the one species that is prevalent everywhere on the coastline.
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Anyone know when this completely unnecessary blue grouper ban comes into effect in nsw?
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but where you took that pic of you holding the squid is that not in the reserve area? Or just outside of it? Also how often are you checked by fisheries? I’m out a good couple times each week and have never been checked nor even seen a fisheries boat on the harbour
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2 hours ago, Pickles said:
We’ll give you a cm mate - anything over the magic meter is a solid fish and 1 cm is negligible.
Thanks pickles, especially as a harbour fish you don’t see many this size around at the moment
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2 hours ago, Sharknado said:
Nice fish bro 😀
You might want to actually straighten out the tail to get the true measure thought 😉
Still essentially the same measurement wether the tail is straightened or not, as you can see from the attached pic. Although I do admit it wasn’t 113, just in the moment and when I made this post that’s what I called it for, it was more so around the 112 mark
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Wow, a true harbour hoodlum, after spending the morning getting cuttlefish we went to a wreck inside the harbour where my mate quickly landed a nice 79cm king inbetween a couple rats. After deciding to go get more bait we came back later in the day to drop more baits in the same spot. My rod however buckled over hard in the rod holder and a relatively short (4 minute) fight ensued in tight structure where this fish somehow didn’t manage to make it to the shore or surrounding moorings eventually landing it, the fight was unlike anything else where the fish just kept digging down in roughly 20 meters of water. So stoked 113cm of harbour hoodlum, the fish took a live cuttlefish with a 4/0 hoodlum hook and 50lb leader, tagged and released to fight another day.
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On 12/19/2023 at 5:55 PM, dunc333 said:
anyone found the big leather jackets in the harbour yet cheers dunc333
Just go to the popular kingfish wrecks/spots and you’ll find hordes of big leather jackets
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8 hours ago, whiskey299 said:
That's a shame you haven't received your certificate, but I'm sure with all the fishing you have been doing you'll eventually get another chance. Another option is if you could ask them to email you a pdf file so you can print it out.
I tagged 2 kings back in 2021, a 91 and 93 and still haven't heard of it being recaptured. I can only guess they are enjoying their days at liberty or have been eaten by sharks or maybe the tags have fallen off.
Well I think you jinxed it cause I just got two certificates this arvo haha, I’ve tagged about 13 now I think all in that 70-80cm range as there hasn’t been much bigger fish around, I wish fish like the ones you caught in 2021 were more common for sure, hopefully those kings you caught are still swimming around with the tags in their backs, would be interesting to see the growth over the past 2 years.
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On 10/6/2023 at 9:32 AM, whiskey299 said:
It's not often I get these.
I thought I would also include details from the original release which were emailed to me from the Gamefish Tagging Program team.
It would appear that it's shrinking 75cm > 71cm > 70cm! I suspect the original capture on the 24/06/2023 wasn't measured correctly and maybe the tail was squeezed when measuring OR the tag numbers got mixed up with another kingfish when submitting the cards. The shrinking from 71cm to 70cm is just a measurement variation which happens when we use different measuring tools.
Note Tag Number has been removed from the post as the kingfish was released.
Original Release
Tag Number: xxxxxx
Date: 24/06/2023
Location: Sydney Harbour
Length: 75cm
First Recapture
Date: 12/08/2023
Location: Sydney Harbour
Length: 71cm
Time at Liberty: 49 days
Second Recapture
Date: 19/09/2023
Location: Sydney Harbour
Length: 70cm
Time at Liberty: 38 days
Wish I got my recapture certificate when I caught my 88cm king with a tag in it, DPI never sent it out after multiple attempts of me asking for it😂. Mine also happened to shrink from 90cm - 88cm in roughly 30 days in the same system where you caught yours haha, must be some dodgy fish measurers around.
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On 10/6/2023 at 12:45 PM, whiskey299 said:
Nice catch Max!
Thanks Bradley!
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42 minutes ago, Little_Flatty said:
Well done! My experience at palm cove was very similar to Rob’s. Did you have wire? If you didn’t, you were very lucky to land that fish!
When I was at Fraser Island, I lost almost an entire Plano tray of lures to mackerel, then when I finally got hold of wire, there wasn’t one in sight!
Nope no wire just straight to 16lb leader with a 2.5inch baitjunkie minnow, probably was pretty luck especially so that the mackerel didn’t fully engulf the tiny lure, was my first time trying the jetty so I was hoping for anything and definitely not expecting a little mackerel.
Glad my experience has been a little better than yours haha
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43 minutes ago, jenno64 said:
Great catch!
I was up there in July and it was blowing a gale for 3 days...water was very murky and only small sharks were being taken on bait!
Haha yeah after I caught it a bunch of ppl came up to me saying how it was the first good fish they’ve seen caught since they’ve been there (over 5 days) other than sharks and catfish. So I think I got pretty lucky with the water clarity, but also light tackle soft plastic fishing doesn’t seem to be super popular up here landbased, most people use bait or if anything just a little halco twisty or divers, so the little plastics definitely give you an advantage up here since most people don’t use them.
This is when the tough Sydney landbased lure fishing pays off 😂
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Did a little bit of lure throwing off the palm cove pier this morning and caught a couple small trevs and this mackerel on light gear, 16lb leader 8lb braid, was wondering if it was a little Spanish mackerel or a school mackerel? I’m thinking it might be a little Spanish.
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1 hour ago, wazatherfisherman said:
Yes it was a fishing guide
Do you have the video somewhere by any chance?
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Good sized squid, what depth were you fishing for them?
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10 minutes ago, Pickles said:
Way to go @nal - it’s great when the sounder lights up like that. Harbour over the new moon of past few days has been very quiet, 2 or 3 days time and they should be firing again.
Yeah was definitely a little hard to get a bite over the weekend, still managed but all rats.
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Good fish pickles, Still lots of kings inside the harbour though, been catching a bunch these past few months, they seem to be really switched on to cuttles and fresh squid heads, they are at all the usual spots.
Here is a pic of the sounder from the weekend
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Does anyone have any recommendations for good charters in and around Cairns?
Thanks,
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Those jig heads won’t work for those baitjunkie jerkshads too, the plastic will just slide off the hook constantly, like others said buy the TT ones.
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2 hours ago, Pickles said:
Thanks for sharing @nal. Great little scrappers Kingies and always fun to catch.
it’s been a really crazy season on Kingies since the flood, with loads of rats and a few really good fish, but not a lot of consistency.
Yeah for sure, I’ve seen to notice an increase in kingie numbers recently, with a couple of really good sessions boating all legal fish with very few rats inside the harbour. Hopefully it’s an alright winter.
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3 hours ago, faker said:
looks like blue point to me. I find it hard to land fish there. Did you have a net? and what was tide?
It was off a boat at the red marker across from blue point, not that hard to land fish there, only lost one in that quick little session, yeah I had a net and I think it was about 2 hours after low tide.
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51 minutes ago, blaxland said:
What were they taking if you dont mind me asking
Fresh dead cuttles, got about 4 kings in 30 mins
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No monster but thought I’d share this pic from a hot bite late yesterday afternoon, from a 45min session before dark.
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Irrational fear?
in Saltwater Fishing Chat
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Maybe so, but there are heaps of young kids and guys that fish for pelagics, (mainly kingies) in the harbour. Luderick fishing simply isn’t very popular anymore, most young guys aren’t necessarily chasing a feed now, most are in for the sport of it, and kingies and other pelagics (along with Jewies) are a far better sport fish then luderick. (Speaking from experience)