downriggen dan

Every time i see your posts i remember fishing the coromandel mussel farms with my mate mad pete mitchel. Going back again one day. Catch us a king can you clutch

Hey mate, Iwas fishing down there last year. I fished out of Cape Jervis on the main land just across from KI. the charter i went out with was fleuriou charters or southern fleureo charters. The skippers name was ben and I was told he has the best reputation out of the skippers. The fishing was slow except for me getting a 18 lb snapper on a snapper snatcher and hooking up another only to loose it half way up. the fishing is supposed to be best with big tidal flows. i would advise you to take your own equipment and have braided line. Also bring down some salted bait ie slimeys or pillies. All the fishing was drifting over reef and rubble in 40 to 50 metres. If you are down there in late summer /autumn that is when the mullet are there and in SA mullet mean monster kings. 10 kg is your average size fish with many going bigger.

My brother saw a shark there last summer. I know a guy i did my coxswains with who works on the fuel barges down there. He showed me photos of bream that they had pulled out from underneath the barges and they were huge. He said they loved bread. As for jewies. I have heard from 2 sources that both work on tuna boats. ( diferent guys that dont know each other) that huge jewies live in that bay. I have done a bit of sounding through there and it is as flat as a tak. I am thinking of going night trolling through the bay on dark nights with super shad raps and ther big jew hard bodys. When harold park is racing there are these great orange lights that shine into the bay. I had planeed to do this last year but just forgot I guess.

THe boat I crew on got a 51kg the last time they went out ( a few weeks ago) when I wasn't able to go. I hear the fin are on at bermagui. Dan

I like to use my squidy spin stick, 1500 size daiwa reel and 4lb fire line tied to 12 lb. Caught heaps of kings, dollies, queenies, trevors,salmon, gts, longtails. this rod smashes every thing and gets smashed by any thing. I have broken it about 5 times in 2 years.

Nice to see the kings comin in, cant be long before someone gets a monster

I was down at the farm in SA in Jan for a few days and went out of my way to det down to Cape Jervis and go on a charter with Fleureuo? Charters. We fished for Snapper on the run up tide in the passage between K.I and the main land. We drifted over reef in about 40 to 55 metres with patternostas with squid and pillie and I had a snapper snatcher jig. We caught buggerall snapper except for my freight train of a fish and maybe 2 other at 45 cm (legal is 40). I caught HEaps of these pretty blue devils that were new to me. The mullet had not turned up and that meant the kingies hadn't either. THe skipper claimed they had never gotten kingies under 10 kg? The salmon were on fire out at a great white infested seal colony on these things could have eaten the salmon we get here whole. The guys on the boat kept about 10 huge salmon for fishcakes. All and all it was a good day. The fishing wasn't great but I was quite satisfied. I dropped another huge snapper about 1/3 the way up. The staff at the fishcoop cleaned and filletted and weighed it and it was 19lbs before cleaning. GOod fishing Dan

Sunday am Bluefish point, down rigger, big king fish

After getting the boat back from an anti foul I was stoked to get it running with no drag again, it is amazing how fast growth gets on your boat. I decided to head up river with some salted white bait and some storm shads. Flatties were the target. First tried the hole off Balls Head, then near the coal wharf, then off Grenich , Clarks Point all for zipp. Headed up to an area in the lane cove which has produced small flatties for me and started the drift. I was fishing with two 4 lbs rigs with 6 lb leaders as I lost my heavier trace line and was just setting the white bait rod 5 minutes into the drift when the shad went off and went off big time. I grabbed it and at first I thought I was snagged but then I started to feel these huge head shakes and I knew I had a serious flatty hooked up It stripped line a few times but was almost im possible to lift into view even though I only in 7 or 8 metres of water. Finaly this angry mother came to the surface and she was a beauty. Some one pinched the net off the boat and I have not ought a new one so I tried to net it with the tiny bait net, big mistaske It riped that net to pieces and promptly released its self to breed another season. I caught another 2 nice flatties in the 50 cm region and I will call the flatty at 85 cm but it could have gone a bit bigger it was a monster and my pb for in the river. All fish were released. Water temp has dropped 5c on my sounder in one month in the lane cove. 24.9-19.8. Lets see how long this fishing will last. dan

I have not been out on xuxuxuxux for a few years but my expierience with their sport fishing trips is no more than 6 and always with a deckie. We would also do a bit of pulling lures and 10 people is just a bit to much.

If you are refering to Peter Le Blang from Pittwater Hrbour and estuary tours I can recomend him highly. Peter is the kingie man and pulls kings from pittwater all throughout the year, pretty dam good down the river as well.

Port 2005. I had been thinking about it for months and it didn't disapoint. On arival at the marina with our skipper Warren the first thing that we saw was a 125 kg blue sitting on the deck of our buddy at the marina at Little Beach the SGFC boat Gambit. The poor thing had been hooked in the tail and after a 2 and a 1/2 fight they had brought the drowned fish to the surface. The guys had to dump the fish ( after filiting it )and invited me out for a troll and to look for bait. We headed south till we found a very nice current line a few miles out. Conditions were great and we were getting really good results on the sounder but there was nothing taking the lures we had out ( small for striped tuna as this was what we were looking for). Went in close looking for slimeys and found them very scarce but we finally got got them and got them good. I liked this as I found some country that would have to produce great kings and jew and snapper acording to the sounder. Sped out wide and put out the slimeys nothing and powered home. Next day stuffed around for a few hours doing the sail past and went straight out for a troll in perfect conditions in about 80 fathoms as that was were the action was yesterday It didnt take long for the results to come in and they came in thick and fast. There were beakies every where exept on our lures. The boat I have been fishing on for the last few months midnight went 4 1 0 For a day that was full of exitement but nothing could stay conected. We saw heaps of beakies caught very close to us all on slimeys so we started looking for them and trying them but to no avail. We found what we thought were HOO'S as our bait jigs bait and snapper leads started to vanish rapidly we had no wire but they were big enough to shread big slimies and leave just the head on the jig for us. Some boats had really good reports and every one I spoke to had a bit of action , Gambit caught 6 including 1 capture of 82 kg on 10 kg. The next day I woke up sick as a dog. The flu had struck along with the weather. I made my way back to sydney Warren of skipper told me that we had tagged a small black today in crap conditions. Alex a work budy and deckie on the 65 precision Mah bu hi? said they had only had a few strikes and nothing stuck. Any way There is heaps more to say and I dont really know any results but you will die before you fininish reading it but it was a great expierience in my first game comp ,really good fishing a great skipper and angling team, boys thank you very much. Also to Bob from Gambit thank you very much for taking me out on your fine rig I had a great time and I might have to make my way down to the SGFC to have a look around. I just heard a tiger was weighed at 490 + kg HOly mother of Moses

It was a penant fish. Perhaps 20 cm long and did at first look like a jelly fish. Doesn't surprise me it is in Darling Harbour, more mullet and bream schooled up every where than your average bay around sydney.

I went out to chase the kings for the first time since I got my boat back from repairs. Decided to forget yakkas and go for squid as we figured that we could get up to 10 to 15 kings of a few squid. For once the squid cooporated and we had three good sized aboard in no time. The live tank isnt working so we put themin a bucket and headed out to blue fish. Anchored up perfectly and set the baits and waited. And waited and waited for one tiny rat king that stole a squid head and the sweep tht destroyed everything else. We then caught a 5kg cuttle fish on the paternosta squid rig. We put this in the bucket and it promptly ate the 2 other squid. Moved up to a marker in the harbour and saw afew kings nailing yellow tails ( smallest i have ever seen ) but even though in the perfect anchor position in between and in line with 2 boats catching fish they wouldnt touch our cuttle fish or the remnants of our squid. Home at 1 oclock 7 hours effort pretty poor. Water temp blue fish 19.5, harbour 22.3 Also can anyone identify this fish. i work in darling habour and was standing near the south steyne ferry when i saw a strange fish for the only thing that i could think of when I saw it was a diamond trevally even though it didn't really have the diamond shape and was quite small perhaps 20 cm it had those lond trailing fins that the diamond trev has. These long strings were very purple which was very lit up and trailed behind the fish quite a long way. That is the best description I can give. Dan

I will be fishing in a 5.3 cc named Eagle Ray which we have on a neighbours mooring at Clareville Beach u can tell it by the downrigger hanging over the side. I will be fishing every morning when the wind drops except 1/1/05. And maybe a few afternoons. I moove back to the big smoke on the 4th or the 5th.The kings have been fished well over the last month on the low tide rising according to my mate. 20 kg at Juno. Never caught a jew, just octopus. We thought of going to Juno Friday but I was told by someone that Juno fired only in November, it was also abit bumpy to go to east reef, but there you go I am not a jewie fisherman. Dan