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Saw a photo on social media of a kid I know from Narrabeen/I used to coach his brother. "Tommy" caught a 22kg jewfish earlier this week at night. Released it too.

North or South Curly?

I think it will be a late season run. The late start to summer has confused the hell out of flora and fauna alike. Things should stabilise by mid February.

"Servo" prawns are a rip off. Last time I got them (a very long time ago) they were $5 for 200 grams. That's $25 per kilo. Even Coles and Woolworths prawns are cheaper for much better quality bait.

The only way to stop an occy is to pull its head inside out from the back of the head. You have to slip a finger up in there and just yank. That's if you want to keep it. My old man used to love me when I caught occy for him.

Your a saint mate. Bought a tear to my eye. One day this day will have much more meaning to you than you could ever truly imagine now. And what a fish to confirm it.

I got 5 nice Tailor in about 1 hour last week from middle of Manly....right before dark.

Both of those Flathead are OUT OF CONTROL!!! The first one is the biggest I've seen. Thanks for the pics.

I reckon I could eat all those Whiting by myself...YUM!!!

Those bream love the soldier crabs that you can find by turning over rocks on the rivers edge. I've sat in a canoe, tied to a pylon under the bridge, tossing the bait onto the pylon, and then dragging it off the side and letting it sink along the pylon. The bream were snorting the crabs one night. That time we got 5 in 10 minutes and left it at that.

Anyone surfing that day mate? What a lovely place. I used to live in East Ballina, and surf North Wall all the time. I was too scared to paddle across to surf South Wall though...we used to make a day of it and drive around.

I used to catch more than a few at Manly Wharf as a kid. It used to be great fun watching them stalk the yakka, then seeing their mouth shoot out super fast to engulf the yakka!

In my experience also, Bream love poddy mullet heads and guts. It's usually Bream that send them back to me headless and gutless. Bream love mullet gut.

Same is happening at Manly Wharf atm. I get a muffin from Aldi and go chuck a bit in the water and the Bream go mental. Some of them are huge. But fishing got banned at the wharf years ago. Its' really frustrating because as a kid I used to fish from the same spots I can only feed the fish now!!! Went down and tossed soft plastics towards one school from the little beach next to the restaurants where the net pool is. Unfortunately even with burley from the beach I couldn't get the Bream interested.

I live in Manly. If a calculation was done of how much tourists cost Manly, they'd probably find it's more than they make from tourists! BAN THEM NOW!!!