Starman

They are excellent on the plate. Eaten plenty of these.

Nice Bentstik, Boat looks immaculate. Your crew will appreciate not getting too wet. Heard you did realy well at the Whitesands Tourney. Up there with the big boats.Remember,its not about the size mate but how you use it. Cheers, Gabe, Starman

Hi Stewy, A small treble or keeper hook suspended below your ganged hooks. By the time the hairtailer has the pilchard in his mouth, the treble is down his throat. No good for release fishing though. Good luck for next time. Gabe

Hello Slideshow, Was a top weekend and plenty of laughs. Pity no category for Garfish, would have cleaned up on all the prizes. All that was missing was Mr Magoo. Anyway there's always next year. Mars Gabe

Thanks Ray, All the best to you mate. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Raiders, Went for a fish on Sunday with my mate Max in the Hacking to see if we could get amoungst some fish. Fished rising tide, live worms and yabbies for about 3 hours. Couldn't believe the spider webs over the tips of my fishing rods. Looked like I had streamers coming off the rods. Anyway a nice day to wet a line. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

I think they may have found that missing Japanese sub...... Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Matt, I have just recently purchased a Baitmate baitboard and only fiited and plumbed it up last week. It's a PM640 which has a 40 litre live bait tank, a tray beneath and of course the chopping board on top. I can highly recommend the product in terms of looks, quality of craftmanship and cost. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Grant, Have a Daiwa saltist 6500 coupled with a Daiwa Monster mesh PE 6-8 jig stick. 80 pound braid with 120 pound leader. Have caught some kings with it so far with no problem. Have recently bought a down rigger and some knife jigs/poppers and will give it a workout shortly hoping for some 1 metre + specimens. Cheers, Gabe

Hi Mick, Spot on mate that was me hanging out of the centre console throwing burley over the side. I just soaked some old bread rolls, mashed it all up, put some tuna oil and periodically threw some over the side. I also had some old pilchards from a past fishing trip and was cubing them out the back of the boat as well. A bag of stale bread from the local bakery is only $2.00 so cheap as well. Works a treat. Cheers, Gabe

Hi Mick, The answer to catching fish any time any where is to burley and burley hard. I also on Saturday morning fished Molix point with a guy in his boat that never seems to catch many fish at this time of the year.We anchored, I started a burley trail with bread and tuna oil. After 15 minutes and no fish my mate wanted to up the anchor and move around the Bay. I said give the burley a chance to attract. This is why he probably never catches fish at this time of year.Cut along story short, within a couple of hours had 5 trevely and 5 bream in the bucket. Threw back heaps of under size fish as well. Happy days. Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Benzz, Firstly welcome to fishraider Reading your post brings back fond memories when as a young 12 year would catch a bus to my mates house and then we would both catch another bus to Balmain. Rods, reels, bucket and tackle box in hand much to the amusement of the passengers and bus driver. We would always have the last laugh when geting back on the bus with a feed of fish each. It's briliant to see young kids like yourself getting out and flicking a line as opposed to sitting in front of a computer screen chatting or playing games. Keep up the good work, Cheers, Starman, Gabe.

Hi Keflapod, The majority of bream were taken on blood worm, but the chicken did alright.I cubed the pilchards and also had a mixture of bread and tuna oil which I threw over periodically. A piece of unweighted pillchard down the burley trail worked wonders on the trevelly. Hope this answers your question, Cheers, Starman, Gabe

Hi Fish53, Saw some birds around but they were only floating on the water. Kept an eye on them but nothing was happening. So we kept going. Regards, Starman, Gabe

Thanks mate Hello to you too Dimitri and Christo. Well done on your harbour fishing Basil Regards Starman Gabe