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  1. Thanks for the props. For sure, I've fished there before for nothing to keep, but now I know that if the conditions are right, it's worthwhile getting properly set up before I cast... Now that is a vote of confidence!!! Yeah no kidding - a guy last week showed me his catch of one keeper bream and two that would have been pushing to be 15cm. He was all proud until he saw me looking at the littlies, and then he shut his bucket quickly and kind of scuttled off. LOL, there's plenty for both of us to have good sessions!
  2. I went out last week to Iron Cove and had a bit of an exploratory flick into the mangroves near Rodd Point "island", pulling out quite a few small bream and one legal one of 30cm or so which went back in. Around the island itself, there were quite a few small whiting, but nothing approaching legal. Last night I decided to give the mangroves a proper go with the high tide - but when I arrived, the "high" tide wasn't enough to cover the mangrove area properly! Local knowledge will come, I guess... but I headed over to the island, and cast out from one of the little beaches there. I wasn't expecting much, so I'd only taken the rod and the bait out of the car. Naturally, first cast, WHAM! huge run, and a great fight from a 35cm bream. When I got him to the beach, I went to lift him out of the water, and the line snapped just above the hook! Fortunately, he was a bit dazed, and I managed to scoop him onto the sand. There was a bit of a function happening in the boathouse, and a few people watching - they must have thought I was completely crazy when I threw a fish onto the sand and then just took off - running to my car to get my other gear... So, the first hour just went off on the rising tide - heaps of bites and runs, only a couple more hook-ups, one a bream that was slightly shorter - 33-34cm, but substantially heavier (the lower one in the shot below). Another great fight, as I was a bit generous with the drag - it's mostly sandy bottom, so I wasn't too worried about being snagged up. And the last hook up was a pup of maybe 15 cm, who swam off looking very dazed and confused... Once the top of the tide hit, things slowed up big time. Another three guys showed up to fish off the beach too, very friendly, asked if I minded them fishing there, and gave me some Turkish delight (thanks, if you're reading!). They pulled in a series of tiny specimens, for a while I was wondering if they were using Johnson's baby food as bait! When I left, I gave them the rest of my bait - which was chicken rolled in parmesan and garlic - they took a sniff and said - "You're fishing with pizza!" Anyway, very nice guys, and I hope their luck improved, although my looked at me funny when I told her some guys showed up and gave me Turkish Delight... So I hung round for a few more casts, and then packed up after a perfect night. It was still, warm, almost no mozzies, an amazing lightning show from way down south and big breambos throwing themselves at my hook!
  3. Guess I will, just as soon as I can find a time at work to be talking about mud crabs to someone on the phone..
  4. Hi everyone, I'm just wondering whether mud and lobster traps are able to be used in Sydney Harbour? The DPI has a moratorium on "Shellfish" in Port Jackson and its tributaries, but I am assuming that doesn't include crustaceans. As I read it, you are not allowed to net in Middle Harbour above Roseville bridge - but I don't know whether traps are included in "nets"? You are not allowed to trap or net in North Harbour, _except_ for lobster traps and bait traps. So I guess it's OK to look for lobsters there... You are not allowed to net in certain parts of Middle Harbour for parts of the year. But, for example, could I drop a mud crab or lobster trap off, say, Shark Island, as long as I was only carrying one? (I'm not saying that would be a useful place to drop such a trap , I'm just trying to get my head around the regulations and sub-regulations...)
  5. You got that right - the phone actually did better than I thought - the screen is, if possible, even worse than the camera, so I couldn't tell whether I'd actually got the flounder in shot or not! Urchin, yes, delicious eating - next time I will have my size limits memorised!!!
  6. Well, after the fun of night fishing Clontarf, I gave it a go on Sunday arvo. There were not a lot of people down on the beach, understandably, but the tide was in the same phase it was the other night - ie, on the run out, and there were lots of storm-water runoffs that would have made it, um, gross for swimming, but good news for fishos, you'd reckon. There was one guy fishing off the swimming net structure, he didn't seem to be having any luck, and another bloke showed up a bit later with some hard lures, but I don't know how he did, because I'd started heading down the beach by that point. So I was back on the chicken thigh strips that worked so well Sunday night, and there was a lot of interest from little fish - yakkas and toads, mostly. I love the way those little toads will hang on to the bait as it comes out of the water. Actually, I hate that! Little $%^s!!! There was nothing doing around the beach, no serious bites at all, so I headed along the beach to the rocks where there was some shelter from the wind and rain. There didn't seem to be any toads there, which was nice, but there were no other bites for the first few minutes either. Then what felt like a slow snag, which suddenly started to move around, and what washes up, but a nice flounder! I didn't have my measuring stick with me, but I reckon he was about 30cm - my foot in the photo is 25cm. But I hadn't checked size and bag limits for flounder, so I had no idea whether he was legal or not! As it turns out, probably, and they are delicious. But I wasn't sure, so back he went - the first thing that happened was that he got washed way up the beach by the waves! but with a bit of extra encouragement, he figured out which way to go, and off he swam. Another crap photo from my crap camera phone, sorry - but I wasn't taking any decent camera gear out in that! I got soaked!!! But it's all good fun.
  7. Thanks for the feedback everyone! Excellent news, D-Mac, I'll look forward to getting down there during the day over the weekend - I don't think there will be too many swimmers, given that it will be 19 degrees and, um, shark-infested... Great work on the salmon, that's a nice looking fish!
  8. Hi there, first post which comes with the world's crookest photo, so don't be too harsh... Am staying in Clontarf at the moment, and have recently started fishing again for the first time in probably twenty years. Didn't have high hopes last night, as the only bites I'd had around here had been toads, and plenty of them. But on the spur of the moment, worked out that the tides would be running out, the weather was crappy enough that I'd probably have the place to myself (yes), and had some chicken "on the cusp" in the fridge , so I loaded up a couple of rods and headed down around 9:30 or so. First the first hour, had a few tentative hits, was working the drop off near the channel on the beach, but nothing much seemed too interested. So I headed back to the little netted area and tried a couple of casts around the outside of that. Within moments, started getting serious interest, and after a couple of near misses, beached a 48cm flattie, which I managed to hang onto despite not having a net with me. I was so underwhelmed by my chances that I hadn't actually taken down anything to keep a fish either alive or cold - no cooler, no bucket, nothing. But I was going to eat that deliciously ugly little fella, so with the tide running out, I built a little pool in the sand, just deep enough to have some water in it, and in he went... I was running out of chicken, plus which, flattie number 1 was not really enjoying his stay at the Clontarf Sand Spa Resort, so I cast the last of the strips, and promised myself I'd give my packet of Gulps 5 casts to prove they were as effective as slightly rancid chicken - seriously, they're like $100 a kilo, for that price, the fish should jump up on the beach and perform tricks to get them! (I'd suggest "Play dead" would be a good one...) I'd tried them a few times before, only to have their tails munched off by the toads, meaning you effectively were trying to attract fish with a small orange ball of plastic. So I wasn't optimistic. First cast, BANG! another flattie jumps it, is landed, and I'd guesstimate his size at maybe 35cms, but I couldn't be sure whether he'd crack the 36cm mark, so back he went. Trickier getting them back in when you don't have anything to hold them with, either - no glove, no love, as they say... Had a couple more major strikes, and noticed a few squid cruising around the place, but after another 15 minutes or so, the bites started to disappear, so I packed it in around midnight and headed home with my new PB flathead. I didn't get to take a photo until this morning, and it's of the filleted carcass, not the whole fish, and it's with the world's worst phone camera, but I'll upload it for fun's sake anyway. Very happy to be able to bring back a feed to the girlfriend, she's a magic cook, and will do something amazing with it, PLUS stop giving me that slightly pitying look when I tell her I'm going fishing. All in all, top night!
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