Loomesy Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Hi Raiders Put the boat in at 6am this morning and went straight to the wreck off stockton break wall to catch some lives. Filled the bait tank within 15 minutes with yakkas and small mullet. Headed out to north reef and realised we had wasted time catching bait in close. The school's of bait fish on the reef was unbelievable. Dropped a couple of lines to drift and also through out a small mullet as live bait as there were small kings on the buoy. Only caught rock cod on the bottom lines but surface mullet got smashed on the surface only 20 meters from the boat. Fought it for a while but pulled the hook before I could see colour. I was so devastated. Headed about 500m north of the buoy and started another drift. This time picking up flat head. Would of caught 40-50 over a couple of drifts but only two keepers. Good day on the water and excellent conditions. Cheers Loomesy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrone07 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Would have been Black Marlin with all that bait, some of the fish I’m seeing off Sydney is phenomenal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield28 Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Is the fishing any good for snapper at North Reef Newcastle? Also, how far from the mouth of the harbour is it, don't know if I got bad info but I got told it's the yellow bout you see on the way out which isn't too far out at all. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loomesy Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 It's about 5 kilometres from the mouth. Lots of undersized snapper and red rock cod Cheers Loomesy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield28 Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 (edited) Thanks for that... like to think where there's undersized there'll be a couple of keeper size too Do you know if its a decent sized reef for drifting over? Thanks Edited November 9, 2018 by garfield28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaxland Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 2/8/2018 at 11:33 PM, tyrone07 said: Would have been Black Marlin with all that bait, some of the fish I’m seeing off Sydney is phenomenal how far or what depth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loomesy Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 I'm heading there in the morning if you want to tag along. Cheers Loomesy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oz98 Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Red scropionfish!!! One of my bucket list fishes... would love to catch one day, they are so under-rated. any tips? Cheers, Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield28 Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 On 11/11/2018 at 8:29 PM, Loomesy said: I'm heading there in the morning if you want to tag along. Cheers Loomesy How did you go there Loomsey? The young bloke got a decent snapper there, but only the 2 fish when we went there. I'm told its mainly just a lot of pinkies and garbage fish there 90% of the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 north reef has a beacon on the eastern edge it holds good numbers of kingfish usually.....theres a saddle in the reef 60mtrs west of beacon that fishes ok for jew of a night with livies....other spots close by are the mud hole and the two wrecks out from stocko breakwall.......rick 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loomesy Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 Hi Garfield 28 Found a good patch of Flattys bout 500m west of the reef. Could not mark any bait or fish over the reef so didn't bother as to many rock cod. Cheers Loomesy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield28 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 On 11/19/2018 at 8:05 PM, rickmarlin62 said: north reef has a beacon on the eastern edge it holds good numbers of kingfish usually.....theres a saddle in the reef 60mtrs west of beacon that fishes ok for jew of a night with livies....other spots close by are the mud hole and the two wrecks out from stocko breakwall.......rick Cheers Rick, I heard a lot of rat kings usually... do you fish the tides there for kings or would you find them there when the bait is around anytime of day? I was there at night when we went, I was marking fish but they wouldn't touch the plastics we were throwing at them. On 11/21/2018 at 9:22 PM, Loomesy said: Hi Garfield 28 Found a good patch of Flattys bout 500m west of the reef. Could not mark any bait or fish over the reef so didn't bother as to many rock cod. Cheers Loomesy Nice feed of flatties there Loomsey gotta be happy with that! Terrible conditions all week and continuing this weekend, can't wait for a break and I might have a drift around and see if I can pick a few flatties up myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Early morn late arvo for kings small livies best sometimes get trag on reef at night.....i used to fish for jews 80 mtrs inside beacon on sth edge another little patch of reef south west is good for jew at night also look on navionics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield28 Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 1 hour ago, rickmarlin62 said: Early morn late arvo for kings small livies best sometimes get trag on reef at night.....i used to fish for jews 80 mtrs inside beacon on sth edge another little patch of reef south west is good for jew at night also look on navionics Cheers mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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