Newport Nuffy Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Headed out this morning with my son and one of his mates with a plan to fish Longie and maybe some flathead on the way home. Got ourselves half a dozen yellow tail livies on the way past Barrenjoey Heads and made good time down to an empty Long Reef. Had a great couple of hours with Kings hitting baits and jigs, snapper and a good size sea bream. Probably caught 20 plus kings, but again not the elusive "keeper". But, lots of fun. Then went to our usual flathead grounds.....seems today was a kindergarten day as out of probably 40 flathead caught, only one was worth keeping at about 45cm. On the run back we decided to stop at a GPS mark from the previous owner of the boat and then it really came together! Started with a few snapper, then the salmon came through and then we got hit by a school of Barracuda which cost us two jigs and a paternoster rig but we did get one to the side of the boat before releasing it. Thought we would catch a few of the livies to run the downrigger and ended up catching a Kingie on the sabiki rig!! We estimate we boated over 100 fish today between the three of us! Photo is of what i think is a Sea Bream....can anyone confirm? Was an awesome day! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, Newport Nuffy said: Headed out this morning with my son and one of his mates with a plan to fish Longie and maybe some flathead on the way home. Got ourselves half a dozen yellow tail livies on the way past Barrenjoey Heads and made good time down to an empty Long Reef. Had a great couple of hours with Kings hitting baits and jigs, snapper and a good size sea bream. Probably caught 20 plus kings, but again not the elusive "keeper". But, lots of fun. Then went to our usual flathead grounds.....seems today was a kindergarten day as out of probably 40 flathead caught, only one was worth keeping at about 45cm. On the run back we decided to stop at a GPS mark from the previous owner of the boat and then it really came together! Started with a few snapper, then the salmon came through and then we got hit by a school of Barracuda which cost us two jigs and a paternoster rig but we did get one to the side of the boat before releasing it. Thought we would catch a few of the livies to run the downrigger and ended up catching a Kingie on the sabiki rig!! We estimate we boated over 100 fish today between the three of us! Photo is of what i think is a Sea Bream....can anyone confirm? Was an awesome day! Nice. Gotta love a good reef bash. Wed love to see a photo of the catch. Re above. That is a morwong. Depending on who you ask they are OK to eat. But i think theyre terrible on the plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newport Nuffy Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 Thanks GF....out of the haul, only kept 6 as I only ever take what i ant to eat for the next week or two. So, no brag photo today! When I finally get that Kingie that comes home with me, I will definitely post it. The Barracuda scared the you know what out of us, so no time to get a photo of that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthman Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Sounds like a very fun day! What depth were you in when you found luck? In close or out wide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newport Nuffy Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 Was in about 30 to 40m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, GoingFishing said: That is a morwong. Depending on who you ask they are OK to eat. But i think theyre terrible on the plate Ask me, they taste like crap. Sounds like a good day out regardless. Edited June 23, 2021 by Yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Morwong can be OK to eat, some do have a strong kind of Iodine smell/taste, but most are OK, the Sea Bream you mention is a similar looking fish, (yet very different) but much better eating, Sweep are also commonly often called Sea Bream, but there is only one Sea Bream, commonly called a "Jackass Morwong" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Great report. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blairy69 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Eating the Mowie is all about how you prep it - dont scale it just fillet and skin it, cut the gut line out and you will have a really nice clean fillet - simple cooking is best crack an egg in a bowl squeeze some fresh lemon in with the egg give it a good beating then dunk your fillets in the egg mix then dip in Krummies bread crumbs then shallow fry in olive oil - tastes great - with some nice hand cut chips twice cooked and a good old greek salad and crisp glass of chardonnay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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