Fishing tips
Hehe funny
Yup silver trevally as FR mentioned - “Pseudocaranx dentex“.
Incredible sport for their size, anything over 5kg in NZ is a trophy fish (I think the record is near 10). The one in the photo was about 3.5kg.
They are a much longer and narrower shaped fish compared with GT’s or bluefin trevally.
Last time I fished offshore was 3 years ago and I caught this small trevally. I don’t even know what type it was.
Thats a juvenile Golden Trevally.
Okay. Fin colour I assume.
Sharked yesterday afternoon off a popular rockwall
Sharked yesterday afternoon off a popular rockwall
Nice work two thirds of a Jewy is better than none at all.
seeds wrote:Last time I fished offshore was 3 years ago and I caught this small trevally. I don’t even know what type it was.
That bloke looks like a bit of a dickhead .
Hehe, he has had his moments that’s for sure!!!
saltman][quote=saltman wrote:Sharked yesterday afternoon off a popular rockwall
That would have been a beast of a jewie too.
Thats a bummer- haven't been sharked for a while- last time I managed to just get it in before shark got it.
coffey break on youtube is a great watch if anyone wants to get pumped on fishing
Yeah, awesome adventure for those gents.
Love the surf they had on the GBR.
Moonah][quote=saltman wrote:saltman wrote:Sharked yesterday afternoon off a popular rockwall
That would have been a beast of a jewie too.
I only just managed to stop it on its first run, and was inching it back when it got sharked
If it had another run, I reckon I might have gotten spooled
was using 25lb braid and a 5 -7kg rod
On a lure?
Mudskipper ?
freeride76 wrote:On a lure?
Yes Steve a sinking hardbody 40gm , runs at about a metre deep
from AliExpress
- used the head from the Jewy as crab bait
(First time for me setting a crab pot) - 6 good size mud crabs and 3 thrown bak
Wish I tried it years ago !
^^wow @supa
You’d never think they’d make it.
Latest Coffey Break is good. Hunkered down chats and Dad almost goes the full Monty.
Stop it Dad, you’re brickie’s crack is bad enough.
Watched that last night another great episode, both starting to look a bit tired though.
JE Wilds has a few fishing eps worth giving a go.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JEWildsFishing
indo-dreaming wrote:Watched that last night another great episode, both starting to look a bit tired though.
Sick channel some of the best content on the tube
The winter westerlies and the Tailor finally arrived (in numbers) on the tweed coast this week,
about 4 weeks later than last year - but some good size
Thats good news.
I've caught one tailor since Feb.
I always thought Tailor were a rarity in the colder waters of Tasmania, but I was working the birds in the bay at St Helens about 3 months ago for salmon and all I caught was Tailor. Nothing big but still good fun. The schools were absolutely massive.
I suppose it's like all the other species like snapper and whiting now becoming more common with warmer waters moving down.
Question is does this type of species movement affect the local eco system in that we now have another predatory species in massive numbers fighting for the same food source??
garyg1412 wrote:I always thought Tailor were a rarity in the colder waters of Tasmania, but I was working the birds in the bay at St Helens about 3 months ago for salmon and all I caught was Tailor. Nothing big but still good fun. The schools were absolutely massive.
I suppose it's like all the other species like snapper and whiting now becoming more common with warmer waters moving down.
Question is does this type of species movement affect the local eco system in that we now have another predatory species in massive numbers fighting for the same food source??
garyg1412. Hi mate hope you’re well.
Sure does , it affects and alters ecologies.
As an example. Fish move further south , they eat plant life they don’t normally find or eat in their home range, this has a catalytic affect on all levels of the ecosystem.
Some species are over consumed and disappear altogether.
On the east coast South Solitary Island is one great example of the results of fish from warmer waters travelling south as water temperatures increase, even just one degree or so.
Tropical fish species have decimated algae growth and other plants on the aforementioned island group.
Humans are the problem. AW
thermalben wrote:OK, so I want to try my hand at fishing. I have a couple of rods and reels, and an assortment of stuff in a shiny tackle box (Chrissy present from a few years back). I've got salt water and fresh water options close at hand (Narrabeen). But, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Can anyone offer me some pointers? I'd really like to impress the missus.
Your obviosity a well-organized bloke then ..
Walk to beach
plant the rod.
Nod to passing people.
Pretend ya done it before ,,
Cack a can ..
sit in the chair ,,
Light the scoop
u having been hiding since 2022..
New Years eve ..
Suck in the Eastern Horizon of rising stars ..
And fest like whales & Dolphis do in an up welling ...
well your almost there ....
now...
oh toes in the sand help ...
le tru prof ...
thermalben wrote:OK, so I want to try my hand at fishing. I have a couple of rods and reels, and an assortment of stuff in a shiny tackle box (Chrissy present from a few years back). I've got salt water and fresh water options close at hand (Narrabeen). But, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Can anyone offer me some pointers? I'd really like to impress the missus.
you don't live off Chapel Street do you @Barnard..? miss that silver fox..
a bunch of us would be happy to give you some sorta orientation..
nyah.. the vickers vimy thing.. yet not getting the basics..
lovely little backstory, not just humbly easing in..
hope you're real - but there's a lotta dropped letters in the above.
seems the blatantly obvious opposite of a Courtney that got exposed..
generally new people get a kick out of making contact
and respond accordingly. You've not responded.
It's also a space that attracts folly-revellers..
fancy boys rolling around in fancy boy games..
where do you do the cooking in your job?
boop, beep, bwoop..
^ *Chelsea
@basesix said "you don't live off Chapel Street do you @Barnard..? miss that silver fox."
Don't worry @base, he's still online, check out some of his recent stuff here (sound up) just hanging out at home.
https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1930025920921747475.
haha, which one's craigos?
^^^^Thought the same immediately, same awful cadence and sub street shorthand.
Typical days catch in S.A. Hard to impress the wife when she often out fishes me.
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nice plate sized pelagic haul @old-dog.. few swimmers.. gold!
I realised in the shed the other day that it's been a decade since I spent a day and night on a beach or jetty with a little smoker, wood chips and metho puffing away.. those little tommies'd go well..
That's what being a parent does.. turns your fishing into hit n run strike missions, rather than time-stands-still experiences. Must fix that now my kids don't need me on call.
@ b6, those smokers can be dangerous, the wifes brother had to be choppered from Hardwicke Bay to RAH with 3rd. degree burns after a run in with one. Crumbed tommies are great.
With kids you spend all day untangling lines and getting hooks out of hands.
shit! I had a near miss as a young feller out the end of edithburgh.. poured metho into a burner while it was still lit, and the fire followed the pour into the bottle which silently all caught fire and melted the bottle a millisecond before I dropped it. jeez they're great though, smoking tommies on rapid bay jetty on a rare windless night while you wait for some yellowtail kingfish to come by.. stars, port, durries.. man.. those were the days.
EDIT: back when the gypsum conveyor belts and towers were still there and you could go right out to the T..
the rubbery conveyor belt itself was still there in place on the rollers, great for a kip!
Yep, the new jetty at Rapid Bay is pretty sad compared to the old one. I sometimes fish out around the old jetty in my kayak, if the tide is strong I'll tie it to a pylon to stop drifting.
When I was young I fell asleep on the end of the Ardrossan jetty one night and suddenly awoke as I hit the water after rolling off the edge. I almost drowned as I couldn't get the zip on my sleeping bag undone.
ha! full on! we need a jetty stories thread.
Jetty stories....1971 Pt Turton was there in a caravan with the parents to do some fishing and while we were there a bunch fellas from western suburbs of Adelaide turned up with all their gear in a
Ford Zephyr 6 (anyone remember those?)
Camped themselves at the end of the jetty for the weekend and dropped a huge hook with a big chunk of meat on it attached to a chain on the end of long rope. Spent the weekend on the beers and catching all sorts of other fish with normal rod and reels. On the Sunday morning they had the big hook and rope on the go for a while and they managed to pull a 3m White in and under the jetty. Casually pulled out a rifle and put 3 rounds into it. Once it stopped thrashing they dragged it around the length of the jetty to the boat ramp where they tied the rope to the back of the Zephyr dragged ol whitey in. First time I'd seen one close up that was and I couldn't believe how big and wide it was.
Anyway, can't do that shit these days....
When I was 4 years old I was fishing on the Pt. Lincoln Jetty with my dad. For some unknown reason I thought it was a good idea to fish through a knot hole in a plank, that was until I caught a tommy ruff and it didn't fit through the hole.
OK, so I want to try my hand at fishing. I have a couple of rods and reels, and an assortment of stuff in a shiny tackle box (Chrissy present from a few years back). I've got salt water and fresh water options close at hand (Narrabeen). But, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Can anyone offer me some pointers? I'd really like to impress the missus.