jon

I’ve fished PNG a few times and hands down one of the best places of been In my life. It’s like any foreign country you visit just don’t go to areas that put you in vulnerable situations. If your going on a guided fishing trip your Saftey is very much in good hands. The locals in these remote regions benefit greatly from tourists and they understand this. Fingers crossed I might be heading back there in March for a few weeks for work so might have to dust off the xtra heavy bait caster lol.

20 hours ago, Kat said:

Wow.  I thought you had to leave them at least overnight.  Now I am getting really excited! 

Just be careful as leaving pots unattended often ends up in them being stolen or checked for you. It’s actually pretty bad in certain areas. Also learn to know what a pro crabbers float looks like as, if you put you pots anywhere near his string ( a line of crabs pots in a row) you can almost guarantee they won’t be there when you return or at a minimum there will be a big slice through your pots rendering them useless.  Don’t let this deter you though fresh crab is great just pick your areas well. Good luck!

Yeah I agree with Benno they start to deteriorate after days without food. I would keep alive for maybe two or three days tops then cook and freeze. It may be a lot of work and you’ll loose the aesthetics but in my opinion I’d cook shell all the meats and cryovac the meat and freeze. Only problem with this method is that you’ll end up eating half of your catch while you pick out the meat

2 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Robbie hasn't seen my boat yet so tagged him as mine is/was Callum's Fisher is the same as mine (minus 20cm) . Now get back to editing Hamish's spelling/grammar/punctuation ..... 

Spell checking keeps him busy as he doesn't catch many fish

Nice man, that bait ball In your photo is the darkest/densest I’ve seen in a long time. I was fishing off Straddie  a few weeks back and hadn’t seen so much surface bait in years. Hopefully a good pelagic season to come

8 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

Great day out mate and some top feeds ahead of you. Well done. 

How do you target the deep water squid? 

Just get a four or five ball sinker above the jig drop to the bottom then wind up five to ten metres and put it in the rod holder while you drift and fish with another rod.

Headed out recently on my own for a solo session with the intent of nailing some tasty dollies. Made damn sure I’d have my livies and be first at the fad which can make the world of difference. So with a tank full of yakkas and unfortunately only 3 slimies I headed straight for fad 4. Anyone who wants to chase dollies out from spb you can forget about fad 15 as this thing is sitting on top of sand and dosnt attract three fifths of F all in my opinion. I’ve wasted fuel on  previous trips to 15 and dosnt even seem to have rat kings on it. If anyone on here has seen otherwise please let me know but for me it’s a wasted resource.

had the joint to myself which was nice but with a drift of 3 and a half knots it made it interesting keeping the boat in gear to stay semi stationary upstream of the fad whilst fighting some decent dollies on my own. Ended up with three hookups all to quite thick quality fish in the 1.2 to 1.5m range. Landed one, pulled hooks on the second and the third was never really hooked properly but was just running with the fish In it’s mouth,  excuse the crappy selfy photo. After this they went quiet but I think it was due to the fact they only wanted the big over size livies that swim fast and go down deep. So with only small yakkas left and a charter boat and few other boats steaming over the horizon I decided to head back In close to boat and middle reef to try for some reefies. Got busted off twice on some little jelly been yakkas . But managed to piece together some good size and quite chunky squire, grassies and Moses  

things started to get pretty quiet now so had a go for some Deep water squid but only managed the one. Headed back across a glass bay before the wind picked up so all in all was a pretty good outing.

18 hours ago, GregOug said:

My father, uncle and grandfather used to catch the giant parrot in the bay when I was young. I’m talking about parrot of twenty pounds plus. Not sure if these are the tuskies we catch today in much smaller sizes but they looked like them. My uncle had a house on the foreshore at Dunwich. Anyway, I distinctly remember (which is very rare for me, by the way) taking torches and catching the ghost crabs as they sat mesmerised by the light. They used these for catching the huge tuskies. My uncle also used to keep paint cans filled with mullet gut which he used to leave in his shed uncovered for months before it was ready for use catching all types of fish.

Yeah those big blackspot tuskies are still around if you put in the effort ive got a few over the 20lb mark in the last two years