benno573

no... although like the jabiru i am found on moreton island

no... per the first clue it is a bird.

ummm... no....? but good guess. i am found around both fresh and salt water environments

ok... i have never used them as bait but there you go! ok... i am a bird (the feathered kind)

steelback salmon

I think the correct correct answer here would be fingermark, the answer given is for the southern cousin. and @ellicat - moses perch do not grow that big at all. somewhere around the low 50's will pull them up. fingermark do grow a lot bigger.

tough one mate... i usually have similar luck with the weather. a lot of places in NSW and on the central coast have pretty gnarly coastal bars. one exception to this is Coffs Harbour. I don't know a lot about the offshore fishing around there but there is plenty of rocky reefy areas not too far out. Some of the less gnarly bars are found at forster/tuncurry and north haven / camden haven. Again, i don't know a lot about the offshore fishing there. There is heaps of awesome estuary systems down there though and often you can target bigger things like kingfish and mulloway around the entrances/breakwalls if conditions permit.

Personally I would eat mullet or catfish out of the river but I know others do. For example, @Drop Bear will eat anything that swims! i have eaten threadfin salmon and javelin fish from the west end stretch of the river and I think I’m still fine? Others may suggest otherwise. As others have suggested best to wait for things to settle post significant rain events. There is always unavoidable run off from roads, industry etc to consider which thankfully generally clears out pretty quickly. not a bad effort for you first filleting job by the way. Practice practice practice will be your friend - good news is that means more fishing!

Are we talking about the rain here?

I’m sure Mrs Ellicat thinks it’s a sweet deal too… tasty dinner and a moment of peace until his vocal chords heal…

awesome trip by the looks of it mate. can't complain about the results!

it's the right time of year for it mate... just wondering with all your noise and grunts and groans... did you manage to call in any red deer like during our trip off the cape? nice fish there @Kat - at least someone had their concrete before heading out...

i love a good super tuned prawn. amazed this didn't land you a thready...

not wrong about slow growth ray... 20mm in 6 years...

hey mate, going through a similar phase with my wee one who turned two in jan. i got a burke jacket and it seems less intrusive than some others. I also did a lot of practice wearing the "special boat jacket" before going on the boat and then just saying the whole "the boat doesn't work when the special jacket isn't on". she tolerates it pretty well now actually. haven't tried fishing with her on the hobie yet but she loves going for a ride - the more waves and splashes the better!

i see why you liked the scenery at caba... top spot down there mate. great family holiday and some nice fish to boot.

awesome mate. love it.

nice one mate. just a note - the "fingermark" you got in the causeway is actually a moses perch / moses snapper. legal size of these is 25cm. While a common local name for them is "fingermark", they differ from the true fingermark (better known as a golden snapper) in being predominately red coloured. I'm not sure if that makes your causeway lake trip more successful given you did land a legal fish after all? P.S. - well worth trying off the rocks directly under the singing ship up there too mate.

Nice one Kelvin, awesome family holiday. Looking forward to when my wee one and I can do the same!

you do know he reads these posts right...?

nice one mate. some thumping red throat in there, they would have played up a treat. not sure how you managed to cope with those conditions.

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pretty slowly mate. usually just enough to keep the lure swimming and diving properly.

I decided to brave the 20kn southerly forecast and dirty water and go for a bit of a flick on the kayak on Sunday morning. Launched just on sunrise and deployed three lures and went for a troll up the creek to see if anything much had changed after the recent deluge. Few extra snags here and there but generally not too bad. The water was still very dirty but the tide was dead low so i hoped for better things to come. I was pleasantly surprised when my zerek tango shad had a solid enquiry which turned out to be a bream just on 30cm. my mate who was with me loves eating bream so it was added to the esky on his behalf. shortly after a flathead in the mid 30's decided the pontoon21 crackerjack looked too good, he was let off with a warning. I headed back down the creek to catch up with my mate to see how he was going and randomly got a decent hit right in the middle of the creek, a 48cm flattie soon found its way into my esky. my mate had happened upon a cracking bream at 34cm and an unders flathead. I then headed down a bit further where i had some luck last trip, i got another bream just under 27cm, he was released, and then a 42cm flathead took a liking to the 80mm yozuri, he was also added to the esky. i then headed back upstream and searched around. my zerek tango shad got absolutely nailed by something the ripped a heap of line off but unfortunately didn't stay connected. the lure was returned unharmed, guess the hooks pulled. I then hooked up to a 46cm flattie which made it into the esky as well. after this things went very quiet. i picked up a 20cm whiting on the crackerjack and a flattie at about 30. We called it at 10:30 and headed back home, each with a feed for sunday dinner. only took one photo as the phone was left in the car. good to see a few fish - first time on the water in nearly 2 months!

Paradise caves is very difficult to get down close to the water. Fairy pools is just as far, if not further, to walk as hells gates. It generally fishes pretty well but is also exposed in an E swell. The area called devil's kitchen is much closer and is worth a look.