The Mad Hughesy

If we had an esky I would’ve kept it!

Just a quick report from today’s session. Caught a very small bull shark pup to enter into the comp. my brother also caught a nice cod on a big live herring. Nice surprise bi-catch. The shark baits seemed to get a lot more attention while there was some movement in the tide, it all went quite when the tide slowed towards the turn.

On the board! Very small pup

there's a lure i haven't heard of in a long time! i actually found a brand new pack of skin blue armour shads while cleaning out the other day, i was pretty happy to say the least! nice pre work session mate!

Thanks mate

I sussed out a new spot to try out on the pine river a few weeks ago (just behind castle hill/ Murrumba Downs). The stars aligned and I had the chance to get out for a fish a few days ago so I jumped at the chance. (Those with really young kids can relate) Threw the small shark gear in the car and off I went. Threw out 2 small freshwater eel baits with the hop of nailing a small bull shark or two. I had 2 runs with one hook up. The second run was unlucky as the shark just took a chunk out of my bait and didn’t come back for the rest of it. The small bully I landed was only a pup but I was just happy to fish a new land based spot with success. For those who feel like watching I put together a video of the morning as a bit of a how to guide. Ill probably try to organise a session back here again and open the invitation up to anyone who wants to come along and maybe get you onto your first shark for the monthly comp about to kick off!

hard to say really. i rarely miss a strike. On most occasions if it runs then disappears, ill check the bait and it normally has teeth marks in it our a chunk taken out of the bait. which happened the other day, ive got a pic of that

i pre-fished a new spot on the pine 2 days ago (land based) produced two runs and one hook up. ill whack a report up soon once i finish editing a video. it was a pretty good spot with lots of space. might be a good location for northsiders to give a shot.

Nice one Hamish

My transducer clicks away fine, but it just really struggles to shoot through the hull. It might pay to use a railblaza side mount.

I was warned against getting that sounder for my kayak for the exact reason that the screen plays up a lot. But I ignored the advice and paid the price. Everyone I know who has one of these units runs into this problem. I’ll be selling mine and buying something different soon.

bad forecast for sure. The amount of times ive cancelled for the weather to turn good. As well as going fishing on a good forecast for it to be blowing it ass off and making kayaking impossible

Probably start a new topic with the comp details, requirements etc. keep that topic as the one to post catches, keep this one as the banter topic

yeah mate im in happy to organise trophies again if people want? i think you might run into strife with measuring them potentially. Anything large caught boat based is very hard to measure.

isnt fish 2 a striped eel catfish? eel tailed catfish is what you catch in the fresh stuff. also known as a tandan.

i dont think this lawsuit will get much traction. he just needs to be a bit smarter in the future with his pranks. He has already come out and said yeah it was a dumb thing to do, lesson learnt so lets just move on from it and throw chickens at boat thief's again. His stuff is funny and i enjoy watching his vids. id imagine that most people would be angry if they were at a local ramp then gets blocked off due to kids sinking stuff at it

is there any sort of scientific view/opinion on what would be required to make a visible difference to the bay water clarity?

i remember on a charter with frenzy a while back, the deckie told me how Paul Worstling from IFish caught F all himself. The deckie was out the back float lining snapper and every time he hooked up, he'd pass the rod to Paul and then start filming. i cant stand that bloke either. Hence why i watch fishing stuff on youtube, much more realistic.

oh absolutely. so often people get hammered for catching their bag.

Just feel the need to vent and i thought here is a good place to do so as many of you will probably understand what i mean. And it may not annoy you like it annoys me haha to each their own I've noticed over the past few years a few trends amongst fisho's. 1 of them just annoys me and the other i cannot understand 1. Why do so many people have to have such a serious face when posing with a fish? crack a smile! this isn't the old western times where no one smiled. Aren't you happy that you've just caught a fish worthy of a photo? "here's a pic of me with my PB fish (face looks like someone said look as serious/angry as possible)". So many pictures i see on Facebook on local fishing groups have dudes with this dead serious/angry face while holding their fish. i just don't get it...is it a looking tough thing? 2. Why so many grown men throw up a "shaka" sign and scream YEOW! when they catch a fish on video, or just randomly through the video? cant help but laugh every time i see that happen. Even alot of youtubers who have fishing videos do it a lot more often than necessary …"right guys I've got my bait and rigged up my rod and we are ready to go, lets get into it. YEOW!" "just filleted up this fish and about to cook it, lets hope it tastes good. YEOW" Nothing against the shaka sign, but the YEOW is bizarre haha don't know where it came from but it seems like everyone does it now Maybe its just me, feel free to tell me to shut up haha Any other fishing related trends you've noticed that you find weird or funny or annoying?

pretty incredible stuff Robbie!

bingo, simple and good rules to follow

hmm ok. could always look at crimping as an option?

i must say ive never had issue with the uni knot for big mono leaders. How many times do you wrap it aroundthe line? for example ill do 6 times when bream fishing, and 3 loops for the large leader. Leave a long tag end and tighten.

great tip, thanks Ray