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Actually on a butterflied herring, meant to be less attractive to live mullet eating sharks!

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Actually on a butterflied herring, meant to be less attractive to live mullet eating sharks!

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Actually on a butterflied herring, meant to be less attractive to live mullet eating sharks!

Actually on a butterflied herring, meant to be less attractive to live mullet eating sharks!

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Not a goal but rather a hope, that being less sharks at my local.
One definite goal, get a 70-80 barra to take home. They are all way over that at the moment, which go back. Sunday's effort between feeding sharks:

Lip grips so long as you can reach the waterline on those sea walls. I have one hooked to my tackle bag but never use them because these days I'm always fishing the beach. And recently definitely not a need - the beach is shark city since the floods in Cairns 😑 

Lip grips so long as you can reach the waterline on those sea walls. I have one hooked to my tackle bag but never use them because these days I'm always fishing the beach. And recently definitely not a need - the beach is shark city since the floods in Cairns 😑 

Lip grips so long as you can reach the waterline on those sea walls. I have one hooked to my tackle bag but never use them because these days I'm always fishing the beach. And recently definitely not a need - the beach is shark city since the floods in Cairns 😑 

This worked about 40 years ago:
Pump some squirt worms and fish them at night on a fine gauge size 6 long shank, in dark and quiet areas of the river, cast just a few metres from shore. Huge whiting cruise the shallows at night, but they spook easy. If no squirt worms use pea sized soldier crabs.
Day time, jig live herring at Boyds bay bridge on the ebb tide, and walk them along the rock wall with the current on a long leader = catch flathead. 

This worked about 40 years ago:
Pump some squirt worms and fish them at night on a fine gauge size 6 long shank, in dark and quiet areas of the river, cast just a few metres from shore. Huge whiting cruise the shallows at night, but they spook easy. If no squirt worms use pea sized soldier crabs.
Day time, jig live herring at Boyds bay bridge on the ebb tide, and walk them along the rock wall with the current on a long leader = catch flathead. 

This worked about 40 years ago:
Pump some squirt worms and fish them at night on a fine gauge size 6 long shank, in dark and quiet areas of the river, cast just a few metres from shore. Huge whiting cruise the shallows at night, but they spook easy. If no squirt worms use pea sized soldier crabs.
Day time, jig live herring at Boyds bay bridge on the ebb tide, and walk them along the rock wall with the current on a long leader = catch flathead. 

I think depends on the level of difficulty of the fishing your doing. I have a fishing mate who insists on using cheap rods/ reels/ braid/ leader/ terminal tackle and consistently gets 90% less hits and loses 90% of the fish he hooks, chasing barra/ salmon/ queenies etc. I have longer casts, smoother drag, more robust leader etc. Meanwhile he outfishes me 10 to 1 up the river on the little stuff - bream, grunter etc.

I think depends on the level of difficulty of the fishing your doing. I have a fishing mate who insists on using cheap rods/ reels/ braid/ leader/ terminal tackle and consistently gets 90% less hits and loses 90% of the fish he hooks, chasing barra/ salmon/ queenies etc. I have longer casts, smoother drag, more robust leader etc. Meanwhile he outfishes me 10 to 1 up the river on the little stuff - bream, grunter etc.

I think depends on the level of difficulty of the fishing your doing. I have a fishing mate who insists on using cheap rods/ reels/ braid/ leader/ terminal tackle and consistently gets 90% less hits and loses 90% of the fish he hooks, chasing barra/ salmon/ queenies etc. I have longer casts, smoother drag, more robust leader etc. Meanwhile he outfishes me 10 to 1 up the river on the little stuff - bream, grunter etc.

I think depends on the level of difficulty of the fishing your doing. I have a fishing mate who insists on using cheap rods/ reels/ braid/ leader/ terminal tackle and consistently gets 90% less hits and loses 90% of the fish he hooks, chasing barra/ salmon/ queenies etc. I have longer casts, smoother drag, more robust leader etc. Meanwhile he outfishes me 10 to 1 up the river on the little stuff - bream, grunter etc.

Gulp shrimp and Keitech Easy Shiner for me!

Gulp shrimp and Keitech Easy Shiner for me!

Gulp shrimp and Keitech Easy Shiner for me!

Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

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Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
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Woke up this morning to the season change, after 6 months of the dry season south east trade winds "fish drought" - eased winds and a very monsoony feeling in the air.
Knocked off at lunch to be positioned at the creek mouth with a live mullet when the tide started going out - one cast with the net scored a net full of mullet ranging from finger length to huge, selected a few mid size ones.
Didn't take long to get a hit and what I thought was a salmon positively ID'ed itself with a tail walk:

93ffa908-ed13-4496-8150-f870ba6aa323.MP4    
Mid 80's-ish fat barra which was quickly dispatched, and went home to chuck it in the freezer - plan to delight my brother in law coming from Brazil in 2 weeks, with whole baked barra:

Live mullet will be a sure thing for the next 4-6 months, till the south east trades come back in to ruin the fishing again!
 
IMG_2661 (1).mov