Fisherman's gear

The only boat that you should ever buy is a 5m Tiller steer...
You are welcome 
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Sorry not helpful I know. 
I do like tillers as you get so much room but I like bowriders and cuddy cabs for that matter, they really do have their place.
Bowriders Pro's
more room for day use
Can take more ppl
Great comfortable seating for when you are at anchor. Good for picnics etc. 
Can cast from up front, good for squid etc
Easy to get to anchor
Better for skiing and tubing as people can sit up the front out of the way waiting their turn.
Con's
Can't overnight
less dry in bumpy weather
I would be very wary taking one through a bar as it will fill with water if you make a mistake and hit a curling wave (in saying that I do it in my open tiller... but only on good days)
All that seating gets messy when you catch a squid 🙂
Can be colder on those early morning Tailor runs (like I am doing Thursday with @Angus)
 
 
 

most beach in GC hold beach worm. For beginner i suggest using a plier, BCF has it for $15. My success rate increases a lot when using pliers, but you do have to dig down and grab the worm with your hands as well. 
Patience is the key, as well as don't try to be quicker than the worm, coz you will lose every time, gentle grab onto it when it arches up, then slowly pull it up in one go. Practices more you will get them, try a day with low tide with small swell.

most beach in GC hold beach worm. For beginner i suggest using a plier, BCF has it for $15. My success rate increases a lot when using pliers, but you do have to dig down and grab the worm with your hands as well. 
Patience is the key, as well as don't try to be quicker than the worm, coz you will lose every time, gentle grab onto it when it arches up, then slowly pull it up in one go. Practices more you will get them, try a day with low tide with small swell.

most beach in GC hold beach worm. For beginner i suggest using a plier, BCF has it for $15. My success rate increases a lot when using pliers, but you do have to dig down and grab the worm with your hands as well. 
Patience is the key, as well as don't try to be quicker than the worm, coz you will lose every time, gentle grab onto it when it arches up, then slowly pull it up in one go. Practices more you will get them, try a day with low tide with small swell.

most beach in GC hold beach worm. For beginner i suggest using a plier, BCF has it for $15. My success rate increases a lot when using pliers, but you do have to dig down and grab the worm with your hands as well. 
Patience is the key, as well as don't try to be quicker than the worm, coz you will lose every time, gentle grab onto it when it arches up, then slowly pull it up in one go. Practices more you will get them, try a day with low tide with small swell.

Appreciate that Scaley, you have been helpful as always mate. I think what i do wrong is probably I drift fishing a lot in these areas as I dont have an electric motor and afraid to lose my anchor there, which result in a lot of snags like you said and not a lot of fish. Or i use no sinker the bait just drift on the surface with the boat.
Looking to explore the electric motor option soon, hopefully I will score a tuskie. Thanks again.

Appreciate that Scaley, you have been helpful as always mate. I think what i do wrong is probably I drift fishing a lot in these areas as I dont have an electric motor and afraid to lose my anchor there, which result in a lot of snags like you said and not a lot of fish. Or i use no sinker the bait just drift on the surface with the boat.
Looking to explore the electric motor option soon, hopefully I will score a tuskie. Thanks again.

Appreciate that Scaley, you have been helpful as always mate. I think what i do wrong is probably I drift fishing a lot in these areas as I dont have an electric motor and afraid to lose my anchor there, which result in a lot of snags like you said and not a lot of fish. Or i use no sinker the bait just drift on the surface with the boat.
Looking to explore the electric motor option soon, hopefully I will score a tuskie. Thanks again.

Haha I cover all bases as they can be finicky. I’ll typically run a three dropper rig top hook Berkeley gulp red sand worm (they do work when the bite is on). Middle rig will be fresh as u can get prawns and bottom hook squid strips. 
I don’t use long shanks but Slightly shorter bait holder hooks. I find the long shanks leave too much exposed hook to spook and the bait holder holds the small cut up prawn better. 
On any given day u will catch them on prawn or squid but one will outperform the other at which point we will load up more of that bait.
When they are on, squid strips stay on better and can be recast quicker when drifting over a patch.
I use the Berkeley gulp as a bit of a fish attracter but also allows me to get the line  back in the water quickly without having to rebait every time.
If u are absolutely set on targeting only whiting for a feed I would buy 100gm of live worms. Nothing will beat them for bait. Cut up right 100gm of live worms will just get u the bag limit if there aren’t too many bycatches (toadies, grasslip, trumpeters). It’s just the price of worms ~$30-$40 that puts me off. But if taking impatient kids this is the bait to go with along with squid and prawns.
 
Between me and the missus we run 3 rods. When we are on a patch I’m basically the deckie unhooking fish and rebaiting while she brings them in, hands me the rod and moves on to the next rod going beserk. While the whiting are small it’s Hectic days like this that we try to replicate cause it can get mad addictive.
 

Hi there Fisherman’s gear, and thank you,  almost every time I go fishing I’ll throw an unweighted pilly out the back, let a decent amount of line go, and just leave it in the holder, depending on the current, it’will stay up top for a while, or sink slowly down,.
Ive always just called it a floater, and can see there’s a few ways one might interpret that. With no effort at all it’s accounted for some pretty decent catches in the past, cheers

Hi Fisherman's gear
Only Another Wazza will know for sure, but I believe the terminology "floating a pilly out" is where you cast a pilly out the back, unweighted. This is a popular technique for Snapper fishing I believe. 
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Very good read Wazza.  Question though, when you say float a pilly out, did you mean float it under a float or ballon? or small to no sinker let it drift down the water column.

Thanks Ellicat, I think i will start seeing doubles if it goes to 15 knots. I will stick to below 10 knots for now.

Initially a good day to go would be when the wind is forecast to be no more than around 10 knots. After you're comfortable with that, then maybe up to 15 knots.

Looking at the forecast for Thursday, I would be going early and getting back to shelter before the tide change around 11. That way you should avoid wind against tide and have a good run back home. In spring and summer, you will often get a NE wind springing up at around 11.15 and combining that with a run out tide can make it a long wet trip home.

Google found me this old thread. Got myself a 4.3 stacer with 30hp 2 stroke. Been having a burning desire to go somewhere other than inside the river and southern bay, especially chasing mackies in measured mile. 
My question is how do you pick a good day as many of you mentioned here. I am looking at this Thursday, will I be able to make it out and back safely? Thanks everyone.

I love to eat bass. They are delicious. Favourite way to eat them is Chinese style - steamed with loads of fresh ginger and soy. top it off with shallots and some sesame oil. 
You can cook them any way you like really. light soft flesh. Beer batter is great.
In a curry you would only want to cook for a few minutes or it would all break up. 
Fresh water fishing is great too. The stocked impoundments hold good fish and fun to catch. Nice on the fishing gear too as nothing rusts like it does in the salt. 
 

As Luc said above.
Freshwater fish are very plain eating, its what you like to flavour them with to make them OK.

4.3 tinny would handle those conditions fine.
Since you can't have petrol outboards on NPD, for windy days you need to make certain your have an electric outboard with enought grunt and battery power to get around and back to the ramp.
Can't comment on eating quality as I'm a catch & release angler.
Having said that, people regularly take bass, golden perch and redclaws home to eat. It's about preparation and cooking method.
 

Nice catches Dino.
Can you eat these fish? How do they fare in the plate?
How would a 4.3 tinny handle the fresh water in a gusty day though? I have never fished fresh water myself. What's there to look out for?
Thanks in advance.

Nice catches Dino.
Can you eat these fish? How do they fare in the plate?
How would a 4.3 tinny handle the fresh water in a gusty day though? I have never fished fresh water myself. What's there to look out for?
Thanks in advance.

Hi mate,
I will follow up with the station as I have quite a few requests for it! 
Daryl 

Hi Daryl,
Any chance we can listen to this again somewhere? Just got into fishing for Tailor. Sadly missed your show. 

Nice photos mate. I found big arrow squid hard to catch too, see them around a lot but just won't take any jig you throw at them.