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Mangajack is right. I’ve always found fishing with lures tough around there, especially in Winter. Your best bet would be targeting flatties from creek mouths and other structure with soft plastics I reckon, I’ve caught some solid fish up to 60cm around there.

Great footage Neil.

Hey, that’s ten more fish than I caught today. Nice work Ray, hopefully you get a few more next time.

Good work.

Great work Andrew.

Good job, sounds like a productive session.

Good work Neil.

Looks good !

Cheers Rebel. I have no idea Brett, but the Biddy was getting pickered and it came in like this

Thanks Angry, I don't eat them but I gave a few to Charlie to cookup. I normally just use them for bait.

Has anyone else noticed that all titles are automatically lower case letters recently? Not a big deal but a little annoying.

Hi all Yesterday was my first day of school holidays so I decided to start it off right by going fishing. After meeting Charlie on the early train we were at our spot a bit after half past six. Lines were rigged and the cast net was thrown in anticipation - annoyingly there wasn't much herring around so we had to settle for a mix of silver biddies and glassies. There wasn't much action for the last part of the rise (which is normally best at this spot), but during the tide change I did pull in a legal sandy on the line. Shortly after, my baitrunner had an inquiry which resulted in me getting reefed in a snag. Bugger. As the tide changed, we still struggled for catching bait, and we couldn't manage any fish. Another fella pulled up an alright flatty while casting near the bank, but no one was catching many fish. Despite this, we persisted later into the day, and Charlie flicked a lure around to no avail. At about midday, Charlie headed home. I kept fishing for a couple more hours, and in that time I didn't catch any fish, but did pull up a probably legal muddy on the line, but it dropped off before I could get it onto the jetty. I think I'll have to try dropping some crabpots around here soon! At about 1:30PM, I headed home disappointed about the lack of success from the first trip of the holidays. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some. Other noteworthy things were casting out a biddy and the hook coming back with a bait sized winter whiting on it and a tailor following my bait to the surface (no hookup). Stats of Trip: B Tide: 8:20Am, 2M, High, 2:30PM, .4M, Low Moon Phase: New Moon Bait Caught: Not much Bait Used: Live biddies, glassies, herring Fish Caught: Zilch Tackle Used: Shimano Baitrunner DC 8000 on Kmart Rod, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip Rod, Abu Garcia Nexus on Shimano Sedona 6000, 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, size four star sinkers, 6/o circle hooks. Humidity: 63% Air Pressure: 1014 Overall Success Rate: 30% - got a couple crabs That night, I felt like going for another fish, and after a bit of convincing my Dad and I headed to one of the spots I frequent to chase some prawns and fish. We were going for the high tide change, and sure enough, it was pretty busy and there were lots of prawns around. We probably got there a bit late, but after getting some herring/prawn baits out we focused on the netting. They had started to slow with the tide, so we were only getting 1-2 a cast, but most were decent size. Apart from a catfish, there weren't many fish getting around, and my Dad and I were taking turns throwing the nets/watching the rods. By about 9:30 (started at 8:00PM), we had managed about 1.5KG's of prawns, with a few big redlegs in amongst them. I gave a few to Charlie and hopefully will get out again casting later this week. Someone else had a big run/bustoff but it was pretty quiet on the lines for me. Stats of Trip: KP Tide: High at about 9:00PM. Moon Phase: New Moon Bait Caught and Used: Herring, prawns, winter whiting, mullet Fish Caught: Catfish Tackle Used: Shimano Baitrunner DC 8000 on Kmart Rod, Okuma Coronado CDX on Silstar Crystal Powertip Rod, Abu Garcia Nexus on Shimano Sedona 6000, 30 pound braid, 50 pound trace, size four star sinkers, 6/o circle hooks. Humidity: 53% Air Pressure: 1012 Overall Success Rate: 40% - got a couple prawns Anyways, thanks for reading. I couldn't go fishing today but hopefully will get out everyday next week and catch a few. Cheers Hamish

Great video Neil. Are Bonito the best Spanish bait?

Good job Neil.

I saw your video on Facebook, shame you lost that jewie. The first one probably could was a thready as they can rub through leader quite easily. You'll get them next time!

Nice work, looks like one of the river perch species. I've come to realize recently there's a couple different ones that all look similar but still aren't real jewfish. The biggest I've caught them is about 35CM.

Nice work, sounds like a fun session even though you didn't find the whiting.

Thanks @ubnt. My favorite time for thready fishing in the river is at a tide change (high tide if possible). Ideally on a decent size tide around a full or new moon. I guess that's because the tide will be running hard so when it's tide change there will be a more active bite window. Live bait and I've switched up to 50 pound leader after getting busted off using 30 pound a bit much. If you can get livies you're in with a better chance and make sure you are casting out a good length. I also prefer a medium-high air pressure and a medium humidity (ie as long as it's not too low or high), but this wouldn't stop me fishing. Some people prefer nighttimes but I prefer day, I still see plenty of fish caught at daytime instead of night. Obviously, it varies between spots but in general I would aim to fish a tide change, early morning or late arvo.

Nice work Neil, looks like a fun day.

I reckon most of their videos are garbage, they just sound like bogans.

Nice work Neil, those jigs look great.

Thanks guys.

Good work Ray, good to see you got a few.

Welcome to the forum Twahoo, hope you get it sorted out.

Nice!