AUS-BNE-FISHO

Yeah bit the bullet and got the other knee done.Seen doc last tuesday, he sent me for xray update,result left knee was bone on bone.So I said you operate mondays dont you, he said yes, I said good what time do you want me on monday,after he picked himself up off the floor and made a couple of calls he said OK. So in at 6am op at 7.30am and home sat morn. Missing fishing already and have got a few weeks to go yet.First pic is in hospital, second pic is of new wound and last pic is of the other leg I already had done 8 months a go. Yes it bloody hurts.
Dino

Ok this is my final goodbye im leaving in 5 minutes . Cya hope you catch some big ones while i am away . Goood bye everybody 

Enjoy your trip.
Do a report when you get back.

That gear is perfect for offshore here. 
 

Yea i will . Thanks see you in 2 weeks 

Hi Breaming with Bro
Alright, see you then. Hope no-one hops on with Coronavirus like on the Diamond Princess. Have fun and post us up some pictures 🙂 
Cheers Hamish

Yea Australia has endless fishing options and species . Buy a light spin combo and get out there and catch some fish if you need recommendations on fishing gear feel free to ask 

I won’t be on the forum for 2 weeks as im going on a crusie with my family for almost 2 weeks im going on the voyager of the seas a Royal Caribbean crusie And im boarding on this Tuesday and leaving tomorrow to go drive 4 hours south all the way to sydney . Hope you guys catch some big fish while im gone and if someone gets Coronavirus I won’t be back till a month . SO LONG AND GOODNIGHT -Quote from my chemical romance from the song helena 
 

Hi all
I was planning to go out this weekend, but since we were busy I just marched down to the local park to have a fish. It was pretty nice but the results weren't the best. Here it is-
So, I spent last night rigging/preparing my rods/tackle and getting killed by mozzies. I watched the All Star's Game too, and that was good. When I rocked up on the jetty this morning, it was pretty cool, the tide was rising, blue, lightly cloudy sky and pretty windy. Since I was sheltered though, I wasn't getting any. I cast my lines out, baited with a mix of herring, mullet, prawns and eel. The target species were sharks, bream, cod and just for fun, catfish 😛 

Getting to the jetty

Nice sky
I was fishing of the wharf bit at first, but with the rising tide it was pushing my line towards the pylons/under the jetty. I didn't get touched apart from the resident pylon pickers, (probably baby river perch) so in about 30 minutes I moved my lines to the jetty. This was far more efficient, as I could put two lines out the back and keep an eye on the shark rod, baited with a chunk of eel. I got my first run in about 10 minutes, but no hook up. To make it even worse, when I wound it back in, the bait was still on which meant it had just sucked it in and spat it out - silly catfish!

The Setup
This happened about 5 more times and then I moved back to the wharf, fishing the eddy/channel made from the wharf and jetty. It made fishing a bit easier, I had one line out the front and the other sitting in the channel. While the line out the front was getting hits and some good runs, I failed to hook up. Though, every time the bait was still on when I retrieved it. Finally, I hooked up on the line in the channel, and it was quite a feisty fight. The catfish jumped under the jetty, but I kept a tight line so it could't flick the hook.

Forktail Catfish
After that fella was dealt with, the skies started to look threatening and the bite was going strong, but no more fish, There was a light shower but it must've missed me because I reckon it looked like a storm cloud.

It missed me
My dad then came down and picked me up, and my Albright knot snapped clean off, causing me to loose a trace and some leader - I assume the knot weakened the line but I also might've casted to hard as I'd casted it about 5 times before.
Here are the trips statistics - 
Tide: Low Tide, 0.3m, 3:40AM, High Tide, 10:30AM, 2.3M
Time fished: 6:40Am-10:00AM
Moon phase: Waning Crescent Phase, so growing smaller until the new moon
Bait Used: Herring, mullet, prawns, eel
Bait Caught: - 
Fish Caught: Catfish x 1
Tackle Used: 14lb braid mainline, 20lb fluorocarbon leader, 12lb mono leader, 80lb mono leader, 80lb wire trace, size 6 sinker, size 2 bean sinker, 650 penn reel, 30lb braid mainline, Shimano Nasci 2500, Shimano Sienna 1000, Diawa Shinobi 2500, Ugly Stik 6'6", Ugly Stik 8'
Overall Success Rate: 40%, was relaxing and at least I didn't donut
Hope you enjoyed the report,
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Link to Gold Coast report.
https://www.bnbfishing.com.au/mud-crabs-good-target-gold-coast/?mc_cid=f654f805dc&mc_eid=47674f88e7

Cheers guys. Maybe I should have redirected my comments and looked at the primary species available off the sunny coast from boat. I'm pretty addicted to fishing but Aus is pretty new to me. Love the variety that I'm seeing online, just everything from freshwater bass to crabs and shrimp, on to marlin and wahoo. Looks to be a fishing paradise. Looks like you guys are going lighter on the gear than the kiwis. Seems like here it's a 6500 min unless softbaiting. 

Hi HGR
Welcome to the forum, I may not be the most help but I'll try. 
If you plan on getting another boat, I'd recommend keeping your current setups. These will work for species like threadfin salmon, mulloway, big cod, snapper, kingfish, tuna, mackerel, etc. What I'm saying is that if you are planning on getting a boat here they will be efficient, otherwise I'd recommend maybe only keep the 6500 and 1 Tiagra. Depending on what type of fishing if you're fishing landbased, they will come in handy. For example, mulloway and threadfin salmon would go for that but you would not get whiting on such heavy setups. It's really about your leader size used though. Also, if you aren't familiar with them, maybe read up on these species because they are common around the Sunshine Coast.
If you are planning on bread and butter/smaller species such as flathead, whiting, bream, smaller cod, school jewish, trevally, bass, yellowbelly, tailor and even squire, these are the setups I'd recommend - 
-1000 Shimano Sienna with an Ugly Stik rod of your choice, I have mine on a 6'6"
-2500 Shimano Nasci/Daiwa Shinobi on a longer rod, maybe 8ft for surf
-650-800 size Penn reel, spooled with heavier line for larger species (i.e. mulloway)
I think three sould get you started off as well, you can expand on what you like/don't like using. Once again, it all comes down to the species you're targeting. If you use 6lb mainline and leader, whiting, bream bass and yellowbelly would be ideal whereas if fishing for flathead, you might use 20lb fluorocarbon leader.
Hope this helped,
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Unlucky you only got 1 fish at least it was relaxing . Hope you have a better hookup rate next time

Where a few setups i think that would be good
light setup 1000-2000 size reel 6lb braid 3-8lb rod
medium setup 2000-2500 size reel 8-10lb braid 2-4kg rod
medium heavy setup 3000 size reel 15lb braid 3-7kg rod
if you want know more detailed setups and brands just ask any time also most of the fish here in Australia have sharp teeth
so do your research on what leader is appropriate for the fish your targeting. One of favourite fish to target is bream the light setup i listed is what i use for bream I usually use a 4-6lb leader when targeting bream as they don’t have sharp teeth and are leader shy. Feel free to ask any questions .edit also yea tuna snapper and king fish fishing is fairly popular in Australia so the gear you have now you can use.edit again I’ll list some species you might want to try to target on the sunshine coast or most places on the east coast of Australia I’ll list some fish that are easy to learn how to catch . 1 bream 2 dusky flathead 3 whiting 4 tailor 5 trevally 6 eels . Hope that helps
 

Hi all
I was planning to go out this weekend, but since we were busy I just marched down to the local park to have a fish. It was pretty nice but the results weren't the best. Here it is-
So, I spent last night rigging/preparing my rods/tackle and getting killed by mozzies. I watched the All Star's Game too, and that was good. When I rocked up on the jetty this morning, it was pretty cool, the tide was rising, blue, lightly cloudy sky and pretty windy. Since I was sheltered though, I wasn't getting any. I cast my lines out, baited with a mix of herring, mullet, prawns and eel. The target species were sharks, bream, cod and just for fun, catfish 😛 

Getting to the jetty

Nice sky
I was fishing of the wharf bit at first, but with the rising tide it was pushing my line towards the pylons/under the jetty. I didn't get touched apart from the resident pylon pickers, (probably baby river perch) so in about 30 minutes I moved my lines to the jetty. This was far more efficient, as I could put two lines out the back and keep an eye on the shark rod, baited with a chunk of eel. I got my first run in about 10 minutes, but no hook up. To make it even worse, when I wound it back in, the bait was still on which meant it had just sucked it in and spat it out - silly catfish!

The Setup
This happened about 5 more times and then I moved back to the wharf, fishing the eddy/channel made from the wharf and jetty. It made fishing a bit easier, I had one line out the front and the other sitting in the channel. While the line out the front was getting hits and some good runs, I failed to hook up. Though, every time the bait was still on when I retrieved it. Finally, I hooked up on the line in the channel, and it was quite a feisty fight. The catfish jumped under the jetty, but I kept a tight line so it could't flick the hook.

Forktail Catfish
After that fella was dealt with, the skies started to look threatening and the bite was going strong, but no more fish, There was a light shower but it must've missed me because I reckon it looked like a storm cloud.

It missed me
My dad then came down and picked me up, and my Albright knot snapped clean off, causing me to loose a trace and some leader - I assume the knot weakened the line but I also might've casted to hard as I'd casted it about 5 times before.
Here are the trips statistics - 
Tide: Low Tide, 0.3m, 3:40AM, High Tide, 10:30AM, 2.3M
Time fished: 6:40Am-10:00AM
Moon phase: Waning Crescent Phase, so growing smaller until the new moon
Bait Used: Herring, mullet, prawns, eel
Bait Caught: - 
Fish Caught: Catfish x 1
Tackle Used: 14lb braid mainline, 20lb fluorocarbon leader, 12lb mono leader, 80lb mono leader, 80lb wire trace, size 6 sinker, size 2 bean sinker, 650 penn reel, 30lb braid mainline, Shimano Nasci 2500, Shimano Sienna 1000, Diawa Shinobi 2500, Ugly Stik 6'6", Ugly Stik 8'
Overall Success Rate: 40%, was relaxing and at least I didn't donut
Hope you enjoyed the report,
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Maoris won. Can't remember both the final scores, but the Maoris got 30 with a couple of late tries.

Yea I’ve got a lot of experience on cheaper reels and have watched a few videos taking apart shimano and daiwa reels so im pretty sure i know what im doing I’ve also done a lot of research and binge watched a lot of tackle advisors videos on youtube so i pretty confident taking apart a shimano cazna as there a fairly simple reel . But yea I wouldn’t open up a reel I don’t know much about for example I wouldn’t open up a cI4+ stradic or a diawa Ballistic . as I don’t know how they work unlike a reel under $100 which are fairly simple and yea i would either use daiwa or penn for grease and oil. Thanks for all the feedback. Edit  yea i have good eyesight so i know if a washers missing or spring flys out where it goes back as I carefully look at everything before i move stuff around . And yea im going to use the cazna for a jacks and barra trip this year so im going to have put a little more grease then what it came with . And yes i know not to put too much grease in the reel . But the reel came with very little so i need to put some more on as to little grease can also be bad.

Hi all
I was planning to go out this weekend, but since we were busy I just marched down to the local park to have a fish. It was pretty nice but the results weren't the best. Here it is-
So, I spent last night rigging/preparing my rods/tackle and getting killed by mozzies. I watched the All Star's Game too, and that was good. When I rocked up on the jetty this morning, it was pretty cool, the tide was rising, blue, lightly cloudy sky and pretty windy. Since I was sheltered though, I wasn't getting any. I cast my lines out, baited with a mix of herring, mullet, prawns and eel. The target species were sharks, bream, cod and just for fun, catfish 😛 

Getting to the jetty

Nice sky
I was fishing of the wharf bit at first, but with the rising tide it was pushing my line towards the pylons/under the jetty. I didn't get touched apart from the resident pylon pickers, (probably baby river perch) so in about 30 minutes I moved my lines to the jetty. This was far more efficient, as I could put two lines out the back and keep an eye on the shark rod, baited with a chunk of eel. I got my first run in about 10 minutes, but no hook up. To make it even worse, when I wound it back in, the bait was still on which meant it had just sucked it in and spat it out - silly catfish!

The Setup
This happened about 5 more times and then I moved back to the wharf, fishing the eddy/channel made from the wharf and jetty. It made fishing a bit easier, I had one line out the front and the other sitting in the channel. While the line out the front was getting hits and some good runs, I failed to hook up. Though, every time the bait was still on when I retrieved it. Finally, I hooked up on the line in the channel, and it was quite a feisty fight. The catfish jumped under the jetty, but I kept a tight line so it could't flick the hook.

Forktail Catfish
After that fella was dealt with, the skies started to look threatening and the bite was going strong, but no more fish, There was a light shower but it must've missed me because I reckon it looked like a storm cloud.

It missed me
My dad then came down and picked me up, and my Albright knot snapped clean off, causing me to loose a trace and some leader - I assume the knot weakened the line but I also might've casted to hard as I'd casted it about 5 times before.
Here are the trips statistics - 
Tide: Low Tide, 0.3m, 3:40AM, High Tide, 10:30AM, 2.3M
Time fished: 6:40Am-10:00AM
Moon phase: Waning Crescent Phase, so growing smaller until the new moon
Bait Used: Herring, mullet, prawns, eel
Bait Caught: - 
Fish Caught: Catfish x 1
Tackle Used: 14lb braid mainline, 20lb fluorocarbon leader, 12lb mono leader, 80lb mono leader, 80lb wire trace, size 6 sinker, size 2 bean sinker, 650 penn reel, 30lb braid mainline, Shimano Nasci 2500, Shimano Sienna 1000, Diawa Shinobi 2500, Ugly Stik 6'6", Ugly Stik 8'
Overall Success Rate: 40%, was relaxing and at least I didn't donut
Hope you enjoyed the report,
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Yeah, the All Star's game last night was great! I only saw 'till half time though, who won?
Cheers Hamish 🙂 

Hi Junky
Great post, thanks for all the information 🙂 
Looks like I need some new grease too, hopefully I'll visit the tackle shop next weekend 🙂 
Hi Old Scaley
Good advice, thanks for the tips 🙂 I've only really pulled apart reels that are slowing down/sticking a bit to see if something has rusted, my Shimano Nasci has stayed together for the whole time I've had it.
Cheers Hamish 

St Helens played well but execution close to the line let them down. I really like only having one referee (well two if you count Jake Friend), it lets the game flow.  Roosters look a different side without Cronk.
Last night’s All Star game was a great spectacle as well. Bring on the real season!

Love the shorts. I’m pretty sure I had the same pair years ago.

I still have mine, and wear them. 🤣
 
 
 
I've heard those things taste good. I always throw mine back though. They remind my of a sea toad cross stonefish or something. 
I caught mine north of peel. 

I am amazed @benno573 hasn’t jumped into this thread. Pretty sure he is the President of the Stargazer Appreciation Society. They are delicious. Nice white fillets.  Just like monkfish if you have ever tried that but better because you can eat it fresh. 

And I wouldn’t advise pulling them part when new unless you really know what you are doing. The quality assurance processes for the major brands mean they come off the production line the way they are meant to, and fair chance you will lose a tiny spring or washer and then have to pay to get it fixed. By all means upgrade the drag washers if you are looking to optimise the performance but I would leave the insides alone until it is time to service the reel. Plenty of cheap second hand reels around if you want to hone your skills before starting on your new ones.