Brodie_S

Not a bad session considering the conditions nice GT. 

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Great report.
Can't beat rock fishing.
Well done.

On a side note, that would be getting in the Northern range for the Kelpie and the Southern range for that  Trevally.
Interesting stuff Brodie 

Nice work Brodie, it’s always good to catch a couple of fish.

Geez that work/school gets in the way sometimes, which is a bit of a buggar. Good to see you getting back into things.
The first is a Eastern Kelpfish or as Andrew said, Kelpy.
Second I’d have to agree with Andrew as well.

I don’t know the proper name but the brown thing is called a kelpy 
The other is a fringe fin trevally 

Hey, good to hear from you. Fishing is like riding a bike - you can jump straight back into it.
I have no idea on the ID's

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Not a bad session considering the conditions nice GT. 

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Stopped fishing for awhile because of work/school and everything else.Now my mates have their Ps and soon myself. Started fishing pretty regularly. Fortunately i haven't lost any knowledge or skill and have been getting onto some good fish while teaching my mates.Tried beach and rock fishing for the first time yesterday with a new bait rod setup 8 foot fiberglass rod matched with a 750 Penn reel spooled with roughly 400m of 20lb mono and landed some solid fish. 
 
caught these two a bit back and was looking for an offical species name rather then just calling them Rock cod or Trevally. 
PS. Good to see this forum hasn't died as its very useful and everyones pretty good. 
 
 
 

Not a bad session considering the conditions nice GT. 

Not a bad session considering the conditions nice GT. 

Hi Ray, 
My apologies, I forgot to message you back.
Your mate is a great guy and gave me a Shimano Symetre 4000, a rod, and a Shimano Baitrunner too. Thanks heaps for organising it for me.
Hamish

Nice work Charlie.

I'm with @Old Scaley and admiring the dedication. You did well. Conditions have been horrible lately.

A bit of soft plastic action is always a good day. 

Have to admire your dedication @TheCharliefisho. I reckon those big bream that hang around pilons at marinas are way too cagey to fool for most of the tricks fishos try to capture them. Probably not a lot of salt water fishing going to happen on the east coast this week. Grrrr!

Nice to see you getting the plastics to work for you. Whiting, a bit of a surprise.
A bit cumbersome, but you can put your sunnies in front of the camera lense to get that benefit. It works, believe it or not.

Hi all. 
Here's another quick report from yesterday's landbased lure session at Manly. 
Only had a few hours to fish so I micro jigged some plastics in the deeper water around the pylons in hopes of a trevally. 
Used small grub profile lures. The wind was horrendous and it would have been a very uncomfortable day if you were out in the bay; I had to switch from a 1/6th to a 1/8th just to cast 5 metres in front of me.    
It was blowing almost 19 knots and there was white caps all around. 
Fortunately the marina provided some shelter and it wasn't as bad as being out in the open. 
A kid next to me hooked up to a 35cm or so GT on similar profile plastics out from the pylons but dropped it at the surface. Apparently him and his mate had already caught a few little trevs on plastics and bream on bread baits before I arrived. 
Tried to get a cool photo of 30 or so BIG bream feeding on seaweed/oysters stuck around the marina pontoons but I could only pick them up with my polarized sunnies and they spooked easily after getting a cast in at them. 
Ended up switching spots and fished a beachy area. 
Managed a little trev on a slim swimz and oddly, 4 micro whiting. Casted in towards the boat hulls and hopped the lures back out. No size. 
 

 
 
 
 

Secured with the foot ! 😂😂😂
Nice work. Can't beat a little whiting for flattie bait.

Nice stuff, @Kat. Pretty obvious that you are now totally addicted to fishing.😂