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I didn't need to burley in my original spot, but elsewhere I do so pls disregard my original advice. My original spot is now swarming with pest fish.
While lying the jar on its side works better than standing it up, there is the risk that some mullet panic and swim out as you approach to empty it. I minimise this by having the entrance point toward the direction from which I will approach. As the mullet them try to swim away from me as I approach they head into the back of the jar rather than towards me at the entrance. 
Other tweaks are:
1. Punching small holes around the flange of the plastic where it is fixed to the glass. This allows the silicone a greater surface area to adhere.
2. Using pliers to squeeze the  flaps open as otherwise they tend to close up over time and blocking access to larger baits.
Alternatively, the old juice bottle with some sinkers attached also works fine.

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

Thanks mate. First time targeting too, in the daytime and (nearly) success. Still buzzing.

Great work mate, sounds like you've got a new favourite fishing spot. A large jewie from the surf (or rocks) has always been one of my bucket list fish to catch. One day!

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

Absolutely brilliant. I've read about them and never expected to hook one. Still very happy

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

Absolutely brilliant. I've read about them and never expected to hook one. Still very happy

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

After a 20 year break from fishing I started up again this time last year (The kids gave me a charter for Christmas and catching rat kings reignited my love of fishing).
I have been targeting flathead from the shore on the Central Coast.
I heard of a beach that it is a good spot for jewfish so I thought I would give them a try (I have never caught one). 
I got my live mullet and dusted off an old fibreglass beach rod and reel of similar vintage. 
I started fishing about 2 pm this arvo. I had the old beach rod in a holder in the sand and a lighter rod for flicking out baits. Nothing much happened for an hour when I caught a 30cm tailor.- a nice change from flatties anyway. 40 mins later the old beach rod bent over and the reel screamed. This was no flathead or tailor.  After some impressive runs I saw a silver flash in the waves and I thought that this must be a  BIG tailor. It didn't jump so I knew it wasn't a salmon.
Then I  got a nice look at it side on in the waves, it was a bloody jewfish! Never caught one, I was so happy. I tried to use the wash to bring it up the beach but the undertow from the shore dump was really strong. I think the fish was about 80-100cm long. You guessed it..... I should have played it out a bit more and waited and it got off  in the shallow water. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed, but strangely I was quite content too because a mulloway was a first for me, I usually give my fish to the neighbour so the loss wasn't too big a deal,  and I really enjoyed the fight. I'm also a bit chuffed that I hooked it during the day (so I wasn't spending a fruitless cold night on the beach).

I've found the Get Fishing website to be a bit inaccurate. Its hard to see the top of your fish to see if it has spots (apparently the Silver Toad fish has spots on the back).
eg Here is a different fish ID for the Silver Toadfish.
https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/868
Whatever it is , its ugly, poisonous, ugly a toad fish, and yeah, did I mention really ugly? 🙂 I hope it went back

Might be this one.
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/smooth-golden-pufferfish-lagocephalus-inermis/

G’day from the NSW Central Coast. I’m a keen kayak fisherman and a admin for the kayak fishing group Yak Hunters www.yakhunters.com for information. I mostly fish around Tuggerah Lake and Lake Macquarie. Looking forward to posting and hearing about everyone’s fishing adventures.

Made in Australia (here in Brisbane) is Platypus Pulse and Bionic Braid
Get on it. 
 

Ha ha.  I am no expert but it is what Doug Burt said it was when I sent him the photo as a friend suggested I should.  And before I was told by him my brother in law picked the same fish from a poster on my wall.  I thought it was a blubberlip Bream.  I will take a better photo tomorrow and post it for the experts to weigh in...

Hi BWB,
there's nothing wrong with keeping spots to yourself. A lot of trial and error goes into finding them.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee that those that you trust with your secret wont pass it on to others. In fact it is inevitable. Studies show that he rate at which a secret spreads is the square of the number of people you originally tell. 
If you tell 2 people and each of them tells another 2 (now 6 plus you know) and in turn they tell 2 each (36 plus you know now)  and in turn teach of the 36 tells two (I cant be bothered working out 36 squared  but it will be a big number 🙂
If you tell 3 people and each of them tells another 3, (12 plus you) and each of them tells another 3 .......etc the number in the know grows incredibly fast.
You are right in worrying about telling even 20 people, but if you tell anyone else that you don't completely trust, it will become common knowledge much faster than you realise.
You will come across exponential growth in maths if you haven't already.
All of last year I kept a spot to myself. Friends, neighbours and acquaintances regularly asked me where I caught my poddy mullet. I would smile and say "That would be telling" 🙂 It is near a popular holiday site and I avoided trapping there during holidays and weekends so that I did not bring attention to it. (I would fish mid week at dusk so weekends weren't a big deal). I had a regular supply of the best possible bait that almost guaranteed me a couple of keepers. I would be silly to let others know and then wonder why I have trouble getting bait there.
The only reason I go elsewhere now because for some reason the mullet have been replaced with juvenile striped trumpeter.
Keep you spots secret. 🙂
 

I got to see braid being made in the Platypus factory the other day. Pretty cool how they make it. I'm gonna buy Platypus from now on. Made in Brisbane Australia from great quality products. 

Hi BWB,
there's nothing wrong with keeping spots to yourself. A lot of trial and error goes into finding them.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee that those that you trust with your secret wont pass it on to others. In fact it is inevitable. Studies show that he rate at which a secret spreads is the square of the number of people you originally tell. 
If you tell 2 people and each of them tells another 2 (now 6 plus you know) and in turn they tell 2 each (36 plus you know now)  and in turn teach of the 36 tells two (I cant be bothered working out 36 squared  but it will be a big number 🙂
If you tell 3 people and each of them tells another 3, (12 plus you) and each of them tells another 3 .......etc the number in the know grows incredibly fast.
You are right in worrying about telling even 20 people, but if you tell anyone else that you don't completely trust, it will become common knowledge much faster than you realise.
You will come across exponential growth in maths if you haven't already.
All of last year I kept a spot to myself. Friends, neighbours and acquaintances regularly asked me where I caught my poddy mullet. I would smile and say "That would be telling" 🙂 It is near a popular holiday site and I avoided trapping there during holidays and weekends so that I did not bring attention to it. (I would fish mid week at dusk so weekends weren't a big deal). I had a regular supply of the best possible bait that almost guaranteed me a couple of keepers. I would be silly to let others know and then wonder why I have trouble getting bait there.
The only reason I go elsewhere now because for some reason the mullet have been replaced with juvenile striped trumpeter.
Keep you spots secret. 🙂
 

This may be useful if you are new to fishing.
https://getfishing.com.au/resources/fish-identification/
Actually it may NOT be much use, I've noticed that it doesn't have some of the ones I just tried looking up (fantail leatherjacket or Fortescue). 

Which reminds me of a joke (apologies in advance Kat & Idan)
 
What's a New Zealand Hindu? .........................................Lays iggs bru 🙂
 
 

Man I know that feeling. Soon after I bought my first bait caster I figured I would pull it apart and give it an oil. (I had never seen the inside of one before. I had stripped plenty of egg beaters and alveys since I was a kid, so I thought "how hard could it be?" and "giving it a squirt of oil will surely make it work better").
Well............I heard a spring go flying past my ear, which I couldn't find in the thick carpet, and it never worked properly again- I wonder why 🙂  So I just stick to threadlines.