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Thanks for sharing your experiences Hamish! Good stuff! Do you pick the best fishing day based on air pressure? I tend to justify poor fishing because of low barometer pressure like today.

These sound great tips! But a quick check on racq ultimate only covers up to 200km tow distance.

Fishing is a better addiction than most

Yes, considering the wind I felt lucky to catch anything. But it could prove that fish is still there when wind blows I can only go a few times a week so I am not picky

Hello friends, last night the weather is not looking good for fishing and boating with wild wind and pouring showers here in Brisbane. However I finally find the best opportunity to go out and test my new raincoat 360 degree. I also got a pair of rainpants from anaconda which is another post about. So in rain and darkness I stood with three rods at a jetty of the Moreton bay. It is 2 hours before the low tide and i am trying to fish for bream and flathead in the deep holes. Water is choppy as east wind blew to the bank. So i cast net to get bait fish near the bank and in the deep but they are scarce. I got a few glassy and a finglet mullet which i chopped up and cast out. Gears i used are 7' 2 to 4kg graphite rod with 10 lb braid and 20 lb leader. Running sinker rig with Size 2 ball sinker and 1/0 circle hooks at the end. On a quiet night I usually cast to the middle and deepest part of the stream and caught many fish in the low tide. Tonight i am not sure as the line was taken to the bank after cast by the wave. So i added more sinker to one line, but the downside is it could scare the cautious bream. And it proved i am right the other two lines with light sinkers are getting bite and the heavy one keep losing bait without any hookup. After a while one reel screamed i tightened the drag and the fish put up a good fight. It was a bream about 30cm. Five minutes later another big nod and I slowly retrieved the line. It felt like dead weight and not moving much. It felt like a flatty and i was afraid I could lose it due to my line and hook size. A minute later leader was cut and she is no more. I quickly change the leader to 30lb. But i didn't bring larger hooks so i am not very hopeful i can land one flatty. A while later another reel scream and i caught another bream of 30cm. The next two hours there are few bites and i lost another bream. Overall i am quite happy to try my new raincoat and take home two fish in such weather, though i can improve my flatty fishing skills.

Thanks mate, Would chux cloth make the fish a bit too dry if put in fridge? I usually put them in freezer bag instead which prevents loss of moisture.

Thanks mate, Yes I will try this on bream next time!

Good idea but wife would not approve probably

Hello fellow anglers, Recently i have caught quite a few flathead and bream from Shorncliffe jetty and enjoyed the trip and the fish as well. However i have run out of recipes for cooking them and wonder if I can make sashimi from these fish? How good do they taste? Cheers

Thanks for sharing with us your knowledge and secret, solute to you! I agree light gears give fish a level ground to fight and make fishing much more elegant sports too...

@Allnighter how is the fight with snapper of such size like? must be exciting i guess! The other thing i also wonder is how the fish taste compared with much smaller snapper of 40ish cm. I guess it is not as tender and juicy. But no doubt these are solid great catch!

Thanks for sharing Thanks for sharing the great tips and i am sure you will catch more fish! I am new to lure fishing so i wonder if the scent gel is a must have for flicking lures on the beach?

I just got an alvey reel which is very limited in retrieving line quickly. I would say it is much slower than an average spin reel. So I Just wondering how an alvey fisherman fight a big fish like threadfin salmon which take heaps of lines in a second. Is this the inherent weakness of design which all tackles maker know and do not make similar products ( they probably can make something similar if they want to since relevant patents expired long ago. ) what is your thought? Btw, the alvey reel i bought can not fit in my generic rods, so consider this post my vent

Just pick up a few discounted braid line from aldi for 3.99. the price is incredible but i dont know about their quality. Hope it is not too bad.

Very interesting article! I didn't know Octopus has such a dramatic end of life.I wonder if eels do the same after spawning too. Such a mystery!