piratepom

Nice topic Southie, makes for a good read. With sporting commitments ending soon and a bit more time on my hands, I'm looking forward to just getting out land based and wetting a line , any fish are a bonus. :woohoo: The number 1 target I have is a legal size, metro, land based Snapper caught on a soft plastic. Getting close.

I was at Port Hughes for a few days early last week and it was the same over there, very quiet, no land based fish landed, that I saw, and very few squid. The very helpful guy at Moonta tackle shop mentioned there had been a bloodworm run recently, so I blamed that, and not my fishing ability. :whistle: :pinch: I did manage four squid in total but that's not much to show for the hours put in on the Jetty.

Awesome video Jack. Some top looking fish. :woohoo: Look forward to reading/watching the report on the 50+lb Mulloway, soon. :woohoo:

Sounds like Qantas are sqeezing every cent out thier customers. :evil:

Luckily i'm flying jetstar to Cairns so don't get charged per item....yet!

Just be careful with Jetstar and your rod tube length. I flew to Sydney with Virgin and had no problems with my rod tube, and flew back with Jetstar and they would not put it on the plane as it was to long for their baggage containers, my rod tube is only 7ft or 7.5ft. I ended up having to pay for it to go back to adelaide on an air courier service. :pinch: It might pay to check with Jetstar before you leave.

:pinch: :pinch: Just realised this topic is nearly 2 years old. Better late than never :whistle: :silly:

I did see one guy at the pt noarlunga jetty fishing with the jig about a metre under a float he caught a squid while i was watching but i had never seen this rig before! any thoughts on that?

Reelin this is a very common rig used on Jetties, with the jig set at a depth with a little stopper above the float so your jig sinks to the required depth. You can just leave this rig out in the water and let the swell/wave movement impart the action onto your jig to attract the squiddlies. The closer to the bottom the better, you can alter the depth by moving your stopper up or down the line. This rig can be used with a handline or rod, and you can replace the jig with a teaser Tommie or spiked Tommie.Any squidding I do is land based, and I usually move up and down the jetty/rocks stopping and casting every 5 or 10 metres to cover as much area as possible. I like to cast and let the jig sink to near the bottom and retrieve it with a lifting and sinking action, slowly, until I find a tasty Cephalopod, and then as said before if you get one there is usually more. Shallow water can be very productive. It can be great sight fishing fun :woohoo: .Good luck.

I use both, I usually prefer the Sqidgies, but my favourite soft plastics at the moment are the Berkley Powerbait Minnows and Hollow Bellys.

Nice work mayzee. :woohoo: Cracking fish, well done.

Beautiful looking Squid :woohoo: . Scary how big your fingers looks :whistle: .

Don't forget to tip guys...

If my effort last week is anything to go by, then I should forget to tip.

Is it April fools day? :whistle:

Awesome work JJ , top video and fish :woohoo: , thanks for sharing and goodluck on the quest for 1m+ Mully. :cheer:

Also its often the bigger males that are empty. My theory on this is that they are the dominant breeders and spend more time fighting and breeding than eating' date=' their smaller counterparts face facts and eat a bit more. cheers brenton[/quote']This is very similar to my theory, but I believe the crabs that are full of meat are the ones who have a drinking problem . They spend all day at the ‘Blueswimmer Hotel’, with their full meat mates, and when they eventually leave, staggering sideways, they are way too drunk to fight, they’ve got no chance of getting laid, so with those two options gone they come to the conclusion that all well pickled crabs come to “we need a kebab”, hence being stuffed full of meat. :whistle: :pinch:

Nice topic Jack, good reading.Summer started with a bang for my son and me as we were LUCKY enough to be on the crazy charter day organised by S&H member Shauno, so I caught my 1st (2nd, 3rd....) big Snapper and my 1st big Snapper on a soft plastic :woohoo: . I’ve been on the soft plastic learning curve this summer, a very steep curve and one that I’m only at the bottom of , but I have managed to land my 1st legal land based Bream, Flathead and Snook and my 1st (not legal, yet) land based Snapper, 33cms, all on a soft plastics :cheer: . Also managed to get a few feeds of Gar and Crabs. IMHO one of the best things about summer in SA is to be able to chuck in a net/rake and get a feed of Blueys, Crabs and beer the perfect combo, yum yum . So it was a good summer, lots of 1st achieved, but plenty more to keep me out fishing .

Nice fish Jack. :woohoo: Looks like 1m+ and 20lb+ to my very uneducated eyes. :pinch: If you had claimed it was 102cms and 9.1kgs(ie 20+lbs) I don't think anyone would have doubted that it was, and :c them if they did.

Looks like you've covered it UHF, nice work mate. Love that photo, :woohoo: who's the good looking young lad in the background? :silly: :dry:

Senator Wrasse?

Nice work mate. Good to see a few land based blueys being caught, they look like they're a good size. Gotta love a feed of fresh crabs. :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Nice work Jack, there's not many metro capitals that can boast the wild life that we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep, I hope they found the injured seal. Last time I was on the end of the break water there was at least 8 seals, including a few young ones, so they're doing well. :cheer:

Nice one Brenton, cheers for that.I cooked one in the webber the other day with the scales on and just peeled the skin with all the scales after cooking, work a treat. luv cooking in the webber.Cheers

Hi all,How long can you keep a whole Snapper in the freezer for? It went in on Sunday and I was hoping to keep it in there until Australia Day. Is it still going to be great to eat? Thanks for any advice.

Hi Cooki, I have just bought a Sienna 4000FD and christened it with a big snapper on a charter on the weekend and it performed like a dream, spooled with 20lb braid and 30lb leader. Like I said, I haven't had it long but so far I'd have no problems recommending this reel. Cheers.

Top work Tom. Great fish. I wouldn't mind a suprise like that. Cheers.

Nice looking fish. Your lad looks stoked with his efforts. Great work taking him out.

Beautiful fish mate, top photo, cheers.