Kayak Noob

I was just wondering what sort of Berley you guys use, and how do you distribute it when fishing off of something like jettys, rocks and beach?

I LOVE Turton, very under-rated. Last time I went there I got a dozen squid each day off the jetty, around 2 hours before to just after sunset, once the sun went down the action stopped. if you can get on the end of the jetty cast as far as you can straight out and just slightly to the left, back towards the Point. A jerky retrieve, lots of pauses, let it sink and your nearly guaranteed a squid. I was using a 2.5g fluro japanese squid jag with an extra 1g running sinker for extra casting distance. worked a charm. If you can, the flats just to the north of the jetty all through hardwicke bay are outstandinding, a breeding ground for table species. A very generous motel owner let my borrow his rowboat, and was a fish a cast in the late afternoon. Catchs varied between salmon trout, tommies, garfish and even a small bream. Several nice big fat garfish and tommies also like to school up with the littler ones.

There a few years ago, we caught bag limits of squid from the end of the jetty, and plenty of gar and tommies. very under-rated jetty for table species.

It works for me?

I've been told pt gawler is amazing for taking the yak out from. I'm yet to try it myself its right up on my to-do list!

Saw one caught in westlakes last night. Looked small to me, but the bloke kept it. I wouldn't ave a clue if theres a minimum size on them.

Wow that was quick. Thanks that's awesome!

Hey guys, Just wondering where I casn get some fresh live worms, only place I have ever seen them is the tackleshop in POrt Adelaide by the railway bridge on Commercial road. Will it be open about 8 tomorrow? Do St Kilda Tackle have livies, as I want to head out to POrt Gawler

Never caught a bloody thing on any lure our soft .plastic... I'm obviously doing something wrong, since I've tried my heart out with the squidgy wrigglers...

The top one looks abit like my gold fish out in the pond, but with extra fins :whistle: Bottom one id definitely agree with fished out, done kind of wrasse

Are you land based? Anywhere you can find some nice flat sandy patches should be in with a shot. I think they hide on the bottom and camoflague to catch food.

Good question, I hate seeing my slightly undersize fish go belly up. I think I'll start cutting the hooks in that case. What do you recomend for a undersize garfish thats swallowed the hook?

Sorry about the shocking typos in the first one. I'm not talking out kilometres... I mean you can get snapper off the end of the outer harbour wall and wallaroo jetty right? So if i'm out a couple of hundred metres and something happens and need help getting to shore, wouldn't that be the best way to attract attention? Thanks for the links

Alright, I wasn't quite sure where to put this, so it's under general :)ZI know its a legal requirement for boats to carry flares, but surely not for a kayak. However when I get more confident out on the water, I wouldnt having a paddle and getting out to try and find some reefs and snapper spots. BUT, if something was to occur, and I lost my paddle, or capsized or whatever and im stuck, a flare would be really useful. So where can I get them from? And another thing, I heard you had to show proof you had a boating license to buy them nowadays? Is that true? If so, how do I go about getting flares?

Mine used to be a $1.95 3.0 blue/rainbow belly Jarvis walker...But lately it's been a 2.5 weird japanese/chinese thing that cost $15 in Big W. I put a 1g running sinker on it, works a charm! I'd give you the brand, but unfortunately the only English on the packet said, "Product in China", which I'd assume is a very poor translation of either 'made in', or 'product of'.

Yeah Cal, my tacklebox is a bit stinky :/Thanks guys, i chucked the worms out but I'll stick the squidgies in some oil and try them out when I get my yak

I bought a heap of soft plastics about 2 years ago including some squidgy wrigglers in bloodworm (which I've never had a bite on, yet people rave about them :pinch: )Anyway, I bought some berkley worms at the same time which dried up and disintegrated ages ago, would the Squidgy's and berkely flickbaits still be any good?

Considering this post is 2 days old, I'd dsay it's long gone. I went fishing there with a mate once... I put my rod down, went to go stick some more gents on the hook, and bang, he trips over it and kicks over the edge. I lunge for it, miss, and watch the entire rod plummet.. about a metre and stop. Then the pain from the hook, lodged in my finger :c The entire rod and reel was hanging suspended from my index finger. Needless to say I was not impressed with my mate, but at least I kept my rod :woohoo: