Hey all just spent 5 days (Mon to Fri) on Port Hacking for a fishing trip with my school. We ran various boats off houseboats to run around the place and catch different species and what an assortment we caught indeed! Plenty of fish including kings, jews, whiting, flatties, leatherjackets and trevs to name a few.

My fish of the trip was my 74cm kingfish but was out done by one of the teachers (we call him Hatts) who is a PH nut and he scored an 86cm specimen about 10 minutes prior to mine. That was on Tuesday and the kings were biting their heads off that day. One was caught on Monday by Hatts and that one went 77cm. I think all up around 7 or 8 were caught between everybody. They were all biting well up in the river too.

We also ended up with 3 jews on the trip to about 3kg. The biggest went again to Hatts. I couldn't manage a jew myself but practically landed one of the jews for one of the students who is a hopeless fisherman. He hooked it but his pump and wind consisted of lifting and not winding in the slack so he kept giving it loose line and winding when the drag was going off so I showed him how to do it and he only wanted the fish back once we saw colour and all the work was done.

Whiting were huge on the trip, plenty over 35cm and I think 3 were pushing 45cm. There were birds around Miainbar in the mornings but we only got one salmon there, two were caught in total. Biggest whiting went about 45cm and was caught by one of the students who is a very good fisho.

Squid were very prolific. One teacher managed a total of 16 over the trip on ONE jig. The squid couldn't resist it. I managed two for the trip, both on cheapie jigs but the better and more expensive jigs were getting more and better squid.

The highlights were the kings and whiting. I didn't get a whiting myself but people who did would have been disappointed if it wasn't at least 30cm or over. That's how common the biguns were. Very happy with my PB kingfish though.

Absentees for the trip were tailor, bream and blackies. We did end up with a few bream and one legal tailor but they were no where near as thick as they were the previous year, especially the tailor. Not one blackie was caught.

I had a good trip, the king was a highlight and I was also the best bait catcher in the group as I easily out classed everyone else in the pillie department. They were only taking bait jigs on Thursday and Friday but I also got them on bait on Wednesday. Full bait jigs were pretty common for me and I lost count of how many I ended up getting. I'd say over 40 would be conservative. I was the MASTER-BAITER!

Dan, I bet your jealous aren't ya.

Alex

P.S. Will post some pics when I get them.

Good going catchnrelease. Did you in fact release the fish?

Nice report C'N'R.. I'd love a week fishing instead of work/school ect.

I just hope that all those fish were released

Well done.
What kind of bloody school goes on fishing trips!!
I got ripped off!

Yeh Salty.. My Brother used to go on one in Mooney Mooney. Lucky buggers

I tried to release the king but it was not in good nick. After a few futile attempts to swim it back to health I decided to cut my loses and eat it for sashimi the following night. It was delicious. Pillies do not release well period. They ended up as bait along with a few yakkas and my lone gar.

Everything else was released.

When I clicked on View New Posts & saw this

5 Days On Ph

Struth I thought googlefush had a sex change & had just spent 5 days on the Phone

Instead I find out he was Girly Fushing for Kungy's in Pt hacking sporting his new handbag



Obviously you didn't try hard enough did you ???

Onya Googlefush sounds like a fun week on the phone !

Thats terrible news on the kingi CNR. Kingi fillets are much better than sashimi

No chance. We had another one cooked up and the sashimi was far more popular.

thats a great report c&r where did you catch the bait mr baitmaster
and did you use nippers
and what bait did the king/jew take
sorry for all these question but you would have learnt so much by spending a week on the hacking
and congratts on your p.b king

We used nippers a lot to catch most species. Fresh squid was used for kings and jews. Pillies can be found everywhere west of Lilli Pilli. Look for the bust ups and then try bait jigs. If they won't take jigs then you'll need to burley them up and use bait.

They got Gogglefush to dress up as a Queen

He's a natural

Where's dan?

I wish my school did similar!
congratluations on your captures!

Here are some pics. Sorry rummy but the pics don't show as much background as I'd hoped.

Don't get too many squid these days. Was happy with any as I often have a hard time getting them.


My kingy.


Myself and Hatts holding our kings.


Hatts with his jew.

Have to know where to find them in the phone

There's weed on rock under you in that pic all along that area is the same & no shortage of the squiddy 1's

Also a few places you can walk along the sand & get them without the use of a boat if you know where the weed beds are

Well done on your fishing.

One week of fishing instead of school. What sort of project related school work was this?

nice i was out on PH yesterday great day out....almost (another story)

Which section contains that story??

jack

Its ok catch, I know exactly where you are, mate with a dive charter boat on PH went and sounded the area today ;)

thanks ;)

He actually lives just across from there.

school fishing trips, we were lucky to get fish fingers for lunch!

Welldone looks like a cracking week

What school you at Catch?

Trinity