last night i went for a fish in hunt for a jewie, first hook up i throught it was a soapie with i good first run and then i just looked like it let go but it did not and it was a string ray, not long later i had what i throught was weed and i reeled it in to see what i throught was a optopus but it let go and then i seen it swim pass it was a dam squid dam i wish i landed it. and then i hooked up again ( bout 2 hours later ) to a 35cm flathead then next cast i hooked up to a yakka whick i put a fillet of one a jewie rig and i seen a fish jumping and me rod was going off and i reeled in and well it jumped its way in the boat i nice 33cms trailor , was out there too about 1 in the morning

Well done mate The big jew will come for us.. If we build it, they wil come

Onya Daniel

ps] you'll know when a Jewgong hits they hit pretty hard then just whimper off in the course of the fight.

A couple of fish is not too bad...its the fun thats worth its weight in gold.....

thanks guys i went and got a jap squid jig so that next weekend i will get a few squid and set out for a jewie

Quick tip from a man who I call "Mr Port Hacking" (and for good reason!)...if fishing dead baits, fish with NO WEIGHT and with the BAIL ARM OPEN! You want the fish to run with the bait for a bit, so leave the bail arm open and let it run. Any weight added will make the fish drop the bait all together. He has landed literally thousands of Jews from the decades he's been fishing the Hacking and his PB is 62lb using this method.

Onya for getting out there though, try this method and your fish should come, that's what happened to me!

P.S. The legal size for flatties is 36cm, not 35cm. Keeping undersized fish is WRONG mate.

bait runners catch! ;) can highly reccomend the browning ones (TB30's)

Nope, I suggested that but he said that the slight amount of pressure the Baitrunners give off can sometimes cause the fish to drop the bait. He says NO resistance at all.

Very late night or early morning fishing. The stuff that dreams are made of.

Or is that the stuff that I am still dreaming of.

ewe thaks for the tips catch by the way that flathead was a sand and legal for sand is 33cms

Where bouts ya fishing dan? Ill be up there in a month and would like to get out on the hacking..

Generally fish around southwest arm, and along the ballast heaps but keen to try a few differant places.

If get the right boat will head outside maybe down south from the bommie for some kings