I'm so very sorry .... please forgive me ...

[Ian Robinson]

I suggested to my wife that I wanted to go fishing near the Pilot Station for jewfish tonight ..... true to form the rain started almost immediately I stepped out the back door to go and put the big jewie stick on the roof racks.

I am very sorry for the effect my actions have had on people on east coast (Qld and NSW) who hoped the clouds might go away tonight , but instead you've got rain and .... :sadeyes: .... it's all my fault....

[jungle11]

I suppose you were gonna wash the car too! Pathetic...:mad2:

:lol::lol:

[AstralTraveller]

Now now Ian. With all the astronomers on the east coast you can't go taking all the credit. I'm sure someone somewhere looked at an observing list or walked into an observatory.

[jjjnettie]

So much rain.....:(

[Jen]

:poke::poke:
:argue:
your forgiven Ian, only cause i live in Victoria :lol::lol:
but i think someone here in Vic has done the same thing cause its been overcast here all day :mad2: but it wont rain :doh:

[GeoffW1]

Hope your place was not damaged on Sunday.

Cheers

[Ian Robinson]

That's an idea . I'll wait for a break in the rain and back the car out and let the rain wash it for a while.:thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

Who cares about the rain did you catch a Jewie !!!!:fishing:

[garyp]

Maybe someone out there bought a new scope and is keeping very quiet about it.

[jjjnettie]

I've a new scope arriving any day now.;)

[jungle11]

What sort of scope are you getting Jeanette?

[Ian Robinson]

No .... never went .... when I was younger I didn't mind getting a wet arse and fishing in horrible weather .... I prefer not to now.

Soon as that wind dies down .... I'll be chasing them.

[TrevorW]

Best Jewie I ever caught was at the Kalbarri river mouth during stormy weather I was the only soul either stupid or brave enough to be out on a dark wet windy night fishing but it paid off !!!

[Ian Robinson]

Been there done that .... Nobby's Wall / Shark Hole / under the tower , 4m seas , blowing !!! , bucketing down , thunder and lightning all around , had a dozen yaccas that I took 3 hours to catch and the storm came up suddenly from behind me (I was facing north), I refused to leave as the shark hole had been full of mullet while I was trying to catch livebaits, so I sheltered under the tower - probably a bad idea - highest point for 2 km !!! and stuck it out for 3 hours in foul weather - 2 jew (35 lb and 60 lb) which I had to land myself - thank goodness for my shoulder harness and the anchor point (made from a bent bit of welding rod attached by under and over bindings about 12" above the alvey's winchmount and or a 14' long rangoon cane gaff). Too windy to set the rod at a angle so I layed it down on the concrete and sat next to it on my milkcrate seat).
Was pretty scarey :scared:.... but paid off .....

Was sand blasted walking back to the Nobby's Wall car park (could park just before the steep bit of road that goes up to Nobby Lighthouse then).

Been plenty of times I've been fished Nobby's or Stocko Walls , or the Pilot Station, or the Lions Park by myself all night chasing those big bronze coloured beasties , much more fun when using livebait than dead baits (ie a slab of mullet, a whole squid) , as the bait gets "excited" when there is something big and hungry hanging about , dead baits are generally clobbered with no warning - but the temptation pick up the rod and set that hook has to be resisted - lost many a good fish by being too keen to set the hook.:sadeyes:

PS my best ever jewy was a 86lb I caught one night (again on Nobbys , but this time at a spot called The Flat Rock, fished all night and never got so much as a tickle until about 3am , and I think the bait had long since died , hadn't kicked for near 30mins, and suddenly the Alvey was spinning so fast it was a burr and the ratchet screaming - what a wonderful sound !!! - so I gently palmed the back of the spool but resisted picking up the rod until the run slowed to almost a stop - I thought at the time I had actually dropped the fish , then threw the antireverse in , and sharply lifted the tip of the rod , big mistake as the fish was still hooked and it didn't like that .... caught me off balance and damn near pulled me off the rock ledge I was sitting on before I planted my feet and could lean back and give it some stick.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I got the fish up near the rocks , it was longer than me , and it looked as nackered as I was , never ever shine a torch in big fish's eyes , I did and near lost it as a result.... had to gaff it myself (stuck the rod butt in crack between two rocks , backed off the drag a tad and went for just behind the gills - hard to miss the widest part of the fish) and then once I got it out of the water (a 6 ft lift to the rock I standing on, hard enough when you are already buggered) then faced a 30ft climb back up to the top of the wall , took my hat off, stuck my hand in it and shoved my "protected" hand around the throat and lifted and dragged ... near killed me .... heart was pounding, legs and arms couldn't stop shaking .... only place big enough to keep it on ice til I could weight it and clean it and butcher it was the bathtub which it was longer than.

[TrevorW]

Wheres the picture !!! :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

I've already added it to my signature.
It's a Sky Watcher 120mm refractor.

[Ian Robinson]

At the local tackle shop last time I was there. I'm not there often - I buy my hooks, swivels, line in bulk , and make my own snapper leads.

Eventually got to the point were I no longer take photos of my big jewies and snapper. More interested in catching them, landing them, and EATING THEM.

Catch and release is BS if you ask me. So are bag limits (especially on jewie , most nights you are lucky to get a run , if I find a hot bite - I am not gonna stop catching them until I am too buggered or have run out of bait or hooks or sinkers).

[TrevorW]

I'm with you !!!