First NIGHT FISHING Trip In STABI On BOTANY BAY
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- well its Official like a Referee Whistle... this is my very first Time Taking the Boat out on the water for a Night Session been curious and a little scared to give a go but you have to just jump in and do things or you never will...Turned out wasn't as daunting as I imagined .... enjoy #nightfishbotanybay #stabinightfishing
Great video mate.
I used to do this when I was younger but being partially disabled now I can only watch you do it and reminisce.
Thanks mate , its not lost on me how lucky am to be able to fish like this until i cant anymore..so i hope it helps you reminisce of the good times fishing 🎣 can bring
Next time you’re fishing around the bridges,try a bit bigger of a hardbody around 80-100mm casting along the light shadow lines.might get lucky with a smelly silver slab.with that amount of choppers around,surely would’ve been some jewfish sitting underneath them.btw keep up the great work Jade,really enjoy your videos 👍🎣🐟
Ooo yeah now were talkn , yeah I’ll definitely mix it up as i go along a sneaky jewy would be great .glad u enjoying mate
Had a great time, Thanks bro. Next time we will land a monster....
Me too brutha no doubt only matter of time
Beautiful boat mate. See you around Botany!
Ooo yeah !
Some tips for fishing at night. !!
As someone else mentioned get rid of the lights, particularly the bright blue squid lights at the back. Those are for catching squid and prawns, not for catching fish. I've fished a lot at night for over 55 years and from a little kid, I was always taught to use the bare minimum amount of light you can get away with and to keep the lights out of the water, until you're about to land a fish. Keep the head torches off and only turn them on as you're about to land a fish. You both had head torches running continuously and you had Botany Bay lit up like Luna Park ! Botany Bay is pretty bright at the best of times, but on a dark waterway like Cowan Creek, where I have fished hundreds of times at night, once your eyes become dark adapted at night you can almost see in the dark without a light anyway.
When fishing near a lit up bridge like that regardless of the waterway, get the boat into the shadow of the bridge. That way the boat doesn't cast underwater shadows. Doesn't matter too much whether your casting into the shadows or lit up areas with either bait or lures, but getting the boat into a position where it doesn't cast underwater shadows is pretty important and moreso in shallower water. I used to fish a lot at night for bream under the Windang Bridge 40 years ago in less than 1 metre of water, with live squirt worms. It was pretty important in that situation. Meant the difference between a dozen 1 kg bream, or no fish!
Good luck on your next trip !
youre one of those people that the car scene people call 'sleepers', just a quiet bloke, but when you say something, you know its the real deal.
anymore knowlegde youre willing to drop on us fishing sage? what part of the tide is the best time to fish? the start of the run out? the end of the run out? the start of the run in? the end of the run in?
Cheers mate alot to marinate over …im a man of few words 😂 but definitely read and taking it in
@@lilkevo88 Well the tides can be a complete lottery. There are some spots that fish better on the top or bottom of the tide and there are some spots that fish better on the run in or run out. In my younger years when I lived in Sydney, I used to fish Port Hacking a lot for bream on the flats near the Ballast Heap at night. I always preferred to fish that on the last 2 hours of the run in with high tide about 3 hours after sunset and throwing live nippers, with no sinker, up close to the rocks and oysters. Used 4lb line and got a lot of big bream over many years. Anchored up and burleyed hard with a mix of boiled wheat, bran and tuna oil. Just about every fish we caught had a belly full of wheat pellets. We lost quite a few on the bricks, but that's the payoff for more hookups. I'd rather hook 10 and land 7, than hook 2 and land 2. I also used to fish Cowan Creek a lot at night for bream, hairtail and jew. Didn't get that many jew, but got a lot of bream and hairtail. I found the tide didn't matter so much up there because generally you were fishing pretty deep water and regardless of how big the tide run was, there wasn't a lot of run in the water up there. Conversely it runs about 6 knots under the rip bridge on a big tide run. I've seen 12 foot tinnies with small outboards going backwards when they get near the rip bridge in the middle of the channel. At some point they then work out that they need to go the side out of the main current run.
I live at Shoalhaven Heads now and notwithstanding the river is only 800 metres away, most of my fishing is close offshore for snapper and flathead, where the tide doesn't matter so much. Although I've found that when I'm fishing just South of the river mouth it's easier fishing when the tide is running into the river, as you can fish lighter and if I'm drifting you also drift slower. It doesn't necessarily change the amount of fish you catch, but it's a bit easier fishing. If it's too lumpy offshore I have a couple of spots I fish in the river. One fishes well on the run in towards the top of the tide. The other is a drain out from a creek into the main river and it fishes well for the first 2 hours of the run out tide.
A couple of generalisations:-
The lighter you can fish in terms of sinker weight, lure weight and line breaking strain the better. I fish offshore for snapper with 20lb braid and 20lb flouro leader on a 4000 size eggbeater. If I'm drifting I use either a 3oz or 4oz sinker. If I'm anchored and burleying, I use sometimes no sinker, or a 1/2 oz, or a 1oz sinker. Water depth is ~ 30 metres. Where I fish isn't too snaggy so I can get away with that. You do get busted up by a decent kingfish from time to time, but I prefer eating snapper to kingfish, so that doesn't worry me. I'd rather land more snapper and lose the odd kingfish. In the old days we used to use 40lb mono on 7.25" Alveys. It was like fishing with electrical cable and we didn't get as many fish. You also needed much heavier sinkers because of the extra water drag on the line. When I fish in the river and likely to catch a decent lizard, I generally use 8lb braid and 10lb leader. If I'm fishing specifically for bream, I use 6lb braid and 6lb leader.
If you're going to anchor or spot lock the boat, burley always helps. I generally use chicken pellets + raw bran + old pilchards and slimy mackerel from previous trips (or any other fish frames or scraps) + tuna oil + aniseed oil. It was illegal to use aniseed oil when I was younger, but you've been allowed to use it for many years now. When I'm anchored offshore I find the burley brings the bait around mid water to the surface, with the larger fish underneath them. I'll generally catch a few slimeys and yellowtail, then put the fillets down towards the bottom for the pinkies, which will also come up to midwater. Occasionally I'll throw a live bait down, but not that often these days, as I always fish for the table and my preference is pinkies in the 40cm to 60cm range. I'm not really looking for 1 metre kings. That was 30 years ago, but of course you do hook the odd one on a fillet bait.
People generally plan their fishing outings around the weather and their personal lives, not the size of the tide, but I've found a small run tide often fishes better and is much easier fishing than a big run tide. Like if it's running from .6 metres up to 1.1 metres it's a lot easier than .3 metres up to 1.8 metres. That might possibly be due to the fact you can fish a lot lighter in terms of sinker weight, but it definitely makes for easier fishing. I have one spot in the river that I only fish for about 20 minutes right on the tide change. Doesn't matter which tide change, as its deep water (about 18 metres); but outside of slack water it runs too hard to fish. It's a huge deep hole that's about 100metres long and 40 metres wide and it drops from about 8 metres to 19 metres.
The most important thing to remember with fishing is that you are always learning and no matter how much you think you know, there's always someone that can give you a tip that might help you. Locals in particular. I've lived down here for about 10 years and only learned last year, why I got less snapper in winter compared to summer, fishing my usual closer in spots in 30 metres of water. A mate who has lived here all his life said that I needed to go wider and deeper in the winter. He said get out to a few of the known spots in 70 plus metres of water in the winter. That wasn't my initial preference, as it's a lot harder fishing in 70 metres, than it is in 30 metres and it also chews a lot more juice getting out there, but guess where the pinkies were !
Good Luck !!
@@nautijade3318 I very much enjoy your videos. They've always got that nice light hearted touch to them and clearly you love fishing !!
@@JohnBambury-fi2um a great breakdown of info mate …Its a unique sport this thing called fishing, its not like a football field or basketball court or anything else the terrain , tides, wind , sand and everything else in between are constantly changing thats what i love about it what was working one day for a spot may not be the next in a different location.Thanks for the Tips I try and take it on from everyone that comments and will eventually crack it …im bit hard headed and like to learn the hard way but will always try . Thanks again
Mate, those lamb chops looked excellent.
If you could taste em …Delicious!
get a rode mic and attach it to ur recording device it will muffle out the wind and make audio way better
Tru
Nice video, give Parramatta River a go if you haven't already under gladesville bridge, very well known and I used to do quite well out there
Is that before you found out about the Dioxin in the fish lol.
@grimreaper6112 catch and release is fine, and jewwies can move around quite a bit, so just cause you catch one at a certain place doesn't guarantee that it hasn't been through the Parramatta River. Anyway not here to argue with anyone just sharing where I caught fish when I used to fish.
@@nath84xx I grew up in North Ryde near the RSL and i used to fish the Lane Cove River alot and eaten thousands of fish out of there and i didnt know anything about Dioxin back then but have got no health problems that i know of.
Maybe a future session is in stall see how we go ..heard the hairtail are there sometimes too
@nautijade3318 good luck mate, I've heard about the hair tail too.. fresh squid Is the go if you do go for jewwies although my mate caught one on a prawn once set up for bream was a great sight. I've caught most of them on the incoming tide about 1 hour in, I also preferred tides that were not too full on with not alot of current, but this is what worked for me, others may have different things. Again just sharing what worked for me, have not been out there for years though
Those lamb chops look next level bro 🤙
Forget the bay at night, and you will do better on the smaller tides around 1st quarter for Jew.
They do feed harder on the slack during big tides, but the bite window is smaller.
Im still new in that boat but trying take it all in ..aswell sometimes can only get out when i get out too
Wish everyone could taste these steaks and cutlets …out of this world
@@nautijade3318 maybe you should start a new channel bro called Nauti jades windy cooking adventures.
@@adzoutnabout888😂
Maybe even a windy donut 🍩 van
I gave you a couple spot's in the hacking have u tried those?
Look for the contour drop off's in the bay off the runways and drift those for flatties 👍
Wind permitting yeah will definitely be doing some drifts .. youll have to refresh me of hacking spots im a bit of a goldfish
As Faruk would say- In Beirut, plane fly overhead drop bomb. I like this plane much better.
Seagull's most definitely do get their legs bitten off in feeding frenzy's
I know Id eat a tasy seagull leg if I was a chopper !
Bro ya should try fishing Parsley Bay boat ramp the rock wall that runs off it. You can fish both sides of the boat ramp. Seen people clean up there. Jews big flatties.
Just been checking ramp on map looks like a good spot to launch in the future
@@nautijade3318 yeah awesome ramp. I launch all my boat's there 385 tinnie to my 7m Reef Runner. Good east run to from my place at East Hills. Henry Lawson dr to Woodville road then on to Parramatta Rd turn onto james ruse dr the pennant hills road then north connex straight there. Takes about an hour towing 3 Tonne.
Fish into the bridge with your baits turn lights off in the water turn sounder off ... nice steaks tho
Yep, fish into the bridge and heavier sinkers to keep the livies down.
Sometimes a butterflied yakka works better than a livey.
Yeah ill give more attention to that stuff as i fish on for sure !
Tasty tasty 🥩….
I’m sure I was there that morning at that bay ,, I should of said hello , living in my car i was feeling like shit and sore but if u happened to hook up something big I’d be straight out with a net
All have shitty dats brutha , no probs can come say hi if see me again
I met you here you were land based at the docks as i was leaving
How long ago ..recently?
@@nautijade3318 a couple weeks ago i walked past you and asked if you had a youtube and you told me down at the docks
I love stabies and think they are the best boats around, but watching you leave the bridge and head out in no so bad conditions seems like its a wet ride, id thought there would be no water coming over the bow for that kind of boat. is there a reason why? appreaciate your videos thought mate! always love watching them.
are you trimming the motor up when in plane?
Glad you are enjoying.. its a great boat the video is heavily edited to give you the best bits of footage the canera did not do the wind and water justice was like a wind washing machine out there . The spray comes over with the wind and not going very fast just the way it goes sometimes
It can hit the plane pretty quick but is an open boat a half cabin would deflect those waves but I sacrifice casting platform then
@@nautijade3318 do you trim your motor up once you're on the plane?
@@lilkevo88 yeah mate ..just not when its too sloppy we were travelling very slow around the bay that day
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