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I got a decent pinkie at the Warmies yesterday, around 4pm (low tide was about 5pm), using pippies on a paternoster. He swallow the hook about 60 seconds before a container ship went by! It was all happening.

Hah, yeah, I don't know how lucky that bream felt while I was eating it, but I guess the quick end of a knife through the gills is better than slowly starving. the trick now is to catch another one the same way :crazy:

I got my weirdest catch on the Brighton breakwall last night. I was fishing back towards the boats, and my bomb sinker got snagged on something. Kinda felt like it was jerking around, like a fish, but it also kinda felt like it was just dragging weed. I reeled it in and my sinker had gotten tangled ...

G'day Mesi, I took the kids down to the Warmies last Friday (18 April) and got a stack of bites, but none caught. Probably says more about my abilities than anything else. Plenty of folk around me were landing pinkies, mostly under-sized, but some good ones amongst them.

Thanks fellas

Plenty of great snorkelling around Sandringham, wherever you can find a rocky reef. I regularly spot rays, pinkies and salmon sometimes, and flattys maybe one in ten times. Great fun. The fish have all been too fast for my sling so far, but with some more stalking practise, I'll get one sooner or la...

I’m new to the forum and reasonably new to fishing. Last summer, I got into snorkelling, and by now, can predictably spear a ray with my sling, and get a feed of abalone during the season. Over winter, I scored some cheap rods and hand reels, and started land-based bait fishing, usually on the Sandr...