Tops feeds in Sydney

[horrie hastings]

You need to hook up direct and stop buying crap from the middle man...

Used to get them straight off the rocks at Evans Head back in the 80s , yummo and the odd time I would put one on a hook with the hand line and pull in a hungry bream.Oysters and bream made a great little feed.

[Guest]

Overall I think the south coast produce the best Sydney rock oysters, the ones from Merimbula are just exquisite, northcoast the Nambucca ones are good.Got a very good deal last time when I was at the markets, bought some prawns and in the end didn't get charged for 2 dozens oysters, I really enjoyed those slippery little suckers that day

Your buying the 2nds mate.. I can hook you up if you want the best..

[Guest]

Used to get them straight off the rocks at Evans Head back in the 80s , yummo and the odd time I would put one on a hook with the hand line and pull in a hungry bream.Oysters and bream made a great little feed.

Sweet. My dad had me plucking them off the South coast/ bobbin head rocks and pillons in the 70's.. I have been a Sydney Rock Oyster hunter ever since..

[horrie hastings]

Your buying the 2nds mate.. I can hook you up if you want the best..

Those seconds were pretty good especially for the price
Last time staying up at Grassy Head went to the little place at Stuarts Point which sells seafood a couple of days a week, got some king prawns which were pretty decent and some oysters from Rainbow reach near South West Rocks, the first time I have had them from there, quite good, Rainbow reach has usually been closed generally from floods the few times before I had been up there

[Guest]

Those seconds were pretty good especially for the price
Last time staying up at Grassy Head went to the little place at Stuarts Point which sells seafood a couple of days a week, got some king prawns which were pretty decent and some oysters from Rainbow reach near South West Rocks, the first time I have had them from there, quite good, Rainbow reach has usually been closed generally from floods the few times before I had been up there

Sounds great mate..

[horrie hastings]

It was good how a few of the oysters from Evans Head would end up on the hook and end up as a bream dinner, the bream would virtually be at your feet while you were getting the oysters off the rocks, you only had to throw the line about a foot in front of you to get a nice feed.

[Guest]

It was good how a few of the oysters from Evans Head would end up on the hook and end up as a bream dinner, the bream would virtually be at your feet while you were getting the oysters off the rocks, you only had to throw the line about a foot in front of you to get a nice feed.

Mate, I love Bream they are very underrated.. sounds like you had the best of both..

[horrie hastings]

Mate, I love Bream they are very underrated.. sounds like you had the best of both..

Mate give a plate sized bream over a plate sized snapper any day, the bream wins hands down.Snapper is a good eating fish but only when it gets a bit bigger, the plate sized ones which turn up on most menus are rubbish, the fillets of a bigger fish are better eating but a whole bream of 25-32 cms is a delight to eat, beautiful meat, not overally sweet, just nice and fresh

[Guest]

Mate give a plate sized bream over a plate sized snapper any day, the bream wins hands down.Snapper is a good eating fish but only when it gets a bit bigger, the plate sized ones which turn up on most menus are rubbish, the fillets of a bigger fish are better eating but a whole bream of 25-32 cms is a delight to eat, beautiful meat, not overally sweet, just nice and fresh

You got me mate..

[horrie hastings]

You got me mate..

One of the oddities I used to catch in the harbour over the years while fishing for leather jackets and bream were goat fish, they look very similar and sometimes marketed as red mullet at the fish markets or even sometimes barbounia, such a great looking fish I would usually return them to the water but kept one one day which has swallowed the hook and it was one of the nicest fish I had even eaten so the odd times when I catch one now I keep them, beautiful just grilled.Talking about nice eating fish the fan bellied leatherjackets I catch at my spot in the harbour are pretty good too, most of them are around 33-38cms so even when cleaned they are a top meal and so meaty.

[Guest]

One of the oddities I used to catch in the harbour over the years while fishing for leather jackets and bream were goat fish, they look very similar and sometimes marketed as red mullet at the fish markets or even sometimes barbounia, such a great looking fish I would usually return them to the water but kept one one day which has swallowed the hook and it was one of the nicest fish I had even eaten so the odd times when I catch one now I keep them, beautiful just grilled.Talking about nice eating fish the fan bellied leatherjackets I catch at my spot in the harbour are pretty good too, most of them are around 33-38cms so even when cleaned they are a top meal and so meaty.

Sounds beautiful mate.. thats living!

[SConcierge]

One of the oddities I used to catch in the harbour over the years while fishing for leather jackets and bream were goat fish, they look very similar and sometimes marketed as red mullet at the fish markets or even sometimes barbounia, such a great looking fish I would usually return them to the water but kept one one day which has swallowed the hook and it was one of the nicest fish I had even eaten so the odd times when I catch one now I keep them, beautiful just grilled.Talking about nice eating fish the fan bellied leatherjackets I catch at my spot in the harbour are pretty good too, most of them are around 33-38cms so even when cleaned they are a top meal and so meaty.

The only porb with Barbounia is they have a thousands tiny bones

[horrie hastings]

Sounds beautiful mate.. thats living!

I love eating fish and usually catch most of mine, I hate paying overs for fish I can catch for peanuts, unfortunately have not done much fishing over the last few years, I hope to remedy that again soon, the good thing about the leatherjackets most trips would catch between 4-12, sometimes more, then a couple of bream and /or flathead and you could put some in the freezer and have fish at least once a week during the winter months when the fishing slows down.Need to get my fishing mojo back, used to enjoy a nice half day out on the water and getting the bonus of a nice meal from it also.

[horrie hastings]

The only porb with Barbounia is they have a thousands tiny bones

The barbounia I see at the markets and down at Marrickville Metro sometimes would be lucky to be 3 to 4 inches long, would love to know how they get a feed out of them.The ones I have kept are usually around the 10 inch mark so have a bit of meat on them, they don't seem to get much bigger than that, the biggest one I had hooked was 12 inches in the old scale or 30 cm.

[SConcierge]

I love eating fish and usually catch most of mine, I hate paying overs for fish I can catch for peanuts, unfortunately have not done much fishing over the last few years, I hope to remedy that again soon, the good thing about the leatherjackets most trips would catch between 4-12, sometimes more, then a couple of bream and /or flathead and you could put some in the freezer and have fish at least once a week during the winter months when the fishing slows down.Need to get my fishing mojo back, used to enjoy a nice half day out on the water and getting the bonus of a nice meal from it also.

What do u use for bait for the leather jacks

The barbounia I see at the markets and down at Marrickville Metro sometimes would be lucky to be 3 to 4 inches long, would love to know how they get a feed out of them.The ones I have kept are usually around the 10 inch mark so have a bit of meat on them, they don't seem to get much bigger than that, the biggest one I had hooked was 12 inches in the old scale or 30 cm.

I have never seen them here its like the premier fish in greece and italy