Thanks for all the good info Cobia, sorry for not replying till now i had absolutely no signal down on the coast for some reason vvphov
A report back on how the fishing went, it was very slow and nothing noteworthy came out, caught about 5 very small grunters and 10 odd karanteen. When ever we tried targeting anything a little bigger we came up empty. early mornings went down to black rock and suicide rock in port edward (probably around 20 fisherman) and as far as I could tell the majority came up empty.
The seas were also extremely rough with some strong gusts of wind so anything besides a 7oz sinker with the wire hooks was just washed around, even these had issues sometimes.
I used a slide chokka and managed to hook something big, faught it for about 45 minutes then lost it :fswim