07 - June - 2008 - Brief Report
My wife and I headed out from Albany on Saturday, after a 3 month period of non boating, so it was good to be out on the water again. With northerly winds and small swell/seas, it promised to be a good day.
The conditions allowed us to head west towards and around Eclipse Island - about 5 or so K's off the coast and 20 or so Ks west of King George Sound.
Here's us leaving Oyster Harbour, just after we logged in to Albany Sea Rescue:
Conditions where still pretty choppy and we finally approached the island:
We fished various spots around the Island and another group close by - The South West Island.
Fish caught were mainly Breaksea Cod (Black Arse), One wrasse, a scorpion fish, three buff bream and a swallow tail.
BTW, my beenie looks bigger Andy, cause I have a smaller head 
(JK mate! 
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My wife had a few reall big blighters on, one buried her in a reef and aother bust off.
Not a HUGE day by any means, but good to be out on the water!
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Glad to you were able to get out again Colin
A bit of fun for you and the missus. Hopefully your next trip out won't be so far away.
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Lets hope so
Sorry, pretty bland report I know - worn out after all the Matt, Paul and Jesse replies LOL.
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I bet it was freezing cold
I bet it was freezing cold down there too mate! Nice size black bums though, good report and well done,
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Cheers Spess - temp...
Cheers Spess - yeah, ton's of black bums down around that way - I caught my bag limit very quickly and the rest where released. Actually, the water out wide was quite warm - it was when I had to wade out to hook the boat up in the harbour that my breath was taken away.
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You should have made your deckie do that mate (lol)
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Ha Ha Col
Hmmmm good idea - nah, she wouldn't have been in it. I was the only one wearing short shorts....
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Head size
Yeah, I'll pay that one Colin.
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Not easy.....YTKs - Hang On!
Cheers - Tell you what Andy, that's quite a compliment - because my wife reckons I have a huge (physically) cranium LOL.
By Kingie's you means YTK's Andy? There have been some big ones caught, but further east. The bust offs that my wife had may have been from YTKs. I've caught a few smaller ones around there previously.
I wanted to free bait a double snelled slab down for them yesterday, but we had too many mutten birs and albatroses around the boat.
We found a spot yesterday - goes from 64m to 10m - straight up! BOY - we are SO gonna fish that spot next time! Drift a bait down that water column and hang on I reckon!
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YTKs for sure
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Will Do Andy - Ha Ha
Yeah good idea Andy - will give that a go next time. My mother had it worse - there were two of us (twins)
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Have u done some fishing
Have u done some fishing down there andy mac? i have only been out once, good family friend owns spinners charters down there. I would like to explore some more thas for sure
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Only in the Kalgan
Plus a few sorte's out from Oysters in a dingy.
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OH cool it sure looks nice
OH cool it sure looks nice thats for sure. We always ended up at either denmark or bremer bay insteed so id like to take some time off and have a look one day.
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Offshore and Oyster Leases
Spess - we covered a fair bit of ground from 30 ks East to 30 Ks West. I'm trying to alk my wife into fishing deep 100m-200m coral and bommies - but haven't had success. Spinners do well down here.
Andy, yeah, we tried around the oyster leases, but could only raise skippy, YT and herring, one flat head and a small hammer head.
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Yeah Colin we got some
Yeah Colin we got some thumper reds when we went out.
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What depth?
What depth were you fishing? Patanoster bait rigs or knifes?
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A nice read there DW.
Great and a lil exciting read there mate. Solid Foxfish too. I reckon it would of not been easy to rig up new rigs when its that cold down that way. Shaking hands and setting rigs aren't a good combination, lol.
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I was actually drift baiting
I was actually drift baiting on my 30lb outfit and getting nailed very drop. we were in about 70m by memory. Some thumper skippy and snapper where caught as well.
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Rigs
Cheers Elora - thats a King Wrasse (Coris auricularis) not a Fox Fish (Bodianus frenchii) - they look similar - but body markings, head shape, anal and caudal fins are different. As for gear - I usually have about 40 rigs of various configs made up - makes it easy and more time fishing.
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Drift Baiting
Certainly the way to go...just so many more opporunities in the water column.
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Arhhh then there will be no
Arhhh then there will be no problems with rigging. 40 rigs is alot, I don't I have patience to tie all 40. Maybe 5 will do me, LOL. But as for that I've never been out on a boat and fished.
p.s: thanks for correcting me about the Fox Fish. I learnt something new already!
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Pleasure Darda
No worries Darda - easy to get them mix up - we've caught a lot of both species - so easy to tell the difference.
I've learn't too - much easier setting rigs and wind ons etc at a study desk that in a choppy sea (and rolling and pitching deck).
It's amazing how many rigs you can go through.
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with the heading brief
with the heading brief report i thought you were giving us a underwear update, lukily i was wrong
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LMAO Matty
Missed your humour mate - ya NOONG!
You'll be giving people night mares - and stop thinking about my underwear - it's making me nervous. 
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hahaha nervous was when i
hahaha
nervous was when i started viewing the pics, atleast you got out and got some fish after 3 long months
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Yeah Matt
Not in the league with you guys - but great fun anyway!
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Sorry to butt into the thread Colin, but I am intertested in
Andy's comment about pipis. I wonder if they are the same pipis that you dig out of the sand on the eastern State beaches. If so, they are fantastic bream bait and great to eat. Do you get them on the beaches around Albany?
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Hey no probs # 1 - Andy?
I missed that comment, so I'll be interested in the answer.
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I have started a new thread Colin
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I cottoned on..
I cottoned on.
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yeah same pippis from what i
yeah same pippis from what i know, very popular in S.A thats where we used to get ours for whiting bait in port philip bay
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LOL
Cotton just broke
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They are great to eat - better than mussels IMO
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Good to see
Good to see you back on the water #2, bit of bad luck on the fish front, but there's always next time!
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Cheers Adam!
Cheers Adam - well plenty of black bums - I caught 6, (overcatch realeased!
), the swallow tail and the King Wrasse and Sandra caught one (really good) black bum - so we got a feed. Shame we didn't get into some big stuff. As you say, there's always next time!
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