3 Mile Night Fishing
10/04/2014With the weather starting to turn pretty good around this time of year in the metro area myself and a couple of mates have been trying night fishing out on the 3 mile. With none of us having much experience at boat fishing when its dark we were all pretty excited to see what we could produce.Launching from ocean reef weve headed out to various different lumps on the 3 mile just picking them off the contour map. Our first trip out was a little rough and choppy and pretty quiet to start. With a couple of hours down and just a few pike and herring the morale was quickly dropping! But at around 10:30pm my mates rod started peeling line with a good 20-30meter run tjen as he struck and started to wind there was little weight and felt something swimming back to the boat as he wound in. After a couple of minutes we had colour and what an awesome colour it was!! A bright blue 6foot mako shark that swam right up to the motor still hooked and swam around for a bit before taking off like a missle with an 80 to 100meter dash before throwing himself at least 8 to 10 foot in the air about 6 times with double backflips and all! Was an awesome site to see and will definatly be in the memory bank for years to come! The same night we managed 1 size dhu of about 60cms and that was all. Since then weve been out about 4-5 times and have done pretty well with dhus, pinks, pike up to a meter long, tailor, squid and herring. It has made us all realise that you dont have to go out 20-30kms fishing in 30-40meters of water to get a good feed and with the price of fuel at the moment its a hell of alot easier on the back pocket only heading out to the 3 mile each time! Its been great fishing and weve had a ball doing it and would recommend it to anyone willing to give it a crack! Weve been in water from 5-15 meters just anchoring and burlying up with most fish, including dhuies on just a floating mulie out the back! Cant wait for the next half decent night to go explore some more! Heres a few photos of our fish from the last 3 weeks.
Cheers
opsrey
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Good report, sounds like you have it sussed.
Dazza1611
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Cool
Top effort
I am sick of going fishing. I want to go catching....
tim-o
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Wow, that mako woulda scared
Wow, that mako woulda scared the shit outa me, wouldnt want him in the boat lol. The shallow ground is more rewarding at night imo, is very enjoyable on those windless nights
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Stewart
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Good report mate, do you
Good report mate, do you guys use a reef anchor or sand anchor on the 3 mile reef? We were out there last weekend and the swell was pretty big so just decided to drift rather than anchor....
cheers,
Stewart
Timmo
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yeehah
That would of been awesome to get on tape. Yep most of my fishing is in close and have always bagged out with good captures. Don't need to travel far. Keep up the good work:)
uncle
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Nah it's crap behind the 3mile
You are better off going further out
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
tim-o
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No, youre crap
No, youre crap
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Bigbeau20
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stewart just using a reef
stewart just using a reef anchor, have tried drifting with not as much luck! uncle we plan on going deeper next time to see how we go, the 3 mile is just a good starter to get used to travelling at night etc! hopefully be back out there this wkend!!:)
Stewart
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Thanks for the info mate,
Thanks for the info mate, heading out to the 3 mile reef on Sunday to hopefully catch a few