Augusta Boys trip
Spent the weekend down south with a few of the boys, with the plan to do a little 4WDing, some drinking and hopefully get out for a fish if the weather allowed.
We stayed at Hamelin bay caravan park, but really didn't think it would be possible to launch the boat there this time of year, and we were right with the water being so low would have pretty much had to put the trailer and car onto the sand. So it was to Augusta to launch and try out from there.
I've not fished Augusta from a boat before so was all new to me. Saturday looked good on the weather front, except a 3.5m swell but none the less we gave it a run. First idea was to try head out about 11 mile to some ground I could see on the GPS. out we went at about 18 knots and the further we got the bigger the swell got. Once we got out there had a bit of a sound around and a drop or two. The ground was covered in bait but nothing more.
It didn't take long for a couple of the boys to start to feel average and with the depth changing by 7.5m from top to bottom of the swell, decision was made to head back in closer.
Turned out to be an awesome decision, with about 4 hours of just hot fishing in only 10m of water!
It was back to basics fishing, small bean sinker and an 8'o hook with a pinned Mulie or Californian squid and just drift baiting in the current. Pictures below show you don't need to make fishing complicated.
First drop and here s the result.
Yellow tail king fish!! probably 6-8 kilo. The main reason we were fishing single 8'o and bean sinker was for this purpose, I thought the ground we were fishing looked very YTK type ground. The rod you can see in the back ground that Scano is on, ended up being a double header of YTK's about the same size.
After this is was literally fish every drop and the variety and size was a big surprise. we ended up with 7 or 8 YTK's from 6-10 kilo and countless lost, 1 legal Dhu (in 10m of water!) a nice Harlequin, 2 big 55-60cm flatties, 4 Pinky's, and a number of Sambo's in the range of 7-12 kilo. Countless unstoppable's as well. Many fish busted us up in the reefs, bloody funny to watch!
And then there was this on the last drop of the day. This one hurt, probably 20 minute fight in 10 meters of water.
Palming the spool on the Saltiga
Biggest sambo to date I've caught, guess on size?
Ended up being a cracker of a weekend away with the boys, the fish just a bonus.
Bodie
Rig
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sashimi
YTK awesome sashimi
beau
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Did you throw any lures at
Did you throw any lures at them Bodie?! Absolutely drooling at the though of stickbaiting and popping them!
Bodie
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Nah no lures, didnt even take
Nah no lures, didnt even take my plastics bag with me or I would have been onto it with plastics.
Beau, we were getting monstered on PE 5 :) unstoppable freight trains
beau
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That's awesome Bodes! I've
That's awesome Bodes! I've set myself up with some pe6 surface gear for the same species but for up here, only had a couple casts so far.
Sounds like an epic session though, thats my kind of fishing.
Tim-o, lets go!
tim-o
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Awesome
Wicked inshore action! That sambo looks like it swallowed one of them kings!
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
sea-kem
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Phuck yeahhh!!!
Phuck yeahhh!!!
Edit, hope that wasn't the same Corona in every pic :P
Love the West!
Hutch
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Sweet trip, the arms must've
Sweet trip, the arms must've been a bit longer after that sambo
jakjackson
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good fish there, nice work
good fish there, nice work
scano
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Cracker of a weekend
It was good to get away on a quick boys trip. It was just a bonus we got such good fishing in whilst we were down there.
if some people reckon sambo's go hard in 50+ m of water, you should try then in the shallows. It was awesome fun!!
definately on the cards to do again in the future.
scano
beau
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Whats the ramp like Bodie?
Whats the ramp like Bodie? Beach launch?
Bodie
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Ramp was pretty good, it's
Ramp was pretty good, it's shallow so I was brushing sand but all good. I think and easterly, south easterly the ramp wouldn't be that much fun
has a jetty and concrete ramp
Seaquest
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Good stuff mate. Those kings
Good stuff mate. Those kings would have gone off. Can't wait to get down there myself as it's just on my door step. How's the new marine going?
Bodie
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New Marina looks ok,
New Marina looks ok, apparently on schedule for November.
Should bring a lot more people down that way and bigger boats.