Awesome day off Rotto
On wednesday headed out to the back of rotto as the weather was lookin good.
First started with a troll around the containers with out much luck. Hit a patch of boats and sure enough the sambo's where on the bite. Dad used baits and he managed a few sambo's however his rig kept getting sharked. I dropped a sea-rock jig to pull my first sambo of the day. got busted off a fair few times but we managed to get a few. All sambo's where released to fight another day as they where quite big.. and all swam back down (we did have to chase after one which was on the surface.. but we managed to get him swiming strong and off he went). Nearly got pulled in by a sambo as i used my new tyrnos 50 II speed with bait and i had the drag up to high (bloody good reel, tho not suited to that style of fishin). Every plastic dropped got cut clean off at the middle of 150kg leader (im asuming sharks).
After blue juice came to join in on the action, we decided we had enough of the sambo's and moved on to try and troll tuna. after about 400m of trolling with a christmas tree and a 13cm williamson pusher, we had a double hook up. landed one.. the other got off. kept trolling and kept geting striped tuna. on one troll we hooked up big.. something bigger then the strippies maybe longtail im not sure but due to my own stupidity and bad luck once at the side, the tuna decided to head straight for the prop. after a bit more trolling i hooked another stripy and at the side of the boat dad accidently gaffed my rod tip.. snap!
on the way home stopped on some lumps in the 50's first drop produced a dhufish which was released to fight another day. All in all awsome day out on the water only kept 2 tuna's (mum makes really good canned style tuna)
Flat as:
firsts for the day:
Tuna/snapped rod:
Bodie
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looks like an awesome day on
looks like an awesome day on the water
Well done some cracking fish there!!!
HuggyB
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nice work with the sambos
I read elsewhere that Mills lost about 90 odd jigs to sharks while jigging recently - so maybe you did well to land one!!
And no good about the rod, but a perfect excuse to buy a new shiny toy!
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Northwest
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Date Joined: 06/03/08
cheers i would love a new
cheers
i would love a new rod but in the last 18 months ive spent lots $$$$ on fishing gear, and with 3 near new jig rods and another 4 near new bottom rods its hard to justify atm.
wt u reckon about the daiwa monster mesh range?, i had a look and they seem pretty gd value
HuggyB
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really good
I saw some decent fish landed on a spin model up at exmouth last year. Performed really well, although I haven't fished with one myself - just observations.....
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cudbfishn
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Monster mesh pisses on my
Monster mesh pisses on my tcurve ive got. Great for the price.
Faulkner Family
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nice day out.makes it hard
nice day out.makes it hard when the sharks come in and take the fish and your gear, gets a bit costly when using the jigs. its a bit rough when the big charter boats come in like that but at least you know they will get the sharks . pity about the rod tho
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Northwest
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Date Joined: 06/03/08
even a snapped rod couldnt
even a snapped rod couldnt spoil such a perfect day out... considering just the cost of fuel and lost tackel (paid for by dad), that on its own is about the price of rod.. so the way i look at it dats my contribution
Im wondering what sharks are out there and the numbers there in, seems to be a few around and when you have 1m of leader from the hook and 80cm gets chomped im thinkin thats a pretty big mouth!!