Bare Rock Sailfish action
Submitted by Juiced Up on Mon, 2012-02-27 13:04
Went out on Saturday with 2 mates chasing billfish. Had a great day, ended up catching 2 each (5 Sails and 1 Marlin). We trolled about 6 miles west of Bare Rock but the action was non existant until we came across a 'Bait Ball' (Hadnt heard of one of these before - pretty cool on the sounder) which resulted in a triple hook up, all of which were landed. Ended up losing a few more before we hooked the Marlin which took about 2 hours (and 3 miles!) to subdue. Luckily the Bait Ball hadn't moved and we were soon on again - the action was non stop!
Only had the Phone, so sorry for the poor quality of the pic.
It was great fun, but its Red emperor time again I think!
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pale ale
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Excellent to run into a
Excellent to run into a baitball like that. Did the bait come to the surface, or only visible on the sounder?
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Sounder mainly
Gday Pale Ale, nothing on the surface at all, just on the sounder.
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that saily is lit up well.
that saily is lit up well. sounds like an awesome day was had. one to remember. but landing 3 from a tripple hookup would have been chaos on the boat. well done guys
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Landing 3 from a triple is
Landing 3 from a triple is incredible going. Great work!
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Wow I've heard it's starting
Wow I've heard it's starting to fire up down that way, great post and cheers for the Info juiced up, sounds like your getting the wood on the local fishing matey.
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Awesome
Happy days. Great fishing to land a triple hook-up. Very nice.
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Nice one, what part of the
Nice one, what part of the coast is this off? What marlin and how big was he, must av been nearly dead after 2 hours, both ends of the line
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Bare rock is off the Dampier
Bare rock is off the Dampier Archipelago.
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Gday Tim-o. We werent sure on
Gday Tim-o. We werent sure on what type of marlin it was. It had very bright blue stripes down the side and a pretty high dorsal fin, but was pretty dark on top. The bill was longer than the sails of the same size, I havent looked it up on the net or anything as I was just happy to get it in! (But if anyone has any idea, it would be appreciated.)
It still had plenty of go in it, unlike me, those Tiagra 50's get heavy after a while with no harness!
Also, there was a big Blue ally with something written down the side out there as well and it looked like he was getting into them too. It actually looked like they were spotting them from the roof!
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Pics
Did you get any pics of the marlin?
Good effort on the day.
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sounds like a stripey but
sounds like a stripey but that would be incredibly rare off Dampier...
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George Popa got a stripey
George Popa got a stripey last year confirmed.
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I to can confirm that Mick
And he doesnt stop talking about it. Lisa also confirmed that it was a stripey.
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Good work, my mate went out
Good work, my mate went out with a dude he works with in a blue ally, think he has a tuna tower on it too. were they trawling for billys to or diving?
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Gday Bigalow, nothing gets
Gday Bigalow, nothing gets past you! - I think they were diving on another bait ball initially and it looked like they got a Billy on the spear as they pulled it over the side and bled it (we passed the area they were in on the way back from geting the marlin and saw the ball they were on), but then they trolled around like we had been doing and they were catching them and releasing them (Maybe tagging them?). We left them there as we couldnt be motivated to fight anymore (Too bloody hot!)
They had some pretty impressive game outfits from what we could see and knew how to use them. I suppose with the amount of work up here, eventually there is going to be people who know how to catch fish better than the locals! Hopefully some more fishing grounds/species can be opened up in the future! What do you reckon?
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Spearing and bleeding
Spearing and bleeding billfish, that's terrible I hope that bloke in the big blue boat chokes on it.
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From what Ive heard, the
From what Ive heard, the bloke in the big blue boat doesnt have a Gag reflex - doesnt choke on anything. I think his nickname is Linda Lovelace
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Echoings there of Picture
Echoings there of Picture Perfect, jeez I miss her.
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Onto you D
Cheers for the heads up Fellas, knew there was plenty of bait out there, now my thoughts are confirmed.
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unreal mate! sounds like a
unreal mate! sounds like a good day
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Awesome, spewing i towed the
Awesome, spewing i towed the boat home
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great photo!
great photo!
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Great effort
Not the usual area you get the billies. West off bare rock and towards west reef more known for BBashing and mackies. Great to hear off sails and other stickfaces in that area. Would be interested to know whats happening at the ships ATM.
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