Big Day.
Saturday 31st I had the pleasure of getting back out with my mate Dean (Dirt) on his boat ONSTRIKE, leaving Woodies boat ramp at 5.30am, the plan was to head out wide to the fads, get set up with the big gear and see if we could raise a Marlin. With the highest water temp we could find being around 22.7 degrees we both felt our chances were slim but continued with optimism. It was nice to see ONSTRIKE set up with her outriggers and the teasers and skirts set again, bought back the memories of our trip to Exmouth back in 2008 where I caught my first Marlin. We covered around 40 miles trolling the skirts and no billies, it was time to derig and put the big gear away. Now in almost glassed off conditions and since we were sitting right on the PGF fad we decided to get out the light gear and see if we could hook some Dolphin fish. First cast at the fad with a McArthy Bullhead Minnow Pink/Pearl, a couple of winds of the reel and I was onto my first Dollie. What an awesome fight on the bream gear to see the fish light up in the water, do its arials and to see its mates cruising around with him while hooked, and in close to the boat see another Dolphin fish, slightly bigger, trying to take the soft plastic from its mouth. Unfortunately they went quiet after that.
So then it was time to put plan two into action and off to the west end of Rotto to see if we could pick up a Mackie or two. Trolled around the west end a couple of times and then around to Parker Point, no luck here either. By this time it was around 4pm and time to put plan three into action.
Off to my favourite Snapper spot in Cockburn Sound and got anchored up. My mate Dean was a bit sceptical of my spot but after about 40 minutes he had his first fish on, which when he got up to the boat, turned out to be a nice sized gummy shark. Dean rebaited and set his line again while I was processing the gummy shark, next thing he was on again, this time showing definite head shake on the rod tip, and eventually bringing in a 60cm plus Pinky to the net. It didn't seem that long before he had his next fish on. This fish was giving him some stick, big runs and big head shakes and really testing out the light gear he was using. Finally though a cracking 85cm Pinky surfaced alongside the boat much to his surprise. Unfortunately i had no luck with the Pinkys but the thrill of my day was to boat my first Dolly. It was a big day in that we got to do 4 different styles of our favourite fishing.
Cheers again Dean, great day!!
Paul 
dkonig82
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Sounds like a cracker of a
Sounds like a cracker of a day!
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n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
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Dirt
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Was my pleasure
Was my pleasure De-crais,It was great to catch up again
beau
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Wow those snapper in the
Wow those snapper in the sound are impressive! Nice work!
Tim
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Nice
Nice work guys. Sounds like a great day out.
Faulkner Family
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altho no luck in the
altho no luck in the trolling side it came good in the end. nice dolly for your first and to finish with 2 nice pinks would have been a bonus. well done
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scottland
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nice fish
whats with the munged tail on the snapper shark maybe?
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Just1morecast
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Great report and some good
Great report and some good photos there, well done!
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De-Crais
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Date Joined: 26/03/11
Yeah scottland the fish has
Yeah scottland the fish has had a close encounter with I would say a shark at some time, it was well healed up notice how it had actually started forming into another tail fin.
Cheers guys
craigb
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Awesome fish... good to see
Awesome fish... good to see some pelagic action in tight.Welldone
jimmy1987
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Date Joined: 14/08/11
i fished the sound all sat
i fished the sound all sat arvo for nothing.... unlucky i guess
De-Crais
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Date Joined: 26/03/11
Sorry to hear you didn't have
Sorry to hear you didn't have a good day on sat jimmy1987, we have spent alot of hours out in the sound fishing and reseaching different locations we've had some fantastic nights out there and we've had some very average nights and even the zippo nights out there from 4 in the arvo till 2 in the morning for nothing, but with persistence and alittle searching you will eventually have success.
Cheers
DavidBaricevic
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Date Joined: 30/10/10
Good on you fellas sounds
Good on you fellas sounds like a great day fishing and a good size snapper aswell...