Boxing Day Fishing
How did everyone go? Manage to cook your fish on the front of your boat? What a joke, it was so damn hot.
We headed out about 730 from freo in search of deeper water. You could already tell it was going to be a stinker. After a nice long drive we got to the sambo patch and saw about 10 boats on it so moved out to the derwent. Drift was unusual so it took us a few goes but we managed to boat a few pinkies, a big queen snapper and even a ~15kg amberjack(which was taken on a jig !). Amber was the highlight of the day.
After our arms were sore we headed back in for some jigging. It was chaos out there, about 15 boats on the one spot. Tangles everywhere. We managed to land a few, and loose a few to sharks before we decided to try a diff spot as its was worse that a xmas shopping centre carpark there. Next spot jigged up a few fish between us too. Then headed back in.
Howd everyone else go?
Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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yeh a stinker!
Yeh sure was Shizza, i decided to close the shop despite us being really busy to have a staff day out. Took Honsu and Phil out for some driftbaiting and tried some new spots instead of going back to my go to's. We got our 2 dhu's each plus KG,baldchin, pink snapper etc.......Honsu jigged up a nice BIG blackbum too.
Was a stinker for sure, took all my clears down and was happy "not to be" on the mainland with the radio saying 44.4 degrees
Came back in flat bicky and was enjoying the cool air until we hit the mainland...........yuck
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No Let Up Down here
Yeah Shizz, mad time of the year for fishing - EVERYONE'S out there - sounds like Perth boating in general was madness all round - and not just at the hot spots either - mind you, hot spots were literally every where - what a bloody scorcher!
It was even 42 down in Albany and 44 up in Barker.
Some pics up so far on our Boxing Day result.
Sounds like you did well, depite the crazy pressure - the AJ was a good haul!
What jig where you using? (If you don't mind me asking)
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Leemo
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hillarys
headed out to hillarys at 4pm
caught two smallish sand whiting within an hour and caught another a few hours later
put one of the whiting onto a 3/0 gang and cast it out, loosend the drag and let it sit out there
5 minutes later the rod bent like hell and my dad saw it and picked it up, tightened the drag and struck... missed it but reeled in a bit and it had another strike, let it play with it, missed the strike, brought it in a bit more playing with it struck and missed and then broiught it right in and a Massive squid estimated around 1-2kg went for it coontinuosly but dad tried gettin the bucket bvehind it but it shot off, came back, shot off and came back again and then finally wen i hooked it, dad put the bucket behind it and it shot off never to be seen again.........
bludgin' since 94'
Dean
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Very slow start for us
Very slow start for us catching everything apart from edible fish. Moray eel, rays, and all things poisionous and if it was edible it was undersize. Only started to get some fish on the last 2 spots we visited which were out a bit deeper.