Cervantees Sunday sesh
Me and my mate headed up to cervantees on Sunday for the 1st time to check it out and see if we could find a couple of fish. The day started off with a beach launch before the sun had poped it's head over the horizon, we took our time heading out of the bay sticking closely to the lead line because it was out first trip out from there, our plan was to just start trolling some lures around watching the sounder for any signs of life on the bottom. The 20knot SE wind made things a bit wet and uncomfortable for a while, but that was forgotten about when we heard one of the reels scream to life. A nice short fight and we had a yellow fin tuna in the boat. YFT was my target fish for this summer so I was pretty stoked to finally land one! I've done about 220km's of trolling over the last month for that fish haha. Anyway lures back in and 20mins later and landed another YFT, this one fighting much harder and a little bigger then the first.
With a fish each already and the wind backing off we deicded to try focus more on the bottom, up until now we hadn't seen any bottom worth dropping on but that soon changed with some small readings here and there, marked a few spots and then decided to go back and start dropping some baits down on them. Stopped the boat close to the first mark and rigged up a rod while I watched the chart plotter to see what way out boat was drifting, meanwhile my mate dropped down a bait for fun. Once I was rigged up I said come on bring it up and we will hit this mark up. The reply from mate was, "wait... wait... wait... YEP! I'm on!". After a good tussle with a couple of good solid runs and me telling him to hurry up and get it off the bottom, a nice dhuie popped up, estimated around 9kg so a new PB for my mate, couple hi fives and hoots and the fish was in the esky!
After that the pressure was off, we went on to find a few more spots and catch a few more fish, 2 baldies for the esky and 3 small dhuies between 40 and 60cm's were caught and returned, plus a few other bits and pieces. Decided it was time to head back in with one last drop at the first spot we marked to try get another Demersal. Sure enough first drop again and up comes another decent dhuie about the same size as the first one, except for me this time. More hooting and hi fiving and then headed back to the ramp feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.
Dont you just love it when a plan comes together!
jayce
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Good report mate. Looks like
Good report mate. Looks like a good day out for ya.
Cheers Jayce
Uluabuster
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Awesome report mate.
Awesome report mate.
Ben85
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cant ask for more than that!
cant ask for more than that!
kirky79
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That's a great day.
That's a great day. Especially from a new area. Well done.
Paul_86
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Cheers guys, it was a great
Cheers guys, it was a great day indeed, needless to say I'll be back up there next chance I get!
Bodie
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looks like a great day out!!
looks like a great day out!! how bigs your boat?
Paul_86
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It's a Quintrex 480 coast
It's a Quintrex 480 coast runner, so 16ft.
Jason M
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Cant wait@
Top work guys! Im really hanging to get up there for the first time to get my recently purchased 6.4m ally into the thick of it. I know the beach there is really hard but did you have any probs with the dropoff from the beach during retrieval? Seen some vids and it seems to drop off quite sharply.
Paul_86
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No problems with the launch
No problems with the launch for us, but my boat is small and light. Beach sand was rock hard, I was quite suprised how hard it actually was. Yeah it does have a bit of a steep drop off, would depend on the tide to how difficult or not it would be, a few 6m+ ally's getting launched and retrieved while we were there tho. Worst case if you needed a hand there were plenty of others around to give you a snatch I you asked nicely.
Good luck when you head up there!
tim-o
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Farrkn oath!
Killa sesh, wot depth were the fins in?
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Paul_86
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First one in about mid 30's
First one in about mid 30's (didnt pay too much attention when that reel was screaming) and about 6 mile out, second one was in 40m's and about 9mile out. Didn't see any bait schools on the sounder, but quite a few flying fish around. Both grabbed a halco lazer pro 190 DD. Water was crystal clear and only the off bit of floating weed, which made trolling much more pleasurable!
tim-o
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Good work
And good reward for all that trollin.
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soupster51
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Awesome
Great day on the water. Congrats. Top post.
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meglodon
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When the plan comes together
It makes for a cracker of a day.
Notorious
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Epic
Epic
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