Cervantes Mixed Bag
Me and my mate Braden nabbed the old boys boat on Sunday and Monday to go and have a crack at some sambos up at Cervantes.
Got up there at 9:00 on sunday morning and headed out to the sambo hole, that we have had success on previously. A couple of drifts over it (well what we thought was over it - need a better sounder) and there were no sambos but Braden hooked up to a nice Baldy!
After a couple more drifts with nothing else to show for it we heading further in to the 25m mark and had a couple of drifts over some reefy ground. We had been mucking around with little pickers for a while and then my Twinpower 3000 got smashed. After a decent fight with a blistering first run up came a nice size Dhuie for the esky.
Since we were getting into the fish at 25m we decided to stay in the area and keep drifting. The next fish to come up was another nice size Baldy. After landing a few other smaller Dhu's and Snapper we then headed in.
We got the boat up on the trailer and started cracking some cans and put some baits out for some fun with a few big eagle rays. Within 10 mins my Stella 8000 screamed off with a couple of large fins breaking the surface so we knew that it wasnt an eagle ray. After a ripper fight which had the fish swimming in big arcs from out the back of the boat (as you can see we were anchored up nicely- haha) i finally beached the massive Shovely.
After landing the shark everything went a bit quiet, so we resorted to catching a few Blue Mannas by dragging in the ray baits and grabbing them once in close.
The next day, we headed out and with no luck at the Sambo hole again so we decided to do the same as the day before and fish around the 25m mark, which produced another Baldy and a good size Blackass.
Once these fish were in the esky on the ice we headed in as the SW'er was starting to blow, on the way we saw some fins breaking the surface abouth 50 metres away, thinking shark, we immediately threw out a whole herring on a wire trace. however they turned out to be 2 massive sambos which weren't in the least interested in our baits or lures.
tommyqueenfish
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You did a good job
You did a good job
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Ben Derecki
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Nice bag lads.The shovelnose
Nice bag lads.
The shovelnose is a hooter!
grayzeee
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Good work there. well done
Good work there. well done
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bowds
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Nice catch. Thats a big
Nice catch. Thats a big shovelnose! Would have been an awesome fight. Great feed as well!
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Bodie
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nice work mate, good looking
nice work mate, good looking fish!!
Get many blueys?
Heinz
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Only kept the three, all the
Only kept the three, all the others either had missing claws or were undersize.
Was just a little taste test for me mum as she was pestering me to catch a few for her.
MattMiller
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Great fish mate
eating like kings for the next few weeks
Markie
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what an awsome day bro good
what an awsome day bro good stuff
wazzbat
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Good report. Looks like you
Good report. Looks like you guys had a good time up there. Sure beats working.
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profish540
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Love that place
Can't wait to be back.
Good work boys
dkonig82
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Great work getting a dhuie
Great work getting a dhuie like that in 25m. What did he take? Bait?
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Ryan C
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well done
nice work , that shovelly is built like a tank!!!
Heinz
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We were using strips of
We were using strips of mullet and herring for bait, however once i got him in the boat we realised there was a wrasse in his gullet, that was lip hooked! he came along and smashed the wrasse i had on.
downsouth
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good catch
good day out by looks
Faulkner Family
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sounds like the trip was
sounds like the trip was worth it. gotta be happy with results like that. solid looking shovel there. woulda been fun
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