Day out with the Old Boy
It's been a long time in the making due to work and weather keeping us inshore but I got my old man out for a deep water bash today on my first day of LSL.
The report turned to shit but it was still under 10 knots so we dropped my kids off at school, launched at Hillarys and smashed through the gap to the 30s to start sounding ground. I sounded out what I thought was a couple of blobs sitting on hard ground (still learning my Furuno) so we spun around and set the drift and I pulled up a 45cm Dhuey first drop.. bloody good start.
Did a bunch more drifts for wrasse and a huge scorpion fish and we were seeing lots of mid water action so we decided to troll out deeper to find more ground and no sooner had we started my rod bend over and I pulled in a nice skipjack tuna. We nailed two more but my cheap halco dad had was wrapping around my line and we changed his to a Jellybabe but lost the school.
Awesome day out with the old man and fresh sashimi was a bonus.
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beau
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nice tuna, but those are
nice tuna, but those are southern blues, so dont wast them on bait or burley like you would a skipjack!
Jackfrost80
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Sent my (very experience
Sent my (very experience fisho) mate a pic and he said skipjack after I asked if they were blues!
In any case this is two of them. Just partially froze some and ate it with soy and it was amazing!
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Rob H
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Dont look like skipjack to
Dont look like skipjack to me either but the smaller a tuna is the harder to tell between YF BE and BF
Bloody tasty, we devoured a 10kg one raw over a couple of days at the islands Easter
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petermac
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how do you prepare
how do you prepare them to eat raw , just thin fillets and sit them in some soy for a few hours ? try raw crayfish that has been in some vinigar for a few hours , dry the flesh of and lightly sprinkle with some brown sugar wait for the sugar to melt in then eat very yumo
beau
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Something i noticed this
Something i noticed this last pelagic season is the skipjack never arrived, i did not hear of one capture at all over the summer, they're usually everywhere
Ashen
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Yummo!
Raw tuna salad!
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
sea-kem
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Very nice, looks like you
Very nice, looks like you bled them well.
Love the West!
Jackfrost80
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Christened my red oak priest
Christened my red oak priest bat (fkn thwack) and cut through until they twitched. Had some scrubbing to do when I got home haha
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timmy k (not verified)
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tuna steaks
sesame coated tuna steak pan seared with a soy and cream sauce. Thats the shizzle
couple of nice tuna's there too
rob90
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Tasty as! Good catch We got
Tasty as! Good catch We got a few yesterday. Just had seseme crusted seared tuna with a cerviche salad for tea. Beats the hell outta most fish and fairly easy to find/catch.
Hi my name is rob............. and I'm a........... fishaholic
Da pirate
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Good job !
MY mate picked one up on a s soft plastic winding up
from the bottom on Sunday !! Fairly quiet day few black
ass and undersized dhu ! Was out round 29m and was also
sounding up some massive schools sitting round
half way up !! Nice job pirate!!
uncle
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Sounds like a good day out
Old mans not a baby boomer is he?
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Jackfrost80
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Yeah mate but the second wave
Yeah mate but the second wave of boomers so unfortunately he missed the gravy train.
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Hutch
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Nice work frosty, those
Nice work frosty, those little tuna are heaps of fun if you dont go overboard on the gear