Different fisherman - different fish
Submitted by C.P on Sun, 2013-09-15 16:51
Over many years of boat fishing I've noticed that individual fishermen have a tendency to catch a particular species of fish. We are fishing from the same boat, same bait & similar rigs but one guy always seems to catch baldies, another nearly always get the dhuie and one is nicknamed wrasse boy and he curses the universe because thats all he ever catches. Maybe its the distance we keep our baits off the bottom or wheather or not we give the fish some line when it nibbles. It happens too often to be coincidence. Does the same happen in your boat?
lame
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yep i rarely ever catch
yep i rarely ever catch skippy , black arse or any of the smaller species i guess it's my fishing style of giving more line or letting them run before setting the hooks
joe amato
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bait pressentation is the key
i think bait presentation is the key in most fishing situations, eg mulies on top hooks to keep most of the bait pickers happy and bottom hooks squid,occy or fresh fillet of sargent bakers,wrass etc plus moving around finding deccent ground etc
carnarvonite
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Gnaraloo trip
3 boats anchored no more than 10 metres apart over the same pinnacle, first boat, my son and I only catching big red emps and huge pinkies, middle boat only got rankins and big spanglies and the other boat trevs and mulloway.
When we got back to the bay we showed off our catches because it was too rough and no radios in those days to communicate, lots of finger pointing at the third boat at why did you bring those things home-------- their reply, we thought you were catching the same thing.
The way the boats were swinging on anchor we all covered the whole of the pinnacle so its not as though the fish schools were only in the one spot. All were using salted mullet and mulies for bait and roughly the same rigs
C.P
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That's a great story
Any thoughts on why?
carnarvonite
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No idea
We talked about it over many drinks in the shearing shed that night but couldn't come up with an answer.
Other son works on a wetliner working out of here, on the trip before this one they brought in about 450kg of red emperor and 230kg of rankin cod plus the usual pinkies and others, son caught all the reds, owner go the rankins and skipper couldn't get anything but pinkies. This was over a five day trip and you would think it may happen for one day but not over the whole trip.
This trip it was all back to normal with everyone getting in to the cream fish.
trymyluck
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I remember one time in Broome
I remember one time in Broome a mate was telling me he never catches any Bluebone. I tell him they are easy I target them in close but don't usually bait fish at all except when I want a feed. He asks me out one day to target Emperors as I didn't ever target them, Im not really a fan of dropping a bait. On the first drop 15 miles offshore I was getting a bite and called it for a Bluebone, sure enough up came a beauty. He couldn't believe it as although living in Broome for many years had never caught one!
Stevo81
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Yep agree with joe on this
Yep agree with joe on this one bait presentation very important and then it's how u play it when you have some interest. Also quality hooks are worth the extra $$. Demersal bait fishing owner ssw Circle hooks in the green pack are the bomb IMO. Once u hook up very rarely lose fish
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Bodie
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yep kinda have the same thing
yep kinda have the same thing happen on my boat.
One cousin of mine is renound for catching big dhus, and Scano usually lands the big dhus too. Not really sure why, same bait, same rigs fishing 1 metre apart.
I usually get the baldies and BB's
In Exmouth over the last couple years i can barely get a Red, Scano and the other blokes on the boat have no dramas! i always end up with the spangles!
holth
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Its called the boat owners
Its called the boat owners curse Bodie. Well that's what l put it down to.