double header on 4.5

Woke up early this morning, checked the weather, called menopaul, and we were off on another awesome fishing adventure on Re-Lisa. Dad wanted to head out for these two main purposes:1. Check out the ground that we found last trip.2. Test the mini super rods.We arrived at two rocks marina at 6:50am in water by 7:05am. There was a 2.5 metre swell running, with the low tide and eastly winds the mouth of the marina had a bit of whitewash hanging around. After we were out of the marina we thought it was dead flat, soon to notice it was choppy. This made the ride to our new ground a little bit bumpy, but the new boat powered through. After arriving on the mark the rod were rigged and baited. Soon after, Menopaul was on. After a good looking fight it turned out being a morwong kind of thing which was released.  Within the minute, my mini super rod was going off, as we were using 4.5kg line we didn't know how much pressure we could put on the line and fish or what to expect. After a 5-10 minute fight a nice 55cm (4kg) dhuie was landed and congratulations followed my effort on 4.5kg line. Shortly after Dad followed with which we believed was a dhuie, but we will never know as he dropped it shortly after hook up. I quickly rebaited and lowered my line, to hear Menopaul's reel. About 2 seconds past after I hit the bottom and I was on also. Menopaul got his fish on-board first, this fish ended up being a double header of dhuies. These fish were estimated at 6kg each. A few minutes past and my fish was in sight, as it neared the boat we realized I also had a double header of dhuies estimated at 6kg and 4kg. Everyone was surprised that they were landed on a mini super rod and on 4.5kg line. Dad was spewing as when the photo was about to be taken the batteries in the camera died. After these fish it suddenly went quiet (It might have been a small dhuie we threw back). After 2 drifts with no bites we moved out a bit further. Out further we sounded out some more ground and started our drift. After a while we had landed and released 3 snapper and 2 dhuies. On the final drift I got snagged and when I got unsnagged a 4kg baldy was awaiting me. After a great days fishing we called it a day at 1:00pm. The day was a success as the new ground was awesome and the mini super rods produced great amounts of fish. 8 dhuies four released 3 snapper all released, 1 baldy kept, two blackass kept.   Jesse and Paul




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Great effort on light gear Jesse

Sun, 2008-08-03 18:19

Nice report young fellow. Sounds like a cool day out.
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Good fish guys! What are

Sun, 2008-08-03 19:10

Good fish guys! What are the super minis?

 

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Alfred, these ones   Good

Sun, 2008-08-03 18:49

Alfred, these ones

 

Good work Jesse. You know its a good day when you dont even need to fish all of it.

The light rods sound like a lot of fun, especially on good sized fish. How were you rigging them btw? I'm guessing driftbait?

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Here's a link to a pic of

Sun, 2008-08-03 18:50

Here's a link to a pic of one      http://www.fishwrecked.com/node/14815         I call them super minis.LOL.

 

Jesse

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thanks guys

Sun, 2008-08-03 19:15

yea it was a great day thanks guys i will shout the next trip but today will be hard to top

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thanks guys

Sun, 2008-08-03 19:15

yea it was a great day thanks guys i will shout the next trip but today will be hard to top

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great story there Jess

Sun, 2008-08-03 19:40

well done on the double headers mate even better on that line class

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Na Hlokk, we were all using

Sun, 2008-08-03 19:59

Na Hlokk, we were all using regular bottom bouncing gear.

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Thanks guys for the comments.

 

P.S.  Paul will be awaiting that trip.

 

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How'd the rods deal with the

Sun, 2008-08-03 20:46

How'd the rods deal with the sinker weight or did you manage to get away with only a small amount? My light rods bend right over with the weights I end up using :p

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Hlokk the rods were fine

Mon, 2008-08-04 18:20

Hlokk the rods were fine with the sinkers 20 oz just take your time and all was well.

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