Easter Day Out
The first day of fishing comprised of a teams challenge, Team Penn vs Team Stradic. After landing about 30 salmon trout each on hard bodies and plastics we decided to go breaming. Team stradic landed 2 1kg black bream with many releases. The troll on the way back saw a bay snapper landed on a hardbody trolled at 8knts.
The Easter challenge offshore from Walpole was greated with beautiful conditions. Our first spots didn't produce and a change towards Chatam Island saw me land 2 45cm pink snapper and an 80cm samsonfish which I tagged and released. We got onto lots of 1.5kg skippy on baits and jigs and lots of sgt baker. Another couple of spot changes saw me land 2 3kg queen snapper and a beautiful harlequin. The other boys managed a few oddities, a puffer fish, a huge scorpion cod and several 3kg striped tuna. We also caught another harlequin and big fat breaksea. Taking out Best On Deck for the day gives me 3 hot fishing sessions in a row, NICE!
Photos soon.. The weather down here has gone bad, hopefully we might be able to get out for a few more bream sessions.
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SHizz
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Date Joined: 07/08/05
sounds like your having fun,
sounds like your having fun, hopin to go out tomorow and brave the strong easterly.
Fishwrecked
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Date Joined: 03/10/05
Back from Denmark
Well, the conditions down south were average to say the least. Saturday was the goods but since then we've had 4.5m + swells. There are herring and juvi salmon trout everywhere, the pro's at Peaceful bay got 4 tonne this morning. With the weather not looking much better down there for the rest of the week we decided to return for some metro salmon action and maybe fads if the weathers good enough. Got a few photos of my first tagged sambo, but no video action unfortunately as we were too busy fishing. Hopefully be able to get out Thursday and Friday to see whats happening locally. A friend said he got an 18kg 87cm dhuie in 10m of water the other day, I'm trying to get a hold of the photo. Sounds like they are in close at the moment.