FRUSTRATIONS FRUSTRATIONS FRUSTRATIONS.......

two days of billfishing has resulted in 9 marlin strikes (3 the first day, and 6 today) to 0 landed fish.........keep thinking its the hooks..... all in all thats now 22 raised bills to two landed over 5 days of marlin fishing.. one massive wahoo strike which resulted in the ritcher soft grassy being left with only the head of the pusher

its actuelly starting to get moral really down aha! but also moral is up as we are raising fish consistently everyday we just cant get them to the boat....got a few dollies under a huge patch of weed in the 400m mark today as well.... found a bait ball seriously getting busted up in the 450 m mark trolled it, big strike in hope of a yellowfin, and we fought a fish for over 20 mintues on 15kg which stayed very deep, finally got it up to the boat and what was it a 8 foot long bronzie with the skirt hook purfectly hooked in its corner of its mouth. After a few hair moments of it boatside and myself trying to get my skirt at least back..which eventuelly i won and got my skirt back.

oh also found the hoey hole of coral trout.....fish it at the right tides and we bag out with trout over 750 mm long all on jigs and placcies...It got to the point one morning we were releasing trout of over 650 long, then having to moove lumps as we couldnt get away from them

mackies are thicks up here some what turning into a pest if you know where to look, when trolling for other specific species....

when the trip is over still got 9 days, will post a heap of photos.

brett