Fishing last night 25/6/2011
Went down last night to wet a line at a local beach NOR. Weather was good, water was warm and not very choppy at all.
First cast - dropped a fish, 2nd cast - dropped again - and now I was fairly grumpy - realised my setup was wrong and changed it quickly - first cast out and caught a nice tailor of 44cm - this on my heavy gear with a Toruim 30. Took my light gear (Toruim 14) and cast out about 80mt. Put my rod in its rodholder and when I turned around she screamed off. Had about a hard attack. Lifted rod out and slowly applied more drag and set the hooks. Brought her in to about 20mt offshore when she turned again and took another run of about 10mt, then all over. A nice gummy shark 110cm - and my 1st. Thanks to Reese who pointed out that it was a gummy - as I was not entirly sure.
Kept the tailor for the pan, released the gummy to fight another day.
Also caught a herring on a size 5 hook - who said the hooks are to big! All in all a great night with a lot of activity in the water. Went home when it started raining at about 11pm.
Cheers
Every day at the Beach is a Good day!
Daniel Westerduin
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Nice catch, well done though
Nice catch, well done though I would've kept the gummy, they are yummy.
TonyT
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great stuff Blou, i'd say
great stuff Blou, i'd say that would put you top of the leader board for Tailor now ha, and nice gummy and you shouldv'e kept it, bloody taste nice they do.
Howard George
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Well Done Again.
Just congratulating you Blou Walvis firstly on the tailor and secondly for releasing the Gummy as i find most GS.'s are full of young this time of year with a rack of eggs ready to go.
Blue Whaler
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Thanks Howard - this one was
Thanks Howard - this one was a male - but I am not into eating GS. Like my bread and butter fish instead - like tailor and mullo's / snapper ect. Love the fighting ability of these GS. For their size great fun.
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Rig
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Nice report
I woulda kept the gummy also, but you can catch it again now. I caught a herring on a 7/0 last year
Blue Whaler
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Poor old herring actually had
Poor old herring actually had a go for 3 seconds ha ha - say the 60pd leader and toruim 30 was a tat out of its league - was funny when I reeled it in and here this poor bugger was hanging on a 5' hook!! Never expected that. LOL!
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cuthbad
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nice work mate!
nice work mate!
grantarctic1
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Nice
Good little gummy for your first, well done.
TROOPY
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nice fish they were, i tell
nice fish they were, i tell ya it was stunned watching you throw a nice gummy back in.
1 from the beach is worth 10 from a boat
Jas04
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deffinatly kept the gummy
deffinatly kept the gummy mate great eating beter then the tailor