Fishing today
Headed out in the dinghy today with the expectation of some nice weather, and we weren’t disappointed with a four hour glass off. We headed out to mewstone first to try our luck on the tailor and found they were on the bite, I landed 5 in 10 minutes on SP’s before the bite shut down and we decided to head out in search of some table fish.
After sounding around for a good half hour we decided to stop and fish a nice lump which produced thousands of little flathead which became very frustrating, after a good hour we decided to head in a little onto a large reef I found, as soon as we arrived we saw an abundance of fish life. We stopped and started drifting the reef when a school of bait fish surfaced, this school was at least 50sqm and the fish were breaking the surface which made it look like it was raining. We hooked a few skippy when we noticed a school of Spanish mackerel, this school consisted of around 15 fish most being around the 20kg mark. Shaking i tried tying a line in time however they took off and were not seen again. We then decided to head in a little and try for some squid, we quickly caught 7 and drove home before the breeze came in.
The next few pics are just stills from a pretty crap video but you can see the outline of a few of the mackerel
.thumbnail.jpg "15lb jigger fun in Cervantes 3 Jan 2011")
Goodz
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Awesome mate! I can just
Awesome mate! I can just imagine the panic trying to rig up when you saw those macks! Bad luck you didn't get one. Still sounds like a fun trip out!
danno
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good stuff on the fish
good stuff on the fish mate.
great tailor tho and squid dosent get much better then freash tailor and squid.
cheers danno
wopjrb
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well done
top effort - bummer about the mackies maybe next time
brenz
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top effort mate well done.
top effort mate well done. is mewstone a bugger to get to in a tinny?
milsey
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not to bad if you pick your
not to bad if you pick your days. if i sit on around 20kn you get a sore butt, but if i drop it down to around 15kn its usually not to bad, sitting on 15kn takes about 15mins and i just make sure as soon as i see the breeze change im outta there.
Faulkner Family
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another good day for you
another good day for you guys. pity about the macs not hanging around. sometimes it pays to have a rod rigged for that reason. we usually have something rigged for any encounter
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Ganged
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well done mate, obviously a
well done mate, obviously a gud day.
Still learning
Riaz
southcity104
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Macks!
Did you see the macks on 5fathom?
"Its a life style job"
milsey
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nar closeish tho
nar closeish tho
Wrassassin
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nice work
Good report mate, looks like a fantastic day out there and a nice mac would've topped it off.
Next time if they catch you out like that try throwing half a dozen mulies straight over the side to keep them interested and hanging aroundwhile your trying to rig up, it may just work.
Cheers
Ryan