Friday night FFB session
Went out with hunterdive (Jared) and enjoyed the nice conditions on Friday afternoon. The wind was a bit stronger than we expected it to be but the conditions weren't uncomfortable.
We started off trying for a few squid close to the Woodies ramp and between the two of us we had three small cuttlefish and about five squid in the icebox in fifteen minutes. The sizes weren't great so we shot over to the other side of the channel closer to Carnac and got a good sized squid there before deciding to move outside the Sound.
We found a spot on the back of the Five at about 5:00pm, anchored up and started burleying. We put some baits out but the tide and wind (S/W) were going in opposite directions which made fishing quite difficult.
Things were quiet other than a small breaksea cod that Jared pulled in so just after dark I thought I'd try dropping a placcie down in the hope of giving my new Luvias a workout (cheers Twitchy). The first drop was nailed straight away by a 40cm breaksea. I was pretty stoked as I didn't expect to get anything on it.
The rest of the night was pretty unproductive (any PM-d tips for fishing the FFB at night will be gladly appreciated) but a couple of bustoffs, a large eagle ray and a hooter cuttlefish kept us entertained.
Lamby
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Bugger about the drift &
Bugger about the drift & wind, might have been more productive otherwise. Good BB & a great feed out of that Cuttly!
Browny
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yyyuuuuuummmmmm........ salt
yyyuuuuuummmmmm........ salt n pepper cuttly.
Nice size BBum for the FFB there Ben!
I just love Exmouth: Its a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem!
fishing94
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nice cuttly all ways a
nice cuttly all ways a suprise to see one come up and not expecting it.
Names matt
TWITCHEMUP
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Nice....
Nice work Ben the Luvias and Squidgy produced the goods aye....
SHIMANO PRO ANGLER
southcity104
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FFB is pretty hammered
i once fished it every weekend with mixed results. If your after sambos and ytk's you'll do well with lives but dhu's are spead pretty thin.
"Its a life style job"
barneyboy
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aye ben!!
Good to see ya getting out son. Some nice fish to boot
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
fisho-ron
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hi matewe were out there on
hi mate
we were out there on sat night and done the same thing, burly and lots of it.
within 30mins we had sambo's and lots of em for a while, then the prt jacksons moved in with 5 big ones in the hour, then a nice 61cm dhu come over the side folowed by the rays, and a 4ft bronze.
in this time of caos we also picked up 4 huge squid which 2 of them went back out as live bait, by now we had enough with not one snapper showing up and headed in to try in the sound, not much happening in there so time to go home at 9pm.
also agree with the drift and current mate, it was a prick, at one time the current and a 1mtr sambo decided to tangle himself in my anchor chain, what a prick of a job getting that out.
the floaters we had out were drifting in the current that bad towards the anchor we ended up swapping to heavy sinkers to hold bottom.
still good fun and come home with a feed and some crab bait?
cheers
ron