Friday's Fishing Report
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We headed out from Mindarie today looking for a few fish. First drop resulted in a nice Harlequin for Tapout and things were looking good. Well, it didn't take long for things to change with me pulling up about half a dozen rock cod in a row. We headed to spot after spot looking for something solid and around 10am we finally found something. I got absolutely smoked by a big fish that stole a solid 50m of line off me on tight drag before burying me in the reef. Assuming it was a samsonfish we went around and tried again, same spot, bam and an identical thump thump and run had me putting the curry on. Within a couple of minutes I had him off the bottom and the fight pretty much won, sambo 1 onboard, photo'd and released. Back around we went and Tapout got taught his lesson by a big momma who only took 10 seconds to bury him. After another bustoff to me we drifted off the back where I picked up a just sized pink snapper and Tapout got a nice 50cm fish. After a couple more drifts over it seemed the fish had moved on and so did we.
Heading wider we only found more rock cod and wrasse which were starting to get very frustrating. Tapout managed to hook into a nice queenie which fought solidly the whole way to the surface, even taking line at one stage. After a few more drifts out wide with no success we headed back into the sambo patch. First drift turned out to be a nice 55cm pinky for Tapout and a blackass and blue devilfish double header for me, we finally thought the fish were going to start coming on. Back and around over the lump again had another of those typical thump thump bang hookups and the sambo's were back. Landing the second I was stoked just to have something giving me a hard time, so back and around we went again and my 3rd was hooked, fought, video'd, photo'd and released. We then headed in closer as we'd both had enough. A couple of drifts over the inshore lumps provided no success and we called it a day.
We ended up with 3 pinks, 1 queenie, 1 harlequin, 1 breaksea and 2 fox fish. Not too bad of a bag considering how quiet it was out there, but it was good to be out there and the conditions were magical. Heres hoping the conditions hold out for the weekend and the boys going on the charter on Sunday. :)
Cheers,
Adam
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bouttime
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good day out
good day out than boys. Sounds like the sambos are starting to turn up. I am heading out tues so hope to find some. What depth you guys fishing in. Is it worth the trip out back of 3 mile. I might be looking at going from 2 rocks tues. willgive you a call Tapout and see what your doing tues if you want to come up.
Andy Mac
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Date Joined: 03/02/06
Good work guys
It certainly was tough out there. Perfect conditions but I think that Northerly breeze turns the fish off a fair bit. You guys did far better than us.
We picked up a nice 43cm Pinkie and 40cm Pinkie first drop, both released, then headed wider in search of some Dhufish, all we got were those bloody scorpion fish. I reckon I landed over 10 in a row of several lumps.
We ended the day with 5 Blackarse, 1 Harlequin and a 45cm Pinkie. We released a small Dhuie, about 3 or 4 Pinkies just size and a million scorpion cod and seargent bakers.
Whilst one of my Blackarse was quite large for the species, I wasn't sufficiently excited enough to photograph it. So my camera stayed in the bag all day, but whilst we lacked quality fish on board, we made up for it with a plenty of laughs playing our own version of Rock-Wizz to pass the time between scorpion cods.
I should however have taken a photo of the Berkley Power Grub I was using as it has two perfectly shaped teeth marks about 3 inches apart in the tail. Looks like an XOS oversize Harlequin had a go at it. Hmmmmmmm????
Cheers
Andy Mac (Fishwrecked Reeltime Editor & Forum Moderator)
Youngest member of the Fishwrecked Old Farts Club