GOOD DAY OFF HILLARYS BIG BALDIE...2 KGS AND A BLACK BUM !
After a few too many beers at the rivervale last night, it took a long hot shower to get me down to the ramp at 0800...thats after I removed my frozen boat cover!
We headed straight out to our mark baldie198 to hopefully catch another Baldie for the table. Nice conditions with a light nor easter made it easy work for the traily to get out to 45m in no time. Armed with cuttlefish tenticle from last trip, and some snelled 3o mustard hooks, it was game on.......no time to make friends out here!
Fish were very quiet on the bite till about 1030...when i finally cracked my first metro King George at 49cm i was very happy indeed. There was high fives all around. With that we set another drift, and i was on again....and it was a great fight..and after it ran twice for the bottom, i finally netted myself a nice Baldchin which was 57cm.
Fishing went quiet again till about 1330, and after a long wait Claire finally caught a bloody fish and scored her first Metro King George as well. She was stoked...and her smile returned once again after watching the skipper clean up.
We then headed in a bit to a lump we found in 38m of water. I picked up a nice blackarse...but there was still plague preportions of Juvy Pink Snapper there...so we decided to head back in to Hillarys at 1500. After a quick pull over from the water police reminding me of the speed change 200 metres approching Hillarys Marina...we were on our way home...smelling of fish, crusty salted clothes and sunglasses that you were lucky to see out of, but thats what fishings all about...love it !
zen
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nice
nice feed there well done
scottscurious
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nice report some nice fish
nice report some nice fish aswell!
i went off hillarys aswell today, about a mile of triggs took under 2 hrs for my old boy and i to get our limit of sand whiting, mostly 20cm plus!
the marine saftey was there when we headed out around 1100 and went it around 1700.
we also caught about 10 juve snapper.
soupster51
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Top stuff
Nice work. Great report and photos. Sounds like a great day on the water. Congrats
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wrassinator
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nice work wade. the baldy
nice work wade. the baldy mark lives up to it's reputation (again)...well done mate
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your making me hungry :(.
your making me hungry :(. very nice baldie and kgs there
Andy Mac
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Love it...
Top report and thems a couple of nice KG's there Wade.
Cheers
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Faulkner Family
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Good day on the water guys
few nice fish and a good feed i mean if you do not like the taste of those KGS you can always send them our way
..hows the new boat and sounder going ????
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wadetolley
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Kg
I put a fillet in the mail for you guys should get it at the end of the week!
Boat is going well..after fixing the transom door..which kept coming open. The sounder is ok...need to spend alot more time learning how to use it. Also having problems losing picture over about 8 knots..so i still have alot of sorting out to do.
Faulkner Family
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sound like you need the Furuno guru
Send Tim a pm mate but if you are losing the pic at about 8 knots sound to me as tho you might have the tranducer in the wrong place we are picking up a good pic at 18 to 19 knot but still pick up the deepth 30 knots ( flat tack)
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wadetolley
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no pros
No worries will get in touch with him! Moving my transducer further away from motor today..hopefully it will help.
biggerfish
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Good work guys makes me wish
Good work guys makes me wish me and my mrs had of gone out today. Forecast is for wet and wild weather next weekend. Again good work on todays catch
Play hard fish harder
PilbaraBrad
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half your luck when yo
half your luck
when yo southerners going to start having a winter so we can get rid of these easterlies up here
Italiano
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well done mate a couple of
well done mate a couple of good fish there
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Nice work Wade
Some really nice KGs there
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Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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never-fail!
Well done again Wade & Claire, a good Baldy at the never-fail and quality fish for the table!
Transducer being raised is my first suggestion then stepping out out on the deadrise!
wadetolley
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Cheers
Cheers Ryan! Tomrw im moving it out further so i can get it up higher..bloody trailcraft bracket is only made for small transducers i think. Thanks also for all your tips on targeting Kgs. The snelled hooks with strips of skinned cuttlefish tenticle did the trick...and found them on the sand just before our Baldie lump...they put up a hell of a fight .
Ryan Thipthorp (not verified)
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yeh!
Yeh keep on experimenting on the trany and you'll get it sweet.
No probs, they're plump KG's mate and agree they fight well and their taste mmhhhhh devine!