A happy day out

 With the weather looking good me and a mate decided to head out for a bit of a whiting fish,

the whiting were found around the 23 m mark and we quickly had our feed on ice with a few nice size slimey macks  a welcome addition to the bait freezer for the coming summer.

next we hit the three mile in search of some skippy and hopefully a sambo or two but with the burely pumping a couple hours and one skippy to show for it, we moved on to explore some ground,

settling in a nice channel/drop off to continue on the skippy/sambo hunt, but once again the burley trail produced nothing. Not even the baitfish!

while I was persisting with drifting baits my mate decided to re rig to  fish the bottom, and promptly hooked up and lost two decent  hard fighting  unknowns .

i followed his lead and was rewarded with a PB king George  of 52cm and  a healthy 2 kilo ( great fun on 6 lb gear) ,after the victory dance, we tried for more but received no love so we decided to call it.

 

on way back in I couldn't resist a quick flick of  some lure around some exposed reefy areas,

After around twenty casts and almost circling the reef I had a follow out from the reef and got hit in the clear water in full view., after a great lil tussle I finally got my sambo!

not huge mind you but I was stoked! Especially to catch it on a smiling jack and to see the strike.

love fishing! 

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dj dvd's picture

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 Nice work. Did better than

Mon, 2014-11-17 21:11

 Nice work. Did better than me.  I had to hide away in a bay from that northerly and settle for a few squid.

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 Nice effort, well done to

Mon, 2014-11-17 21:16

 Nice effort, well done to persist and get the sambo in the end. If you go out again float a live wrasse or any other smallish fish you catch under a balloon sitting mid water and let it out 20-50m behind the boat. Often you don't know theyre there and the rod goes off.

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 Thanks guys, yeah that

Mon, 2014-11-17 22:16

 Thanks guys, yeah that northerly made  anchoring where we wanted  a bit  of a challenge today haha, hey hutch that's  exactly  what I did  tried  yakka , slimey mack and wrasse, just wasn't to be  today,  although I did keep it rather close thinking to keep it in the burley trail but as you said maybe further back from boat, thanks for the heads up.

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The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging

while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.

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Great KG

Tue, 2014-11-18 05:38

 but not 2 kgs  cheers Pete.

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 Me scales at home been

Tue, 2014-11-18 05:46

 Me scales at home been telling me lies you think? Ah well maybe they are out 

happy regardless 

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The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging

while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.

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56cm KG = 1.05kg

Tue, 2014-11-18 14:53

Unfortunately, I think the scales need calibration.  We weighed in a big fat 56cm KG in a comp on certified scales a week or so ago and it went 1.05kg.  Fairly sure that 2kg for a smaller model is not quite right.

Nice fish but.

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yeah mate in that case mate

Tue, 2014-11-18 16:26

yeah mate in that case mate i'm gonna need some more scales,
keen to retry the area and see if it'll produce again.

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The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging

while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.

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Good effort Peg, maybe a

Tue, 2014-11-18 10:52

Good effort Peg, maybe a haircut will bring you more luck... lol

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