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!
The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging
while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
dj dvd
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Nice work. Did better than
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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Hutch
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Date Joined: 21/04/13
Nice effort, well done to
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.
Super peg
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Thanks guys, yeah that
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.
The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging
while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
piston broke
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Great KG
but not 2 kgs
cheers Pete.
Super peg
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Date Joined: 02/09/12
Me scales at home been
Me scales at home been telling me lies you think? Ah well maybe they are out
happy regardless
The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging
while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
Mick C
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Date Joined: 26/12/13
56cm KG = 1.05kg
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.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it - LH.
Super peg
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yeah mate in that case mate
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.
The art of fishing consists of casting, winding, trolling and jigging
while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
paul83
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Date Joined: 13/12/12
Good effort Peg, maybe a
Good effort Peg, maybe a haircut will bring you more luck... lol
Pick it up, put it down....