Hard work to get a feed Sunday out off two rocks
Left two rocks marina at 7am sunday and went straight to a new spot we found 2 weekends ago that was loaded with fish in rocky 40-45m ground. 2 metre+ swell predicted and going along the lead line was no problem, 25km out the swell was BIG, I reckon 4 easily 5 metre swells were rolling all day. I was using bait and the brother was jigging, within 5 minutes of first drift bang i was on with the ripper 78cm pinkie pictured. Brother got a hit on the jig but lost the fish. We thought yeh yeh you beauty! gonna be another fishy day like last time but boy were we wrong. After the pinkie I caught it went dead - not even reefie pickers. I started losing a few 10/0 owner circles to bolt cutters and me brother had his favourite jig bitten off, that pissed us off so we moved. From then on for the next 4 hours we tried all our spots in that area that have fished well and new ground we found in between for nothing, not even little reef pickers which seemed really strange, never had a session like it. There were 3 or 4 other boats around us and we noticed they all did afew drifts then kept moving away to new spots so i reckon other guys found it hard to get onto the fish as well. Went out to the 50m- 60m line and nothing. Was about 2pm so decided to hit our shallower spots again on the way home. Not a bite on my bait but my brother jigged up a 66cm pinkie then next drop he got onto a nice breaksea cod then that was it, no fish on bait, jig or sounder for the next hour. Decided to call it quits and was good fun coming home flat out with the big swells. Anybody else out there on sunday? how did you go? thanks for reading..jpeg)
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king chief
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same deal ended up bagging
same deal ended up bagging ou with 4 people on board but man it wss a slow day. Seemed like every time we got a fish off one dpot they went off the bite.
Live hard fish harder
Cade
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hard day out from two
hard day out from two rocks.
we fished 30m out to 100m. swell was definitely at least 4m out there.
no little fish biting all day, came in with 2x black arse and 2x baldies, released 1 undersize dhuie and 2x pinkies.
fished good lumps that were holding fish but nothing biting, strange day.
the fisheries at the ramp said we were the only boat to bag out.
Marineboy
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Two rocks
we had the same experience on Friday, travelled about 50nm for the day and struggled to find fish.
Ended up bagging out with 2 ok snapper and 2 small baldies, hardly saw a dhu and no pickers.
We were on the water for a good 8 hours.
My spots are so secret even the fish don't know about them !
beeroclock
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yeh the "no reefie pickers" thing was wierd
usually your bait gets hammered and your hoping it lasts till something big comes along. We always get heaps of undersize dhuies and baldies in the past but didnt see any at all, was a hard day out but wont stop us from getting out there as much as possible before the winter storms hit
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Yup same here. Sunday was
Yup same here. Sunday was the worst fish caught day I've had. How good was it when it glassed off.
On a side note hope the designer of the car park earned lots of coin got a funny feeling he won't be well liked.
dumper
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Yup. Whoever designed that
Yup. Whoever designed that car park didn't take into consideration that 1 or 2 cars with boat trailers may decide to use it 1 day.
scottnofish
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supposed to be a
New car park being built when they do the new ramps
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It's nearly done and it's
It's nearly done and it's shit
dumper
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It's like trying to take a
It's like trying to take a twenty foot boat through maccas drive thru
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This guy ^
This guy ^
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Anyone else see the whale
Anyone else see the whale shows? Seen a couple big leaps
Jim
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I shot out late arvo sunday
I shot out late arvo sunday for a couple of hours and had an awesome sesh in close, 80cm dhu and couple of solid pinkies (one released) and a little shark. Lost a big fish then came in. For me it was non stop action! thats how it goes I guess.
Super glassy so the boat swung with the current and made burleying easy.
Bend over
dano83
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Good work Jim
Good work Jim
king chief
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Yeah saw a few whales out
Yeah saw a few whales out there.
Live hard fish harder
beeroclock
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Had one pass deep down directly under the boat
wish i had a copy of the sounder shot to post on here we couldnt believe our eyes when it first started showing on the screen
king chief
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car park is a joke.
car park is a joke.
Live hard fish harder
fishcrazy
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minkie whale
we saw a minkie whale and calf off rocko pretty cool
Dreamtime
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no fish here either
had the same thing this weekend and last. launched at just after 5pm sat and got back to the ramp at 3pm sunday empty handed!! on the way in I don't think I said a word! all I can say is that the last 2 trips out for me have been very surprisingly quiet.
Georgejungle
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Sounds like the swell has
Sounds like the swell has shut the fish down
dumper
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We had problems finding
We had problems finding dhuies and baldies, but the pinkies kept us entertained all day as well as a few gummys and big king george