Interesting Days Fishing
Went out for a morning jig sessiion with my young bloke, and saw JustOneMoreCast while we were out.
Wind was higher than expected, and we started the morming hiding in a bay at rotto having a squid while we waited for the wind to die down. Only one sqid...
Headed out after an hour in the bay, and drifted some lumps I have fished before as well as a few cray pots in the 40's.
Both me and the young bloke were demersal jigging.....first tiime flor the young bloke, not sure he is hookeed yet as he gave up after an hour and went to bait. I jigged all morning before the wind got too much and we headed home.
Second drop for me, nice strike, dogged fight with small runs to the bottom, and I thought this was a good size du, then after a few minutes it went bezerk and realised I had a good sambo. Oceajigger equitted itself well to boat a pretty nice size sambo on PE3. The smabo was excorted by a small shark all the way to the surface, I could have touched it as I pulled the sambo in the boat....he did not touch the sambo as the sambo was a bit big, but sharks are still around......
Few other bits and bobs on jig (goatfish and several bakers) before we moved to a few cray pots right on top of an old spot I had done well at before......dropped a nice fish when it pulled the hooks after touching a cray rope on the way in, then the young bloke got our feed for tonite with a nice pair of breaksea cod.
We were going to have a run out to the barges wiith justonemorecast but the wind picked up much earlier than seabreeze indicated, and we only got 1.5 hours of fishing wirth a reasonable drift rate in so we started to head home.
Spotted a nice school of tuna with plenty of free jumping fish.....soft plastic on light gear got smashed as soon as it hit the water and after a pretty lengthy fight, a nice SBT was circling next to the boat. After 4 attempts at netting the crafty tuna, the hooks pulled, which saved me from releasing it.
My young bloke Rob then spotted what we thought was a sunfish, which trned out too be a nice hammerhead.....oiut with the PE5 jig gear and I put on a half a wrasse on the assist hook ad set it out......the dissapearance of the seaglls on te surface a minute later suggested te shark was nearby and he soon hooked up, only to spit the hook. He circled the bait a few times, darting in and out, before taking it again about 100m from the boat. Awsome! He then proceeded to strip line form the Stella at a rate of knots, so Rob started te boat and we chased it down for 5 minutes.
Finally got it to the boat and after 10 minutes of wrestling the beast, even managed to get the hook out, as it was in his hammer......was a nice size fish, and was a tad worried about loosing my hand but the extra long pliers came in handy. The hammerhead swam off happily.
So, pretty mixed day, but good fun.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Markie
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better than bein at work
ah well ya still got a couple fish mate :) thats fishin for ya
Faulkner Family
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sounds like a good day even
sounds like a good day even without too much action. would have been fun with the hammer, roughly what size was it as they arent bad on the tooth. at least you got a feed in the end
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Just1morecast
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Good stuff mate, that sambo
Good stuff mate, that sambo was a goody! I'm at work atm to pay for the $100 fuel bill which normally costs me like 80, stoopid fuel rise! Ahh well extra cash for next time:)
Forever learning with fishing
JohnF
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Thought about nice flake for
Thought about nice flake for a bit, but the hammerhead was big enough for me not to want to bring it on board and really would have been a freezer full of shark.....I am not that keen on keeping fish in the freezer if I can help it, just take enough for a meal or two fresh and let the rest go.......not sure of size but large enough to be too much for PE5 on Stella 10,000 without chasing down in the boat.
Fuel for me yesterday was amazingly low......only 1/4 tank, so around 30L, it is the least I have ever used for a trip to the back of rotto as it is normally well over 1/2 a tank, most probably as we were only doing 15-18 knots all day due to conditons being a bit rough. I normally sit of 22-26 knots, and it chews a heap more juice.
Two nice BB's for dinner tonite, to be baked whole in the oven. Yum.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Faulkner Family
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you do know shark is better
you do know shark is better eating once it has been frozen.
. at least you have a feed of something
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Just1morecast
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Yeah I used half a tank 40l
Yeah I used half a tank 40l or so. I did fill it up though thinking maybe the barges but yeah pitty the winds didn't favour us
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JohnF
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Yep, have had plenty of shark
Yep, have had plenty of shark over the past 2 years, mostly gummy and black tip reefies, they are nothing short of excellent and most of my family prefer it to almost anything else......this shark was just a tad big........
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.