Metro Winters Day - You Wont Believe This!!!
Out with Langa and Bodie today. Hopes of a deep drop were dashed with the fickle forecast so we stayed in shallower on a cold wet winters day…………I have to keep reminding myself this is Perth metro, middle of July………a fair few surprises today!
Day started with a couple of tailor being caught in the 40’s……..strange. A lot of bait around that had attracted the tailor, plus a few other toothy criters……this being my first Mac on jig and it went pretty well on my PE2 jig outfit. Yeeeeoooooooowww!
Tried for a dhuie on jig, but only landed a few just undersize dhu despite some great shows, so headed out a bit deeper into the 60’s and landed this on jig. Metro Winter Rankin Cod!!!!!!!!! Holy crap.
Well with all this strange shit happening, we decided to throw a few lures out for a troll, not something you normally do in Perth in winter, but what the heck, this was one weird day! Did not take long and a double hookup ended with one fish dropped and Bodie landing this nice mac. The man love was building by this stage!
Lures were straight back in with the mac still on the floor being bled and before we could get the fourth lure in we had a triple hookup. The third fish was dropped and as Langa dragged the lure back to the boat a mac smashed the lure in a spectacular surface strike……what a day!
The call went out for a Yellow Fin Tuna……why not! 10 minutes later…..hey presto. Well bugger me!
The new madfish fish bag was certainly christened and was absolutely chocker block full but did a great job of keeping the fish cold on the trip home prior to a marathon filleting session. Will have to take the larger madfish bag out next trip!
Dot think we will have a Metro Winter day like that again for a while.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
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ahhhh fark it, i call
ahhhh fark it, i call bullshit. surely its coral bay.
back of rotto john f ?
sea-kem
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Da fock outta here!
Da fock outta here!
Love the West!
Boydy
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Haha if I hadn't have seen
Haha if I hadn't have seen the Rankin post from earlier down Bunno way I think, I would been calling the same as you gilly!
We saw plenty of bait fish north and south of Rotto today but came up with bugger all from out there.
Unreal that will take some beating, there're all cracking fish.
MattMiller
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Rediculous
your ability to find pelagics is beyond a joke
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just curious, is that rankin
just curious, is that rankin odd looking? head wise and dull in colour?
JohnF
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When we filleted it, it was
When we filleted it, it was VERY fatty, similar to most deep drop fish. A result of being a bit too cold I recon, a long way from home.
Flesh looked delicious!
Water temp was only 18 where we got the first mac!
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
tim-o
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Winning!
Farkn wankerzz
CT speared at rotto today too, will be spangos off mullaloo beach at night soonI am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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spangoes all over lano
spangoes all over lano
Bodie
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Thanks for a great day out
Thanks for a great day out lads, was definitely a strange day including the weather, but with a healthy fish bag like that who would be complaining
started with tailor on jigs in 40m of water, only for john to pick a nice big Mack on his first drop of the day!!
3 way hookups sure are fun on the troll!
i can assure you, this was as metro as it gets! A long way from coral bay this for sure. But hey, who needs to go north!!
bring on the deep drop I say, who knows john with your luck a broad bill is probably on the cards!!!
Bodie
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Hutch
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That's farken awesome...
That's farken awesome...
silly
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Nice one, John..Impressive
Nice one, John..
Impressive winters bag!
Simo_
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Awesome stuff
Awesome stuff
Bring on April
sammy85
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John you my friend are
John you my friend are amazing haha! I am bagging up all my song snaggas tomorrow mate I'll call you during the week and come pick a couple up
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Schweeeet.
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meglodon
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What !!!!!
Next it will be barra in the lake at Joondalup .
For this time of the year it's bloody amazing.
Great catch by the way.
reece
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Good day on the water there!!
Good day on the water there!! Iv got rankins and small reds at the southern group but that fish is lost!!! I saw a pic of a goldband caught on a charter boat in 80m out of hillerys last week! Wonder if the northern deep fish are about to
Any one free to help me pull my drum lines tomorrow?
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Auslobster
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Ridiculous.
And I could probably go to Exmouth now and catch a dusky morwong.
Seriously mate, run this past the Sunday Times...really should be out there for the general population to read and you might (make that WILL) get a prize or something. Fantastic stuff!
It's funny seeing blokes wearing jumpers while holding Spaniards!
Jaggo
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That's awesome! Gotta be
That's awesome! Gotta be happy with that. Never seen a madfish bag before, are they as good as an esky?
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saved yourself a trip to Exxy
saved yourself a trip to Exxy , and no fkn fergals ;-)
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jeezarz
Unfarkinbeleivable!! I did 4500km to get those species!
I think you hanging around beau too much, and now know how to tickle fishes genitalia.
beau
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oi
oi
little johnny
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Unreal
Great day
MJ
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Crazy
Would have been a great day out of Exmouth.
How things are changing!
uncle
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f...... awesome John and crew
a red letter day
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Callum24
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am i delirous from lack of
am i delirous from lack of sleep or am i really seeing this
only from john f you'll have people lining up for decky spots!
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berserkfishing
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Bloody incredible... Seems
Bloody incredible... Seems that its been turning this way over the last few years. I say bring it on! Great day on the water guys!!
Jiggity jig jig
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nice fish !
That madfish bag looks good, where do you score one of those and how much did it cost ?
Browndog
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Pinged!
Can't believe you pinged my metro Rankin spot!
Seriously, fantastic effort, what's next? Patagonian toothfish off Darwin?
That day will take some beating.
Cheers,
BD
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Reporting catch
DoF have a site (can't remember the name right now) where they are seeking people who have caught fish out of the "normal" range for these fish. People are asked to report the catch.
Jaggo
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Red map.com or something
Red map.com or something like that
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good going fellas
would have given my left nut to be out yesterday!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
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sheebus
I will follow with the rest, thats just unreal.
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Haha
crazy day stupid question but was it preety warm water out there?
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Awesome
Well, not much to say really. Bloody awesome day out in summer let alone winter.
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rigpig
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Holy crap!!!
Mate, those are some serious fish. If you caught them up North you would be stoked, but cacthing them metro is an amazing catch.
It's these posts that just cost me an awful amount of money upgrading my boat so I can get out of Cockburn Sound and chase something like this.. again, very well done you guys.
Brock O
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Your a Pro
John, well done to all on board!
"man love" I bet, would have all hugged and shook hands 20 times over I'm sure!
sandbar
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EPIC...
enough has been said. Thats a damn good day of fishing that will take some beating.
Well done to to all.
Brucesta
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Right you southerners that's
Right you southerners that's it, you have no further need to come into our northern backyard since you can catch them all down there. We will set up border patrols and block the highways of all northern towing boats anywhere north of Kalbarri.
A bloody day you'll never forget boys that's unreal!
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That'll do Pig
That'll do!
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sheeeeeeiiiiiiittttNow
sheeeeeeiiiiiiitttt
Now that's a cracker day even by your standards!
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GGs
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Metro spangos?
I got sent a photo today of 6 pinkies and 3 solid spangos 'allegedly' caught last night at north mole. Can anyome confirm this?
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All I can say is.... f#$#@n
All I can say is.... f#$#@n John f.
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Sensational Catch
Something you will talk about in years to come.
Awsome day well done!
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Well done boys..
Epic metro session and some nice photos to compliment.
Cheers
Keep Fishing. Stay Relaxed.
mallesh
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Seriously good photos John.
To me it looks like all the fishes are smiling for the photos.
Keep Fishing. Stay Relaxed.
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Bit bigger Rankin than mine
Bit bigger Rankin than mine ,but mine was prettier lol,well done might have to try a few lures down this way.
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bullshiiit hahaha. Bloody
bullshiiit hahaha. Bloody ripper. went all the way to steep, got rained out and caught sweet f** all.
Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
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Breaking the mould
Great catch resulting from some innovation all angling.
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Worth mentioning, after last
Worth mentioning, after last weekends trip out with john, I went out off ocean reef Friday and dragged a couple lures about and landed another mackie
definitely marks about in winter!!