Metro: Yellow-tail kingfish
G'day
With me and a mates new tub sitting in the driveway and a day off work, we decided to head out and get amongst it. We heading out of Hillary's at about 9:30am with the weather looking pretty good. We had the trolling gear on board with the hopes of getting amongst some metro tuna. After about 2 or 3 hours of fruitless trolling and the usual copious amounts of sh1t being talked we thought this may be a bit of a fruitless outing. Decided that we would head it a little closer to the reef. A quick rip in a little closer and the lures were back in the water, as we were searching for our CD case (only so long you can listen to the same tunes!) all three rods buckled over and it was on, our first bit of action for the day and a triple hook up! All three buckled over at exactly the same time. With just two of us on board it was mayhem... but the good kind, I'm sure ya' all know what I'm talking about.
Thinking we had finally run into a school of tuna, we were both pleasantly surprised to see 3 YTK's on the deck. After a quick high 5 we released all three successfuly. The three first fish weren't the biggest fish in the world ranging from 55 - 65cm. Great fun never the less on an otherwise slow day.
Ended up trolling past another spot close by an picked up a single larger fish that went 90cm and then another slightly smaller 80cm (fish pictured). Managed a few more smaller ones and called it a day. Kept one each of the larger models for a bit of a feed and released the rest. As well as dropping a couple more.
I think we landed 7 ish fish in the end could have been a couple more.
The thing we noticed was, we hit two hot spots. One spot held the smaller models and the other the larger fish. Interesting to observe.
Great day while the demersal ban is on. Nothing like a session on the metro YTK's on a tuesday arvo to induce a couple smiles between a couple mates...
Cheers for listening.
Alex
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tim-o
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Thats the shit! Good work,
Thats the shit! Good work, envious.......conditions looked good for it, much weed?
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Noxious
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Yeah, there was a bit of weed
Yeah, there was a bit of weed around. We mainly trolled skirted lures, when I briefly changed over to a few bibs they were getting caught on weed fairly quickly. The skirted lures tend to catch onto far less weed. Still had to reel in the lures a few times to free them of weed.
beau
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So good! This is going to get
So good! This is going to get a lot of people excited! Did you notice any bait on the sounder/surface?
Top job boys
Noxious
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Absolutely no bait fish seen
Absolutely no bait fish seen on the sounder or on the surface.
Be careful trolling anywhere near hillary's. So many cray pots, some with massive amount of line on them and quite a few people diving, be vigilant and keep safe.
tim-o
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Kings on skirts? There was
Kings on skirts? There was heaps of weed around on sat, would think it would be a good week or so for it to disperse, although some of the weed clumps or lines may be good to troll along, I reckon bait fish would hang under it?????
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Noxious
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Yeah mate, every single fish
Yeah mate, every single fish was caught on skirts.
I can't remember what the names of the skirts were, but everything from tiny little jelly baby type ones to big skirts you'd expect would do the damage on billfish. Colours included; black, green, yellow, purple.
Just remember, don't be affraid to troll your lures in close to the boat right in the wash.
I think I've given away enough secrets for the time being, I'm not one to hoard info and reports in general with dodgy paint work on my pictures to be secretive.
Areas that the fish were biting were very specific. If we missed the mark by 20 or so meters nothing.
opsrey
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Great pics.
Well done, thnaks for the pics and report. Hope your season keeps goind well.
tiimmbo
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well done, looks like it was
well done, looks like it was a nice day out on the water by those pics.
Noxious
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Thanks for the comments
Thanks for the comments fellas.
Water was magic yesterday. Weather is miserable today, which makes sitting in the office a lot easier.