Mixed bag, Dampier, 12/8/2007
Woke up this morning and the weather was just as good, if not better than on Saturday so we had to take the boat out.
We headed out and stopped at one of the barges near Enderby Island to score some livies. It wasn't long before we had quite a few yellow tails in the bucket so we powered out to Kendrew.
First drop and Glenn was on. It wasn't long before a nice little Chinaman of around 50cm was on deck and into the ice slurry. No time for a photo, lines were back down to see if we could nail another one. It went quite so we pushed on.
At the next spot I nailed a beaut coral trout that was 60cm. Went quite again so pushed on further to a spot we have in about 40m. First drop Glenn nailed a nice Sweetlip Emperor, a first for us off Dampier. Next drop I hooked up to something that managed to pull quite a bit of string on the PE5 jig gear, felt sharky but turned out to be the mother of all Gold Spot Trevs.
While I was hooked up Glenn hooked up as well so we suspected another gold spot. After a good tussle it turned out to be an 11kilo Cobia. I missed the first gaff shot which he didn't like and made Glenn work pretty hard before I got the second shot in.
After the cobe we decided to do a troll towards Roley Rock to see if we could finish off with a Sailfish. Unfortunately it was a bit queit on the billie front but we noticed some fishy ground on the sounder so we stopped for one last bottom fish. As soon as my bait hit the bottom I got smashed by a decent fish. I was shocked to see a nice 55cm Red Emperor hit the surface, taken in just 27m of water.
Finished the day off filming some whales which was pretty spectacular... and got back to the ramp to find a HUMUNGOUS line up. Ended up waiting about 45 minutes
All in all, a great day with quite a mixed bag, 1x Chinaman, 1x Sweetlip Emperor, 1x Cobia, 1x Coral Trout, 1x Red Emperor.
SPESS
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Nice day and nice fish
Nice day and nice fish Jay......craker of a day well done.
Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!
Andy Mac
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Great report Jay!
Nice mixture there. Hopefully you didn't experience too much "Ramp Rage", its usually the only downer on a great day when that happens. Like you say, a six pack next time and prolem solved.
Cheers
Cheers
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sherbert
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Looks like a great day
Like a mill pond, Good work jay
steve
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nice mixture...lucky to get
nice mixture...lucky to get so many varieties of fish...lol
the more u fish..the less stress u get....
Gully
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Nice work mate looks like a
Nice work mate looks like a great day out - making me jealous
jay_burgess
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best day we've had for a
best day we've had for a while... good fishing, good weather.
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Jay Burgess
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