Monday fishing
Headed out early with southcity104 (Tony) bound for the 90's. Ended up getting out there barely after sunset, found some fishy lumps and sent the gear down.
I started on the jigs. Drift was pretty slow, so no problems getting 150 or 120g jigs down there, but unfortunately the fish didnt really want to play.
Tony managed to pull up some blackarse and small swallowtail.
Had a few bites, but not too many hookups. I sent down a mulie on the driftbait setup and after a few small fish, I managed to hook up to something nice and big. A bit of line pulling and a lot of rod pulling and I managed to pull up this beauty
A PB pinkie at 6.3kg, so I was damn happy with this nice humphead
Not too quick on the bites, but after a while Tony managed to pull up a nice sized pinky
I was switching between jigging and bait and managed to get a new species on the jig, the ol slimey mackerel
Tony filleted the mackerel and it didnt take too long for another fish to pull on. It started fighting like another good pinkie, but as it came to the surface, we saw black and knew it wasnt another pinkie, but a nice dhuie just a little under 8kg. I didnt take any photos on my camera, so Tony might have to upload that pic.
After than and before midday, we had some nice fish in the esky, so headed in a little shallower to try a bit of jigging. Just managed to pull in a small swallowtail or two.
We did see several whale pods blowing air a couple of hundred meters, and got to see some pods breach out which was an awesome sight.
The weather was pretty good all day (some big swells rolled past though), but it was absolutely magic as we headed back early arvo. Couldnt ask for much better conditions.
We didnt get a great number of bites, but we managed to land a few good fish. Great day out, PB pinkie, whale watching, magic conditions, back at the ramp early arvo and a nice feed of snapper and dhuie. Thats gotta be a good day out in anybodys books
kaney68
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nice fish
Well done guys.... some nice fish there and top conditions for sure !!
Andy Mac
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Top day guys
well done on the PB. Looks like it was magic conditions out there.
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Faulkner Family
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not a lot of fish , but who
not a lot of fish , but who needs those pesky things annoying you on a nice relaxing day out on the water, LOL.well done on the pinks and another species on the jig
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Tim
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Great
Looks like you guys had a great day out.
Maybe not huge amounts of fish as you said Matt but certainly some quality Pinkys there.
hlokk
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Yeah, quality over
Yeah, quality over quantity.
A few scorpionfish were pulled up and we debated keeping them, but not much point when theres some pinkie on board.
Gully
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Half your luck - nice work
Half your luck - nice work now get back and do some would you :P
Gully
Frank F
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some nice snapper there
some nice snapper there boys, well done
damo6230
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well done Matt and Tony
may as well take advantage of this weather.
some quality snapper there.
Adam Gallash
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congrats
Congrats fellas, you guys have done very well and in great conditions too!
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