Rotto 75 m Sunday
Went out early Sunday morning in the Traily from Hillarys, just me and Matt. Was going to hit the 3 mile. but the wind was quite light so we headed for the back of Rotto and fished a few lumps on the way.
Whilst the wind was good, the sea was very lumpy and confused, I guess from the winf the day before. It got better all day and was glassy but still lumpy by the time we came home, flat out all the way.
Jigged and soft plasticed a small lump north of Rotto near the shipping channel arounf 7am, and got hit on te second drop on a Caprice kid 75 gram on my tierra 4000.....nice fight and a just undersized dhu which went back, followed by a couple of Bakers a few minutes later that we also send back alive and well....10 minutes in and we were already ahead of our whole day tally up at Jurien last week.....
Things quietened down soon after although we went through a couple of McArthys paddle tails which were munched off at the tail.
Moved on to a cave that previously held severla shu, and not a touch, followed by a couple more lumps that had done well in the past, again no hits. Weatehr was improving so we headed for the 70 m mark, and ended up on a nice little ledge in 75 m which showed some good fish on 50 Hz.....jigged with 130 gram Caprice, and got a quite large goat fish which was interesting, released, but the marks on the sounder looked better, so me and Matt relented and dropped a bait over the edge, and up came these couple of Queenies. Mine went 78 cm and fought very hard, Matts a tad smaller. This was quickly followd by another Queenie arounf 65 cm, which was released with a release weight, but given the depth and the fact we did not want to keep any more, we moved on.
Thought about heading to the North barge for an amberjack jig but was 1 pm so we headed home and jigged a few spots on the way back, with a small pinkie on jig and a nice 41 cm black bum on bait for dinner.
Nice day out, great fun demersal jigging, several fish released well and a few nice fish for the plate.
John
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
till
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The queenies go pretty hard
The queenies go pretty hard at that size!
flangies
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Looks like a wicked day out
Looks like a wicked day out then!
So are you well and truly converted?
JohnF
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Flangies......absolutely
Flangies......absolutely converted.....every time I reach for bait it feels like cheating. The thrill of getting a strike when jiggng cant be beaten.
Heading out with Tim on Saturday early morning from Hillarys, are you interested in coming out for an artificals only day, only have 2 on the boat so plenty of space for a third.
John
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
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sounds like the fish were
sounds like the fish were playing hard to get. at least you had a bit of an arm stretch and a tussle with the queenies. they go well for their size from start to finnish
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
JohnF
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Yep Mr Faulkner, the old
Yep Mr Faulkner, the old queenie certanly pulls as hard as most fish all the way to the surface eve from 75 m.
Must admit though, looking forward to the demersal ban and cracking out the 6lb light gear and seeng if we can find a few KG's.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.