A sambo story - to be continued...
Hey guys,
since buying my boat earlier this year, one of my main goals has been to catch a sambo.
I opened my account pretty early in the Cockburn sound while just trying some small lumps ide noticed on the way in,
as you can see, its a very small juvenile and only really took the photo as it was quite comical at the time.
the next stepping stone was a by catch while spinning for tailor on the reefs out from Hilarys, hitting the old faithful Smiling Jack. also not very big at all but I was bloody chuffed (had spent a lot of time over the reefs with live baits in the berley trail for nil) finally I had one, and on a hard body also.
the next size up came the day after boxing day, being down Busso way it would of been rude of me to not take the boat down, we headed out into the clear waters of the bay and soon found a little rise, my sounder was reading fish hanging around the lump so we quickly anchored up and set to burleying up, first drop my deckie loaded up onto a good fish straight away but got bricked, my hopes rose. I lobbed out a soft plastic and set to prepping the boat/berley when my brand new tcurve/stradic combo took off. after a solid battle and few rings around the boat I got it to the boat and was pumped to finally grab the tail of a good size (well for me) sambo. caught and released 4 more of simular size which all were fun on 20lb, happy to christen my new combo too!
So now, Im ready for the next level up, just gotta keep trying I guess and hopefully with a bit of luck it wont be too far away - to be continued...
thanks for the read,
would be interested on peoples thoughts on the weight of the last fish as we didn't weight or measure any of them that day.
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Jaggo
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11-12kg I'm thinking. Never
11-12kg I'm thinking. Never seen a sambo that small, pretty cool!
barneyboy
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good going
at least you have given yourself room to move. that first sambo has some awesome colour to it..
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
Fisheagle
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Go deep and light
My experience has been better fish in 30m plus. Unweighted scalie or mullie in a burley trail of mullie cubes. In total contradiction my largest two Sambo have been off the beach.
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/samsonfish-Mandurah
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/another-sambo-beach
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Hutch
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Nice work, I started out
Nice work, I started out small too. For larger models just anchor in about 15m on the back of 3 mile and live bait a wrasse under a balloon. Make sure you have a decent burley trail set and they'll show up
Super peg
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Date Joined: 02/09/12
Cheers guys
Cheers guys, yeah Hutch I've been spending a fair bit of time doing just that, for one run ( on a butterfish) but dropped it after 10 seconds.
Just gotta keep persevering, it's something special feeding back a mulie into the burely trail and watching them hit it that's for sure!
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Callum24
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mate that baby sambos unreal
mate that baby sambos unreal you'll get some big tailor spinning round there, when me mates back from north i'll get you a few marks in close for dermersals and sambos, the stripey tuna were in close to last time i was out to so keep your eye out
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Super peg
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Yea Callum I been waiting to
Yea Callum I been waiting to get ya to come out with us, maybe the coming week mate! I'll have 6 days off then
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Dale
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Shoulda put that first one on your key ring.
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