Sambo Stretching on PE2

Headed out on Saturday with Chrisp and TimVB on my tug for a day of demersal jigging near Rotto. Easterlies were stronger than expected and it was not that comfortable for most of the day.

 

Got 6 dhuies for the day, only 1 was size to Chrisp but was in such good nick that we released it along with the undersized ones. Tim also lost one to a very large shark after slowly bringing one up to reduce barotrauma.......no barotrauma but a fair bit of other trauma I suspect.... despite trying numerous spots were could not find any large dhu's.

 

At one spot in the 40's, we were amazed at the water temp, at 23.6 degrees, compared with 18.5 on the 3 mile.....wow, still maccie temp......and that proved to be the point very soon after with a couple of jig snip-offs mide water (me loosing my second Slide Actor to Maccies with a grand total of about 4 cranks of the reel handle.........) and then Chrisp hooking up to a nice maccie on jig for about 30 secods before it bit through his asssit hook and left some big nasty teeth marks in the jig.

There was plenty of bait on the sounder so we toiled away with the PE2 jigging hoping for a maccie hook-up or a stray dhu, then bang, I was on, and on in a big way.......numerous sizzling runs on the Stella 4000 had us calling big dhu, maccie, sambo, then maccie again......ended up a good sambo on PE2, certainly lucky not to get bricked.

 

 

Tim then backed it up with another sambo soon after on his PE2 outfit, his Stella complaining as loudly as mine.......

 

 

Tough day on the water but still good fun and a few nice fish all released.

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very nice

Sun, 2012-05-20 19:27

 good fish on the light stuff

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sounds like a fun day out

Sun, 2012-05-20 19:48

sounds like a fun day out mate, water temp is a bit weird??

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Ron, water was cold to the

Sun, 2012-05-20 19:51

Ron, water was cold to the skin on 3 mile, but out off rotto it was like someone pissed in the bath....it was noticely warmer and backed up the digital readout on the sounder. Strange indeed, and we found a current lineon the wayhome that had warm blue water one side and cold green water the other.Skipper was a bit green so we did not fish it........  

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 Nice catch. :-D we got 4

Sun, 2012-05-20 20:20

 Nice catch. :-D we got 4 today. Looked around the same size. We didn't venture out to rotto though. Was in a tinni :-D stayed local :-p

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Cracker day by the sound of

Sun, 2012-05-20 20:32

Cracker day by the sound of it, but sucks about the makkie snips!

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  Good feed of sambo there

Sun, 2012-05-20 20:37

 

 Good feed of sambo there John!

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hahaha, what do you think I

Sun, 2012-05-20 21:11

hahaha, what do you think I have in the freezer for ya Shhhhhhlectah......

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Great Sambo

Sun, 2012-05-20 21:14

John, PE 2, sure gives the gear a workout.

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Dawg, I was only running 30lb

Sun, 2012-05-20 21:19

Dawg, I was only running 30lb leader and my favourite demersal jig as the demersals were finicky.......was quite worried for the well being of my CB One with the Stella spool emptying at a rate of knots......bullet proof little reels, have certanly given mine a thrashing over the past year.

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 Check your washers after

Sun, 2012-05-20 21:44

 Check your washers after that fish man, Sam has been through like 3 sets of washers on his 4000.

 ...I know cos I bought one of them

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Hi guys From Sydney and just

Tue, 2012-05-22 19:32

Hi guys
From Sydney and just trying to work out what fish is a
Maccie and a dhu .. We only jig kings and tuna on jigs down this way don't have the great fish you guys have up there

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 Maccie: spannish

Tue, 2012-05-22 19:56

 Maccie: spannish mackeral.

Dhu :WA Dhufish. 

google the Dhufish and you will see. altho you see plenty on here, just dont get it mixed up with jewfish which we call mulla or mullaway over here in the west.

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 Sounds like you guys had a

Tue, 2012-05-22 19:58

 Sounds like you guys had a bit of fun out there. pity about the bite offs. gets a bit pricey when you start loosing the jigs. all a apart of fishing. 

how are the arms feeling. bit tender im sure

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We have leather jackets over

Tue, 2012-05-22 20:05

We have leather jackets over here on some days we loose 100 jigs between 5 guys it a joke... Even with the pro dropping cages and getting 500kg in each cage we still can't get there numbers down... They eat every thing in there parth

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 Nice sambo on the light gear

Tue, 2012-05-22 20:26

 Nice sambo on the light gear there John, certainly done well to tame that one! 

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nice work on pe 2!

Wed, 2012-05-23 10:24

nice work on pe 2!