Saturday driftbaiting success!
G'day everyone,
With the weather looking good for Saturday 18th called up the brother in law to see if he was keen for a fish. Haha when isn't he! So on the water at sun up out from Dawesville. We've been fishing the 30m line for ages but has been a bit hit and miss lately so we planned to go a bit wider out to the 40's. With no spots in the GPS it was a bit of a recon mission aswell.
Well it turned out to be a good idea. I started off with a nice little shark that put up a good fight on my new Stradic 6000. Then Doug hooked up just as a heavy shower came through and got soaked, all for a nice skippy. The rain lasted for about 10 minutes but resulted in the sea smoothing off and the wind dropping. I have been reading up in the search function about driftbaiting and had made up a couple of rigs. So with the wind dropping I grabbed my Calcutta and tied one on. In the mean time Doug had hooked up and pulled in a ripper Harlequin that went 51cm. Thought the water had heated up enough for a Coral Trout for a second!! A bit later after getting a couple of good runs on the driftbait but not converting, I finally got a solid hook up. After a good tussle I was pretty sure I had a good Dhu, been few and far between lately for me. So when this fella popped up I was stoked. He went 6.5kg. Doug followed up not long after with another nice one to round it off nicely. Also caught 3 pinkies to 45cm just couldn't get a legal to finish our bag. So had to make do with a Scorpion fish.
All in all a very successful day on the water considering we didn't have any marks out there (do now though
). We'll be out there again for sure, it's a long run but well worth it.
Cheers
Chris
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Nice days work Well done
Nice days work
Well done fellas.
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sea-kem
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Oh yeah! Nice bag there
Oh yeah! Nice bag there fellas. How are the Harley's on the fang?
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dkonig82
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big harley! great looking
big harley! great looking dhuie also
never kept a scorpion though. any good?
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kirky79
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Thanks for the comments
Thanks for the comments guys
sea-kem & dkonig- Had the Scorpion & Harley for dinner last night, bloody beautiful! Let the kids have the skippy!!
chookc
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Do those scorpions/ gunards
Do those scorpions/ gunards count towards your bag limit at all?
kirky79
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Hey ChookcWe weren't really
Hey Chookc
We weren't really sure, so better safe than sorry eh.
Cardinal
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Nice harley. love those
Nice harley. love those fish
awesome dhu banger too
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soupster51
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Congrats
Drift baiting, very effective method of picking out the bigger fish on the lump. Great stuff.
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A-SALT-WEAPON
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well
Well done boy's it was a great day to be out on the water on saturday
beau
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Good bag boys! Can I ask
Good bag boys!
Can I ask what your driftbaiting rig is? Just a running sinker and snells? And what size weight you use for what depths?
kirky79
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Hey Beau,My first time
Hey Beau,
My first time trying the driftbaiting so just copied one of the rigs Ryan and the team have put up. I used a #5 bean in about 40 m. Must admit I didn't like my chances of getting down that deep with that small a sinker but it worked fine in the conditions
chris
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Scorpions taste amazing!!, I
Scorpions taste amazing!!, I highly rate them, but you've gotta be extremely careful handling them.
the poison from the spikes causes EXTREME pain and swelling that lasts for hours. the spikes can still get ya even when its been dead for hours in the eski.
If we're guna keep one, we iki jimi it and immediatley cut off all of the spines and spikes.
and wear a glove when filleting.
dont feel guilty about taking a couple, anyone who's fished around the north side of rotto will tell ya they are prolific.
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good work fellas nice catch
good work fellas nice catch