Saturday out from Mandurah

 After 2 weeks off over Xmas and New year and the wind stuffing up my plans for fishing, fishing and more fishing. With the weekend weather looking good I was keen to say the least. A couple of phone calls later and both deckies had to work, oh well I wasn't missing out on a fish so went solo.

Got out to a couple of marks in the 40's to find the sounder light up. Dropped down a Daiwa Pirate jig while getting the bait outfit baited up. I didn't even get to bait up as the jig got hammered as soon as I flipped the bail arm over. Up came a 45cm pinkie, released on the weight probably didn't need the release weight but better safe than sorry. Dropped the jig down again and same thing happened, a little bit smaller than the first. A good start but nothing size yet. Finally got some bait on the other outfit and managed a 51cm Pinkie. 

Things went 

A bit quiet after this for quite a while. Not sure if the released fish spooked the school as they were still showing up on the sounder or whether the bite was on early in the day. Here is a sounder shot of a smaller school, the first school I came across went across the sounder screen for quite a while. Still learning with the 587 this shot has the white line on at I think about 5 or 10%.

 Sorry about the photo

quality taken on the phone. 

Seabreeze was in pretty early so made the decision to do a bit of reconnaissance out at 50m before it got worse. Found a few craypots so sounded around those for a bit and a few drifts but could only manage a couple of Sargent Bakers. Decided to call it quits at about 12:30 and started making my way home. Loving the 1kw tranny as on the way home at about 18 knots it still shows great bottom. In 39m spotted what looked like a small school of fish so throttled back and done a U turn. Went back over the ground and dropped my new favourite jig down and nailed a nice little Baldie, again not huge but still size.

 

So that finished the day off nicely. Catching my first legal size fish on a jig!

Thanks for reading

Chris.

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choorles's picture

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yerp the daiwa pirates are

Mon, 2014-01-20 12:41

yerp the daiwa pirates are dynamite!

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What weight are you

Mon, 2014-01-20 14:01

What weight are you preferring in the 40s?

I was thinking of skipping the bait and going the jig on saturday but the undercurrent was forcing at least a 16oz

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 Hi Tradewind, The Daiwa

Tue, 2014-01-21 11:12

 Hi Tradewind, The Daiwa pirate was 120 g and on the bait rig I think I was using 12 oz. 

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 If you ever want some

Thu, 2014-01-30 19:31

 If you ever want some company.. I will be happy to tag along 

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 If you ever want some

Thu, 2014-01-30 19:32

You need someone to take the photos