Saturday's Fishing - 4th Feb

Well, we headed out from Ocean Reef this morning at 5am and did near on 70 miles, if not more, trying to find the fish. The total tally was a 3.5kg queen snapper and a big fat breaksea cod, with a lot of released wrasse and a big buff bream. The poor old skipper managed a couple of wrasse and one southern blue devil for the day and couldn't hook into anything serious. We did try trolling out behind direction bank for a while through the scum lines without any success. To note, the temperature was an extra 1.5 degree's warmer in at the 8 mile than 25 mile out. Seems the currents aren't really moving well yet and pelagic season will still be a way off.

Bottom fishing was extremely quiet and the bite only started picking up 2 hours before high tide. Don't know if we were looking in the wrong spots, but the fish certainly didn't seem to be interested in what we were offering, be it fresh occy, squid and mulies with glow squids and shads. There were lots of classic dhufish suckdowns on the bait but they seemed to mouth the plastic and it was really difficult to hookup, compared to the classical snell rig. I must say that I was very impressed with the amount of bites the shad received, will certainly be using them more often for bottom fishing.

But, as the captain said when he got back to the ramp, after an effort like that - its back to sambo jigging! Have a photo of the queen snapper, will post it up once I figure out how to download it from my old camera.


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Sat

Mon, 2006-02-06 13:06

Yeah mate we didnt do much better either. Didnt help that my mate showed up an hour and a half late and rocked up completely pissed still. All we managed was a few undersized dhuies (which we ended up tagging), a couple of breaksea and a few sambos showed up for half an hour. Oh well next time will be better im sure

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We tried Hillaries again Sat

Mon, 2006-02-06 13:17

We tried Hillaries again Sat and managed a few skippy lots of wrasse 2 big stingrays sounds like it was quiet everywhere was still good to be out on the water

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I was lucky enough to hitch

Mon, 2006-02-06 18:55

I was lucky enough to hitch a ride and we headed out from Point Peron into about 110m of water and slowly worked our way back in. Landed my first Dhuie and lost a second one the next drop. The skipper also boated a dhuie, amongst a few other fish we landed, so in all it was a good day out.
first dhuie

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Saturday

Tue, 2006-02-07 14:13

Take it you got out with Mako Magic Huggy? Nice rig he's got hey!! I purchased his old boat which is now my money pit. Nice to see he's getting into some good fish.

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Mako

Tue, 2006-02-07 16:33

'Take it you got out with Mako Magic Huggy? Nice rig he's got hey!! I purchased his old boat which is now my money pit. Nice to see he's getting into some good fish.'

Yep, indeed it was Mako Magic. Very nice rig indeed, Im very jealous of it thats for sure.