Shallow Water Sambos
Myself and TimVB went for a quick jig today, plan was to get a dhuie for dinner and hit up some shallow water sambos before they head out deeper.
Went pretty much to plan, although the easterlies early morning were verging on dangerous for my tug and made it pretty uncomfortable on the way out.
Whilst we waited for the wind to drop, we sounded some new ground and found a nice little lump with some good shows. Dropped down jigs on PE2 and I got an undersized dhuie, but Tim got blitzed by a suspected Sambo. We upgraded to PE3, and Tim got dominated again, two nice jigs lost in two drops.....I hooked up on PE3 and landed a nice shallow water sambo. Went VERY hard in shallow water on PE3.
A few more sambos later and the wind dropped so we tried a demersal spot and I landed the perefect eating size dhuie, 70 cm. On the BBQ as we speak.
After a few undersized dhuies, things shut down, so back to the Sambo lump, and dammmm, they went off! We changed to PE5 and locked up the Stella drags tight for a bit of fun and to minimise the jig losses.....and hung on for a manic 60 minutes of jigging. Dam, these things go hard in shallow water! Here are photos of a few of the fish we got in between the madness.
Great day and back on shore not long after lunch for a coldbeer and rest the arms.
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Bruce
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Good stuff mate they look
Good stuff mate they look like monsters! Nice jigged dhu
grayzeee
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Nice work lads.
Nice work lads.
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tim-o
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Good fun! I gota sambo that
Good fun! I gota sambo that size on pe1.5 few months back and got it in relatively easily, anchored up, tho he swallowed a 25 cm skippy and I gently eased the drag to about 5 kg, maybe I should try jiggin em, must getem fired up. Cant beat havin a spool go off on a tight drag no matter what the species. Sore arms and a good feed, cant beat that!
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blitzed
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you guys have got it sussed,
you guys have got it sussed, impressive, well done
Just1morecast
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Nice one John!! I havent
Nice one John!! I havent caught one in ages til last trip and forgot how hard they go.
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nice
Always good to hear drag getting smashed on light gear, good work John.
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marble
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Try having a rod ready with
Try having a rod ready with popper or stickbait ( or a 14 weight ) on when your getting sambos, when they are in the mood it can be better than g popping. We`ve had 30 or 40 that size or bigger lined up waiting for the lure to move.
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JohnF
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Gotta give Sambo stickbaiting
Gotta give Sambo stickbaiting a go!! My spot in 35 m so quite likely we could entice them up.
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marble
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Got em in 40 m so very
Got em in 40 m so very doable in 35. they not always in the mood but if you see some following a hooked one up chuck a popper/stickbait out. They`ll find it.
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Goodz
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Those are some fun lookin
Those are some fun lookin sambos! We've been jigging a few lately but they're only half that size.
Nice Dhu, love those jigs too.
chrisp
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The old CB One strikes again
The old CB One strikes again hey mate! Nice Work timbo, just look at the grimace trying to put a bend in the poseidon.Gold!
schecky
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Nice mate.
Nice mate.
timvb
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Haha!Yeah the old
Haha!
Yeah the old back-breaker poseidon got a bit of a workout! Haven't fished that much drag in ages....
JohnF
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That CB one has a few scars
That CB one has a few scars now Hotdogs!
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kane
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Nice John
Woop woop - is that the sweet spot?
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JohnF
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Kane, no, this was a new
Kane, no, this was a new little lump we found a few km from the spot we fished last time. The lump is fairly large and pronounced but dead flat all around, and not on the charts (ie : perfect....). We landed 1 undersize dhu on PE2 on this lump before the sambos fired up, but I recon this will have good sized dhuies on it once the sambos head off and we can go back to the lighter demersal jigs.
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Need more of the curved action shots
Just love the fight shots, complete with the concentration look, or better tongue hanging out. Had a few laughs lately with the GoPro mounted in the boat. Action shots look awesome, but you go to love the look on our faces hooked into a unstopable (noah).
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Great work John, gotta be
Great work John, gotta be happy with those
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