Snapper on Skis Session
Flew into Perth from work on Wednesday night unfrortunately missing the rally, would have loved to tow the ski up there. Anyway, teed up a session for Thursday morning with Moking who purchased a ski only a few months ago after enquiring about jetski fishing on this forum. Plan was to be on the water early with a nice burley trail flowing by the time the sun just started to rise, which IMO is an indicator for the snapper to start to feed. I left the ramp at 5am and the anchor was set at the spot by 5:10. Moking joined me about 20mins before sunrise and by then i had a bit of a burley slick going on. I had a 9inch Zman Grubz a foot off the bottom with the rod in the rod holder while I worked a squidgie wriggler in glow with 8lb gear. As it started to get lighter i noticed the mass of yellow-tail in the burley trail and then as the sun poked its head over the hills, like clockwork my rod in the rod holder started to bounce.
I missed the first couple of hits and 10 seconds later a fish came back and hit the plastic hard, mind you this is with no movement of the plastic at all, just the rod in the rod holder in dead calm conditions. I struck hard and proceeded to put my light rod in the rod holder when that buckled over too! There was about 5 seconds where I stupidly tried to fight both fish at the same time with one of the rods between my legs before I realised the smartest move was to put the heavier rod back in the rod holder and fight on the lighter gear first. After a short tussle a nice pansize snapper in the high 50's was in the footwell of the ski. I quickly grabbed the second rod and then realised the fish had backed under the ski and wrapped my line around the transducer. After about a minute of dicking around trying to sort it out with the gaff I made the call to jump in!!
BRRRRRR!!! TO be honest I was sh!tting myself, knowing that a school of snapper was 9m below me and there was nice flowing burley trail the thought of a Great White grabbing my leg started to freak me out. Moking yelled out he was going to bring a towell over and started to reel in his line then yelled out "IM ON, IM ON!!" I managed to free the line and jump back onto the ski and bring up an identical fish to my first while Moking netted a much better specimen at around ~4kgs, his best fish on the ski so far after catching plenty of KGW, herring and tailor the last couple months. I released my second fish hoping for a similar size fish to Mokings but wasnt to be, ohwell!
Congrats Allan I'm sure it will be the first of many!!
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championruby
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Your ski is bigger then your
Your ski is bigger then your car MOKING!
Nice fish guys, congrats on your first Mo.
Apparently the GWS is around the Sound again so no wonder you got nervous dangling in the water.
Ben Derecki
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Awesome.Love that fish-eye
Awesome.
Love that fish-eye pic at the start.
beau
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Thanks, I really like it too!
Thanks, I really like it too! I didnt mean to compose it like that, I just wanted a photo of the skis together, turned out good with the jetty running through the middle of the photo. Gotta love gopro!
JCM
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Great report
Great catch, great photos. They all with the Gopro? Excellent clarity. Bet Moking is happy as Larry!
What do you berley with?
beau
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thanks John. Yep all with
thanks John. Yep all with the gopro, i reccomend them so much I have 3 of them haha. Yeh Al was happy enough just being out there with some company let alone catching a beaut pinkie! Cubed Mulies and fish oil for burley
Rig
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nice
now I know why he is called Moking, sic little moke
nice session
tim-o
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Hed be moking the tyres up
Hed be moking the tyres up pullin anything bigger than a ski lol
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beau
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hahah funny you say
hahah funny you say that!!!
wink wink!
tim-o
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No weight and front wheel
No weight and front wheel drive, little wheels, bet its tense under the right foot even retrieving the ski, wouldnt want to go backwards on the ramp. I suppose if he did break traction, just bury the foot and keep it there, like fourwheel drivin, it always gets you out of the shit haha
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Moking
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Thanks Beau for putting the
Thanks Beau for putting the pic's up...it just reminded me of what a beautiful day we picked to go out -just look at that blue sky and water! We are so lucky to be living so close to this area.
Yes- I was smoking the Moke up at the boat ramp
The back wheels on the trailer dropped off the edge of the ramp,and at one stage I thought Beau was going to have to put a rope onto the Moke,as the Moke got plenty of wheels spin and tyre smoke from the front wheel drive tyres-but on the last attempt the mighty Moke pulled the Ski and trailer out.We had some fun though, what with Beau going for a swim and me getting stuck at the ramp! Then there was the drive to the boat ramp at 5am-I think I was colder in the Moke driving there,than when we were on the water!
Yes the Ski's get out very quickly and it's a lot of fun just getting there and coming back,the winds in your hair(what I have left!) and you take a lot of notice what is happening around you. Getting in behind the reefs is the best and trying different lures.
Thanks again Beau for getting me converted to the Ski...it's a lot quicker than paddling
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tim-o
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Haha, just run the carb lean
Haha, just run the carb lean as all buggery and get the exhaust glowin red hot, itl soon heat the floor up to keep u warm. Be good if Beau had the gopro on capturing the mokes tyres on fire, POM contender
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Moking
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No I can't run the carb
No I can't run the carb leaner...because it doesn't have a carbie- It's got a fuel injected engine in it,but no heater. And who needs a heater anyway,after all it is a Moke and topless at that
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tim-o
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Retro moke! What motor, same
Retro moke! What motor, same box etc tho? Or retro efi to the original donk?
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Moking
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Retro efi on straight cut
Retro efi on straight cut close ratio gearbox.
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tim-o
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Haha, got wet and let the
Haha, got wet and let the fish go nehow. Good sesh again, what speed do yous do to get to the spot..........10 min, could cover a bit of distance on a flat sound on a ski!
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Faulkner Family
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well done guys. nice couple
well done guys. nice couple of pinks there.
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Rig
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moking the tyres
haha good 1 tim-o
Vinesh87
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Great day boys good work !!
Great day boys good work !!
dkonig82
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Nice work! Pretty keen
Nice work! Pretty keen getting in the water though, sound's damned cold right now.
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Lamby
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Great work on the ski's lads
Great work on the ski's lads
snappermiles
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nice fish fellas
but now i no why you fall off your ski all the time!! bloody yamaha!!! haha
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