Soft Plastics clean up
Had a great day fishing in 40m West of Hillaries today. I decided it was time to bite the bullet and use only soft plastics (7inch mcarthys), while my two mates used squid with a wrasse sweetener.
First spot and I had hooked up solid to a good Breaksea before they had even baited up (cheating they said).
I then followed up with a Sambo of 15kgs (released). We moved to the next spot a I was the rose between two thorns . All lines went down together (mine much slower) and touch touch whack im into a Jewie of 11kgs.
Over the next couple of hours the bait boys got 2 jewies 500(released) and 540 (kept) plus a baldie and nice flathead. I kept my best to last , teasing a 12kg jewie into falling for the trap(released).
All fish were measured with the virtually unbreakable Re-Pete Fish Ruler
cheers Pete.
till
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Nice, even more wins on the
Nice, even more wins on the McArthy Baits!
Just1morecast
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great report mate, welldone
great report mate, welldone on saying no to the bait and outdone the mates with eaase by the sounds of it haha
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DazSamFishing
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well done mate. A nice haul
well done mate. A nice haul of good eating fish there.
southcity104
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slayed the baiters!
common thing to hear now!
you must have been well chuffed with that effort!
great day!
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fishing94
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nice catchthere seems to be
nice catch
there seems to be alot of dhu fish bein caught on lures latley :)
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biggerfish
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Sounds like u had a good day
Sounds like u had a good day out today those duhies love the plastics don't they what colour was doing the damage. I went out today for a plastic bash on my own picked up two duhies first one went 8 kilo which I released as I had only been fishing for ten minutes second duhie went 6 kilos which I kept as it was nearly time to go home only other fish was a sargaent baker the colour that got the duhies was baby elf tried chartruess , copper chartruess and the pink but baby elf was the only one the fish were intrested in was a pretty quiet day out at south west bank today but still good to feel a few decent duhies on my new sp rod.
Play hard fish harder
Brody
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Nice one
Good session there Pete.
STEVE231
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Well done, I think my next
Well done, I think my next outing will be a plastics only excursion.
piston broke
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I was using
the 7 inch jerk minnow in olive pearl thanks to Brodys advice. Only used 2 all day which is pretty economical I thought. cheers Pete
ADDICT- dUFFMAN
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great job Mr thomas
great fish and great effort on the placcys.
i soon hope to nail some fish on the placcys
winner winner chicken dinner
grayzeee
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well done mate.can't wipe the
well done mate.
can't wipe the smile off when outfishing bait on same boat.
very nice
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
STEVE231
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In my limited experience
In my limited experience with artificials, I landed two fish the other day for not a touch on bait. I'm convinced it's a better way of fishing, the only thing is I don't think you'll get the mixed bag.
grayzeee
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agreed steve and in my own
agreed steve and in my own limited experience
dhueys will smash jigs and plastics
baldies though.......
time and a place for everything i guess
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
train
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Nice work Pete and the rulers
Nice work Pete and the rulers look good too!
piston broke
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Thanks Ben
have you been out lately?
train
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Went out from Rocko in my
Went out from Rocko in my dinghy to 20m and about 4nm and got 2 dhuies (65cm and 55cm), foxfish and blackass. Best session I've had out of rocko, went out the next day and only got a blackass and scorpionfish. So I think I got lucky!
Went out from Lano on Monday and got 4 dhuies (3 size, biggest was 66cm), 5 Pinkies (2 size), 3 baldies (around 56cm), 2 blackass, 2 scorpion and a foxfish, was a hot session constantly getting good bites over featureless ground. Got 5 of the fish on an octo jigs and flick rod which was fun and tried the McArthy's and knifejigs but didn't get a sniff and too much work.
Faulkner Family
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sounds like you have got the
sounds like you have got the plastics sussed . well done on beating the baits. that big dhuie looks like it has swallowed a fair bit of food recently. gotta be happy with the results
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