Solid Metro YFT on Jig
Took my boss and his young bloke Marcus (who is an avid FW member and was keen to get out for jig on my boat) out for a fish today. Given the 5 m swell at Rotto overnight, I almost called it off, but we weaved our way through the 3 mile, it was breaking places I have not seen it before and the 45 ft gin palace that followed me through almost binned it as a large swell started breaking just as he was crossing the reef. Hairy moment! Anyhow, Marcus was keen as mustard, a 5 m swell was not going to slow him down and he wanted to get out and have jig come hell or high water....literally. I indicated the huge swell and stronger breeze than predicted would keep us in close so don't expect much. Maybe a few small sambos. Sounded a few good fish, likely sambos, and before long we jigged up several sambos and amberjack including a double header on one jig. Good fun.
We then had a 3 way hook-up on jig, me and Greg getting our fish in pretty quick, but Marcus was stuffing about and started winging about it being really big.....no interest from his old man or me, we just told him to hurry up and land the fish......
15 minutes later and he was really struggling, so we decided he may have a good fish on! And it was. Jammy little bastard gets one of the best YFT seen on my boat, and on JIG!.
Ended the day with a nice KG and dhu and came home at 26 knots in nice conditions, the swell had halved by the time we went back over the 3 mile. Great fun and awesome job Marcus.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Auslobster
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Pot calling kettle black!
So the young bloke is the "Jammy bastard"...you're the one who keeps getting onto more pelagics in the dead of winter than anyone can reasonably expect!
Good onya, and well done to Marcus...certainly provides inspiration for all of us mugs out there!
tim-o
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Farrk! Thats epic, how old is
Farrk! Thats epic, how old is he, top effort. What have you got painted on the bottom of your hull John, fins obviously like it
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Ben Derecki
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Hahah, that's sick. Loved
Hahah, that's sick. Loved that third pic of the young lad putting his back into it - did not expect the next pic that popped up though! Awesome fish and cheers for the writeup(s) JF.
mcrosmar1
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hahahaha "jammy little
hahahaha "jammy little bastard" thanks for the great day out
Ryan C
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Nice one Marcus
Good work Marcus , that's a bit bigger than the salmon at Dunsborough !!! Well done .
Langa
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What next?
Well done Marcus, showing your old man how its done.
Black Marlin last month, YFT on jig this month, what's next?
soupster51
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Nice
Sashimi in winter. Awesome.
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southcity104
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heh. Superb!
on jig too! There must be plenty lurking about.
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JohnF
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Yeah Tony, we saw some great
Yeah Tony, we saw some great tuna shows lurking on bait balls yesterday. We chucked the trolling lures out for 5 or 10 minutes on a couple of bait balls and got one stripy but recon we were unlucky as we have got YFT on similar bait balls before.
Tuna appear to be wide spread, we travelled 105 km yesterday and saw bait balls and suspicious red marks around them consistently. Water temp 19.5.
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Boydy
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That's a cracking Fin by any
That's a cracking Fin by any account, top effort to the young angler.
Lamby
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Ripper YFT on jig to the
Ripper YFT on jig to the young bloke
dansyy
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horse of a yellow fin!!!
horse of a yellow fin!!!
Id rather be fishing
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dkonig82
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Mate I gotta stop reading
Mate I gotta stop reading your reports. Too depressing!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.