south coast is just crazy, never ending insanely good fishing.
Another weekend with a lot of variety and some more crazy fish.
Saturday we went to a stupidly remote place 2 fishers and 2 divers, 4x4 into it on some crazy tracks that are all erroded and washed out or overgrown and im fairly sure cars havent been down it for a very long time, we dived the calm side but water was dirty so grabbed 5 big abalone and got out with a flatty as well. Dropped our catch at the car and went to find my brother and mate who went to the rough side that was a lot deeper, found them down a 130m high cliff and went down the ropes they had tied to get down to them, Aron has landed 2 grouper on jigs and smoked by another much bigger one. we mucked around for a bit more before Aron has hooked up on the 20lb setup and a whole crab, few minutes later and up pops his biggest grouper of the day. got it up and then we called it a day and headed back into town.
Sunday we didnt have anything planned other than work on the car and fix it up after the previous days abuse and i woke up late and Aron has already left to go for a fish. with the weather being so nice i went for a dive after lunch with a mate and and ive picked up a nice sized little blue and michael is waving a silver fish at me from a fair way away, swam over and noticed it was a dhuie. was thinking to myself geez that looks a bit small but as ive got close ive seen it and the barstard has got himslef his second albany dhu at 61cm from 6m of water 50m off the rocks. all i could find was a few small dhu's and i spent ages diving the deeper 15-25m water along the back edge to find one and michael has got one in the shallows on top of the reef against the rocks haha.
Got back to the car and checked my phone and got an update from Aron and Ethan and both have picked up sambos off the rocks at a spot close to town and Aron has got his first sambo off the rocks around 10kg on 20lb gear and a live skippy on slide.
Another weekend over but that gives us time to prepare for the next trip and find some new spots to try out and hopefully find a few more good fish.
always looking for a new challenge!!
JohnF
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Young mans sport
Young mans sport that!!!!
Great stuff.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
trymyluck
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well done again ! awesome
well done again ! awesome
brg
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Date Joined: 31/12/09
good fish man,geez those
good fish man,geez those cliffs look hairy
Auslobster
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Date Joined: 03/05/08
Big effort...
...big reward! And way to go with the land-based jigging!
Goatch
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Legends Boys
Awesome fish guys , just do us all a favour and stay alive !!! Keep up the spanking reports and pics ....
Just one more cast , honest !!!
crasny1
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I would be able to climb
down, but carrying the fish and climbing up!!??? I think to many gray hairs on the noggin for that.
Well done lads, living the dream.
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact!!" _ Elon Musk
hezzy
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chris , good effort and
chris ,
good effort and great reward mate , nice to see you boys making the effort to get out and have a go at out of the way spots
one thing though , are you blokes wearing rock hoppers ?? if not , get some as those rocks have claimed enough people already & anything you can do to make it safer for yourself and mates is the go
hezzy
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evil flourishes when good men do nothing
crasny1
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Agree with Hezzy lads
Also might add a Stormy jacket and dont turn your back to the ocean (even for a pic).
I thoroughly enjoy your post Chris, and would hate a tragedy.
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