Sunday morning out of Mindarie

Left Mindarie Marina at 6am, trolled 2 deep diver xraps and 2 halco deep diver redheads from Mindarie to two rocks in the 20 - 30m line in a horrible stiff easterly for lots of seaweed and no mackies or tuna. Waited for the easterly to back off and headed directly west of two rocks about 25 kms out to the 35 - 45m area. There were 4 or 5 boats spread out so we decided to fish in amongst them. Usually we get 2 or 3 sargeant baker in a full day of demersal fishing but it seemed we were in sargeant baker city, they were in plague proportions like blowies we kept getting double headers and they were all full grown.   Managed to land 2 dhueys at 48cm and 49cm each (bugger) and 3 baldies (tiny - 30 - 35cm bugger again) 4 tidler breaksea cod  and just crap loads of sargeant baker never seen anything like it before. It was like the demersals down there couldnt even get a look at the bait before it was attacked by sargeant baker. Only good thing about the sargeant baker we found was that when we snagged up you just let out a crap load of line wait a minute or 2 then up would come your rig with at least 1 or 2 sargeant baker attached they were actually unsnagging the sinkers for us !! Water temp 21.8 C lots of flying fish, didnt see any bust-ups on the surface or birds feeding. How did anybody else fishing in that area go?


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Don't worry mate

Mon, 2013-12-23 14:01

 Have had very similar experience with Sargent bakers myself before.

we were fishing an area out of two rocks where a friend had caught some nice fish before and all I could manage was one after another Sargent bakers. As you mentioned double headers, and a baker each and every drift. Very frustrating!! They would even eat their own because in the end I was catching heaps of Sargent baker, on fresh strip baits of Sargent bakers.

 

if i have the same thing happen again I am going to take a few home for the mother in law. Hahaha

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yep was out that way on

Fri, 2013-12-27 10:31

yep was out that way on Monday- loads of bakers!

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Shocker

Mon, 2013-12-30 22:19

 Had a shocker for demersals but found some birds on top of a massive school

of 10kg + Sambos which were a bit of fun ... Threw them back no good to eat especially at that size.