Sunday's Fishing Report

We decided to go for a late afternoon fish yesterday with the tide change, moon and sunset all working well together. The winds were light and variable and made for a silky smooth ride to the inshore spot. After a quick 10 minutes of berleying the first baits hit the water for near on instant success with a little rat sambo of 1.5kg swallowing my cubed mulie. Next drop was instantly back onto a 35cm dhuie that fought and released well. The 3rd drop then produced a beautiful and small, yet magnificently coloured harlequin that called for the icebox. After a great initial run I started moving onto the rock fish and reefies, whilst Mark pulled in a solid 1.5kg breaksea. After that the skippy moved in on mass, plague proportions of fish around the 1kg mark made it impossible to get a bait down, we decided to keep 8 and released another dozen and a half. After the skippy moved through the skipper managed to pick up a rogue pinky, not huge, but well over legal size. 20 minutes of quietness and all of a sudden Mark's little Avet loaded with 14 pound braid starts screaming big fish. All lines up, 4 50+m burning runs later he has a samsonfish easily 20kg and over the 1m mark into the boat, successfully landed and released. Just like me, forgot the bloody tagging gear too! Oh well, it was a great afternoon out there, hope you all had a great weekend. Cheers, Adam

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fish

Mon, 2006-06-12 16:55

hey i got a 68kg thresher shark balooning on the five fathom i think it was an unlucky 1

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sounds like a better day

Mon, 2006-06-12 17:13

sounds like a better day than we had, we caught pretty much nothin worth reporting :P Ocean reef or hillaries adam?

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Hillaries

Mon, 2006-06-12 17:23

Hillaries, heading south :)

Did you manage to get a photo of the thresher ugly?

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Wed, 2006-06-14 09:24

Gully rang me this morning telling me about a heap of birds working off Scarbrough about 1km out. Gribbo also rang me last Saturday saying the same thing, but off Cottesloe. I went and checked it out and the birds had settled back on the water, but there must have been hundreds of them. There were still a few rogue birds within the area smashing the surface, don't know if it was a school of bonito or salmon, but there was certainly something there.

Also saw a similar situation in the river yesterday afternoon over from between point walter and point resolution, heap of bird activity and surface splashes, could have been anything thou.

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