Trolled west end sunday morning
Sorry to report got absolutely nothing. Got there about 6:30am after a slow trip in windy, sloppy shit ocean (wasnt anything like seabreeze predicted). Pulled red head deep divers and bright pink and green jet head skirts. Didnt see any birds or pelagics feeding, trolled for about 3 hours back and forth along those demersal sancuary zone markers from the 18m line gradually out to the 30+ metre line. About 4-5 other boats doing the same. Decided to troll east along the southern side of rotto in 16 - 20m line out of the wind and waves but it was absolutely chockers with weed in there for some reason, by the time we were half way along rotto it was untrollable all lures and the teasers crammed with weed pissed us off so we went back to ocean reef pulled lures around there, weed was bad also then went home. Pretty shitty after all that effort but I guess it is still early in the Mackie season. Water temp was 21 degrees and there were heaps of flying fish around. Did anybody else have any luck out there?
dkonig82
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That sucks - whole day of
That sucks - whole day of trolling for zip is one of the less enjoyable days on the water - particularly if there's weed around!
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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.
milsey
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We were over there for crays
We were over there for crays but had a flick at some schools out off tomos, landed one striped, straightened one treble and dropped a few more.
They only stuck around for a few mins then moved and we werent there to chase them so went and found a few crays. Good fun on 10lb and they produced some pretty awsome surface strikes.
Rig
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this weekend
will be over there this weekend so hopefully we can rustle something up
any cray reports from the weekend?
DTrain
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I went out on Saturday from
I went out on Saturday from Ocean Reef. Trolled north all the way up to the Gemini wreck. Caught a couple of small Sambos and got a double hookup on a single lure. Didn't see any tuna and no signs of bird action either.
tailor marc
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apparently 3 marlin raised at
apparently 3 marlin raised at the trench saturday
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Tim
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Few more
5 on Saturday Marc and more on Sunday :)
Looking good for the rest of the year
big john
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5 + raised
for a total fuel burn of ???? Tim?
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Tim
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Not much
Not as much as you would think BJ. Only a handful of boats went wide as its so early in the season.
Plus how often do you hear of that many in a day off Perth normally?? Pretty good results I would think.
Was a lot of ground covered for the weekend. Think I did about 450km over the 2 days and feeling it today.
big john
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Hours
How many hours have you put on your 140 now Tim?
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Tim
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Low
Pretty low. Heading to 600
bitten
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no mackies in geraldton yet
no mackies in geraldton yet so i reakon your pushing shit up hill trying to get them metro, cant get them if you dont have a line in the water though
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tim what depths r u trolling
tim what depths r u trolling for the marlin keen to get out and have a crack just dont want to be wasting time trying in the` wrong area