Tuna on Whiting Gear
After a good sess on Saturday with Daz and TimVB where we bagged a nice mac and dhu,my old next door neighbour asked if I could take him out for a run on Sunday. Pretty stuffed from the day before, I was relieved when he suggested a quick whiting fish inside the 3 mile was all he was after. Happy days, a couple of nice cold ice coffee's and gentlemans hours start of 8.30am.
Stopped in 15 m after getting a few fish on the sounder, anchored, open the Masters Ice Coffee, and bang, double hook-up of fat whiting immediately, and this went on for the next 20 minutes. Cool bananas, nice feed of whiting for the neighbour, he was happy, I thought I might get home by 10 am and keep the missus happy.........but.......
.......the next whiting came up nicely sliced in half..........I hardly felt it so likley a maccie....dammmm! My interest levels quickly elevated, Dr Jeckel be gone, Mr Hyde came out and on went a couple of live whiting that were sent to the depths........swim swim swim, my scaly little freinds.
5 minutes and bang, a nice run, but bitten off on the snelled hooks....... so I put a fresh new livie on with wire this time, and after 10 minutes of nothing I bring it up to check it. On the way up, a bloody big fish swooped back and forward numerous times but balked right at the livie.....damm wire.......still not sure what it was.....but for the world looked like a big trevor, too light for a sambo.......a gold spot possibly?????
Back down with another livie, a few more whiting for the esky and them wammo.......after a great fight, a very fiesty bronze whaler was landed and dispatched......flake ahoy!
Right, that is that, happy to go home now.
A minute from Hillarys and tuna went nutz everywhere, bustin up all over the shop. PHARK.......only whiting gear or trolling overheads set-up, so on with some twities on the whiting gear and with some trepidation me and the neighbour pinged the tuna schools..........40 minutes and quite a few swear words later, was just about to give up chasing schools of flighty tuna, very frustratng stuff! Then wham, double hook-up and it was on. Completely nutz, 2500 size whiting reels and 6 lb line were sizzling, and after me trying to climb arounf the boat to chase my fish, I lost contact and dropped it. Cliff was stll on, and it was not looking good, the little Shimano el cheapo whiting outfit was protesting loudly, and the spool was looking rather empty.
Started the boat and the chase was on, for the next 35 minutes we chased the tuna! After many tuna circles Cliff bagged a very nice stripey tuna on 6 lb line, quick photo and the tired tuna slowly swam off.
Bit more chasing and I am on, this time I rigged up my Certate 2500 with 8 lb braid and got the stripey to the boat within a minute......just missed the net shot, and then 5 minutes later, I am still tring to get colour after a few good runs......go hard on light gear these stripeys! Landed it very green and then released after a quick snap.
Home by 3 pm to a grumpy wife but a VERY happy skipper and deckie.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
crasny1
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Nice Stripeys
But where is the whiting pics. Love those little suckers as much as a big dhu.
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Wes F
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From a easy day out to full
From a easy day out to full on action i don't think anyone could have resisted top fight on the light gear
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Ben Derecki
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Great fun... and then you get
Great fun... and then you get them in the boat and there's blood everywhere. Those things flick more of the red stuff than Freddy Kreuger.
Nice work fellas.
kane
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thats awesome
great report, almost like being there, also how much better is fishing on light gear! its one thing to skull drag a fish on heavy gear but its 1000x more fun fighting the fish of a lifetime on light gear hey!
Gooooone Fishin!
barneyboy
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haha
thats the go. great fish those stripeys. thanks for the report, found it an enjoyable read!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
Paul H
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Definately better living on
Definately better living on the edge, once hooked a kingie just a tad smaller on my whiting gear off a pontoon where we staying and it led me on a merry dance before I landed it. Would love to hook a little tuna!! well done
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cuthbad
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haha sounds like a fun
haha sounds like a fun morning
Cheers
grayzeee
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good going Johnthose stipeys
good going John
those stipeys go hard eh. great stuff.
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chrisp
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Ha Ha
Nice write up mate.
dodgy
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Should make your way up to
Should make your way up to line class comps where it's all in a days work. Good fun
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Uluabuster
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Awesome report. Would love
Awesome report. Would love to get onto the action like you guys.
Yet to snag my first tuna on casting....
soupster51
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Light Gear
Top fun on the light gear. Hopefully you're all good with the missus now. LOL.
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aalfred
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That must have been wicked
That must have been wicked fun on light gear! Well done!
dkonig82
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Great work guys! They
Great work guys! They definitely go hard on the light gear.
2 weeks back I got a couple on 6lb sunline and a crappy Penn Applause 2000, and saw the backing more than once!
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Gaffatron
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haha great report! sounds
haha great report! sounds like good fun :)
uncle
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I could see them
this morning from the shore
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fisho-ron
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sounds like a cracker of a
sounds like a cracker of a day john.
as always mate, tell the wife you be in early and it all goes to shit, she is used to it now and if i do get home early its a shock to the system big time.
usally she ask if i ran out of jimmys!!!
old salt
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haha good stuff, ive caught
haha good stuff, ive caught barra too on whiting gea and that was also a great buzz pushing the gear to the absolute limit. no pics of the whiting?
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Faulkner Family
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a quick session to remember.
a quick session to remember. well done on nailing the shark and then to get tuna on light stuff, loads of fun for your neighbor.
hope you have some more breownie points back after that one.
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