Two rocks yesterday
Went 35km out of two rocks to the 40m line at around 7am. Things were very slow for the first couple of hours, heaps of reefies smashing my squid baits and got two undersize dhuies and a descent breaksea cod. Moved to a spot i caught a 15kg dhuie a few months ago and my brother got a beautiful baldie on soft plastic - went 62cm and right on 5kg - the biggest ive ever seen. Did a few more drifts in that area but nothing happening so decided to go more shallow to 25 - 38m line. By now we had 17 birds at the back of the boat and really struggled to get my baits past them. At one point i caught 3 of the fu@#$rs at once, one tangled in the main line and 1 on each of my squid baits! have never seen so many at once out there and they became frenzied as soon as i dropped my baits over diving right to to grab the squid. I was down to my last half squid,(went through 2kg's of squid), managed to get it past the birds and got a 49cm baldie. Got the little bronzy on a scalie then called it a day. Conditions were beautiful out there thanks for reading! cheers dave
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Coastrunner
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Cracker Baldy
Thats going to be good on chew, picked up a good size one out of Bunno a couple of weeks back.
Faulkner Family
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well done. nice eating all
well done. nice eating all round. at least you dont have to throw away the old bait
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Meeuwissen
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Did well
To pin that great baldie on a plastic at the abrohlos I used to to put a 2/0 circle in the tail and nail a few that way
Down the Line
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kirky79
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Good work
Those Mutton birds a bloody crazy hungry at the moment. Haven't seen them like that for a few years now.
meglodon
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I find that strange
As everyone i9s saying the same thing, mutton birds in big numbers and hungry as all hell, one feels inclined to ask why should they be like this.
A lot of reports from members about sbt bust ups from fish feeding on bait fish which usually has the gulls and mutton birds scrounging for left overs so anecdotally you would assume that there should be enough food for them.
A bit strange I think.
Jadeo
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Bloody mutton birds are
Bloody mutton birds are always hungry!!! Couple of nice baldies there. Enjoy the feast
Saulty2
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doesnt take long
for them to get used to an easy feed prime example from a charter boat that anchors in that general area , normaly my experience is they just hang around a rec.boat for scraps