We finally got out there

Well after 4 months without hitting the salty substance in our boat due to repairs being carried out which is now home where she belongs (apart from on the water).

 

We made the decision to hit the water around 6:30 am but as usual we were running late, finally left the jetty at around 7:45 (gentlemans hours) and we were greeted with some nice flat waters with a slight Easterly wind blowing but due to lack of time and petrol funds we had decided to fish in shallower waters than we would normally fish. We got to our spot with plenty of fish showing on the sounder with some nice lumpy ground under them, setting up for the drift to work out which way we would go and seeing even more nice ground all around showing fish we thought it might be a great day. The drift produce absolutely nothing , so we decided to anchor up. First fish that came aboard was a small and i say smalllllll b/bum by Sandy. Followed by Brenden (who slept most of the day) pulled in another small b/bum , followed by a half decent wrasse (bait) .My first fish was a decent skippy of around 1/2 kg . A few other skippy of reasonable size came aboard when finally Sandy was into something decent which ended up as a nice big fat KG that went 51cm and just over 1kg.

 

I then cut up the wrasse to use for bait on a set of bigger hooks. A few more skippy came up with some of them being returned as we already had some good size ones in the esky. Sandy's rod buckled over with line screaming off in a hurry, after a few minutes the fight was going her way . Up came a Sambo of around the 6kg mark , nice feed comming up for us i said. Spiked , bled and into the esky.

 

Things went quiet so we decided to up anchor and move to another spot. I came up with a double header,small skippy and a gurnard both went back swimming. Then Sandys rod went off screaming again . This time the fight was a bit different from the last but after several minutes up came another sambo of similar size to the first and again spike, bled and in the esky.

 

After a while with some little nibbles and not much action Sandy was bringing her line up and it was heavy, thinking maybe an occy or a cuttlefish  up comes a cuttlie of a decent size, yum , tasty entree . Lines down again and this time Sandy felt something a bit different in the fight and up comes an eel of around 70 cm(damn things) but we managed to avoid the usual line tangle by leaving it in the water to remove the hooks.

 

Next one on was me , it was quite heavy and some good pulls i wasnt sure what to call , then finally up comes a huge cuttlie. Things went all quiet after that apart from a few skippy so we decided to head on in. With Brenden waking up he drove us in at 30knts all the way as the water was as calm as.

 

Back at the boat ramp by 1:45 with a reasonable catch for the day on some new ground. Sandy ended with 1 kg, 2 sambo , 1 cuttlie and 3 skippy. I ended with 5 skippy and 1 cuttlie so i was out done yet again.

 

 

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Nice catch. That Kg would

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:27

Nice catch. That Kg would taste awesome. I reckon the old Cuttlie isnt too bad either!

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Fair Beast of a Cuttley!

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:31

Fair Beast of a Cuttley!

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jealous as , but you hvaent

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:33

jealous as , but you hvaent been out for ages so you guys def deserve this , great outcome with a pretty nice feed . cheers

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Well done Faulkners..

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:36

Good to see you finaly got out there. The boat went OK I take it?

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thanks David. the old girl

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:42

thanks David. the old girl (boat that is) went great, ran like a dream with the grunt of a v8 not the grinding of shotty bearingsLaughing

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Don't ya just love the sound

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:48

Don't ya just love the sound of the old V8????? I know I do.

Now all we need are your pics from when you can get out.

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now we have the tub fixed

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:53

now we have the tub fixed hopefully we will get out there a bit more.and put up a few pics from time to time and the salt water wont dry up in the veins

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thanks guys.the kg and

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:40

thanks guys.the kg and cuttlies are going to taste great as entree and sambo with creamy lemon sause with prawns served on a bed of mash for mains.

DhuBoi, yeah i think we deserve it Laughing.great feed after a great day on the water

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Yeh i agree , 4 months or so

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:42

Yeh i agree , 4 months or so no fishing and boat out of action is enough to send anyone crazy , specially if you really get that fishing bug :) cheers

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Looks like you folks had a

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:54

Looks like you folks had a great day out!  About time, can't remember how long it's been since I saw you post up about  getting a line wet.

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It was a great day out there

Sun, 2010-08-15 22:59

It was a great day out there , calm seas and light winds and to fnnish it off with a feed. From memory last time we put something up was the day before the rfbl came in.(too long)

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About Time

Sun, 2010-08-15 23:17

Every time I open the site you are congrats somebody else but had never seen a post of your catches.

Good to see you are in the water and having success on the first voyage after beginning grounded.

Not bad for a quick trip out, often good to stay close to shore after mechanical problems just gives you that extra bit of piece in the back of your mind

Well done, look forward to more posts

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Well done!!

Mon, 2010-08-16 06:03

Great to see you guys in the boat catching again, also it's good to see the comments on your catch when you guys leave so many for others!!
Look forward to seeing some more fish!!

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Good report!

Mon, 2010-08-16 06:13

Great to see you got back onto the water, Russ...and it also shows that you can still get a good feed even with all the new bag limits! Again, nice write-up/photos and looking forward to hearing about your next adventure.

 

Why didn't we have weather like that for Whitey's charter last week? Always the way!

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Well Done Faulkner Family

Mon, 2010-08-16 06:33

A great report and good to hear the boat was all good , a good feed and massave cuttlefish now that would have been good dhufish bait the leggs any way

well done Russ and Sandy

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Great to hear you got the boat out again and that she went

Mon, 2010-08-16 06:45

well. Nice KG Sandy and a big cuttlefish there Russ to top it off.

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Nice Day

Mon, 2010-08-16 07:03

Good to see you guys back on the water. A solid feed of fish as well. Top stuff.

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Nice effort

Mon, 2010-08-16 08:25

Good to see you out getting a feed, few choice meals there

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Monster cuttlefish, you

Mon, 2010-08-16 08:48

Monster cuttlefish, you picked some nice weather to get out!

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Water

Mon, 2010-08-16 09:11

Great to hear that you're back on the water catching a feed. Good report Russ.

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out and about

Mon, 2010-08-16 10:10

I bet you guys enjoyed that day out and a few nice feeds

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thanks for all the kind

Mon, 2010-08-16 10:16

thanks for all the kind words and it was so enjoyable out there but we did have one big problem with the day, we had to come back in and go and open the shop Frown. would have been nice to stay out longer.

Jeff, we have tried cuttlie for bait before and nothing wanted to touch it, two baits down there and only the cuttlie would come back up

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Work

Mon, 2010-08-16 13:31

No work, no money, no play

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own business, no money ,

Mon, 2010-08-16 13:34

own business, no money , very little play Laughing.but you are right tho

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hi russ good to see you had

Mon, 2010-08-16 14:14

hi russ

good to see you had a good day out and the boat is going well.

i dont know which water you were in mate, but out the behind the island near rotto in 50-60mts was rough as guts, although it did calm down after lunch for a nice arvo.

 

i have never tried cuttle fish, does it taste like squid?

wel done guys

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hi Ron. we were out the back

Mon, 2010-08-16 18:54

hi Ron. we were out the back of garden isl and the water was great the whole time out there....

As far as cuttlefish goes compared to squid ..mmmmmmm imo better.

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yeh russ, it didnt get

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:06

yeh russ, it didnt get shitty till we got right out in the 60's, thats fishen eh..

just eating some of the sambo now, its not that bad, nice and firm, but the nanagi is far better than all, including the spanish mac.

i will have to try the cuttle next time instead of using it as bait.

cheers ron

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those sambo's imo are under

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:10

those sambo's imo are under rated, we just had a feed of sambo with a creamy lemon sauce with scallops, prawns , nz mussels and fresh cuttlie. yummmmmmmmm. but yeah i got to admit we are partial to nanni and kg

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Great to see you back out

Mon, 2010-08-16 18:02

Great to see you back out and into it again and also good to see nothing has changed one day Russ you will out fish Sandy maybe. I always enjoy your coments but i enjoy your own reports so much more

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Good to see you out on the

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:04

Good to see you out on the water again doing what you love .A couple of good fish for dinner .We also got a couple of the big cuttlefish Sunday .

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yeah seems to be quite a few

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:12

yeah seems to be quite a few cuttlies around at the moment. the smaller one of ours was full of eggs so i would say its spawning season and brings the big ones to shallower waters

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is this the right time for

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:21

is this the right time for cuttles? there seems to be a few caught this weekend and when we were out deep we would of seen at least 50 shells.

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Well done. Good to see you

Mon, 2010-08-16 19:08

Well done. Good to see you got out.

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Hoorah!

Tue, 2010-08-17 07:35

Yay, you guys finally had a window of opportunity to get the lines wet! 

And by the looks of it, once again, the girls have come back with the best catch! Go Sandy!

Glad you had a great day!

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yeah, nothing has changed.

Tue, 2010-08-17 22:49

yeah, nothing has changed. Sandy still catches more than me Frown,but it was me that put the boat in the right spot for her to catch the fishLaughing

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Well done guys, you must

Tue, 2010-08-17 16:21

Well done guys, you must have had a massive feeling of relief when you finaly got out on the water. good to see you back amungst it.

 

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Congratulations Faulkner Family

Tue, 2010-08-17 18:45

Good to see you guys are back on the water and a fun day it looks you had. Looking forward to seeing more photos in the future.

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thanks Webby and Frank. it

Tue, 2010-08-17 22:51

thanks Webby and Frank. it was a good feeling to be out there again and to get a good feed was a bonus. hopefully the next trip out wont be too far away

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