Wednesday 11 Nov Jigging on Tony's boat

My first little sambo, just to give my reel a test-drive. It really did very well, even if this isn;t much of a test!

This one tried a lot harder!

A little Sambo on a Caprice jig - ta Kasey!

The Daiwa Saltist Lever Drag 30 2-speed was good. I really need to back it off because 300m of YGK Ultra Jigman 8x PE4 doesn't go anwhere to fill it and the spool was very small and took a lot of winding. Took a bit of work to match the 6:1 gear ratio to the stroke length, but once that was sorted it was all good. 

Not too many casualties for the day. I had a GT knot snap at the base of the wraps, losing quite a good fish and a cheap jig. Tony lost a horse right up when we had colour. J_D had one bottom hookup and the knot I used broke at the bimni, perhaps I could use some practise there.

I have to run along to cook dinner, fresh sambo fishcakes with garlic chives and coriander. The rest released well.

Check out J_D's horse below though!

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coupla nice ones

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:08

Coupla nice ones there boys, good to finally see some sambo season action.

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saltist

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:12

some not too bad sambo's there guys.

How did the new saltist overhead go till?

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not bad lil' sambos.

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:31

not bad lil' sambos.

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Best for the session was

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:33

Best for the session was J_D's @ 15kg on the scales but its still early for out there.

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heating

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:36

its heating up!!

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yep - heading out on charter

Wed, 2009-11-11 17:37

yep - heading out on charter next week, so looking forward to some action.

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Getting excited

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:35

Nice boys, much much bigger fish than about 3 or 4 weeks ago when i was there!

Looking good!!

J_D's/Tony's (vertical pic) biggun looks oh so close to an amber (looked twice) from its faint yellow lateral line but i'll stick with a sambo!

How dense were the school/s Jamie?

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nice work guys

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:07

all good fun and some sweet conditions

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I think people are missing the bigger picture!

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:14

Congrats Tony on the Movemeber mo, that thing is a cracker so early in the month. 2 more weeks and that thing will be nearing Boonie like legendary status.

 

Yeah yipee - sambos, but that mo is the real deal.

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love your work huggy,

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:16

love your work huggy, movember hahaha

 

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Ambos

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:26

We were out there today (blue trailcraft) but didn't see a sambo all ambos biggest went about 8kg. Pulled a couple of small tuna on metals chasing schools around. Went out to the trench but not much out there plenty of bait around though.

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With the AC/DC? We saw you

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:37

With the AC/DC?

We saw you guys on some ok fish at the shallower sites, we found the bigger fish deeper.

Good to hear there are some tuna around,  it will be fun when they stack on a few pounds.

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Ambos I rekon

Wed, 2009-11-11 18:50

Yeah that was us. Pretty certain all those fish but the largest are ambos. Meant to be tasty?

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Our littlies had the same

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:22

Our littlies had the same number of scutes(?) is it on the top dorsal fin as the biguns, either they were all sambos or ambos and I thought the brow was a bit heavy for ambos.

The fish cakes were ok, whatever it was =)

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yep looks like fun, have to

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:00

yep looks like fun, have to try that one day

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stuff boys nice sambos

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:34

stuff boys

nice sambos there.

cheers danno

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nice work. It was a

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:47

nice work. It was a beautiful day out there today, we went out to Carnac and ended up with 9 big squid and even landed a nice pinky on my plastic while looking for KG's.
Gotta love week day fishes.

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wanker!

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:48

wanker!

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I hope you have a good day

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:57

I hope you have a good day sitting in your office tomorrow Brad.

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hahaha just get me that rod,

Wed, 2009-11-11 19:59

hahaha

just get me that rod, or ill be taking you to the "cattie" hole next week mate

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nice work till. looks like

Wed, 2009-11-11 22:24

nice work till. looks like you guys had some fun out there. its good to see that the others eat the sambo as well

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Ambos , sambos??

Thu, 2009-11-12 06:07

Day 12 of the mow!!

Ambos ,Sambos. We examined/ compaired plenty of fish yest with no solid verdict. I though they were samsons

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Ambos/Sambos

Thu, 2009-11-12 07:19

Thought they were ambos, so knocked one on the head should have released it was pretty average.

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Nice work guys. Good to see

Thu, 2009-11-12 09:50

Nice work guys. Good to see some bigger ones landed (and to see Tony jig one up a bit bigger than the smaller ones last time).

Look like sambos to me. In Tony's vertical one, the head doesnt look rounded/streamlined enough for an amber.

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anyone got the marks handy

Thu, 2009-11-12 10:01

anyone got the marks handy of the barges & containers?

 

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great day

Thu, 2009-11-12 16:01

yer was a great day out on the water, my first time jigging, gotta love the first inital hit when they take the jig, great feeling. on the way home saw plenty of whales, and a 6 foot hammerhead cruzing at the surface. water was so clear you could see anything. beats workin

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Nice work Till

Thu, 2009-11-12 20:43

Itching to get out there but got to man a booth at the 4wd show this weekend.  If we get a nice day next week I'm heading out ...you and Matt (Hlokk) will be welcome.  I was told not to eat the Sammies because of worms but sounds like the little ones are ok.  Cheers, Ben

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Just found a little info bout the differences between the two

Thu, 2009-11-12 21:20

A  quick ID is to check the relative position of the leading edge of the eye in relation to the rear of the jaw hinge.

In sambos the eye is behind the jaw hinge and amberjacks it is in front.

Put the 2 fish together and there is no mistaking the difference.

Amberjacks also are a scalyier fish than sambos - the scale being clearly seen where sambos have tiny scales, generally more streamlined and pull harder.


Dorsal fin ray count's definitely the reliable way to tell - samsons are always in the low 20s, amberjacks are in the low 30s. Enough difference with those numbers that you don't have to be too exact with the counting. You have samsons!

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Ahh fin rays, thats why they

Fri, 2009-11-13 05:40

Ahh fin rays, thats why they are call. Yeah the ones we got only got to about 18 before they flared back up which was too few for amberjacks.

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Fair enough look a lot

Fri, 2009-11-13 08:29

Fair enough look a lot different at that size when they come out of that depth. We chase them in about seventeen metres and they take on a totally different look at a simillar size. The mullas from that depth are also alot more cleaner looking than say the sound or river.

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They do seem to come out in

Fri, 2009-11-13 12:45

They do seem to come out in different colours like you say, but really I've always thought amberjacks fight as hard as sambos, perhaps even harder.

I saw a couple give Simo a fair workout last year, perhaps he was just soft ;)

Can't comment, haven't caught one myself yet.

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barges!

Fri, 2009-11-13 08:58

Nice sesh on the back brackers fella's, the barges are starting to fire up now and more to come!