Yesterdays Report

Well unfortunately due to the weather and needing to be back at 2 we decided not to head out to the FAD's and instead hit the local reefs and then head out to try find some bottom dwelling species. The NE was fairly stiff and reinforced the reason we didn’t hit the FAD's. Got to Mewstone and started chucking lures with every cast resulting in a herring, until my mate then got bricked on 12lb to what we think was a huge tailor judging by the pace it took off. After we had enough herring for bait we headed out to the 40m mark where we eventually found a likely spot, did a few drifts and found we were getting smashed by small snapper which wouldn’t leave our baits alone, we moved a few times and found the same result. We then decided to head out a little deeper where we found a little lump of coral and first drop resulted in a nice Red snapper for my mate.

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As I was taking the photo my rod went off and I thought I had hooked his brother until line started stripping, unfortunately it was just a sambo,

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so with time getting on we decided to head back in, by this stage the wind had dropped and we could head in sitting on 30kn. I’ve still got a couple more weeks before uni starts again so hopefully I can head out to the FAD's and get into some nice yellow fish.

Cheers Miles


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didnt miss anything out wide

Wed, 2010-03-31 11:32

didnt miss anything out wide - headed out after the wind dropped out, fads were very quiet

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Thats no good. Do you think

Wed, 2010-03-31 11:36

Thats no good. Do you think the moon would have anything to do with it?

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Good lil report mate, did

Wed, 2010-03-31 12:23

Good lil report mate, did you find a stray sambo or a school? Everyones been telling me that there's heaps around atm but i haven't found any.

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no idea, it was right at the

Wed, 2010-03-31 13:18

no idea, it was right at the end of the drift and the rest of the lines were out of the water, And we couldnt tell on the sounder cause the small snapper were thick as.

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ahh okay, still a pretty

Wed, 2010-03-31 13:36

ahh okay, still a pretty good mornings fish :) hopefully there will be some good weather over the easter break. Should be good as it seems half of perth is going to be down south:p

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At least you got out on the

Wed, 2010-03-31 16:25

At least you got out on the blue ,i think my next trip could be the exmouth one, working right through easter ,as the work is piling up .Which is good but do miss fishing or diving on the weekends.

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Nice Nanni mate. I would

Wed, 2010-03-31 16:40

Nice Nanni mate.

I would watch how you hold these fish, their gill cover and rakers are like knifes.

 

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whats wrong with sambo's? im

Wed, 2010-03-31 18:51

whats wrong with sambo's? im from up north so have no idea. sounds like a fun morning tho. well done boys good report

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ones this size are fine to

Wed, 2010-03-31 19:25

ones this size are fine to eat, dont get me wrong there not a baldy or dhu but i recon at this size there worth keeping and if looked after taste quite good. however like most fish as they get bigger they get mushy, fishy and most have worms so arnt worth keeping.