West Side Festivus

West Side Festivus

Headed over to the west side today to help Deepwater fill the empty void that is his freezer. Seeing as it is a festivus mood we had our "Feats of Strength" and only used conventional reels (no electrics). 4 drifts later we'd had enough of rubies and cod (greyband and comet cod) so we hit up another spot in the 100's. It was Red Throat central but we managed a goldband and a nice coronation trout. The highlight however was a lit up little marlin chase the goldband up so I left it in the water while I rigged a big Mcarthy soft plastic (10"???) which the marlin hit and swam off with. Unfortunately I was using light gear and couldn't set the hook so my "cast billfish soft plastic cherry" remains intact.

 


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sweet haul fella's, unlucky

Fri, 2011-06-24 20:51

sweet haul fella's, unlucky on the Marlin aye Tim!!

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 Nice haul guys some nice

Fri, 2011-06-24 20:53

 Nice haul guys some nice looking and probably better tasting fish.

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Sorry to hear about the

Fri, 2011-06-24 20:54

Sorry to hear about the Marlin, but you gotta have something to do up there the next few months.

Those rubies and cod ill be tasty either way mate!

till

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Nice one

Fri, 2011-06-24 23:02

I think you may have out done Adam today.

I'd take those fish over crabs any day

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nice haul there boys

Sat, 2011-06-25 05:42

 and im sure there will be many more in the future

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Oooh, that would have been a

Sat, 2011-06-25 06:38

Oooh, that would have been a nice cherry to pop!  Be prepared next time LT!

Nice selection of bottom fish.

Cheers Pete

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Thanks Lucky Tim

Sat, 2011-06-25 06:48

Thank you very much there Lucky,we got alought of great fish mate and i all so popped my cherry with my first of many Rubby snapper

 

 thangs again mate

 

 jeff

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 Nice work guys. Bad luck

Sat, 2011-06-25 06:53

 Nice work guys. Bad luck with the marlin. Maybe switch baiting with large SPs could be worth a go.

Whats the fish at the top of the page?

 

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your guess is as good as

Sat, 2011-06-25 07:08

your guess is as good as ours. It had features of a fusilier, buff bream, and something else and was caught on bait in 115m. I've got a better pics, I'll do some research

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quality bag!

Sat, 2011-06-25 08:19

i thought the rear fish could have been a trevalla. im gonna do a 500m plus drop on sunday after one, hopefully a ruby to. i think i need to head more north though.

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I'm 99% sure it was from the

Sat, 2011-06-25 09:15

I'm 99% sure it was from the fusilier family. I'll chuck up another pic seperately

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Nice

Sat, 2011-06-25 12:31

Very nice Tim. You guys have the life up there. Unlucky with the marlin, that would have been a story and a half.

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