ANY BODY SEEN OR CAUGHT ANY GOOD SIZE SAMLON AROUND METRO AREA YET?

Hi guys just wanted to know if anyone went out and if the did how they went since we were blessed with two great days for fishing.

i went out both day had a ball in the sound with pinkies all realeased the went out side the islands on sunday and got a few good dhuies will post pics when i can figure out resizing.

Well let us know and lets see some great pics.

Cheers Guys Dave

Well, another weekend has passed and it was another chance to get out of town and go fishing, our destination being the Blowholes, just north of Carnarvon. On arrival where we would be staying we noticed a friendly local that had decided to make an appearance.

Anyway we came to fish so that’s exactly what we did Saturday arvo down at the boat ramp, which is just a stretch of beach at around dusk. After a few runs and missed hook ups I finally stayed connected and landed a nice Spangled, it was my first descent size one at this spot estimated at 3-4kg, it turned out it was the first and last Spanglie of the weekend.

The wind was blowing 15-20 knots in a SE direction all weekend and for the most part, was overcast. In the morning conditions improved slightly after a bit of rain overnight and the call was made to head further north to a spot known as North 9 Mile. The swell was really pumping over the weekend so this restricted the areas we could fish.

With the current ripping across the shallow reef and baitfish evident I thought I had a good chance of catching something as I bombed out 50 or so casts with my trusty 850 and 8’ Ugly Stik. I was half way through a retrieve when my Richter Plug got swiped at but failed to hook up. The fish circled round and had another go, this time I was connected to something big, silver and heading for deeper water. Different species were running through my head as I tried to figure out what it could be while the fish made a few quick bursts trying to win its freedom, taking line from a tight drag with 30lb braid. I played the fish up on to the beach and got my first real look at what was to be my biggest ever Tailor estimated at around 4kg, pretty sure it was fatter. Yeeeowww!

The Richter Surface Plug is an awesome lure! It has a great action and clearly catches fish. It works best with a medium to fast retrieve and I would reccomend it to anybody.

Not much for the next half hour so we called it quits and headed back to camp. I will be certainly exploring more of this ground next time and I can’t wait to get back. We packed up and had a look up at the lighthouse before heading home.

Another great weekend in the desert.

Cheers

went out this mornin and the old boy got a pb pinkie  was 750mm long got plagued by sambos caught and released about 20 and kept 2 for the neighbours

went down to hilarries for a fish and to test out my new spinfisher 950. first casat with it, turned away for 2 minutes then had a run on it
i got to it then thought it was a small skippy by its fighting. i brough him in slowly then an allmighty tailcrack and he was taking drag like a bat out of hell. stopped him then brought him in till i saw colour......PINK
hit the surface........6 kilos of pure PINK. my dad then rshed down the rocks, grabbed the line, was about to grab his tail because i forgot my gaff and one last tailslap and he was back were he came from. i was spewing and i could have almost cried. ther was also a few yelowtail kingfish around and one was landed at 50cm and i almost hooked up to several that would have been close to 2kg-----on 2lb gear :P plenty of herring aswell but they werent the best size...good for bait though. im styill spewing about the pinkie but it happens

I went fossicing around for a lump I dived with a member of WA Diver a bit north west of Hillary's Marina. I couldn't find it on the sounder but there were a few pro pots around so I figured the ground was good enough and I piled in with Kasey.



1st Dive we managed 4 crays, the ground had few ledges and an obscene amount of big caves and swimthrus, in fact we saw a couple of forever-jammed cray pots in a nice ledge too. Vis was lousy, no more than 5m.



2nd dive we headed more directly west of the marina and further out, near one of the breaks. The surge really came up over the length of the dive and it was like being shot out of a barrel on a few of the swimthrus. Worse, or better picked over, ground for crays, only managed two between us on the dive. Not such a bad thing, the second dive was even more scenic than the first! I found a colony of little shrimp under a ledge, they were sort of bone coloured, with a few darker brown bands on their nippers.



Back at home, boat washed by 1:30pmish! Crays steamed and in the fridge for dinner!

not been reporting on fishing due to busy packing and fishing for the last weeks.

but still always taking whatever chance i have to get out of the house to wet a line or two.

these were done between 13/03 till 16/03. the last day i flew off back home.

was not able to hang around will the real salmons arrive so i guess some salmon trouts will just

have to do. plus seeing the tailor caugh in mid day with a stick bait.. hmm.. something new (for me)

as all my tailors were caught after sunset.  also manage my 1st leger size blackie went about 31-32cm. Squidding was totally new to be

esp it was from shore... but still manage to get a fed for one. and last skippy.... cunning litter fellows which i lost quite a few to the rocks...

oh well... thats it for reports of fishing from perth. my next report will be from singapore or malaysia (where ever i find time to throw in a line or two)

all fishing was done land base and other then the squid and tailor, all were caught on soft plastic. and without saying, too many herrings to remember that were caught while chasing these fishes.

Rang a mate on a salmon team down south for an update on the salmon run this arvo

Not good news I'm afraid,he was at Eagle Bay and hasn't seen a fish as yet.His father fishes from Windy Harbour and its much the same there as well with the exception of a few fish here and there trickling through but not in the size schools that normally run at this time of the year.

With the report of a spaniard being caught off Eagle Bay recently it may turn out to be a non event like the run about 10 years back where they only reached Augusta,hit the warm water,spawned and headed back east.We can only hope that isn't the case this year and that they are only running late

was speaking to a mate [dansouth] on the phone yesterday.a few of his mates ere jigging for sambos off cape naturlist last week .one of the lads had about a 15 kg sambo boat side when a marlin estermated to be a metre deep scoffed the sambo then took off .they chased it around for about 30 mins the marlin went deep and coughed up the sambo ....
was also told of a spaniard caught off eagle bay .must be a bit of warm water around.get those skirts out

went down to pinnaroo tonight after work for a bit of a fish with doug, tooks some mulies and bluebait hoping for some tailor and herring.

well with reports of tailor thinning out we thought lets see for ourselves, got down there and started fishing around 7 or so, had a odd good hit on the big rod, but on the smaller rod there was plenty of herring around, only small though, then as it got closer to dark we started getting a couple of decent hits, then at around 830, with beer in one hand and about to take a leak with something else in the other hand i turned around to see my xzoga going off, running back to it i set the hooks into a good fish, i could see it jumping and knew it was a good fish, my first thought was a salmon, but then in comes a nice tailor of 43cm, nice well done and doug has a laugh, luckily i didnt spill my beer, so back into it and a little while later get another tailor onto the beach prob around 36 or 37cm.

missed a few others, so there is definatley a few good tailor around, will post a pic up tomorrow from dougs camera when i get to work

went 2 cockburn sond on my 2.5 meter dingey 3.5hp but got out there had the big rods out there

had little rod out there 42cm flathead but on the big rods 2 fish got hooked crazy went 4 a crzey run and leader bitten though only using 40lb dont no if the leader was bitten or got caught on the reef but yeh if anybody thinks or nos wat they were would be a big help thankz

72cm, 4.4kg pink snapper on sunday, suffed up the gaff shot on a nice pinkie that brenz got to the side of the boat, few skippy, pike, tailor, octopus and rays and a tarwhine. 

The day started with a magical sunrise as we cruised past the West End of Rotto.

The ride out at 20 knots was a little lumpy but that died off about 5nm from the Yamy FAD.  Within 2 nm of the FAD the water was rough again!  We were the 2nd boat there with a third and 4th arriving within ten minutes.

Trolling was the go initially but only a couple of small tuna played the game. We drifted past with ‘just’ alive whiting (was a bit rough in the live bait tank) and again no takers.  Hmmm, no dollies here.

The wind had increased a few more knots,  so we set some bigger pushers and headed back for West End at 12 knots. More tuna and a big pod of working dolphins provided some have time entertainment.

The Halcos went out near West End in good conditions – clear water and not too much weed.  A big hit and run within 10 minutes got the heart pumping, alas, the hooks pulled in the first seconds after the initial run.  Next pass produced a surprise…well I was running a deep diver ..but at 8 knots.  Hit, hit, hit..I’m on.

Time for some sinker dragging.  It was about 3ish now and dead calm and very quiet on the bottom…even the pickers were guiet.  I set my rig and went to get some late lunch ready..bingo, off went my outfit.  Nice dhu onboard.

I had promised the good wife fresh dolly for dinner, but she would have to put up with dhu now.

Cheers Pete  

Fished Pinnaroo point last friday nite and again lastnite with some good results. friday nite caught quite a few herring , at one point landed 5 in 5mins..absolute feeding frenzy. and lastnite caught a few herring again and a cracker of a sand whiting..went 31cm and was thick as they come through the body..was caught 1m out from the shore. put up a good little fight on the bream gear. plenty of baitfish around in the shallows too. going to be fishing this spot quite alot now at night..anyone fish there regularly?

Sam

Headed out to the FAD's today with John (Auslobster).

Great conditions heading out, got out there pretty quick.

We both had skirts out, mine kept twitching, but thought it was waves, but then it took off. Not much of a fight, but pulled up my first dollie which i've been wanted to catch for over a year.

John chucked out a bluescode and hooked up first cast

Nice dollie

I tried out a jig and got onto a nice sized dollie

Also managed to get a few small blues (probably only 30-40cm or so)

Saw Ryan and Kasey out there, and drifted for a bit more. John got a couple more dollies. Pretty sure Kasey and Ryan got onto some fish.

We headed off to the next FAD, but there were no fish there so we headed back to the first.

Lots of tuna busting off the surface all the time, so we went and chased a few small ones. Unable to quite cast far enough with the fly gear on the dollies, so tried out on the tuna and managed to get my first fish on fly.

We headed back to the FAD, and hooked up to a few. I managed to loose mine on a jump but John got another.

Tried trolling a bit on the way back. Got a few of the tiny blues. Did get a really good hit that was definately a bigger fish, but came off just before i got to the rod holder.

Was a great day out, the weather was excellent, and I was very happy to get my first dollie. John managed to get quite a few fish and on different gear. Was a great day out 

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Plenty of baitfish activity at the narrows today..Some decent splashes.

managed 2 small bream, both released.

both bream on river2sea baby vibe 35

had a bust off on a snapback grub, likely to be a decent sized bream.

also i was at garvey park last week and there was enourmous schools of baitfish up close to the bank.

Hope this is helpful to someone..

Hey guys

Went for a breamin session yesterday arvo. Had the most crazy session ive had in a while. I found a new area which is covered in really heavy structure (dead trees). I was aboslutley smoked 4 times in a row, in the exact same place. You would hook up and they would almost instantly have you buried or your leader would bust through. We managed to land about a dozen of the smaller ones up to 35cm, but also lost about the same amount to this heavy structure and some of this fish were absolute horses.

Anyway, heres some dodgy phone pics (forgot the digi cam), i got a little arty and took some different ones as well.

went to the narrows on saturday night with flaniges, OT and otoshi. we started flickin plastics and lures around wanting sum tailor. the first tailor showed up for otoshi a bit later in the night... LIVE BAIT..... it was legal size aswell....
the next tailor came to me on a 3" pearl watermelon bass minnow
the bites continued into the night and occasionally we would see tailor jumping near the pylons. otoshi hooked up several more times and got bitten off or spat hooks. flangies then got one a packet of squidges later.
no mulloway to report though unfortunately. james had his livie out from about 11pm till 9am. and it was released wel....probably to get eaten by a mulloway moments later.
the tide was very low in the morning and we saw several twistys and metal lures lost to the carpet (you know what i mean if you have been there)
an hour after setting out to claim some new lures the result was this:
2 ecogear SX40F in the 302 colour :)
2 halco 10g gold twistys
1 halco 10g slice
1 halco 30g hexagon
1 "SHARK" 30g twisty
1 halco 55g twisty
1 octa jig thing
2 saltwater flies
flangies took a picture of our collection but he hasnt put it up yet
cheers,
SOI (liam)

Well i went down to my fav spot in the river yesterday (sunday) and went for my Blackies with mulies and gangs and first cast got smashed hard by a 35cm snapper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and this is 12.30pm in the arvo!

Next cast BANG! Another snapper around 28cm! Veryy unusual for the middle of the day.

In total i got 4 snapper, biggest going 38cm (not far off legal)all released fine.

Lee landed 2 snapper

Also i castout my mulie and it got smashed, halfway while reeling it in the fish jumped, i thought "hang on, cant be a tailor" sure enough it was a 41cm tailor!!! Thats good even for beach standards!

I even released the tailor seeeing as though it was a champ for jumpin on my line ;)

Also landed about 4 blackies , biggest was 35cm, nothing special

Hers a couple pics....

Hey guys.. little report i suppose!

I went down to the narrows yesterday to see if i could get myself my first bream...

I was fishing opposite side to the city right in the middle under the bridge.

arrived at about half 3...flicking soft plastics.

at 4:30 after switching from berklee 3" shrimps to snap back plastics amber jigging grubs with nitro jig head. I started to feel like i was working the grub better, 3rd cast 2 seconds after the grub hit the water bang.! I was onto my first black bream.. 34cm.

2 or 3 minute fight. For the guys interested it was only 3-5 metres out.

I was using 4 pound berklee fireline and 10 pound berklee vanish flurocarbon leader.



First try at posting a pic also..Have one at the time of catch with rod etc but its on phone..I will try and put it onto pc.

Brad and I managed to sneak one last trip in today before I had back to the states with wife and bub....6 wks of cold weather and no fishing.  I was keen to have a good day on the water!  We started a bit late, and got out to 40m by about 8:30.  Wind was a bit stronger than Seabreeze predicted but we set to drifting anyway.

It started out bad for me.  Brad caught this beauty red snapper.

He followed it with another and then a 48cm dhuie that was safely released.  Meanwhile, I had caught one undersize pink snapper, and lost a big fish just as I was saying to Brad that I was due for a good fish!!!  AAARRGGGGHHHH!!!  I was spewin'!

It was just about time for us to head in and I told Brad that this was not a good way for me to leave fishing for 6wks...I just wanted one good fish.  So I drop down to the bottom, and feel a little tapping, I set the hook!!   and it's a tiny fish...I can feel his tiny little headshakes 40meters below me.  I begin to reel him up and tell Brad that I managed to catch a little bait thief.  I get him about 15m up from the bottom and.....WHAM!!!  My rod bends in half and the line starts singing off the reel.

half hour later....hauled this little beauty up from the depths.

a 4.5 foot Bronze Whaler shark.  It's the biggest shark I've ever caught and now the biggest fish that I've caught here in Oz.  To say I was pleased was an understatement!  I would have liked a big Dhuie even more, but that will have to wait til I come back.

Check me out doing my 'Shark Whisperer' impression!

I was amazingly lucky to catch it...I was using 15lb mono with a 40lb trace no wire.  He was hooked right in the corner of his mouth so he couldn't bite thru the line.

Do you reckon it's a Bronzie?  When I first saw it in the water I reckoned it was a black tip, bc...well....it had black tips on it's fins....but definitely had a clear bronze colour...not grey.  Do they interbreed?

So now I can go home to the US a happy man...but now I can't wait to come back and do more fishing as well!

Had a magic day up here in Exmouth today, forecast for under 10 knots all day and that it was.  Day couldn't have started off much better with an absolutely gorgeous dive charter bird holding the boat with a bit of chit chat, was thinking it was going to be gooood!  Heading out the channel the water was crystal clear, could see a couple of squid cruising about but had bigger things on the mind.

Soon as I was out the back I put the spread out, no teasers as I was doing the solo.  Within 5 minutes had a sailfish come up and chew the skirts on both sides without a hookup, was looking promising.  10 minutes later picked up a 2kg striped tuna and released him and soon after found a school of dolphinfish which provided some aerial entertainment.  After releasing a couple of these I headed deeper and saw some serious splashing going on, trying to figure out what it was I went in close to find 50 spinner dolphins having the time of their life.  After about 20 minutes of playing with them and jumping in for a swim I decided to get back into the action.  (Got some cool video of the dolphins, unreal fun)

After 2 hours of nothing on the surface I went and did a bit of bottom bouncing and got stiched up a few times, but with little movement it was rather frustrating.  Gave the lures another quick troll and found a small black marlin on the 80m line that zipped line for about 30 seconds then reared his head and gave me the bird whilst spitting the lure all in the one action.  Wasn't happy. :(

Had one last bottom bounce on the way in for some tea and picked up a nice moses perch, spangly and the little coronation in picture.  All in all a bloody good day that could have been unbelievable but in sensational conditions, I'm still more than happy.  The mojo is almost back!

Anyway, have to cut the report short, time to get the bbq cranking for a feed with the boys.

Cheers,

Adam

Headed off to Lancelin Sunday morning to go fishing with Tonyb.

Went to check the pots, but unfortunately no crays.

The weather was unbelievable, completely flat all day, and pretty glassy through the morning. Was a breeze getting out

Headed out to a bank, and just tried some areas. Got a few bites. Tony hooked up to a good fish pulling a bit of string, but unfortunately the rig broke at the hook. One or two other hookups, but didnt get them to the surface.

At one point, we saw some baitfish on the surface (unfortunately not being harassed by bigger fish though). You could see how huge the school was on the sounder. At some points it was telling us that the water depth was only 12m due to how thick the school was

Tony got a nice queenie that pulled a bit of string.

I managed to get a small pinkie on a jig

Also, another jig eating denizen of the deep

Tony managed to get two baldies that were just oversize, and a skippy

On the way back, we decided to head past Key Biscayne. It was a fair few miles there, but due to conditions it didnt take long at all.

Had a bit of trouble finding the rig as it wasnt quite on the chartplotters location, but found it in the end. We both got some small sambos, and one or two random fish (cods or wrasse of some sort)

Getting back to the beach was nice and quick due to the great weather. Unfortunately the winch snapped while on the beach, but eventually got it sorted due to help from the anchor rope and another helpful person on the beach.

G'day All,

Headed down to Albany again hoping to get one of the large pinkys that i had seen on a few southern fishing forums.So on Saturday me and the brother in law set out our spot about 20mins drive from albany and headed out to the usual spots only 10mins from the ramp.First drop and the in law engaged the lever  and straight away yelled "im snagged" then "hang on im on".After battling to get the fish off the bottom we were calling it for a good queen snapper when a big pinky came into veiw.He was stoked with his first big pink at 85cm.

After that we moved around for the morning and i tried using some jigs.I caught plenty og different species but mostly crap /sargent baker wrasse and a coupe of big swallowtail.after that the fish seemed to go off the bite so on the way back in stopped over the weed banks fro a squid.Only got one but it was a stonker!

One other thing..The brother inlaw did manage to get a couple of pinky spines in his foot.At the time he didnt mention it so we carried on planning to head out on Sunday.Needless to say the next day hes foot was swollen and he was in a lot of pain.Off to Hospital and they put him on anti biotics.On monday it was still not improving so back to hospital for a local anesthetic and they cut his heal open and removed a couple of small pieces.Reckons it was the most painfull injury hes ever had.(This coming from someone who has broken his kneecap)Bloody nasty things,They must have a really powerfull bacteria in them.Has anyone else had similar stories?

cheers

chris

Took the HMAS tub out on Sunday for a quick two hour sesh which turned out to be wicked fun, and the weather made the trip very pleasant and we even managed to stay moderately dry. We left bathers beach at around 11:30 while a fluffy north wester was blowing but it was still very pleasant, we trolled out for around 30mins until we hit around 20m where we dropped anchor and started chucking mulies, unfortunately the breeze wasn’t ideal for a good burly trail but it was light enough for the burly to sink down and attract some of the bottom species. After 15mins of waiting the whiting really came on the bite and the size wasn’t bad with the average size being around 25cm, along with the whiting the pinkies really came on and they ended up being bit of a pain with the average size being no more than 20cm. However after this we didn’t get much of a chance to catch fish because the rays came on and two casts resulted in two rays which were good fun and were very entertaining with the boat being pulled around in circles, once it hit 1 we had orders to come in, and one of the funniest things I have seen happened. Ollie had his legs over the edge cooling off from the intense heat when he turns to me and looks out the back to see a fin coming flying towards the boat, all I can say is did his feet come in quick or what. haha we continued to trow out baits and mulies but he took off so we left minutes later, overall it was a very pleasant couple of hours and I cant wait to get back out there and test out some more drag.

Heres a little video ollie put together unfortunately we didn’t get the shark on film but we got some good footage of the rays. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnDJUNwtAVQ

Cheers Miles

headed to E shed today with SOI, chan, OT and otoshi

wasnt much but a few herring and slimies up until everyone exept SoI left

herring went crazy in the burley and we managed tons of em

then i had a nice fight with a real nice sized slimie and manged 3 after that

everyone was getting tons of herring and the odd few slimies so the slimes are definitely there

a small tarwhine was landed aswell as a bust off on a big tarwhine and an undersize pinky was caught 

no runs on the big rod too report

nice day out overall and not bad for my first time fishing there

Well Finally got out out today. I've been kicking myself all week after missing out last saturday having to watch the beautiful conditions through the coast cams from the safety of my desk due to Jacqui working and my other deckie too incohernt from a big friday night. Today i redeemed myself!

We woke to the thunder and lightening around 5 am not worrying much we stayed in bed expecting it to clear out, soon eight o'clock came with 4knot north easterlies and we were up packin the boat, had breakie and hit the ramp by 9am. Got a call from mum who was on her way to rotto to drive the bayseeker all excited and encouraging us to get out as the water was dead flat "like a lake" as she said, get with the times mum we're already backing down the ramp!

Trip out was awesome, dead flat, opened up the throttle, got to stretch the motors legs at WOT all the way out to the 3 mile with the customary quick stop at little island to get into the wetties.

Once we got out there, out went the lures. We started with a spread of a 5m+ 150 scorpian in the prop wash a crazy deep 190 laser pro and a pusher way out back incase of any tuna around as has been reported. Found 3 big bait schools with nothing harrassing them except us so we motored a little further from bait school to bait school trying water from 12m to 21m. The only things interested in the lures was the local vegetation which got pretty annoying with the pusher so that was switched to a 125 scorpian in close.

It happened after about half an hour of motoring, my holy grail, this years target and weeks and weeks of northern fishing trips each year and me always missing out, the fish always goin to jacqui (as usual) or other fishers and the fact that i just seem to be a big eye tuna magnet much to my frustration. Bzzzzzzzzzz bzzzz bzzzzzzz lines in!, keep up the slack, then it came straight for the boat, winch like crazy, then i saw it and it saw the boat bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz its a mackie! and off he went into the blue again.... still connected... panic.... it's too good this fish'll break me off it's too good..... i coaxed it in close again and i could see the bottom hook hooked in the corner of its mouth, lets hope it holds i thought then bzzzzzzzzz second run and bring him back to the boat, this bastard better tire soon was the next thought.... nup.... Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz right for the leg of the motor after about ten minutes he started dancing in circles under the boat and finally he was tiring, soon we had him spent on the surface. With me almost pleading for my gaff and Jacqui cursing the amount of sh#t i have stowed in the rails of the boat after a minute or so of watching the fish trying to get the energy to get his head down and power off down into the blue i finally had my gaff in hand, one hand, one chance i took my aim and stuck............. my line snapped  ........... i lift the gaff ....... and it was heavy! the relief! i had just gaffed him through the nose and onboard he came! Then 150 scorpian just casually fell out of its mouth at my feet, my first ever mackie after years of persistance! spending weeks at an island even named after the fish and i got my first off hillarys of all places! i was chuffed, ecstatic, buggered and stoked with all 118cm of my first ever mackie!

We kept up the trolling for a little while with no luck but honestly we weren't at all persistant i had what we'd come for and we wouldn't be able to stow another fish in the icebox, we couldn't even stow this one it was a half in half covered in wet towel job, anyway it was time to get wet!

After ten minutes of washing off all the blood i'd managed to get over myself and my wettie (really didn't wanna dive covered in fish blood) we rocked up to an old spot nearby. I had only dived this spot once before about two years ago and we had bagged out on crays..... well today we didn't! would have easily counted 50+ crays. nests were chockers but nothin but kacka's, I still managed to get bag limit but 3 got a second chance as the gauge was loose maybe 1/2 a mil under so we kept 3, dive was awesome tho spent most of the dive being followed by a massive ray about the size of a small car, every time he disappeared and we put our guard down a minute later there he'd be right under a fin sneaking up behind us for a looksee, tail raised as if to say eeeh? eeeh? watch out! we got steve irwin ehh? remember eeeeh?

Also saw a nice dhuie, managed to loop a black ass but he out smarted me wen it was time to get him from loop to catch bag, noticed the crays had very soft shells too. Anyway soon it was time to make it back to the boat as we had ten minutes to be back and notify sea rescue. The vis was beautiful today and we had high hopes, while out trolling thru the glassy water we were watching the bottom in 18m.

After that it was back to little island for lunch and to watch one of the little pups scaring the crap out of the snorkellers by popping up right behind them and launching himself through the air,then back to the ramp by 2pm.

The frustration all week of missing out last saturday thinking i'd missed my best opportunity for good weather this year on a day i'm not at work, well it just seemed to melt away as we pulled out of the heads this morning opened up that throttle and it just got better and better. I keep getting the image of that first glimpse of that mackie through the clear water today dam its gonna be hard to beat today now 8)

Thanks guys!

Regards

Dave

Hi all well what a great day on the water not many fish about tho . Do not know about anyone else but was very hard to find a fish today even a wrasse *LOL* so no fishy pic but thought we would share abit of our day & with everyone. Went out in tandem with Sandy sister and family started late around 8 am after they forgot the keys to there boat *LOL* . then on  the way out to the nintys to try out Russes new toy our boat just cuts out but started again this happened one more time before we decided not to go out to far( thinking it is dirty fuel) so we mainly only fished just over the five in about 30 mtrs to be on the safe side . It was so flat Sandy and her sister had a race in the boats ha ha as not much was happening on the fishing front except for a cuttle fish on our boat and a large squid and kg on theres.  Tried a few places and at 3 pm decided to call it a day and race back in they were in the lead till ha ha they got pulled over by fisherys ending in a $160.00 fine ( see pic for details)so we won by default but won never the less *LOL* But a bad day on the water is far better than doing work on land at home.

Here are some pics of the day

Went out todayand after vowing not to jig, thanks to shark problems last week, I couldn't resist after no luck trolling or bottom bouncing and looking at the sounder I had to drop a jig...

First up a small amberjack, followed by a small yellowtail king (my first jigging) and on my third drop a big hookup, followed by a dead weight.... As I got near the surface a big shark, about 10 foot, followed up a hald eaten amberjack.... (at this point I nearly shat my pants... big fish rocketing up very quick)...

Three drops 2 and a half fish.... Fourth drop first full amberjack, of a good size. Then my mate hooked on with PE3 and from there it was a fish a drop. Using PE6 I had to drop a jig using my PE2 spin outfit (Saltiga 70s with a Certate 3500HD). Immediately hooked up on a good fish straight away using a 160g mejiyume jig. A heap of line was taken during a long fight, but eventually a good amberjack was boated - great fun on light gear...

Great day where we got a heap of god amberjack, a yellowtail king and striped tuna all on jig. We also managed a few good size skippy.... Other than my half eaten fish and one lost jig sharks weren't a problem today...

Hopefully the pic's work out...