Day of the Black Bums....and the odd Hoodlum
Me, Chrisp and my young bloke Rob headed out for a fish on Friday, weather was terrific, fishing was a bit slow. Only 1 undersized dhu from soft plastic from the ground that has given up some absolute cracking dhuies on jig over the past few weeks......we could seen them on the sounder, but they were not interested in jigs and only vaguely interested in softies.
Moved spots to 43 m depth and fished a bit of ground we have not hit for some time and the sounder looked good, after a lot of jigging for no reward, we ended with 3 keeper Black Bums, the best by my young bloke, 46 cm,on JF Lab jig. Nice capture Robbie, and very strange to get so many BB's on jig with nothing else.
Then all hell broke loose......Chrisp had another suspected BB on jig, and it took a little bit of PE2 string so was a nice size, then BANG, it got nailed and Chrisp's 5000 Twinpower starting screaming for mercy..........good luck Chris old son, your gonna need it.........10 seconds and a of of PE2 later, he got bricked........big fish that one.
I drop down on PE2 somewhat nervously, crank crank crank on my 100 g demersal jig, and the Stella 4000 starts protesting just as loud........did not even get a turn on the handle, and was smoked onto reef, the leader came back fried. Wow......
We were all by now wishing we had brought the PE5 gear, but we left it home.......so Rob drops down with the heaviest gear we had, 40 lb braid on his Penn spinner..........crank crank......Ohhhhhh noooooooo, this one is even BIGGER.......absolutley smoking run, and I cranked the drag knob as hard as I could whilst Rob hung on......BANG......big bust off again, and the rod flicked back and gave the young bloke a good smack in the chops.......hehehe.
Me and Chris got the PE3 gear out and landed these two Sambo's which went quite hard, but they were obviously not the models responsible for the previous serious smokings..........
We hit the same spot the next day for a look,and found some of the best arches on the sounder I have seen........but they would not hit the PE5 gear we were dropping, but then out of nowhere a BLOODY HUGE yellow tail king followed up one jig right to the surface.......I think we now know what was responsible the previous day. The bite was totally dead the next day and apart from a few rat Sambo's, one 20 kg model that I tail hoked on PE3 which was interesting, and 4 undersized dhuies, all on jig, the highlight of the day was sight casting to a school of tuna at the back of Rotto which naild my stickbait on 10 lb gear.......made the Certate 2508 squeel for a bit!!!
Tim took the stripey home for sashimi after we heard it was not not too bad, and it was not bad, but not as good as bluefin apparently. Will release all stripeys from now on. Still, great fun on light gear, and first tuna for the year.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
till
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The stripys pull pretty hard
The stripys pull pretty hard though! Great fun even if an ordinary feed ;)
JohnF
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Jamie, main aim for the next
Jamie, main aim for the next outing it to try and land one of the YTK's........bring out the elephant guns!
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
till
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Sounds like a worthy
Sounds like a worthy challenge!
Goodz
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Bit of action there for you
Bit of action there for you guys John. Goodluck with the YTKs, would love to see yas land a few of those!
aalfred
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Great report and some nice
Great report and some nice pics!
Seaquest
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Good luck with the kingies.
Good luck with the kingies. Great fun if you can get on to them, they really test your gear out.
Did you try dropping a bait on your dhuie grounds. Have found dhuies to shut down on the artificials at times but take a bait as soon as it hits the bottom. Starting to think they wise up to artificials after a while. Have one spot that I have jigged and caught heaps of dhuies on but lately will only entice them to bite with bait.
grayzeee
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as Brendan says , the past
as Brendan says , the past few times , i've resorted to bait when it's been slow and it's worked. shameful but true! lol
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
JohnF
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Yeah Seaquest, we dont take
Yeah Seaquest, we dont take bait on board generally so that put that option out of the equation......maybe we will sneak a few squid in next time.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
dkonig82
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Sounds like a couple of great
Sounds like a couple of great fun days out!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Just1morecast
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Nice report John! Hopefully
Nice report John! Hopefully you get into some YTK's:)
Forever learning with fishing
Lucky Tim
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nice mate, make sure you pack
nice mate, make sure you pack the popping rod next time, might be in for some metro stretching!