Hello Everyone at Fishwrecked,
Another new member to this forum. Long time reader first time posting.
First of all I would like to thank you for your support to this site and sharing your knowledge and experience. Your experience has given me a different dimension to my fishing and boating.
I easily spend an hour or two everyday in this site, but I was shy to post or comment. Now I decided it’s the right time to come out of the darkness and walk along with you guys.
Went out this Sunday with Nebraska charters for sambo jigging, as most of you know who Nebraska charters are, Steve and Tony (Owner operators) at Nebraska are top blokes.
First Tony took us to his secret shallow spot behind Rottnest and the sounder showed us heaps of fish and we all dropped our jigs and the first jig comes out of the water and the whole crew witnessed couple of monster sharks chasing the jigs. So Tony decided to move immediately and we hit the south barges and we where the first boat out there. Shit loads of fish on the sounder we started jigging and jigging nothing happened for more than 20 minutes. One of the crew members sited a shark few meters away so we moved from one barge to other and same result. Now we decided to send some baits to check what’s happening at the bottom and not even a sniff.
Now Tony decided to take as to the FADS and we saw some bait school s around and looked promising. We stared to troll around and nothing happened for almost an hour, so we drifted some baits around and again same result. We then decided to go back to the barges and there where more than a dozen of boats and honestly no one hooked anything. It was a shame but we can’t complain it’s the nature of the beast.
Finally we gave up and decided to go back to shallow waters to catch some flatties and whiting. On the way back we saw some birds working on the surface and where moving fast so we tried trolling some skirted lures and divers and one of the crew members caught a decent Bonito. Then we ended up on some good sand patches and pulled some nice flatties and plum whiting. Now the south westerly picked up and we were back at the boat ramp. It was disappointing, but over all a beautiful day to be out in the water.
Thank you guys for reading my report and a quick note before I go, if you are planning for sambo jigging please think twice. It’s a big Noah to me at the moment.
Cheers!!!
Mallesh