why so many sambos?
Submitted by Dreamtime on Sun, 2012-07-29 11:09
so ive just been been givin a boat as a gift. i know hey, that never bloody happens. been out everyday of my spare time only to keep finding sambos. i just want a bloody feed of fresh fish but every spot i try is loaded with these bastards. think i have a sambo curse or something, anyone got any ideas? depths, jigs,baits? i dunno wat is goin on is it just me or wat?
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kinga86
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Dunno mate, this time of the
Dunno mate, this time of the year they generally head in shallow. I absolutely love catching the buggers - they are loads of fun!
snappermiles
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what type of ground are you fishing?
what type of ground are you fishing? if you catch a small one and cook it up the same day and get horribly drunk before eating it they arent bad!! lol
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andyrew
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There does seem to be a fair
There does seem to be a fair few of em around at the moment,
ideas on where abouts your fishing atm so people can give advice =)
Cheers,
Andrew
Dreamtime
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haha yer right
thanks but no thanks mate. you couldnt pay me to eat a sambo hahah. im fishing most of all my old dhui lumps. used all the latest jigs and plastics and still only hookin sambos. think im just going to have to dedicate a weekend just to recon trips.
snappermiles
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maybe its your jigging action??
are you raisng the jigs a bit far off the bottom hence catching sambos?? just a thought! there have been a fair few around! have you tried bait?
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Maverick
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smoke
Sambo's are one of the best fish to smoke, if you have a Webber BBQ put about 14 nuggets of heatbeads in the bottom and get them fired up.
while your waiting for the heatbeads to get going fillet the fish into 2cm thick slices about 100mm wide and 150mm long and soak them in a brine of water , salt, soy sauce and brown sugar ( the longer you can marinade them the deeper the flavour in the fish but 2 hours is fine) get a block of wood and soak it in a bucket of water , I use white gum as it smokes well , if you want to hot smoke it put it over the top of the smoke/ heat beads and they take about 20 mins to cook, if you want to cold smoke them wait until the fire has died down and let the smoke cook them and they take about 2 hours to cook.
CHEERS , Brendan.
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grayzeee
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Are your Dhu lumps pretty
Are your Dhu lumps pretty big?? We hardly ever get them.
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
Dreamtime
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yer mate
yer mate allways try work the bottom 5-10m of water, mixed up jigging techniques, colours, sizes, shapes. tried most of the mccarthy range and have used squid caught half an hour beforehand. im fishin in spots that depths vary from 30-50m. i told you its a curse lol
uncle
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if I never catch another one
I'll be happy!!
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
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wish i got a boat like
wish i got a boat like that as a gift :D
nice boat and fish mate !
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tim-o
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I kept and ate a just size
I kept and ate a just size sambo and for all those that take tailor home for a feed, which I always do, sambo is much the same, a perfectly good feed, the bigger ones can have worms in the flesh thats all
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BigDunc
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Oh dear
I was given a boat and all I got were these massive fish. Sounds like someone needs to make a phone call from the boat ramp for the Wah-Wah-Wambulance! First world problems.
JohnF
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Slow you jigging right down.
Slow you jigging right down. I have a mate, all he gets are sambos, leaves the dhuies to us, less than 2 ft away. Nice bloke is Tim.......
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Dreamtime
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hahaha
yer she goes real nice. handles the chop nicely and had an even better price tag. i feel i have to share it to so when ive got some spots sussed i might be able to take a couple of you that dont have boats out for some fun to. feel its only fair to share the fun. but yer john ill give that a go. tried a bit of slow rolling and bouncing with not a touch. just got to keep at it.
Spitfire56
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I have had the oppostie problem
I am quite new to fishing in WA and have been lucky enough to find all of the normal species, however I have not been able to find the big sambos everyone keeps complaining about, maybe we can help each other, don't really eat fish just like fish that fight. Is it really that common to find them close in metro waters?
Spitfire56
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I have had the oppostie problem
I am quite new to fishing in WA and have been lucky enough to find all of the normal species, however I have not been able to find the big sambos everyone keeps complaining about, maybe we can help each other, don't really eat fish just like fish that fight. Is it really that common to find them close in metro waters?
Maverick
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Sambo's
They come in to breed around November and finish around Feb, the longer the season the lighter the fish , big schools are about 4/5 NM WSW of Rotto , big fish up to 60kg and 1.8m long, the big girls are on the bottom and you need at least 350gm jigs I like the SEA ROCKS as they are a shorter jig than most in that weight and work it in the bottom 15m of water if you want the big one's.
Gemini wreck holds fish to about 30kg all year and the big oil platform that sunk further north has some of the best shallow water sambo fishing there is.
You must use braid , strong hooks and leader (200lb) I use PE5 mostly but some go up to PE10 but if your rod and reel can't handle it why use it, I run 12kg's of drag when fishing for them .
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Walfootrot
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Stuff the jigs, 9.0 and big
Stuff the jigs, 9.0 and big baits = big dhu's
Like the boat, she would go with the 130 on the back.
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MetroMako
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Sambo
Worst tasting fish.Caught a just legal sized 1.Yuk man just Yuk
glastronomic
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Samboo's are just yummy even
Samboo's are just yummy even raw with the green Japanese wasabi paste and some black sauce!
Just bleed them reel good, cut their tails off and slash their troat
Dreamtime
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jigging
ive definatly found that plastics and jigs have been left behind for the long strip of fresh squid drifted down. but i think thats because im fishing shallow. you definatly cant beat the hard hit on the jigs. so much fun in the 90s
Gaffatron
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dunno what your worries
dunno what your worries about?! if i had half the luck you do i would be stoked! the smaller sambos i reckon are not bad eating?!