Mid week longtail

[bayfisher]

Went out for a spur of the moment trip after lunch today with John (VIC1) in his boat to have a crack at the longtails on the placcies. We decided to head up toward tangalooma and found the odd pod of fish. We plugged away for a few hours and finally after changing plastics a few times i was the one who hooked up. It was a bit of a battle but we finally got the longtail into the boat. Obviously happy with the result we headed for home before sundown

Cheer Chris

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[stack]

great spur of the moment great fish

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[slyman]

We saw a few of those today too mate, some around the western side of peel, and some more up the rainbow channel. Got absolutely smoked by one, screaming 3 second run then ping, bitten off. In fact, if you look closely thats us on the ramp behind you! Cracker fish too mate, the ones we saw in the rainbow looked that size.

[plaztix]

Nice fish mate. What plastic's are you using for LT's?

and what gear was it on? good to see a few showing up lately.

[JJT]

top notch mate wat placcie did the damage there
regards jason

[bayfisher]

After trying all sort of plastics i changed to something a bit different and hooked up first cast, It was 4.5inch lake fork live magic shad, in albino shad. There almost identical to javallons but a lot cheaper imported from the USA. I only swam it very slowly (they have a great action) through the pod and it didn't take long for it to get inhaled.

My tuna spin gear is 'relatively' light but effective. Nitro Mag butt with a SOL 3000 and 20lb line and leader. Though the SOL 3000 now needs a new set of drag washers after that fight ;D .

Cheers Chris

[plaztix]

:o Even better fish on that gear, i've often wondered how my sol 3000 would go with one of those on the other end.

How long was the fight and how much line did he strip?

[nuggstar]

top catch feller

[bayfisher]

:o Even better fish on that gear, i've often wondered how my sol 3000 would go with one of those on the other end.

How long was the fight and how much line did he strip?

The old SOL 3000 goes pretty well, though during the fight the drag did become a bit sticky, which had me a little worried. I actually pulled the drag apart tonight and it had a a fair bit of water intrusion (so much for water proof drag) but after cleaning and reassembling its all running well again, though I'm sure some carbontex drag washers wouldn't go astray. Ive packed 300m of 20lb braid onto mine so line capacity isn't a drama either. During the fight there was quiet a few times that it took long runs and at one stage i probably had more than half of spool out there. The fight lasted a good hour and half probably before the fish came to the boat, unfortunately (for me and him) because of its size it didn't tire too quickly even with plenty of sideways pressure and in the end was almost exhausted to death before we could get it boat side.

Cheers Chris

[madmackrel]

8-) Good work Chris,i was out yesterday lookin for longtails but had no luck.They are certainly a fun fish to catch. Well done mate.
Cheers MM8-)

[Horse]

Nice work Chris. The mighty LFMS comes through again;)

Thats a good fish on the light gear. The big runs certainly sort your gear out;D

[Vic1]

Yep another one caught in my boat that I WASNT connected too....::). I guess it must be something about the skill of the driver, boat positioning and all that........

By the way he weighed in at 20kg on the dot and tastes wonderful. Jay if your out there, give us a call when your next going past and pick some fillets up

[Benno1]

nice one boys...sounded like a near perfect day in anyones books :D

Mrs Benno1

[plaztix]

:D:D 1 1/2 hour fights mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, gotta love big tuna . Cant wait to get one.

Thats got me thinking about just chucking my 3000 sol on the new rod i'm gonna get for tuna and get a new 2500 for my medium plastics outfit. decisions decisions:-/

What leader were you running and how hard did you have the drag tightened up?

[Ninja]

John....I just might have to take you up on that. My fishing skills and time between trips is seeing me withering away. The diet of all work and no eating has seen me down 9kg in a month::) . I'll PM you where we hooked a cobia not far from you on monday.
Jay

[chief]

fantastic fish, great effort.That little sol would have been screaming ;D. As soon as I saw the pic I thought he'd pull a few kgs, 20 kgs thats a cracker and on Plastics.Congrads and cheers

[bayfisher]

:D:D 1 1/2 hour fights mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, gotta love big tuna . Cant wait to get one.

Thats got me thinking about just chucking my 3000 sol on the new rod i'm gonna get for tuna and get a new 2500 for my medium plastics outfit. decisions decisions:-/

What leader were you running and how hard did you have the drag tightened up?

An hour and a half fight sounds a lot more fun than it actually is....;D

The SOL 3000 has the capacity and drag to easily handle a decent tuna unfortunately I hadn't given it a service or check over in a little while and the drag was seriously sticky (due to water in the stack) so i didn't push it no where near as hard as normally would and hence the longer fight. The leader was 20lb fluro which was ample as it only had minimal wear at the end of the fight.

Cheers Chris

[BLOOEY]

Cracker of a longie there chris. Almost got out today to track one down but it wasn't to be( bloody work). 1-1/2 hrs seems like too much hard work for me though. Ben

[RAT-KING]

Great stuff Chris! 1.5 hrs wat a fight!
How nervous were u wen it eas near the boat!!
Cheers Simon

[Aquarius]

Mate no snapper but i'm sure that awesome longtail would have made your day.
Gee 1.5 hours you would have been getting sore arms after that session.
Good effort on a plastic.
Cheers Brent

[Cervinator]

yea that is a huge longy mate congrats

cheers james :)

[shorty 01]

wow nice fish mate it would of put up a good fight

[cobiaman]

nice tuna mate, well done. i bet you are sore today