Cheech
24-12-2006, 12:22 PM
Like everyone else, Rando and I headed off early Saturday morning in search of spotties. This time we tried north as I had never fished that area. After leaving Scarborough as the sun was comming up, we made pretty good time straight to the spitfire channel. No activity or birds so we decided to anchour up and float pillies out. Was very slow, but managed a school or shark mackeral (not sure what it was) that went about 75cm, and a spottie around 85cm.
Nothing after about 6.00am so we trolled a bit, drifted a bit, seached for schools a bit, and then headed back to Gilligans for a drift or 2 on the way home. First drift, another spottie around the 80 - 85 mark. Was very pleasant spending a bit of time in flat water.
Then back to the ramp before the wind started.
Ordinarily 3 fish would not be much, but there is so much meat on these things! Between the 3 fish thre is about 5 meals worth.
Re the schoolie/shark, when it was alive, there were no visible spots or blotches at all. It was not until after it was dead for a while that what appears to be blotches like a schoolie showed up. The other thing is that the fin did not have a white patch on it to indicate a schoolie. Instead, it had 3 or 4 small white dots about 5mm diameter. I am calling it a shark mackeral.
What do you think?
http://666kb.com/i/akcoe79d88hllm5w1.jpg
The spotties.
http://666kb.com/i/akcnzxpuo9f0p6g5t.jpg
Note to self,,, Be careful of those teeth. Trying to get hooks out, I now have 2 deep slices in my finger.
Cheech
Nothing after about 6.00am so we trolled a bit, drifted a bit, seached for schools a bit, and then headed back to Gilligans for a drift or 2 on the way home. First drift, another spottie around the 80 - 85 mark. Was very pleasant spending a bit of time in flat water.
Then back to the ramp before the wind started.
Ordinarily 3 fish would not be much, but there is so much meat on these things! Between the 3 fish thre is about 5 meals worth.
Re the schoolie/shark, when it was alive, there were no visible spots or blotches at all. It was not until after it was dead for a while that what appears to be blotches like a schoolie showed up. The other thing is that the fin did not have a white patch on it to indicate a schoolie. Instead, it had 3 or 4 small white dots about 5mm diameter. I am calling it a shark mackeral.
What do you think?
http://666kb.com/i/akcoe79d88hllm5w1.jpg
The spotties.
http://666kb.com/i/akcnzxpuo9f0p6g5t.jpg
Note to self,,, Be careful of those teeth. Trying to get hooks out, I now have 2 deep slices in my finger.
Cheech