Jeremy
13-08-2004, 04:18 AM
Trip was origianlly planned for the weekend, but a check of the forecast saw us rescheduling it for yesterday. Unfortunately the forecast of 10-15 was wrong and it was 15-20 knots, but we had 5 boats go out with 9 anglers aboard.
First stop was the Scottish prince for some livies, then out to the 18s. Anchored on some bait on some hard ground, but fishing was slow. I caught my first trag jew - just legal at 46 cm - and I also caught my biggest mack tuna of 7.8 kg on 6 kg line. Thought it was a cobe - went deep first, then took off 150 m fast, turned it and pumped it back in and landed it after about 15 minutes. Kept for bait for next few trips. My deckie had several good runs on live baits but only scored the one mack tuna around 5 kg (tagged and released) - some of them were baits bitten in half or line bitten off so must have been some good tailor down there.
Two snapper were landed on other boats - 4.04 and 3.1, both on 6 kg line. It was definitely slow fishing though and we pulled the pin by 9.30 and headed back in.
Jeremy
First stop was the Scottish prince for some livies, then out to the 18s. Anchored on some bait on some hard ground, but fishing was slow. I caught my first trag jew - just legal at 46 cm - and I also caught my biggest mack tuna of 7.8 kg on 6 kg line. Thought it was a cobe - went deep first, then took off 150 m fast, turned it and pumped it back in and landed it after about 15 minutes. Kept for bait for next few trips. My deckie had several good runs on live baits but only scored the one mack tuna around 5 kg (tagged and released) - some of them were baits bitten in half or line bitten off so must have been some good tailor down there.
Two snapper were landed on other boats - 4.04 and 3.1, both on 6 kg line. It was definitely slow fishing though and we pulled the pin by 9.30 and headed back in.
Jeremy