Smithy
18-05-2004, 04:24 AM
Hit the waters off DI Pt up on the weekend. Crossed the bar about 1:30 a.m. and headed down to load up on liveys for a morning Spanish session. Also scored the bonus of a heap of Tailor as well. Got down to the Mackerel spot in the pre-dawn and deployed the liveys. Instead of the usual ratio of 3:2:1 for us for every Mackerel this time we only landed one out of about eight. Time for new tactics next time. Gave that till about 9:30 then spun up a few Trevally in the wash. Ducked in for a few more liveys so we were well prepared for the following reef session.
After no sleep Friday night the two other deckies made themselves comfortable in the cab for the 34Nm trip due east out to the shelf. Current was raging and it looked more like water you would find Marlin in than reefies. Sounded around over a heap of marks and did about 8 mile looking for a spot just out the current. Finally found a spot that looked the goods at about 2:30 p.m. Anchored up but the action was a bit slow with only a few Hussar coming onboard till Russ began his run on the Red Fish.
First one was the medium size Red, then the good one which went 9.67kg and 80cm. Me and Scotty just couldn’t turn a trick. If it wasn’t the sharks jumping on it the was the sharks eating our fish on the way up or we pulled hooks on the jumbo gear we were using. Russ just seemed to have the knack for getting the pressure just right and seemed to avoid the sharks. At one stage we were on a triple on big reds but it wasn’t to be with only one making it up. About this time I hooked up on shark or a fish that got sharked and ran the 8kg line off the Baitrunner such that it cut through our rope attached to the brand new plough anchor. One of those wind against tide situations so we were hanging right on top of the anchor. With the anchor out of action we resorted to drifting and the hookups kept coming. That is when the 99cm, 9.7kg Green Jobby came onboard along with the Coronation Trout. The action ebbed and flowed depending on the tide but the time came to anchor up for the night. There wasn’t much action on the black of the moon so we got an early night.
Next morning we were up at about 4:30 a.m. but by now the current had found us. We perservered for a bit then decided to drift to combat the current. That accounted for the 70cm 5.0kg Jack and the 58cm Red. I tell you what, tagging 46cm Reds is pretty hard to do as they are a good fish at that size but they look much better at 55+cm.
Pulled the pin about 8:30a.m. for the 2 hour trip in pushing a slight Westerly. Thought that was going to be lovely for 30 odd mile but flattened out to nothing in the middle stages of the trip. There was a nice big rolly swell going all weekend as well. No Tuna were seen but they mustn’t be too far away as they are always there on the June long weekend. Anyway hats off the Russ that landed all the quality fish in the group shot with me and Scotty only contributing bits and pieces – figuratively (not literally). Did about 170Nm for, I am guessing, about 180 litres but did 4900 RPM everywhere I went over the weekend..
After no sleep Friday night the two other deckies made themselves comfortable in the cab for the 34Nm trip due east out to the shelf. Current was raging and it looked more like water you would find Marlin in than reefies. Sounded around over a heap of marks and did about 8 mile looking for a spot just out the current. Finally found a spot that looked the goods at about 2:30 p.m. Anchored up but the action was a bit slow with only a few Hussar coming onboard till Russ began his run on the Red Fish.
First one was the medium size Red, then the good one which went 9.67kg and 80cm. Me and Scotty just couldn’t turn a trick. If it wasn’t the sharks jumping on it the was the sharks eating our fish on the way up or we pulled hooks on the jumbo gear we were using. Russ just seemed to have the knack for getting the pressure just right and seemed to avoid the sharks. At one stage we were on a triple on big reds but it wasn’t to be with only one making it up. About this time I hooked up on shark or a fish that got sharked and ran the 8kg line off the Baitrunner such that it cut through our rope attached to the brand new plough anchor. One of those wind against tide situations so we were hanging right on top of the anchor. With the anchor out of action we resorted to drifting and the hookups kept coming. That is when the 99cm, 9.7kg Green Jobby came onboard along with the Coronation Trout. The action ebbed and flowed depending on the tide but the time came to anchor up for the night. There wasn’t much action on the black of the moon so we got an early night.
Next morning we were up at about 4:30 a.m. but by now the current had found us. We perservered for a bit then decided to drift to combat the current. That accounted for the 70cm 5.0kg Jack and the 58cm Red. I tell you what, tagging 46cm Reds is pretty hard to do as they are a good fish at that size but they look much better at 55+cm.
Pulled the pin about 8:30a.m. for the 2 hour trip in pushing a slight Westerly. Thought that was going to be lovely for 30 odd mile but flattened out to nothing in the middle stages of the trip. There was a nice big rolly swell going all weekend as well. No Tuna were seen but they mustn’t be too far away as they are always there on the June long weekend. Anyway hats off the Russ that landed all the quality fish in the group shot with me and Scotty only contributing bits and pieces – figuratively (not literally). Did about 170Nm for, I am guessing, about 180 litres but did 4900 RPM everywhere I went over the weekend..