Gold Coast NE 50's 24/10 - short report

[Brent_P]

On Sunday, I went out on another charter with Seaprobe. We fished mainly live slimies and yakkas in 50 fathoms NE of the Seaway, but I spent some time jigging with a 250g Daiwa Sacrifice Stick jig. One guy got a 15kg samsonfish on a livebait, and I caught an 8-9kg kingie (not weighed) on a live slimy, and a 14kg and a 15.5kg kingie on the Daiwa jig. The whole day, I was using my new single-speed Saltiga lever drag - a tiny SA-LD20HS - with 9kg at sunset, and the two bigger fish were still able to take a bit of line, but thankfully never quite made it to the bottom. I have the Saltiga matched to a Daiwa PE 4-5 Saltist LD "AHI" rod, which is amazingly thin and light for it's strength, and the whole outfit is extremely light. I lent the rod to Rob, the deckie, because he "just wanted to see what it felt like to fish with", and literally within 20-30 seconds he was hooked up to a 12kg kingie. He reckoned it was a pretty good result for only 20 seconds of fishing for the day.

Quite a few other good-sized kingies were caught, but sometimes we drifted right through a good show on the sounder without a touch. The kingfish, and the samson, were spawning, which might explain why a brightly coloured, very annoying jig was more effective than livebait.

Brent.

[Timfishin4fun]

Hi mate well done on the great fish.

I was out there on those grounds with ya in my haines (check avatar).

We got busted twice by ambers or kingies but that was all for them.

We ended up with a good feed of pearlies, snapper, rosy job fish.

Can't wait to get back out there.

Tim

[bushweek]

Hi mate well done on the great fish.

I was out there on those grounds with ya in my haines (check avatar).

We got busted twice by ambers or kingies but that was all for them.

We ended up with a good feed of pearlies, snapper, rosy job fish.

Can't wait to get back out there.

Tim

hey mate, saw you out there, i was onboard zeus the cabo, you did better then us, unfortunately we had two strikes all day, other then that no solid hooks ups and the end results was not even a scale.

[Brent_P]

Thanks Tim. Great weather for it, wasn't it?

I did see a couple of trailer boats out there, but I can only remember one with a black hull and another one with three people in it, with at least one guy jigging. We only got eight or nine kingies, and the samsonfish, but almost all the fish were big. Unfortunately, five big fish were lost due to bust-offs or pulled hooks. A few good pigfish were also caught on slimy and yakka fillets, but no snapper.

We did try several spots in the general area, all of which produced something at some point. Then we went in closer and caught some trag.

Cheers,

Brent.

[Timfishin4fun]

Nice boat you were out on.

We saw you guys jiggin like crazy. Didn't see ya get a hit though.

Our biggin's were early in the day, but still managed a good feed.

See you out there soon.

Tim

hey mate, saw you out there, i was onboard zeus the cabo, you did better then us, unfortunately we had two strikes all day, other then that no solid hooks ups and the end results was not even a scale.

[Timfishin4fun]

Hi Brent the hull is Blue, you were out on the blackwatch watchtower?

Tim

Thanks Tim. Great weather for it, wasn't it?

I did see a couple of trailer boats out there, but I can only remember one with a black hull and another one with three people in it, with at least one guy jigging. We only got eight or nine kingies, and the samsonfish, but almost all the fish were big. Unfortunately, five big fish were lost due to bust-offs or pulled hooks. A few good pigfish were also caught on slimy and yakka fillets, but no snapper.

We did try several spots in the general area, all of which produced something at some point. Then we went in closer and caught some trag.

Cheers,

Brent.

[Brent_P]

Yeah, Gav's boat is a 36ft Blackwatch.

Here's a photo of it -

[Timfishin4fun]

That's the one, anyway we were out there with ya.

Timbo

[bondy99]

Yeah mate Gav will always put you on the fish.

I've been out with him many occassions and yes you do get good days and other days not so good but still its a good day on the water.

I've found lumo jigs out performed dead bait anytime also will go jigs before livies, dont know why that is but they just do so on all the trips especially with 10 POB.

The one with the jigs got the first hook up, then not long after it was livies, after some time they go off the bite (probably spooked when their mates get taken)

[spenceandkim]

Nice fish BrentP.