Season part 2

[Jarrah Jack]

The first part of the season is over so its time to begin a new thread on this mexicans snapper fishing. In between our enchiladas and tacos with the occasional tequila and seniorita a few mexicans like to catch a fish or two.

TOL has been giving me a hard time in the bilge about this mexican getting up late and missing the best part of the day. He likes to get up at the ungodly hour of 4.20 to do his thing whatever it is but its probably nothing that I can't do at a more sensible hour.

So this morning I got up at 3.50 which in real time (yours) is actually 2.50. I'm sure TOL was well tucked up at that time and dreaming of catching a snapper or something.

Well before Finga would've had a chance to plow his bottom paddock and TOL had much chance to sip his morning brew this mexican was on his way in from catching the snappers in the photo. All done and dusted by 5.00 real time with a few fish having to go back as we'd reached the bag limit or were in the process of upgrading. All fish going back were lip hooked with 6.0 circles so no chance of them going belly up.

We had a good session, the best so far. I'm finding that a mixture of both pilchard and squid on the same hook is proving very effective. The standout bait this morning though was cuttlefish gut from the only cuttlefish I've ever caught, back in winter, it was. The two big ones took the cuttlefish, the same bait as it turned out as it wasn't mangled by the first one.

Now its time for me to have a siesta and catch up with some lost sleep.

[charleville]

Great fish, JJ. Well done!

So you are using circles which means that you are just leaving the rods in the rod holders and letting the fish do all the work?



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[theoldlegend]

That's a great catch JJ !!

Nice and fat too. They'll taste good for sure.


TOL

PS: Gwenda reckons it's not a good idea to eat up large on the enchiladas before going out. Apparently if you get caught short, then you're in serious trouble. It's the chilli that does it, apparently.

[Jarrah Jack]

Great fish, JJ. Well done!

So you are using circles which means that you are just leaving the rods in the rod holders and letting the fish do all the work?



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Yep I like the circles and see no reason to change. When they are being finiky, like last week,then you have to do a bit of work. This morning they were really going for it and I never got a chance to sit down once. I wondered about the lack of colour in the fish and just heard that a new school had moved into the area so that explains it, somehow.

[Jarrah Jack]

That's a great catch JJ !!

Nice and fat too. They'll taste good for sure.


TOL

PS: Gwenda reckons it's not a good idea to eat up large on the enchiladas before going out. Apparently if you get caught short, then you're in serious trouble. It's the chilli that does it, apparently.

I'd like to send you some fish TOL but I hear that the local postal service is a bit slow so I had better not.

Mexicans have been brought up with chilli in their mothers milk and, through natural selection, have upgraded body parts to cope with it.

[dreemon]

Great catch ! I also like the squid and pillie combo, slip the squid over the pillies head and you've got a squid franga, secure with a hook through the eye

[trueblue]

Great catch ! I also like the squid and pillie combo, slip the squid over the pillies head and you've got a squid franga, secure with a hook through the eye

it is a good bait presentation. Ryan Moody showed me that about 10 years ago up north.

[theangryangler]

Well done jack!
used to use the pillie/squid combo on jewies in the hunter river, EXcellent bait!!