November Report 15th

Cray season started yesterday and from all reports i've heard it has been very quiet with 5 being the most i've heard of being caught even after a couple of dives.. Apparently the visibility isn't too crash hot at the moment and hopefully things will pick up after the full moon.. Its even quiet over at Rotto, which must meant they aren't walking properly yet.

Speaking of the full moon, mulloway season must be upon us soon.. heard that there were 30 cars under the narrows last night with rods set up everywhere..  Sounds like cockburn sound is the place you want to be to catch one..

The big tailor chop-ups are still happening in the river, but apparently they are still small at the moment.. Haven't managed to get into any myself, but hopefully it won't be too far off.  Meant to be some good size flathead moving into the lower parts of east freo at the moment, but there are plauge proportions of blowies, so soft plastics might not be the go just yet.

This week a group of 8 are going to try jigging for sambo's out at the containers on kayaks.. now that should be interesting.. wonder if theres any of the big grey suited fellas out there at the moment? Certainly won't catch me on a kayak out there.

Reports from the billfish bonanza at Exmouth is that there are mackies just out of the harbour, big queenies in close.. lots of big golden trev's and quite a few sailfish around..

Few good sambo's are still on the 3 mile along with good sized king george if you can find them..

Still plenty of fat sand whiting in close, if your chasing a feed.

The crabs haven't fired up anywhere yet and from what i've heard it is extremely hard work and not really worth the effort for the ones that are size, which are few and far between.

And i've heard that its worth a trip out to the fads already, a few baby specimens are sitting underneath them.. oh yes!

Sounds like the fishing is starting to heat up with the weather, bring it on!

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yeh the kayak jigging

Wed, 2005-11-16 18:48

yeh the kayak jigging session should be interesting by all accounts. My opinion is a kayak looks wayyy too much like a big seal to some of those 200kg+ makos :p

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Date Joined: 17/11/05

I agree it will be mighty

Thu, 2005-11-17 14:35

I agree it will be mighty interesting,  personally I dont reckon you could put the hurt on a Sambo like youd need to.  Ive felt the pressure a goodn will put you under, and I pray it dont happen when Im in a kayak.  I have spoken to AB about the sambo kayaking, what happens if there is a triple hook up, with 3 guys getting towed off in seperate directions, who is the skip going to go with. 


Then as Shizz said you can keep the Makos, there have never been more present in the waters off our coast according to a good source and following a sambo up is quite common.  Then there is the query are these kayaks considered as vessels, should be be needing an Epirb etc and stuff like that.   I know they have quoted big Sailfish caught etc and Marlin and everything else, but you`ll find they were trolling and were within 2km of land not in 100m jigging up and down.


Ah well $$ have to be made somewhere I suppose........


cheers


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10 Crays on my boat

Tue, 2005-11-22 23:30

In the most unfished unlikely places. Hard work for he that caught most of them, but a good feed of crays anyway!!!