Sunday Jiggy Jig
Well after commiting to huggy to take him and 2 mates out jigging the morning had arrived and we were all pumped and ready to go.
Got the the Hillaries boat ramp to find it suprisingly empty, launched at around 5:30 and started the hour long journey to the southern barges off rotto in search of a few sambos.
First spot had a few fish on it and first one up was a good fish around 18kg, a tag went in and was measured and released.
Then a heap of smaller rats came thru. Again we tagged them and released them.
among huggys super catch.
We then decided to head the the northern grounds around 12 mile away, finding huge schools of dolphins around and both mills and blue juice already on the mark jigging up a few fish, with a couple of weired people on one of the boats yelling out once when we were hooked up "go mako" LOL, suspect a couple of fishwrecked members on the boat .
The fish were more on the go here and a bit bigger, first drop resulted with a 4 way hook up.
picked up a nice leather on the jig on a bozo, plan was to get a decent fish on one for the comp
after the leather jacket was thrown on ice, it was back into it and finally a good sambo, the biggest of the day for us, going 1200mm forck lenth and estimated high 20's
On a note, we had to use the release weight on a couple of our fish, theres nothing worse than seeing one float off, then we spotted a fish floating that was thrown over from one of the 2 charters in the area, so over we went and picked it up and used the 80oz release weight to get it down, not once did we see either charters use a weight, this fish was a bruiser too, hopefully it survived.
All in all a good day hunting and finding , getting a few new spots and getting onto some good fish and christening some shimano bling.
Certainly looking forward to the next jig.
PilbaraBrad
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top write up and pics lads,
top write up and pics lads, looks like a lot of fun, really have to try that one day
jay_burgess
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we can jig for dogtooth at
we can jig for dogtooth at NC, even better :)
Brody
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Nice work fellas, some good
Nice work fellas, some good fish. The little rat looks like an AJ?
mako magic
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thats what we thought but
thats what we thought but again, its the ambo/sambo debate
hlokk
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What debate? Its an ambo
What debate? Its an ambo ;)
Good work to see a fair few were pulled up and everyone got into them.
till
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For sure, that rat is an AJ.
For sure, that rat is an AJ.
HuggyB
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yeah it does Brody
that was my inital thought as well since they all had the yellow streak. But I've also heard that baby ambos and sambos look very very similar?
Regardless, they were smaller than what we wanted!!
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Colin Hay
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Great to see you got to test out the Stella Matt
It looks like you guys hada great day out.
What reel were you using there Huggy?
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HuggyB
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Accurate 870
As HonSu described it, my "rockstar" reel.
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Colin Hay
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Thanks mate How did it go?
It is a serious looking reel.
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HuggyB
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Very nice
smooth drag even when cranked, and had no problems handling a big sambo being eaten by what I assume was a bigger shark LOL......
I love it - light, small, ballsy drag and has 300m PE6 and mono backing. Even has cast control if you are so inclined........
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damo6230
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nice works guys
looks like a great day out on the water,
how'd those bozo jigs go matt?
mako magic
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went well mate, didnt use
went well mate, didnt use them alot, found they had a preference for the smaller ones, though i got the biggest fish of the day on one
chrisp
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Good to see you got some boys..
Itching for another crack at those sambos asap!!
jay_burgess
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looks like an awesome day on
looks like an awesome day on the water fellas, top stuff.
eddie
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Looks like a great day
Looks like a great day Matt! I'd like to get into the sambos sometime.
fishing fanatic
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aj
defs a amberjack.. it hasnt got the blotches that the small sambos have. not even really faint ones
Frank F
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nice fish and pics looks
nice fish and pics looks like a fun day
Goodz
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Looks like fun there boys!
Looks like fun there boys! Definately have to get out there and have a jig one day.
D_DOUSH
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That wasnt me yelling out
That wasnt me yelling out mako i swear!!!!! I was on mills fishing the bow every drift. caught some absolute corkers and yes we were using the release weight. so you carnt look at me!!!!
DazSamFishing
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Nice work fellas. Good to
Nice work fellas. Good to see you got some fish & also nicer to see you invested a bit of time getting the floating fella back down.
danno
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good stuff boys well worth
good stuff boys well worth the trip out.
nice leathery there mate. u guys eat it?
cheers danno
HuggyB
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yeah
my mate took him home for dinner.
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flangies
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How did shane go?
How did shane go?
HuggyB
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As Flanders always does
catches everything withouy trying. We all caught rat amberjacks (~2kg) and he lands an 18kg sambo virtually first drop.
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flangies
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Sounds like a wicked day!
Sounds like a wicked day!