Sundays Day out
headed from freo at 6am this morn in search of some dollies and bottom bounce the derwent.
about 730 we hit furuno fad..there was nuthing there! trolled to pgfc..had one hook up but dropped, pretty sure it was a smallish tuna.
we went past pgfc, there was nuthing there...finding it hard to get a dolly at this time
trolled to fremantle sailing club fad..didnt think we were gonna get anything there but we managed a average sized dolly plus saw heaps more dollies on that fad but no boats were getting them except mine, even with baits..my first mahi, so i was pretty stoked.
twas a bit busy at all the fad so we set out to the derwent for a bottom bounce!!!
200m of water...it kills ahha
we pulled a couple of fish off that including 10kg grey banded cod, 6kg mulloway, 2 45cm pinkies and heaps of good sized red snapper...
had some major bust off as we'll...one guy on the boat got spooled!! theres some serious fish down there
anyway we fished that for 3 or 4 hrs and did well..then we went for a bit of a troll after that and picked up some small tuna, and by that time the ocean was soo flat..never seen it so calm!
by then it was about 2pm so we decided to head in around rotto for some dhuies..unfortunatley there was no drift at all which sucks when your bottom fishing, so we called it a day and returned to the harbour about 6pm this arvo!
not a bad day by all means, ended up with..1 dolly, 1 cod, 1 mulla, 2 tuna, 5 red snapper, 1 sea perch and 2 pinkies
havent uploaded the photos yet fellas but as soon as i do ill post them up!!
cheers
sam
Cheers,
Sam
dogsoldier
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Top effort Sam sounds like a
Top effort Sam sounds like a great day on the water looking forward to seeing the pics
Cheers
Andrew
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tangles
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work rewarded
good stuff sam! good to c the hard work was rewarded! gets frustrating sometimes when you know there are fish there but cant get them! good to c you got a nice hall of table fish for tukk!
Tim
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Onya
Well done Sam. Looks like the day went almost exactly to plan. Got to be happy with the bonus mulla and greyband.
Kept a lookout for ya today. We were still at the Furuno at 7:30. Saw a big boat come through maybe it was you.
SPESS
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Good species list, a few
Good species list, a few happy lads i should imagine.
Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!
Andy Mac
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Well done Sam
I'd love to catch a greyband, just don;t fancy the long wind up from 200m. Congratulations on a terrific day out on the water.
Cheers
Andy Mac (Fishwrecked Reeltime Editor & Forum Moderator)
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SamC
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thanks fellas...your right
thanks fellas...your right andy, my arms are killing me today! but the good thing about it (if you had an electric reel) is that u get single or double header of quality table eating fish every drop!
yeh tim, we just put the lures out and trolled past furuno once and left for pgfc...howd u go?
cheers
sam
Cheers,
Sam
Tim
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Ok
We got a couple at Furuno. Just had to troll a fair bit. Found they were a bit touchy.
SHizz
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so wheres the pic sammy boy
so wheres the pic sammy boy
alfred
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Looks like all of you had a
Looks like all of you had a good weekend. Hope there is some decent weather left for me when I get back. Good show guys.
Stingray
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Distance
How far out is the 200m mark from Rotto?
Cheers Jason