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[Buccal]

Yes that's a nice one,,, but what was that ???,,, it looks 24kg there abouts to my eye.

[Stormfyre]

It was about 55lbs i think.. whats that.. 24-25kg's roughly.

[Buccal]

Yep pretty much 24kg is 55lbs. I'd be stoked with anything 20kg or over when talking dhu.
I've caught so many dhu in my lifetime,,, but my best was only 18.6kg.

[Peckoltia]

Anyone been out recently? or has the cold weather kept everyone indoors?

 

I hadn't been fishing in a long while - moving house and other commitments have kept me away from the water.

 

A mate convinced me to go to E-shed for a mulloway 'fish' last night. Had two small runs, one bait came back completely squashed (suspected mulloway) the other was baited. So that kept us relatively entertained and interested. We both also bagged out on herring (12each) which also kept us entertained.

 

Finally getting out in the boat this Saturday with some good weather forecast for an inshore snapper bash - hopefully turn these herring into some Pink Snapper. My second favourite inshore snapper bait behind fresh fillets of skippy.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

On the weekend just passed I went to the mole to try mullu or snapper, but instead lost $40 worth of hooks,line and lures . Are the slimy mackerel schools still around at ended?

[Peckoltia]

The moles can be unforgiving on gear - you eventually learn how to avoid losing gear. Sometimes it is unavoidable.

 

Fishing is expensive. If you want to feel better I lost a Trinidad 30A and Monster mesh off the side of the boat last time I went out $800 to the depths of the ocean.

 

Scalies are sporadic - too many stinking salmon around. I wish they'd piss off to be honest.

[shayne]

OUCH!! hope you hadnt taken to many trophies on that gear, that would make it a harder loss than the$

[werdna]

Crap photo,but this was Monday.

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Just got back in now, must have caught 20 pinkys between 40 & 45cm, none over the mark.

not too bad though, plenty of action to keep us entertained, and good to see plenty of fish around

Also looking at new boat atm... Watch this space

[Peckoltia]

Nice Pink.

 

Meant to be plenty of them around 40-45cm - what area were you fishing?

 

 

OUCH!! hope you hadnt taken to many trophies on that gear, that would make it a harder loss than the$

 

 

Heaps of good fish on that set-up. Ah well. 

[werdna]

That was on the bombies east of Carnac.

 

We had 4 good runs where the hooks didn't seat that night, that was the one that didn't get away.

 

There are heaps of Skippy around ATM too, we have been letting the Snapper rigs out then fishing for Skippy with squid rods. They put up a huge fight on those rods, some take a good 5 mins to get in. They are great fun while waiting for that lovely whirr from the overhead

 

Michael, buy your gear on ebay. It saves you HEAPS.

I use TACKLEDIRECT168 mainly (hope that works)

 

Everything arrives in a week and its cheap as.

I use 6/0 circle hooks for Snapper, a pack of 100 is $10 delivered.

 

Dhufish I use the 8/0 normally, they are 50 for $10

 

KG I use 1/0 circles, 100 for $10

 

Swivels are around $10 for 100 too.

 

We lost two rigs tonight, each one cost me around 30c for the two hooks and one swivel.

 

Don't know about lures though, we don't use them often

[Peckoltia]

Yep, that's pretty much what we do when we have a snapper session out of Hillarys. Anchor up, burley up and get the bream gear out for the skippy under the boat and let the big baits soak in the burley trail waiting for the snapper to sniff it out.

[Michael the fish fanatic]

Thanks for that guys

[Peckoltia]

Heaps of Skippy on the weekend - to 47cm (good size for inshore) - unfortunately no snapper. Weren't out there long. Got rained on heavily and a couple of the isolated fronts brought enough wind with them that we packed it in pretty early. 3mile is not somewhere you want to get stuck in the darkness in bad weather!

 

Still great fun - had the 2500 Shimano Stradic ci4+ with 10lb on a 1-3kg rod out - some of the bigger Skippy were close to getting smoke out of the reel.

[Buccal]

The T-bones of the ocean. (skipjack).

[Peckoltia]

Looking at a wood chipper to turn them from T-bones into quality burley

[werdna]

Just get one of those old mincers mounted onto the back of the boat

[Buccal]

Oh no, not the skippy,,, lol.

[Peckoltia]

I do a lot of land based fishing too, want something that will chum up whole fish and big frames, mix with pollard and oil with some instant mash potato and freeze big blocks on it. Would make dynamite inshore burley.

[Buccal]

Large kitchen blender !!!

[Peckoltia]

I'm not convinced it would chew snapper heads etc? wood chipper/mulcher is the only viable option i can see?