Jump to content

Mr Squid

MEMBER
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    83

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Mr Squid

    NZ snapper trip

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Hi Damo,

    Looks like Brett was able to save the trip and put you on some great snapper while the weather was bad. Too bad about not being able to get to the kings as I know what it's like when Brett puts you in the right spot.

    Squidy

    The King of all Kings

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mr Squid

    Just returned from 3 days of the greatest fishing trip to NZ ever. Based out of Great Barrier Island with 4 mates the objective was to catch big kings and boy did we succeed. With the smallest kings being in the 6 - 8 kg range we pushed through a medium swell on the last day to a spot where the captain was confident of upping the ante. After several kings to 25kg were landed it was my turn on the rod. With a live yakka being slow trolled I waited in anticipation for the strike which took all of 30 seconds. In 25m of water the Stella SW20000 was as close to full lock up as possible and after the initial hit the king finally woke up and put in one of those screaming runs, letting me know this was not just any king I had attached. With the king and I not willing to give an inch we were locked into a 30 minute battle to the death, and on several occasions it looked like it was going to be me either being pulled over board or having the rod ripped out of my hands. Finally started to see colour and then I when he finally popped to the surface I knew he was the king of a lifetime. With the skipper tracing the line and getting him on board thru the marlin door the celebrations started. Official measure are as follows; length to the fork of the tail 163cm, to the end of the tail 175cm and a weight of 45kg. Unfortunately the king was spent and would not swim, however this did allow us to get some great photos back at the wharf.

    I would like to submit this catch for catch of the month and also kingfish record holder

    Squidy

    post-11653-0-82044200-1395659877_thumb.jpg

    post-11653-0-57208200-1395660095_thumb.jpg

    SNAPPER AND TRAG

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    The Trag have been around for a while, they never really left after last summer. Good to see a report. Did you fish last weekend in the red October (snapper) comp. there was some great reds caught with the biggest going 82cm . Quiet a few in the 70's.

    Squidy

    Georges River Thusday Night 10/10

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Quick session last night before the Southerly arrived. 5 soapies with the biggest at 68cm, all released so hopefully they will breed. I have a personnel min. size of 70cm before i will think of keeping them. The soapies were caught on a mixture of plastics, squid strips and slimy mackeral fillet.

    Also picked up a nice flatty that went 75cm which was also relaesed to breed.

    Squidypost-11653-0-82806800-1381485234_thumb.jpg

    DHYPE's Fishing Charters..... with Swordy as a customer!

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Hey Trung & Stewy

    I was one of the boats at one ofTrung's secret squid spots and it was hard work getting a couple of squid. I saw and heard the banter going on between you two and considering it was very early in the morning I knew you were going to enjoy each others company by stirring the crap out of each other. Nothing like mates fishing together. Now that I know this is one of Trung's squid spots next time I will just follow him to this kingies.

    Stew.

    Nice Bull

    in Gamefishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by Mr Squid

    Thanks mate. Temps are looking much better for this weekend.

    Hi Johno

    Fished the Hacking fad and two other traps that I came across on Tuesday morning for zero fish. Saw a couple of small fish hanging about but could not tempt them with either livies or pillies. Water temp was 22.2 from memorey.

    Stew

    First big flatties of the season

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Woke a little late after a late one last night and my lovely wife announced that she would be heading of to her friend's place for an hour or two with my 8 yo son. I quickly loaded the car and headed down to the Georges, up river from the main bridges and launched into good overcast conditions. Armed with hardbodies and blades only, I hit a coupe of reliable run out spots around 10:30am with the hope that the last half of the run out would produce the goods. Scored 5 flatties from 40-50 cm, keeping the 2 bigger ones on a variety of lures but at about midday, the bite slowed down. I changed plans and trolled a new area that drops from 4 ft down to 10 ft. On the first troll, one of my rods took a hit that looked pretty solid. I set the hooks and brought the other lines in. This was a good flatty that came to the yak pretty quickly. I netted her in a pretty green state. She looked a good size and I and slipped the lip grips in as she had swallowed the lure completely. The flatty then launched itself out of the net and twisted a full 360 degrees before landing in the yak at my feet minus the lip grips that had split the bottom jaw! I re-gripped the top jaw, removed the lure and dispatched the fish. I had drifted back a hundred metres or so after the action so I set the lures for one more troll on the way back to the car. Around the same spot, the same lure gets hit again and this time I felt some serious weight as I set the hooks. I quickly got the other line in and started on the fish and it took a couple of zippy runs to the surface, with a silver flank flashing at me, making me think it was a jew. As I got it back to the side of the yak, I got a glimpse of a very nice flathead. By this time I was only a couple of hundred metres from the car so I towed her in slowly and netted her as I beached the yak. A quick measure on the lie detector showed her up as a very healthy 86cm. I yelled out to a nearby fisho who kindly took a couple of happy snaps and I then swam her back to a fiesty release. It was an interesting session and hopefully a sign of things to come over spring and summer!

    Well done Rob, can i ask where you launched from yesterday. I threw some SP's and blades around the Como bridge yesterday afternoon at the bottom of the tide for no result but that fishing

    All quiet at Wally's Wharf

    in Fishing Reports

    Posted

    G'day Greynurse

    Went to Bundeena ferry wharf last night for a session with the result being one nice size green eye and nothing else. As Rich (Mr Squidy) said not much happening ATM and with the Gymea baths closed for another renovation for the next couple of months if they do come on the bite i'm sure all wharfs will be crowded

    Squidy

×
×
  • Create New...