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little marlin

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  1. First time poster long time reader,anyways here goes got to the ramp at 5:30 and put the boat in only to realise that i left the pillies in the freekin freezer at home so it was not a great start for a bottom bash out on the reefs. So off we motored with 2 good mates to get some livies out off rosebay to the wedding cakes and that we did. Punched it straight out to 12 mile for zip then agreed maybe the peak might be better off. No kingies there either but got a few reef fish then went for a drift for flatties about 2k's off cooggee. It was fairly quiet till old mate down near the back of the boat hooked up on not a bad little fish,got it about half way then the drag decided to let loose and go nuts and bam smashed straight through his 60lb leader.We were like thinking thats got to be a shark so i had my rig out with a butterfly yakka and straight to the bottom it went.Had to rig my mate up as he is not so good with words let alone tieing knots so droppped him down and we got tangled,quickly decided to to cut his rig and all of a sudden felt a thump in the line i had in my hand and thought i was snagged,started bringing it in and realised holy shit this aint to bad so tightened up the drag a touch and then about 30m off the boat seen a fin come up and at first thought it was a little black(i wished) took a quick dive and up it came again for my mate to call a shark i was like oh ok here we go as it went for another little dive only to appear 3 metres from the boat and we could see those razor sharp teeth pretty much smileing at us both was a 1.4 mako,as he had the gaf ready ,I was thinking this 60lb leader is goin to break any second now and bam slappped me straight on the chest. Oh well tryed my luck with some wire trace for about 30mins after but didnt reappeare was a great day out on the water espcially to see such a great little mako up so close and whales cruising around like a mini playground.Sorry no photos of the little mako as u know happened all so fast.

  2. Cant wait to see the video mate and I to have lost 2 rods due to using those shitty plastic rod holders...dam it...you think i would of learnt a lesson the first time.So I have lost one in botany one in sydney whats next pittwater ummmm i dont think so got rid of those crap rod holders and if u do have them on your boat u can either do 3 things:Back your drag right off,Put them on your camp chair were i think they really belong or give them to someone u really are not a great fan of :banana:

  3. Nice one there mate and even though cobia are not a well known species to sydney we did manage to catch a few during the warmers months this season and seen a a couple of big ones chasing up lures or livies but didnt manage to hook any.I just hope they return in numbers with the kingies this season cant wait :thumbup:

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