Adrian H

Thanks mate, Yes that's the bigger sharks head having a feed, a sight we watched for 2.5 hours. We weren't completely sold on fighting one on 24kg, and at 4.30pm. Experience on a large shark wasn't in our favor, but we did throw it back out, and lasted all of 10 seconds in the water before he came up and swallowed it. We then threw a gemfish head out and he came within a meter or so of the side of the boat, but didn't eat it.

All of Sydney will be out if the weather is as good as it says.

Whale blubber that was floating in the water, we were thinking it would be to hard to switch the tiger off the whale onto something else.

Hey guys, that was us that found the whale carcass, did pretty well on the mountain, cubed for a couple of hours for 0. Wind had started to pick up so we decided to start running home. Saw a heap of birds sitting on the water, once we got closer we realized it was a dead whale. That's when we seen the tiger shark, he was roughly 6m long. There was another smaller tiger there at around the 200kg. We sat there for a couple of hours watching these sharks and dolphin fish, honestly the best thing I have ever seen on the water.

I was out on Saturday, whatever seabreeze and willy weather said for the morning, couldn't be more wrong. Managed to do 10knots the whole way down. Found our spot in 75-80m of water, 1 snapper on the drift, could see them on the sounder, so we threw out the anchor and floated baits down. Over the next 2 hours we boated 7 snapper between 45 & 55cm.

Well Done guys, we seen you blokes at the petrol station in the morning. We ended up with 2.2.0. The second fish pretty much come up at the headlands of botany bay. Lots and lots of bait.

No its a Haines Hunter 470SF

Quick report on the 3/1/15 Headed out to glassed out conditions before the southerly was meant to come up. Plan was to work the 2 Fads off Sydney. Got to the peak and the sounder was lifeless, besides 3 pigfish off the bottom we decided to throw the spread out and head east. The further out we went the warmer it got, we were still 6 mile from the wide fad when I almost ran over a marlin sunning himself on the surface. Just as were approaching the botany wide fad, we seen a very small black marlin chasing bait on the surface, 2 passes around him and we had him in the spread, he had 2 whacks at the short corner before giving up. Heading back in we were 2 miles from the peak the long rigger gets hit, hard. Cleared the rest of the spread and settled in, no jumps at all which made me question what was on the end of the line. After a 20 min fight we had a mako shark next to the boat. A very strange capture for a shark on a trolled lure, but ill take that as a consolation prize any day. A good way to break the boat into 2015

I'm more than likely the bloke out there in the Haines Hunter 470, but I have seen another one out there before. I have set it up for a small game boat, riggers, live well etc. but I am also very safety conscious. Auto and manual bilge, ebirb, life jackets and other usual safety gear. I pay attention to weather forecasts and also keep an eye on the weather while I'm out there. I consider my self a quite experienced person when it comes to offshore fishing, in the summer months I'm regularly out there solo at the FADS or marlin fishing. People seem to think that because your boat is 5.5m or over 6m that there is a magical line that cant be crossed. It all comes down to whether your boat is seaworthy and that your engine is in working condition but most importantly, experience. Yes I did get caught out 2 weeks ago, I was east of the canyons in 800fa when it got rough and was a long wet ride home. If your new to offshore fishing take it bit by bit, as suggested go to the peak for some kings and dollies in summer, I even tagged 2 black marlin in march off the peak. Then work your way out, preferably with someone more experienced, I joined a club when I first started and had blokes on my boat teaching me everything, from trolling the cliffs to trolling out wide. I will be out there this weekend chasing mako's so say hello Two C's is the boat name,