Scent Blazer Lures

good stuff

Ok Wednesday is a no go now, the southerly looks a bit too strong for my liking. Might go Thursday now in instead. The weekend is out for me.

cool, ok Im gonna try on Wednesday, probably south east of browns at this stage water is 22 off heatons, its crazy, probably still a marlin or two in that

good stuff, where abouts were you guys, I might head out on Wednesday give it a crack

cool, no worries, let us know when you want some teasers yeah i spoke to a guy down at the marina tonight who was out there, he didn't too seem happy, they came across nothing all day, they went as far as 10 mile south of heatons, he heard a couple of boats calling fish in. Also now heard of a couple fish hooked at southern canyons on the cube, fighting them into the night apparently. Hopefully someone who got something will post later tonight or tomorrow. By the way, I don't have any marks for the southern canyons, if anyone has the gps-co-ordinates it would be much appreciated might try to get out there this week, maybe Wednesday or Friday.

Any news on the Sydney Tuna Front? I got a second hand report that one boat got caught 3 about 60NM S/E of Sydney today.

I tried FishTrack last week for the first time. i don't think their maps are as good as rip charts for altimetry, it doesn't have as much detail. But looking at your map, i would say the best spot is off Batemans Bay, what your looking for is the thick black lines with "0" on it. So at zero, you have low water on one side and high on the other, zero is the transition zone. Either side and on zero lines is where you want to be. If those zero spots are not within range i would go to somewhere the water is a minus, -10, -20, but avoid the high water areas 20 or higher. i have drawn a red line on a rip chart map, a little either side of the red line and on the red line is where you want to be

cool, where abouts were they getting them?

the way I think of it it's like water running out of the bathtub, in middle of the eddy the water is lower and around the edges its higher, the ocean has heaps of large eddies, where there is a low eddy there has be high eddy next to it because the water has to go somewhere so where the low eddy transitions into the high eddy is where all the nutrients wash up and that we the food chain starts, krill -> bait fish -> pelagics in the middle of the high zones are sometimes dead zones because all nutrients are washed out and into the transition and low zones you often find, current break, temp break and good altimetry are in the same area, normally the altimetry transitions are associated with the current and temp breaks http://www.ripcharts.com/tutorialAltimetryVideo.aspx ripcharts has a pretty good tutorial and fishrack has a good one as well

yeah I can see why they are getting fish down south, Bermi, etc. That cold break is only about 20miles out down there. Poor old Heatons is in the middle of that warmish patch, us Sydneysiders will probably have to wait a bit longer Also the altimetry is crap off Sydney.

yeah I would be heading south as well, south of browns in 1500 to 2000 might not be much longer for yft and albies off Sydney, some caught in Wollongong on the w/end. Bluefin might still be a couple weeks away

cool, Sydney can't be far off for yft and albacore then. Altimetry looks better off the Gong than Sydney at the moment. I heard there are a few ppl heading out today off Sydney, hopefully they get fish as well. Well done

I have got an trial account on fish track as well now some of the info doesn't marry up, currents and altimetry are different between sites, It could just be a time difference, I will know by tomorrow so far I think rip charts has better info for everything other than sst, I think fish track SST is better than standard ripcharts, however rip charts premium SST is like fish track regular SST, if that makes sense altimetry and currents are way better on rip charts, i like to know current speed which rip charts has but i can't find on fish track, I like spots that have fast currents going into dead water, basically the edge of strong currents

they definitely have the better maps with more info on premium, but yeah sometimes they both suck because of the clouds

I'll sign up to fishtrack and use the free trail this weekend, 80bucks USD is better than 169 usd, also as for the app aspect of it, you still have to be in mobile range to the get the live info and if you are in mobile range you can just access the website on the mobile and get the live info. they should just do an smart phone friendly version of the website, its almost the same as having an app the best system is in the states, they have a weather/sst module that goes directly into your sounder, sst charts can be overlayed directly on your chart plotter, bummer we don't have that here, it would be a million times easier http://www.raymarine.com/view/?id=5277 as along you get sst, currents,altimetry, chlorophyll and true color its all you need for tuna or game fishing, so I am guessing fish tracks will be fine

cool, it looks like you get exactly the same information but in a different interface so how much is Fish Tracks for a 1 year subscription?

yeah for forgot about that, its USD, I expire in a month. I might try Fishtracks now before my Ripcharts account expires. Fishtracks have a 15 day free Premium trial. its crazy, literally every good SST shot of Sydney is in Premium and all the Standard ones are just clouds, it's useless

LOL, they should rename it to RipOffCharts.com

Currently using ripcharts and I like it, its pretty straight forward, but they just put this Premium option in and its an extra 69 bucks a year, so 169 a year now for Premium. All the good maps are in Premium and the Standard option that I currently have for 99 a year is now useless unless I pay the 69 to upgrade, so bloody annoying! Is fishtrack as good or better and how much is it a year? Might change over as a protest

yeah 80nm out on Saturday

do you mean we head out 80miles with a group of 3-4 to boats. that's actually a good idea, make it lot safer and cover more ground. like tuna cowboys I still wouldn't have the range, I'll have to wait until they come in a bit closer, I could probably push 60nm out but that would be pulling up at Heaton's and trolling from there onwards, I need to go slow down to conserve fuel I'd burn too much at 20knts plus.

recs, 80nm out on a 40 footer. 40 plus boat with a couple of big diesels 80nm would not be such a stretch, it would do 30knt so it would take around 2.5hrs running to get there. Burn a lot of fuel though. Heatons is the range I am comfortable with my current boat, Go Heatons

I got 1kw raymarine, we can pick it up ok, ask around I heard the new chirp transducers from Garmin and Raymarine are really good

we use them like mini teaser chains and clip them in front of the lures, sometimes we load them with bait for additional scent in the water basically to make the spread noisy and distribute bits of pillie scent around the lures, so when the fish come up they are generally aggressive lashing out at the lures, plus it help to bring them into spread, the spread looks more like a school of fish

there must be a another Happy Hooker that has arrived on the scene, cause that's not us, my boat is actually Happy Hooker 2 anyway I'll use the call sign "HH2 - Peter" from now on to avoid confusion