Scent Blazer Lures

LOL, I don't know, that thing looks it should be on the X-Files

it looks like a big pike eel to me, from the angle of the photo it probably looks a lot bigger than it is. Still what a beast, some teeth on it, imagine if that thing bit you while you were swimming or wading In the shallows, you'd freak out! Close the lake, its not safe anymore

nice one, great team effort and it looked pretty lumpy out there 30fa, there not a long way out

Yeah MetEye is really good. Seems the wind is right down today, the forecast was for a lot winder, I would have gone out as well. BOM has a disclaimer on all its forecasts, Forecast can up to 40% out, it's a disclaimer day

nice one, its a big dollie, you must really pleased mate it can be difficult bringing it in by yourself, any number of things can wrong and you don't have an extra set of hands to deal with it if it does, you have to improvise and think your feet. But when you have the time and the conditions are right you just go, even if you can't find a crew on the day, you just go congrats

nice one, I've had Stripy and Mack Tuna for sashimi heaps of times, I think its really good. I was first introduced to Mack Tuna sashimi on a charter up in Cairns. Everyday we'd get a few in morning, the crew would sashimi them up for the passengers and crew pre dinner along with a couple of beers. Really nice just dipped in soy and wasabi. Like you said, it's really important you cut out all those deep red bloodlines, get rid of them and your left with a nice pink tuna. One 2kg plus fish is heaps for Sashimi for a few people and the left over bloodlines I just bag up and freeze for bait and burley. So nothing is wasted either. As for healthy, I've read the smaller tuna like Stripies and Mack Tuna have much, much lower amounts of Mercury per gram than the bigger Yellowfin or Bluefin, Still wouldn't stop me eating YFT or BFT because I don't eat them that often anyway. All good

good stuff, well done guys

well done

yeah it looks like a blue to me, they are great photos when they go all gold like that I think judging the fish's weight from a photo can be very difficult. I've got photos of marlin where in one photo it looks like it's 80kg and in another it looks almost twice the size due to the distance and angle of the shot. I'm just happy the marlin was tagged, released, lives to breed and fight another day, well done guys

that's unreal, well done especially for a first time

good stuff, well done

Been contacted by 2 customers today reporting they caught or hooked Marlin off Sydney today, both got double hook-ups. One guy said he hooked them around the 50fa mark. Got these photos, looked a bit lumpy out there. Hopefully he's a fishraider and he'll do a post with some hi-res shots. That's a really nice shot of the fish jumping. Good luck to anyone heading out this weekend, sounds like there are quite a few marlin out there. Conditions look great apart from a bit of rain as well

thanks, hey i'll be heading out in couple of weeks i'll let you know

nice one, well done

WI-FI won't transmit underwater when its over a 1 foot or more underwater, its very limited, you can buy a 3rd party housing for go pro that has a video cable, that might work. or you could look into TOWCAM if they are still around, they specifically have systems that will do a live feed into mobiles, tablets and sounders

well done, very nice, yeah definitely easier with a few people on board

They aren't always accurate, if there are clouds when readings were taken they are a bit out or they could have been old, even within 4-6hrs the currents can move the water and temp breaks around very quickly. I find more times than not they give you a good starting point, the rest you have to figure out once your out there.

cool, i'll post some videos up, I got a really nice bit of footage of the marlin on it's tail next right next to the boat and of the dollie. I got so much video, I will get around to posting some eventually I'm with you Sunray, I didn't get auto pilot on my boat on purpose because I could imagine myself doing something really stupid and end up overboard with auto pilot running

I checked the weather in the morning and it looked good for the afternoon. Heavy rain, thunderstorms, overcast and light winds. I'll take heavy rain over wind any day. Txted a couple of people in the morning but no takers on such short notice and bad weather, so solo it was. Got to the heads at 1.45pm and headed east. The first thing I noticed was that everyone was heading in and I was the only one heading out. About 1.5 miles out the water went from a green/brown to a electric blue and 24.3, so I put the lures straight in and started trolling. 5 miles out I found a string of fish traps and caught a few small dollies on the lure chains. They were too small, threw them all back and replaced the lure chain with a bigger 12" lure to keep the small fish off, I also put a j-ray in the lure for extra visibility in the overcast conditions. I was just running 12” and 15” lures at that stage. Headed further east and found a few more traps, more small dollies, they kept hitting the 12” lure with the j-ray and bait inside it. Got 4 dollies around those traps, 2 went around 65cm so I kept those and threw the other 2 back. Rain was bucketing down at times but still got hook-ups even in the down pours especially the lure with the j-ray in it. I was soaked, like a drowned rat, but it's only rain right . I kept heading east, about 2 miles inside 12 Mile I found a nice little current line, and so I started running that line. 30 minutes later I hooked a marlin, speed up and set the hook and just as the boat slowed a 2nd marlin came leaping out with a lure in it's mouth on the other rigger. Just for a few seconds I could see both marlin were hooked-up and jumping simultaneously, I was thinking sh*t, what am I going do? Anyway, the one on the rigger came off, so I didn’t have to worry about that anymore. I left the rod in holder, brought in all the other gear in, turned on the go pros and started reeling it in. About 15 minutes later I had him near the boat. I was thinking he might be a bit green but I tried to trace it anyway, it leaped out at first, then it dived and charged forward swimming in front of the boat, I had to let go of the trace, I couldn’t hold it. The rod was bent right down backwards in the rod holder so I picked up the rod and I managed to get him back behind the boat again. I tried landing him again. I reeled it in towards the boat but it swam under boat and I couldn’t stop it. Unfortunately the line got wrapped around one of the prop legs. I went out hiking out on the marlin board trying to get the line off the leg. I contemplated putting on a mask, snorkel and flippers and going in to sort it out, but thought better of it. In the end I decided to drive the boat forward on the prop that didn’t have the line tangled around it to bring the line to the surface so I could gaff the line and try to pull it in by hand, it didn’t work and the line just busted. Oh well, these things happen. It’s a bit hard landing a marlin solo on my boat, you really need another person to drive who can react to what the fish is doing to keep the line clear from the boat, but still it wouldn’t stop me from trying again. I have landed marlin solo successfully before, but things have to go your way. Reset the spread minus one rod, one lure and kept trolling the same area until about 6pm then started trolling back towards Sydney Heads. About 30 minutes later one of the lines in the rigger snapped out violently. I turned around and only saw a big splash, thinking it was another marlin I sped the boat up to set the hook. Same thing as last time, gear in, camera’s on. It went for a decent run when I eventually picked up the rod so I was still thinking another marlin, but after that run it came in pretty easy and I saw the yellow fin on the surface about 20 metres out, nice dollie though. I landed it without any drama. Great arvo out despite losing the marlin at the boat. The water is great out there, 24.3 and very blue just a few miles out, you don't have to venture far. I couple people txted me today and said a few boats hooked marlin yesterday morning, so there’s a few out there. Hooked the marlin and the dollies on these 2 lures: http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/947/CatID/104/Dorado__Large_Slant_Head.aspx http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/993/CatID/130/Red__Black_Squid__Medium_Slant_Head.aspx Put some screen grabs from the go pro up, not as good as shots from a camera but does the trick if you’re fishing solo. Good luck if you’re heading out!

Well done, nice fish. with the way water the is, I don't think you have to venture far.

yeah I couldn't agree more, you are way more likely to get busted off by the really big ones Does anyone live bait at Northerners for kingies anymore? We never managed to pull a big kingie out of there, but not from a lack of trying, We only landed smaller ones up to 8kg. The bigger ones were unstoppable on 80lb, they'd just run us into the reef and bust us off everytime. We mainly used live yakkas but would prefer sea pike or small bonito if we could get our hands on them. We hooked kings there that took 3lb bonnies. Some might have been sharks but I would say most of them were big kings.

nice one!

well done, very nice!

bummer, did the dollies have any size? The traps I found are were about 2 miles inside of the 12 mile and little north. They move them around but they generally keep them in the same area.

24/24 Bait station at 33'.46.00 south 151'.45.00 east good lucks guys