blue marlin

Have to get me a brag board i think.

Went out early this morning to get some reds.Went to the usual spot and started to burley had no bites for about 2 hours then got the king which was 68cm,half an hour later got the smaller red on cuttle fish. Lots of runs and some big bust ups and finally got the bigger one.And good to see i only got 1 jacket.

I fought a 264 kg blue for a long and gruelling 10 hours last year went deep and only left us with 100 meters of line left on 37kg, so there was no driving off her after 7 hours and another 100 meters back on the reel.We all thought she was dead getting no where so we drove off her and losing everything i had worked for we finally got some angle and started to plane her up, and after all the talk of a stail mate with a dead fish she come up swiming and very much alive! So you just never know.

where were you fishing and did the jackets get you?

Great photos and a great catch

The colours look weird?

Have done a bit of jigging off port stephens last year sure is agood way to keep fit on one trip we were pulling 2 kings at once on 1 jig for some reason they hold up on the shelf over winter.

Woke up anzac morning to a heavy down pour of rain and after telling a couple of mates who had organized a fishing day dont worry about the rain and toughin up i had to go. So out to garage and hooked up the boat loaded the boat with bait and rods and headed to the ramp,the wife said i was #****** Got to the ramp the rain stopped and headed to sylvania to pick up a mate who was fishing with me who suggested we take his boat which is a 47 caribbean, but you cant catch fish in air conditioned comfort. So we headed headed out in the tinnie and straight for the hot water outlet and there were fish everywhere breaking the suface after the first cast we where into the long tom which are fantastic fighters on light line but hard to stay connected too,then something bigger grabs my bait and heads straight to the fish farm no stopping him on 6 kg then the mates reel screams off and to our suprise a jewie comes to the surface and then decides to head straight to the oil wharf and on 3 kg line there was no stoppin him either out comes the 10 kg rods and didnt turn another reel. So to spot number 2 for some bream and after picking up the wife and kids we anchored up and threw some burly in we didnt have to wait long something screams of with the chicken gut and after taking around 30 meters spits the bait then after i stopped swearing i got the same bait in the water and didnt have to wait long and landed a nice 39 cm bream then my mates into another which went 27cm and at the same time my son lands a nice trevally on his new rod that he got for his birthday he is all smiles,then everything goes quite not another touch for another 30 minutes. So to spot number three for some flatties after 10 minutes we had a good 36 cm flattie which was released and my mate has a good 50 cm flatty next to the boat and tells me he dosnt need a net tries to lift him in and snap gone. In we head to the motorboat club for the weigh in and won the day none of the other 4 boats caught a thing.

Went out to the close fad before work with the fly rods and was into the daily grind by 8 oclock.

Some nice reds there. Were you drifting or fishing with floaters?

You might have to buy a bigger esky soon.great catch.

Looks like the good water has finally come in close.

The bottle fish was pretty easy they just seem to swim into my hands.

Get a grander off sydney and youll never have to buy a beer in a fishing club again.

Do you use pliers or fingers? All the worms i have caught in sydney are pretty small but a meter isnt bad.

How big are the worms you get from the beach there mondo?

Travelled out to my red spot at the merries on monday picked up and the burly trail was set for 2 hours not a bite so we went looking for the old trusty plenty of small fish so we headed out to 40 meters the water changed from green to blue and 23.4. where we found the bigger fish and a nice mowong and plenty of jackets.

Bad luck there ross i know what its like to lose a big fish the broken bay tournament this year we got spooled on 37 in two minutes.

Very quiet at the interclub for the dollies this year aswell.

Got one three weeks ago, usually the big fish turn up around april. 12 meters is where i usually fish but ended up in 17 meters.

Usually fish there for kings miss judged my mark and must have ended up where the sand meets the reef.

Halfway down the reef neer osborne shoals

Started off pretty bad with a flat battery in the old girl After 10 minutes changing the battery i was off out the heads didnt know where had no plan .So i decided to head to the merries to usual spot to try and grab some kings ended up with these nice fish and lost plenty more

I call it old faithfull if no where else works,there is allways the merries

Anyone heading up for the comp?