Polynemus_sheridani

Hi everyone finally a report worth reporting about. KOCHO, Dominic and I had a charter booked for Sunday and with only 3 of us going, the rest pulled out we had the whole game boat to ourselves. We headed out of Port Hacking at 6.30am and headed to the bait grounds to find a very large school of slimes on the surface being worked by 5 or so dolphins. Only took us about 5 or 10 min to load up with some great size slimes (20 to 30cm) and then we headed on out. We started to troll a lure spread of 4 marlin lures and 1 on the shotgun for a Wahoo. About 30 min later bang of goes the right rigger and in large white water mess the line is screaming off the tigara at a rate of knots only to be dropped a few seconds later  then we started to turn the boat around and then it come back and hit the shotgun lure and again it didn’t hookup  We trolled around the area for a good 20min but nothing, so we headed of about another 20 min later I was up on the bridge when I looked out to the north and I seen this large splash and then all of a sudden this marlin came out of the water free jumping about 10 meters so we headed over to the area on the way we seen a large school of sea gars about 40cm long going very quickly going the other direction away from the marlin so we worked the current lines but nothing. We then headed to the FAD and checked it out and not a thing on it at all quite on the western front as they say. So we decided to head out towards browns and see what was going on out there, when arrived at browns where there must have been about 10 or more boats trolling and bottom bashing around browns. We seen one boat backing down on a fish but it didn’t jump. We decided to stop for a while and send a bait down to the bottom and see if we could get something. Well it only took about 20 min and the first drop we where solid on a fish, we strapped KOCHO onto the rod and harness him up on tigara 50w and he started winding  about 15 min later out of the depths came a 16kg Blue eye see pic below. After the photos and getting the line cleaned up we decided to send another bait down to the bottom, we then had slack line then tight line then slack line so we decided to bring it on up, then the rod decided to bend over and we had either picked up something that had run us into the bottom or what but that line wasn’t moving, then all of a sudden the line came free and we stated winding, about 10 min later in came a nice gemfish of about 2kg forgot to take a picture sorry. Well that was it we then decided to call it quits on the bottom and go back to marlin fishing, we decided to put out the lives, we put 3 out and started a long troll back towards home, we had no hits on the lives so after about 1 hour we pulled them in and went back to lures and away we went. We then seen a school of birds working some bait we moved in close to find a school of stripes working them we trolled around without a hit, moved on and then a boat near us was hooked up and backing down on fish, tag in and released it, we when all of a sudden turned around and then there was marlin free jumping not far away we trolled into the area and work the current line but without a hit and still 20 miles from home to kept trolling back. That was it for the day no another hit or any other action for the rest of the day, well we missed out on a marlin but we got a great fish to eat and all in all it was a great day, the water is looking better all the time and the weather was great all day long. Maybe the blueeye might make the fishing records? Thanks Craig

we only have one spot left now the other one has been taken.

i have a game fishing charter booked for this coming sunday and a we still have a few spots left if anyone is interested, we will be going out chasing marlin our of port hacking. drop me a pm if you are interested. thanks craig

Hi All Sorry havnt replied but have been busy with work and i am still waiting for a price on a few more things before i can confirm the total pricing but at this stage we have worked out the accomodation and also the some other logistical details and now we just need to get it all together. I hope to have a final price in the next day or so. I will post more details on the trip asap. thanks craig

Hi all A charter boat that we go out on regularly is doing some special trips from Sydney to Port Stephens, Starting in Jan 2007 the trips will be 3 to 4 days in length. Day 1 Leave Sydney 3am, troll out of Sydney and have Bacon and Eggs on the BBQ for breakfast, At Norah Heads stop for some bottom bashing and try and pickup some snapper and other bottom fish for BBQ on board for Lunch, after a break resume trolling all the way up to Port Stephens arriving at about 4 or 5 pm that day if time permits try and get in a few more hours fishing offshore. That night stay in a Hotel in Port Stephens (to confirmed yet). Day 2 & 3 6am start and fish all day offshore chasing Marlin and Dollies. Day 4 Leave at 3 or 4am and troll all the way back to Sydney arriving at about 5 or 6pm. This trip is limited to 5 people, all the gear and captain and deck hand are included, the costs are still to be set but the captain has asked me to see if anyone would be interested in this trip, one trip with the captain and Deck hand is set for Jan to check all runs ok this will be with some mates. If you want to ask any questions then please just drop me a line and I will get back to you. Thanks Craig

Well a goup of 5 mates and i are heading down to the canons on Sat to chase some YFT if they are around and try and put a bend in the new rod King Rods built me last week. the weather is looking great so far for sat for the run down there. hope to have a report up over the weekend let you all know how we go and hope some pictures also. Craig

someone told me that it was used by drug runners and it was taken in a raid.

hi we have a day planned for this saturday to go out to browns to chase some yft on gamefisher and we have one spot left if anyone is interested please drop me a line. thanks craig

well i am not going to be going fishing for whales but hope to get into some marlin and tuna with it. am getting them for a good price may be able to get 2 if i am lucky. craig

Hi all I have the opportunity to get my hands on a Fin-Nor 50W 2 speed reel, it is in perfect condition and I would like to know if anyone has had one or still has one and what they think of them. Any help wpuld be great. thanks craig