Ka-Ching

Awesome mate, a welcome piece of reading while in quarantine with my old man . Thank you!

Nice fish there Scratchie! To pull out results like that on a day that was dead everywhere else is a real credit to you! well done mate!

Well after an early start at work yesterday and a few hours under the belt, I decided I would go down to the boat and give it a wash and thought we might throw a couple rods in the back just in case. Haven’t had a chance to get out on the water for weeks due to work commitments and with the weather being so good we couldn’t help ourselves. So off we went for a squirt to long reef and throw some soft plastics around. Got to longy in no time, flying down the cost from palm beach at 30knts! Wasn’t much happening so change of plan and off to the washes at north head. 10 casts later, and a nice cast into the wash, 2 twerks later and got hit by a steam train! Had to work very hard to get him away from the washes. 10 minutes later after the typical dog fight we had it boat side, a quick photo and back in the drink to harass everything else in the area! Those Stella outfits are unreal.... Sorry no specifics around size and weight but he was bigger than the esky and prob around 5ish kg. I’m a 120kgs if that provides some scale:) haha Quite a bit of bait around at longy and north head, water temp 21.8-21. The phone wouldn’t spot ringing so felt like We quickly achieved our goal for the day and time to belt home and give the boat a was down. Thanks for reading!

Nice snaps there mate! What a life... an afternoon up at the island having fun getting stretched Looked like he crunched that plastic. Well done as usual! Cheers mate

That is awesome footage! Never seen anything like it.... being tied to a desk working for the last few weeks and for the foreseeable future that gets me fizzing! can just imagine how many hours of fruitless footage you have to film to capture situations like that! cant wait for the water to settle down a bit and get amongst it! thanks for sharing!

Mate those conditions look awesome! We brought the boat back to Pittwater on Sunday for Australia Day weekend and that 4knt current on a southerly swell and 20knt wind created a very ugly ocean! Temp went from 19 up to 27 within a couple miles, never seen it climb so much before! Once we hit terrigal it was flat and we hammered home at 30knts... looked very fishy, a couple marlin reported alone the coast but not much else. All we got was mini Mahi Mahi that I think we ended up towing for a couple miles each time cause they weren’t big enough to take drag! Ha What a way to save the day, my mouth watered looking at that snapper! As usual you pull the rabbit out the hat.... Great report as always!

Well done scratchie! Out of interest, what’s your favorite way of cooking the snaps? Was there a heap of red algae in the water up there? Saturday it was everywhere and the water was horrible, yesterday a little better. Unfortunately wasn’t fishing, just taking my old man for a run. There was talk on the marina yesterday of a few blacks tagged... will keep the ear close to the ground. again well done and loved reading your report!

Hi MikeMac, yeah we are at the marina in the blue sea fox center console with twin 300hp Evinrudes. Yeah haven’t been able to turn a reel on the livies at all. Including live squid!! will give it another crack and in he morning.

Cheers mate, no scratchie size snapper that’s for sure.... inspired by your master yoda work on the snapper! I reckon those big fellas that striped 30+m on high drag would of been more like your standard but will give it a crack tomoz and let you know!

Well we hit the marina this morning to find our upgraded simrad electronics package was still out of action (waiting on a recalled power module replacement) so heading wide wasn’t an option as we had no water temp and no sounder! So decided to get some live bait at cabbage tree island and head up to broughton. Loaded up in slimies in no time! No burley needed, just a bait jig and had a tank full in 10 mins. got to the north side of the island by 8am and decided to work the washes all around the island with soft plastics while having a live bait out the back. Live baits didn’t get touched all day, but the soft plastics got smashed on the drop but only when we were casting into the washes. Ended up with a handful of snapper and got smoked by some much larger models on my new Stella 4000 combos running 30lb braid! All fish were released.... back at it tomoz!

Well done scratchie... great report! I think I might of saw you heading out this morning as I was coming back in. We are in the 28ft blue sea fox center console with twin 300hp Evinrude’s. We got to just south of the FAD with the water cold 18.6 and like a washing machine so decided to head back to the marina! Looks like we should of packed some lighter gear and headed up for some snapper! Hopefully one day this week we will do the same.

Im going to give it a bash... Taking out a bunch of mates that have seen the photos of the fin over the last few weeks and have been begging so thought i would try and get amongst the jelly beans on some lighter tackle this week. If anyone is out throw a Holla on the VHF. Cheers Dan

Hello Raiders, Im sure your alot of you are sitting at your desk's wishing you were fishing like I am, so i thought i would post yesterdays trip. Headed out from Bayview at about 7am and headed straight to the shelf. Arived at about 8:30am and set the spread. Decided to head south as heard on the radio that alot of boats were at browns so left the 20.5c water for what i thought would be warmer water, boy was i wrong!!!! By the time we were south of North Head we were trolling in 19.4c and I decided to pull the pin on going any further south and turned her around and headed back to 300fth off long reef. Found some better water at about 20.4 and within minutes double hookup on bellybeans. 30 mins later we got a tripple hookup on sprokets with everyone on board having a heap of fun. Lures back out ( running 2 off the outriggers, short and long corner and a shotgun) and everything got hit.... landed all 5 and decided to call it a day.. Total of ten yellowfin.. Will this yellowfin bite every stop??? Here is a pick of one of the smaller ones.. Tight lines

Hi guys, I will be out wide Sunday chasing fin and what-ever else pops up!!! Will be on VHF 81 call sign "Ka-Ching" Only new to the site, this is my mini battlewagon Cheers Dan

Thanks guys... Thought I would show you my little baby, so if any of you are out on the weekend you know where there is a beer waiting...

Ohh and here is a photo... Cheers

Thanks everyone for the replies... Anyone else heading out wide this weekend? Cheers Dan

Thanks guys, going to head out again this weekend and have another session late in the arvo. I heard on the radio that alot of boats were just heading home when we got on the shelf. It will be interesting to hear if any more reports filter through during the week. Dan

Hi everyone, This is my first post as only found the site on Saturday and thought after yesterdays session I should let you all know how I went after ready some great posts on Saturday night. Day started very lazy on Sunday morning, having a coffee at the marina in Bay view at 7:30 waiting for the rest of my crew to turn up at the boat. 9am comes and everyone is finally here and ready for a day onthe water. The plan was to get some livies at West Head and head to the FAD off broken bay for some light takle action on the dollies (after reading of a rumour of dollies around the FADs) but of course the one thing I ask my brother to bring (light tackle) he turns up with 2 X 80W's and 4 X 50W's which turned the light tackle session into a winch session Anyway arrive at the Broken Bay FAD at about 11 and trolled livies, lures and everything under the sun without a sign of life. Made the decision at about 12:30-1:00 to head to the shelf and pull some plastic. Heading south east to about long reef and hit the shelf at about 2:30. Cross the shelf and hit 200 fathoms and SCREEEEAAAAAMMMMMM Double hookup on the 50W's which were about 8 meters from the boat, landed one 6kg yellowfin and dropped the next . Lures back out and 30 mins later Tripple hookup on 50's..... With four ppl on the boat made my life very difficult running the boat, clearing the lines, teasers etc but that just makes it all more fun. Landed all three. 12Kg yellowfin. Lures back out at about 3:30pm and working the same area that we have now pulled 4 yellowfin from and after 10 minutes see a free swimming beaky, think he had a full tummy as he only showed a little bit of interest and was happy just surfing down the waves. 4:30 and we get another tripple hookup and land all 3, again fin about 10Kg's. Started the hump home at about 5:30 with high fives all round. The secret of the day was small feathers with metal heads and once we got a strike I keeped trolling for about 2 minutes in which time close to everything in the water got nailed. All fish were caught in water temp of 21.2, with the hotest I could find was 21.5. funny enough no birds at all and apart from schools of dolphins feeding it appeared to be very dead. So in total 7 yellowfin in about 2.5 hours once we hit the shelf. Will post photos of the fish in the next few days when my mate sends them on. Will also put up some photos of my 30ft blackwatch (named Ka-Ching) Anyway thought I would chuck my two cents worth in.. Tight Lines...