Great Day Out At Browns 16/9

[Guest Big-Banana]

Hey Fellas, what a great great day. Got to the ramp at 6:15 (Kymeegah) Thought it was an unreal ramp btw. Ventured out to Browns at full pelt at 6:30am. Seas were flat with no breeze and swell was next to nothing. I had a feeling it might be "too perfect".

Trolled for 10km before we hit Browns with no hits with a spread of 4 lures. Trolled around Browns for a while as well whilst looking at everyone on the way past. Looked pretty quiet and eventually stopped and began to cube. Got a good trail set out of all the traffic with no hits, did this for about 2 hrs and then relocated.

Moved south of Browns where we began another trail for another 2 hours with no hits but was just enjoying the flat seas to really care. Didnt really expect to get anything on the first go out there and was just there for the experience. Followed everyones advices on cubing and trolling but couldnt seem to raise any fish.

Trolled back to Browns agains where we encountered probably a 100m2 school of smallish Yellowfin. Had one hit but didnt hook up. Pretty pissed off with myself but kept going trying to raise another which we couldnt. Hit on a Purple Xmas tree.

Was a bit northish of Browns where we had our last 2 blocks of Pillies and cubed very hard. Heard alot of radio chatter about being patient and they'll come so we stuck firm and at 3pm it finally happened on the smallest outfit I had running. A TLD20 with 15kg line (I had no idea they hit that hard). He was hooked and the fight began. Had a few boats laugh at me over the radio, I heard you bastards on the uhf about how long the fight was taking. I had over 100m out when he hit plus he took a long dive down. We saw colour 4 times and on the 4th we gaffed this 42kg fish. Everytime he saw the boat he dove down one more time.

Totally stoked and gotta thank everyone who gave me advice when I asked for it. 1 and 1/2 hours later he was boated, bled and just fit in the kill tank. Just as well the old man bought a kidney harness and proper gimbal, cause Ive never been that sore. What a great fight it gave me and Itll be something Ill never forget. There was a lot of yahooing and some applause from the boat next to us who also hooked uped to a large fish but lost theirs.

Tried for a few more but couldnt raise any more and came home at 4:30pm. Pays to be patient. But what a day. Thanks to all the fishraiders and cant wait to try land another on the charter next week and learn more. Enjoyed my beer extra that night

Iam off to buy a 24kg outfit this week.

[James]

good on you mate and well done persistance payed off.

top looking boat too

[Flattieman]

That's one helluva tuna! WELL DONE!!!

Flattieman.

[insolent]

Excellent report and a great fish.

[wolfgang]

Nice Tuna and the smile says it all

[Guest AO7474]

42kg's hmmmmmmmm

[Penguin]

Well done thats a top lookin fish

penguin

[Martin]

Well done and a big congrats on your fin

Cheers

Martin

[Sharky]

Top fish mate and on a tld 20 that would have been a ball.

[Guest Big-Banana]

A special shout out to Netic, always willing to share a few ideas around.

Thanks again fellas.

[mako1]

Great tuna.

You put in the hours and were well rewarded

well done

Nice pics.The water is so calm.

[netic]

Well done buddy, great stuff and great report

Top tuna and would have been a great fight, can see the happiness in your face, Hopefully the first of many

Thanks for the mention, always willing to help whenever i can.

We will have to buddy up one day so we can rip into them together

[Guest Big-Banana]

Well done buddy, great stuff and great report

Top tuna and would have been a great fight, can see the happiness in your face, Hopefully the first of many

Thanks for the mention, always willing to help whenever i can.

We will have to buddy up one day so we can rip into them together

Sounds like a plan!

BTW heard reports of a 22kg Dolphin Fish being caught, at the ramp saw a bloke with a 40-50kg Blue Eye Cod. Saw another guy bring up 3 at one go.

[netic]

Sounds like a plan!

BTW heard reports of a 22kg Dolphin Fish being caught, at the ramp saw a bloke with a 40-50kg Blue Eye Cod. Saw another guy bring up 3 at one go.

Have also heard the same report but dont know how true it is, waiting for pic to verify

[CR@ZY OS@M@]

well done buddy

top fish there matey

[juiced]

good catch budd went out yesterday as well but no luck.at least someone got on yesterday

[Guest IFishSick.]

Hey ya, I saw you out there Saturdsay in the Big Banana. I was in Dilligaf, good work on the Tuna. I'd love to get one that size

[Mysterythecat]

Damn - Now that is a FISH! Well done!

One day I want to get me one just like it!

cheers

Mysterythecat

[Guest Big-Banana]

Dad has hooked onto a few out wide today! His stoked to say the least and is on the way back in now. Hopefully he has them intact for a few pics!

[Flattieman]

Dad has hooked onto a few out wide today! His stoked to say the least and is on the way back in now. Hopefully he has them intact for a few pics!

That's great! Can't wait to see the pics! Tuna fever!

Flattieman.

[abiasin]

what a beauty mate plenty of steaks in that one. great to see you finally goet one.

cheers.

[REKLESS]

Fantastic fish that you have there mate,

If you dont mind me asking ,what size trace were you using and were you stripping out a pillie when it hit?

Simon

[Guest Big-Banana]

Fantastic fish that you have there mate,

If you dont mind me asking ,what size trace were you using and were you stripping out a pillie when it hit?

Simon

80lb, they wouldnt touch 100lb all day. I Had about 100m of line out manually stripping, then I put the reel in gear to get a beer. Hit like a train.

[Sammy0884]

hi mate, we were fishing 30lb flurocarbon on sunday for not even a touch!

[Guest Big-Banana]

hi mate, we were fishing 30lb flurocarbon on sunday for not even a touch!

You know its slow when you didnt get a touch! They were certainly there and came on big time in the arvo. Unfortunately a lot of boaties headed back in around 1-2pm.