Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) Today i meet up with Steve (outwide) and his mate Geroge who is also a Fishraider member for a hopeful marlin session, after high expectations from last outing where we had a striped marlin next to the boat we where pupmed to hook into 1 or 2. We launched into sydney harbour and firstly loaded up with some lives (yakkas) and headed out the heads with the plan of darting out to the waver rider and then trolling to 12 mile as we got through the heads we where greeted with heavy rain black sky and 1.0 m + chop so things werent lloking promiseing. We pushed out to the waverider and couldnt see anything there, set out the big stuff and trolled to the 12 mile. We left the bouy in 19.5 degrees and arrived at the 12 mile in 22.8 degree water (things where looking good) We arrivea at the 12 mile without a touch or a sighting and our plan was to drop some livies down for some big kings burt we were un able to find bottom and the current was screaming so that plan was canned the big stuff was left out and we set a course to the BB wide FAD for some dollies if there where around, we trolled out to the FAD for nothing where it was a delicious 23.0 degrees we said to each other we are going to be on here first pass of the FAD and we cpould see the dollies, pulled the big gear in and drifted pass the FAD with yakkas out, Steve lent me is rod (tekota) to use and Geroge was using the my Spheros (as he is now in love with it, give me a tiagra anyday) First my livie takes a scare and then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz line starts peeling off the Tekoto back towards the FAD steve looks at the reel tightening the drag (as he thought it was in free spool) then realising that the drag is locked up he looks at me and sayes...........GOOD FISH After the intinal run i turned the fish and made a meter or 2 of line before he was off again at this stage we got our first look at him as he leaped out the water.... Bull, after a good 10-15 min fight and a great gaffing by steve my PB dolly hit the deck coming in at 10.5 KG. After a couple of minutes off excitment about the fish it was bleeed and iced and we were back in position again, this time as i was feeding the line out and it startes feeding itself into strike and the reel is off again i pass the rod over to steve to tussel this one out this was a female and she was hell bent on getting back to that FAD, after a similar length fight and a not so pretty landing of the fish with it running steve allround the boat it hit the deck a 9.5kg specimen same thing lines got back out this time the same rod goes off again and this time geroge is the one doing battle after a short fight a 2.5kg model is also boated. Same again fellas as we got the boat into postion the current changed direction and the fish went off the bite, we could still see a few big fellas swimming around but they where no longer interested in our bait, so we set the spread trolled into the close FAD for zip, there where a few boats working the FAD but no fish insight, trolled back towards the heads in 22.8 degree water for nothing. Spheros still yet to land a fish All day we were in great blue water but no marlin to be seen heard 1 report of a boat hook up 5 km south of the peak but dropped, apart from that very quiet, and no bait or birds to be seen in the water. Anyway i will be out there again soon hunting down the Elusive Marlin Great company and great weather on the water thank for coming lads hope to do it again soon. Saw offtaps new BEAST and gee is it a smart looking rig, congrats mate on a great ride, should have taken a photo but was a little worried getting to close didnt want to ding his new ride Cheers Iain Edited January 4, 2007 by Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 some nice fish guys what were the currents doing at the FAD? and i dont get the phrase "good bye catch"? CFD We were targeting marlin mate so, even though they were awsome not the target, the current was still roaring had the bulb at the bottom under, all you could see was the cross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy0884 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Chris, i think he means bi-catch... as in, not the targeted species... Great work on the bull dollies iain! looks like a real hoot! i can't wait to get back to sydney to get into the dollies myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outwide Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Iain, Always a pleasure mate, finally good to get some blood on the boat............A good fish and even better on the dinner table!!!!!!!! Well done again...... Regards, Steve (Outwide) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Iain, Always a pleasure mate, finally good to get some blood on the boat............A good fish and even better on the dinner table!!!!!!!! Well done again...... Regards, Steve (Outwide) Thanks mate, was awsome to get some blood, cant wait to get some more, Having dolly for dinner tonight and prob the next nights aswell got some awsome fillets off it, was solid to not mushy - looking foward to it Bring on the next session Chris, i think he means bi-catch... as in, not the targeted species... Great work on the bull dollies iain! looks like a real hoot! i can't wait to get back to sydney to get into the dollies myself! Mate this is only the start aswell this is the first time that i have seen them there, so good things to come. How has the fishing in QLD been sammy mate???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_steve Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 WELL BLOODY DONE MATE awesome catch their... cant waait to pop my dollie cherry.. gr8 day and gr8 fish good effort cheers stevo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 WELL BLOODY DONE MATE awesome catch their... cant waait to pop my dollie cherry.. gr8 day and gr8 fish good effort cheers stevo Mate if you get one of these for your first it wont pop your cherry it will blow it way, they are awsome to fight especially when they are taking to the air You going to head out tomorrow????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reely Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Well done guys, top fish there! K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunOFun Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Great stuff Iain, im green and yellow with envy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrelxr6 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 top report guys...dollies look awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnno Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 great catch guys well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hal Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 NICE FISH :1yikes:Cant wait fot the weather to get better ,so we can go out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) Mate great fish, Cant complain with that..well done, was wondering how you guys went We dropped a marlin....got hit was real excited had it on for 30 seconds but then it spat the hooks...spewing If you heard the chatter about "Team Turks" it was us they were talking about. We have unofficially been given that name by the charter blokes, Our radio was down but we were on the phone to the charter guys getting advice on how to bring him up again, Im sure they would have been discussing our miss opportunity on the radio Edited January 4, 2007 by netic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Guys well done,couple of top fish there Nice catch. penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outnumbered Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 what can be said except Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riggem Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 well done on those bulls would of been fun on the sperhnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Iain, well done mate very nice dollie . Cya on the big blue soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_Zee Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 thats some solid fish there! mate the way i see it is you go troll for game fish... if you get a marlin its a bi-pass... we targeted marlin for 2 weeks at the banks last year got a couple of touches but no fish. We got our first in winter trolling lures for yellow fin at browns... and didnt get a fin noting that we went to browns 6 times and worked hard on cubes and lures. so the way i see it is you take what the big blue offers!! R_Zee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUFFO Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 One of my dream fish to catch in the near future,VERY NICE,VERY JEALOUS. SUFFO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Thanks for all the kind words fellas, was a good fish and will be having him for dinner tonight, hopefully will be back out there next week. they will start to appear on the close one to soon the temperature is right its just a matter of time. Cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeseafarer Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Ian Thanks again for a great day on the water. As this is my first post on fishraider, what better way to enter the forum with some nice dollies. Bad luck on the marlin this time around, but we will certainly get amongst them this season. As for the spheros, we will have to christen it next time. Kind regards George (georgeseafarer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reel Addiction (Sea Jay) Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Ian Thanks again for a great day on the water. As this is my first post on fishraider, what better way to enter the forum with some nice dollies. Bad luck on the marlin this time around, but we will certainly get amongst them this season. As for the spheros, we will have to christen it next time. Kind regards George (georgeseafarer) No worries mate anytime was still a good day on the water, i think the spheros is just saving itself for an absolute monster I hope you are right about the marlin, if not ill have fun trying if the dollies keep showing us, think it was a little unfair of me to call them a bi-catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeseafarer Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 No worries mate anytime was still a good day on the water, i think the spheros is just saving itself for an absolute monster I hope you are right about the marlin, if not ill have fun trying if the dollies keep showing us, think it was a little unfair of me to call them a bi-catch Ian Bull dollies are definately not bicatches. Trust me. The small ones are easier to catch than the bulls. Besides, catching dollies is great fun when the marlin are not around. Steve and I would love to christen your boat with a nice marlin soon. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenfisho Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 great fish guys. i fished terrigal last weekend for zip in 19-20 degree water. very disappointing. anyway great stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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