searabbit Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 g.day raiders, just got back from a weeks fishing at swr, fri 26th arrived & tried for a jew in the river on the run out, caught 8 fork tail catfish between 3 & 5kg each, dont think i would like to eat these smelly fellas but they do fight hard. trolled to the fad sat morning for this 6.5kg dolly & spent the rest of the day off the jail, no marlin seen sunday morning lost a marlin on the way to the fad on my pakula cockroach but did catch plenty of stripped tuna. trolling livies in the arvo produced this 9kg yellowfin for stuart (his biggest fish) trolling again monday morning to the fad produced a 7kg wahoo plus a few more stripys we found the marlin on the chew finally when we got back to the jail, all the boats seemed to be getting a chance at a hookup, us included when chris hooked up for 5 min before the hook pulled. but it wasnt long before he was on again and while i was bringing in the other 3 lines one of those went off, rushing to the rod the run stopped and another rod went off and then the downrigger pulled out of the clip, all while chris was still playing his fish amoungst the numerous other boats around us, it all ended with a double hookup and i got my fish in cut the trace near the hook and got chris's fish in as well. 2 small black marlin wouldnt have been 20kg but they put up a great airial desplaytotal marlin for the day was 5 hookups and 3 landed plus a 13kg cobia on the downrigger. tuesday i got my 1st marlin on a lure after losing my last 3 hooked on a lure so i was pretty happy about that. so we changed our lures to halco laser pros & rapalas to try and get another wahoo but hooked a marlin on a laser pro. for the rest of the trip we hooked marlin on lures and live bait until the last day were we only got 1 strike and a lost fish on a livie. total marlin 8 from 14 strikes, more photos to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danielinbyron Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 the house mate has had very similar days on the boat up here at byron...nice report mate ..jewfish are a bit like a cab on george street lately , where are they when ya need em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searabbit Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 a few more pics with more to come the house mate has had very similar days on the boat up here at byron...nice report mate ..jewfish are a bit like a cab on george street lately , where are they when ya need em. yeah i would have liked to try for a jew a few other nights later in the week but the days out side were long and hot on an open boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybee Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Yeh good trip mate. Love those 6-8 kg Dollies. Getting me going. Regards Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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arpie Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Yeeehaaaaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deano35 Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Mate, you have some great fish there as well as some top photos. Well done I am very jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunOFun Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Well done mate, top report and great pics, got to love it when it goes your way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Top report mate, Great pics, it must of been heaps of fun...Very well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEAFEARER Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 THEY HAD TO TURN UP THE MORNING WE LEFT YOU THERE DIDN'T THEY!,OH WELL MAYBE NEXT TIME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searabbit Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 yeah thanks fellas, ive been up there plenty of times and missed the action by a few days but this time we planed it perfect, except for dave on spooled again, bad luck you had to leave on the monday mate, i think there was 12 boats off the jail & im sure all of them would have had a hookup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danielinbyron Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 "yeah i would have liked to try for a jew a few other nights later in the week but the days out side were long and hot on an open boat" c rabbit.. yeah ...ya sleep the sleep of the righteous after a whole day out on an open boat mate..sure takes it of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reely Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Excellent, its starting to happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane87 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Spoke to a charter skipper from SWR today and things are getting a little better with a few fish on the close grounds but with 40plus boats chasing marlin there are still plenty coming home empty handed. There have been a few wahoo,rat fin and the odd mackeral around however the cobia seem to playing fair at the moment. Heading up in a few days for 3 days fishing so hopefully it keeps getting better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) you guys must have had a blast, gotta be proud of that effort 8 from 14 hits,top report Edited February 5, 2007 by Crazy John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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