Lewis Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 (edited) G,day Raiders. I managed to get out Wednesday if not a little later than I had hoped, 8.30am. I hit the water with the expressed intensions of heading straight out to Beacon East, but the conditions suggested that I should make other plans, so I headed to Pig Island and took up a position on the northern side of the island and took a little refuge from the choppy swell that was coming up from the south. I found a nice little drop off and sent out two floating baits one with fresh cuttlefish, the other with a pillie tail, then another slightly weighted one along with the berly, nearly two hours had passed with not even a inquisitive nudge for my trouble. It was then that I decided, seeing that the conditions had turned favourable to go with my initial intentions and head out to the beacon. About half way there the water had turned a nice electric blue but was still a little cold at 20 degrees, so I stopped and deployed two 20cm pushers and continued on my way. I took the boat to 9knts and the pushers were working a treat, just breaking the surface then diving back into the water creating a nice bubble trail, then after about 5 to 10 minutes my 15kg stick gets nailed, I put the motor out of gear and picked up the rod line was still being ripped off at a great rate with that lovely sound zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I then added a little more drag to slow the fish down, slowly the fish turned and I was able to get some line back. After a couple of minutes the fish had gone deep under the boat but I could sense that he was tireing, so I turned up the heat a little more and was thinking I've got it beat, but just as I saw colour the fish took one last desperate effort at freedome with one more run. To no avail the run was short and back towards the boat it came, colour again, this time more defined, silver with a flash of electric blue and I'm thinking albacor but no, as the fish came boatside and laid on its side I could just make out the very faint stripes. But hey not to be dissappointed a nice 67cm stripie. I trolled the immediate area for another 40 minutes or so with no more hits so I continurd out to the beacon. Once at the beacon There were fish on the sounder so I deployed as usual two floaters, one with cuttlefish the other with a pillie on and drifted past the beacon while throwing lures around. This went on for around an hour, so I put out a weighted bait and sent it down approximately 70 to 80 feet, at which this point I was to get my first hook up at the beacon. The fight only lasted for a couple of minutes as the fish spat the hook not long after. To cut the story a little shorter that was pretty much it from that point on, I did head out to the FAD to find more fish on the sounder, but they were not interested in feeding, so I had to call it a day as my curfew time was fast approaching as I had to be home for the kids after school. In all a pretty quiet day but hey I'm happy with a 5kg stripie. Cheers. Edited April 5, 2007 by Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james1990 Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Theres some top colours in that stripie, a nice fish. cheers james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Well done on a nice stripy...they are powerful little bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IFishSick. Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Bet he goes better than my unlanded Frigate Mackerel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsRule Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Nice stripie mate Awsome colours on him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Nice fish mate, penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnno Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Good report lewis nice stripie i enjoyed the report thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingmik Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 nice fish ther lew cheers mik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markwi Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Great looking stripie, they really put up good show for their size, great report as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 well done on the 5kg stripey mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUBLiME Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 lol beautiful fish there... congrats... ahh cant wait to catch one of them at CG !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_steve Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 nice fish mate well done they really have some electric colour to them.. steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolan Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 So what did you catch the Nokia on ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnno Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 (edited) Stumpy it is a magellan meridian GPS (platinum) with the amount of phones and rods/reels and cameras out there on the sea floor you never know what might come up i pulled up a old round crab trap whilst fishing in botany once A mate pulled up a anchor once. Edited April 8, 2007 by johnno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolan Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Stumpy it is a magellan meridian GPS (platinum) with the amount of phones and rods/reels and cameras out there on the sea floor you never know what might come up i pulled up a old round crab trap whilst fishing in botany once A mate pulled up a anchor once. God i'm just so tecnologicallyy advanced these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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