Snapper On Broadbill And Billfisher Yesterday

[Ross Hunter]

We fished the southern grounds yesterday and whilst conditions were 25 knot west winds and there was a build up of slime in the top layer of the ocean, all this made conditions a little more difficult . However, despite this we still caught a reasonable catch of snapper to 1.5 kg The fish have come down dramatically in size this week and why I cannot understand, maybe the slime.

We had Scott Tam (fishraider) as our charter and whilst we favoured a day on the tuna, the weather did not allow us to go wide.

We steamed south to Marley and then trolled lures in close on the way down and back.The past few trips we caught kings and salmon, but not a bite yesterday.

We anchored in 68 metres and first bait in on a floater I hooked a 1.5 kg snapper "Mmm I thought to my self this looks good" but I then noticed that the line had accumulated a lot of slime ( a gluggy substance that can build up on the ocean's top layer)

The crew worked hard all day and we ended up with maybe 18 snapper of which half were "Just on or Unders" and were released.

Billfisher kept fourteen snapper and like us a catch of misc jackets, mowies, pig fish and trevs.

All in all not up to our normal standard over the past month .

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Regards

Ross Hunter

[offtap1]

Good work on such a poor weather wise day Ross , at least u put some smiles on the dials of your crew and thats all that counts, Keep up the good work. Cheers Dave

[Steve07]

Thats good work ross in the tough conditions,snapper to 1.5kg are still nice fish

ive noticed too that the size in the last few weeks has come down in the area,not

many big fish & quite a few throwbacks.

Got to agree with you there ross,your fishing site is a great one,really good to

read,informative,plenty of tips & lots to learn.

cheers mate,

steve

Edited August 13, 2007 by nexus