Sammy0884 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 (edited) Hi Guys, As most of Sydney also did, i took off south for the APEC long weekend with the vision of wetting a line and hopefully getting a few fish weather permitting. I went down to Jervis Bay with a Keepin_TABS and co. to fish the saturday in the hope of scoring either Kings or some YFT. I fished aboard Yankee Doodle on a rough saturday and managed only a dozen striped tuna, a few were kept for bait, we were unsuccessful on the troll despite a few other boats taking fin in the 25-35kg range, we cubed the afternoon for zeros. Sunday was a better day, with reports of YFT captures crackling over the radio from first light, we trolled our way to 350 fth for two stripies before we set our cube trail and started strpping lines out. More reports of YFT captures came over the radio and half an hour later we got our first run, a spirited fight later and a 33kg fin hit the deck after a gaff shot by yours truly, a quick bleed and on to the ice. I baited up for my turn at stripping and had the line ripped from my hands after throwing 10m of line into the water, woooo! i was on to a fish, and it was pulling hard! how i had missed the screaming run of the YFT! 10 minutes later a 34kg (bled) fish was expertly gaffed by captain Rick. It was exctiting to finally take a YFT after countless unsucessful cubing trips, it was my first YFT on the cube my PB by at least 5kg. Other reports of two fish to 40 and 56kg came over the radio. things slowed down in the middle of the tide until we had a 200kg mako shark arrive and take the cube i had fed out for a tuna, after a few hard runs and about 20 laps of the boat me won his freedom, he hung around but refused the 10/0 stainless shark hook and 300lb wire. All in all a great weekend, very happy with my new YFT pb, heres a few pics. Marlin Magic with a cracker fin Yours truly with a new PB certified on the lie detector the crew for the weekend. Edited September 10, 2007 by swordfisherman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightmanager Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well done on a great fish Sam!! Glad to hear the YFT drought has broken for ya !! Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolan Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 How good is that Sammy? Extremely well done By the way, You , being the king of fishing-bling and all.................. Did you notice someone on the boat was wearing the same sort of boots as you ????? I never thought you would allow this to happen Cheers, Stumpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well done Sammy..great report......well done on landing a very nice YFT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfish Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 nice fish sammy well done mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDiko Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Great work Lovely Fin IFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunOFun Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well done Sammy, nice Fin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Good story, great pics. Well done. Plenty of Sashimi in that lot!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElwoodBlues Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 They are some absolutely beautiful fins there congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsRule Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Nice one sammy, some solid fish there, congrats on the new PB aswell Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtosea Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Congrats Sammy on a nice fish and new PB. Looks like you had a good weekend down there. Was the weather as bad as predicted? Very envious. Kamil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Great report Sam and thanks again for dropping of some awsome YFT steaks they went down a treat and I can't wait to get home tonight to have some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Nice work boys!!!! ive never fished out of jervis but i think i might have to change that soon!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Pasha Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Sweet pics and report Ant, looks like you had an awesome weekend!!! Good stuff to all the boys who caught fish, got stuck into them by the sounds of it!!!! Didn't lose any gear either!!!! Worked your ass off to plan the weekend, and everyone had a ripper time, good stuff mate. I would love to come down in a coupla years and giv it a go, cant wait! Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbielites Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well done lads! Sounds like a top weekend. Cheers. Robbie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmoshe Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Excellent reports fellas and a top score on the fins. Hope this keep up. Cheers, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domza Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Some nice tuna there boys, where do i get a pair of these gummy's that everyone seems to be wearing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy0884 Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Some nice tuna there boys, where do i get a pair of these gummy's that everyone seems to be wearing? they are trusty old Burke sea boots, they have them at Bias boating stores and whitworths. best thing since sliced bread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mako1 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Great reports and pics. Some really nice tuna there. That's one big albacore too. Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Excellent report guys. Congratulations all round. By the looks of things are all us YFT fishermen supposed to be heading south for them, certainly looks that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MRS WATTO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Excellent report Sammy, well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Congrats Sammy, well done mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inhlanzi Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Nice one sammy Good brace of gasbottles!!! Good pics and report cheers inhlanzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luringbream Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Top catch mate!! I should be heading up next week to get in on the action. That guy in the first pic is my long lost cousin! Well, he has my name! DAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy0884 Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 Thanks for the congratulations guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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