achilles Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 (edited) G'day all, Saturday 16th at Browns finally paid off. My brother and I left Tom Uglies at 6.00am on Saturday and headed straight for our spot just wide and south of Browns. Got out there to find another 10 or so boats so we cruised around and found 19.5 degrees of water blue as the sky. Not much sign of life until cubing started and we attracted plenty of birds. Current and wind was perfect and got a nice trail going for about 1 hour when at approx 9am one of our 50W got hit and lines cut.....what the??? Within 10 min 2 rods have gone off with a double hook up. One line straight down and the other almost horizontal.. I could tell I was on to a fin but my brother wasnt so sure...about 20m away a Mako surfaced and began its arial assault....what a site...24kg line didnt last so he quickly re-rigged and had his line back in the water...while still fighting my fish which gave me a good work out we had 2 fin on.....landed both 1 @20kg and the other at 15kg.....still cubing we could see plenty of fish just below the surface. Lines back in and again double hook up...got 4 fin on board between 10 and 20kg so it was enough for us so packed up at 11am and headed home at 4200 rpm in beautiful conditions...what a day.....just want to mention some idiot kept trolling in our berley trail about 50m at the back of our boat in a 625 cruise craft with no luck.......he saw us hook up and also started cubing right next to us but by that stage the fish were gone..... Edited September 21, 2007 by achilles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scon Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 good to hear someone got out, any photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomahawk1999 Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Hey Achilles great report and nice fish, unfortunately you have to get used to idiots these day's in your burley trail. Just be glad you got the fish and he didn't! Regard's Rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 The old "knob in the burley trail" trick.. I hate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayKay Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Good stuff achilles, Got to get the pics reduced in size. go to the tutorial to learn how to do it. Otherwise send me the pics and I'll resize them and post them for you. Jay Kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Im still yet to see a shark while fishing!!!!! i have seen them while surfing.... not fun i can assure you!!! Good to see you got into some jellybeans!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDiko Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Great work mate, 4 Fin, you gotta be happy with that. It's hard to get out there when the fishing is good IFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 pics added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Loops Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Nice work mate! Love the grins - ear to ear!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayKay Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Achilles, Great photos. Great fish. Great hat. Jay Kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 looks like a cracker session there fellas, well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 well done guys,you gotta be happy with that result. what a day in and out within a couple of hours with a good result ,couldnt ask for anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 (edited) Superb catch Achilles... lots of Sashimi there!!!!!! Edited September 21, 2007 by Ceph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 awsome day by the sounds of i and great pics of the mad YFT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 It is good to see them pics at last, nice fish penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arpie Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Woohoo!! Fantastic fishing!! Well done!! Fish for tea for the next 2 months!! How do you cook them?? Roberta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billythekid Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Great catch well done, they are great looking and what blue skies what more could you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 hi, havent really cooked tuna often and it has never really tasted the best.........this time we bled the fish and got some good steaks and put them on the barbeque and brushed some lemon and herbs and it was awesome......cant wait to get some more......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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