shooterglock Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Left the ramp at 4am, hitt all the spots but nix, nada! Strange water in the harbour at the moment, funny colour, and could not even find any baitschools on the sounder!!! Only fish I saw where plenty of dead small eels and leatherjackets drifting around the harbour. Wonder what happened there. Possible trawler bycatch being "taken care off" in the usuall way the professionals have with our marine stock? Anyway, big fat doughnut scored, only thing I caught was a young bird that had a lure stuck in its wing, and the line had been cut off about one meter in lenght. (Wrapped around the poor bugger of course). Removed the lure as gently as I could, then released the bird. He looked quite happy, however the parents where trying to dive bomb me out of the boat the whole time! What a racket. Cheers for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Very nice of you to help out the bird, its a shame to see things like that. Not so good about the eels and leatherjacket either Was a nice day at least so hopefully that was something for you to enjoy and get out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 gday mate, where did you fish today? Just wondering if i saw you out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooterglock Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 gday mate, where did you fish today? Just wondering if i saw you out there. I was all over the Harbour, even got desperate and tried to do some trolling transitting under Sydney Bridge.. I have a small Blue Fin runabout. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 probably saw you somewhere then. I fished all over the markers chucking popers around first then downrigged near the entrance of Rose bay the clifton gardens. I was in a centre console aluminium by myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbietola Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 i was out there yesterday as well for ZILCH everyone i spoke to on the water yesterday said same thing ......... no kings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1morefish Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I was also out on the water on the same day. Started at 5am until 2pm chasing Kings without any success. It was certainly very quiet and hardly any schools of bait I also noticed dead fish floating. Could this be from the large surf ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomahawk1999 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 We fished Fri for the same results as everyone else. We soaked 2 live squid and a live slimie for over 4 hrs in our usually productive spot X for zippo. We then bridled up the slimie and D/R him for another hour and ended up releasing him! Hardly any bait was seen on the sounder either, certainly a lot different to the last few weeks. Probably a good thing the kingie social was cancelled for this weekend otherwise there would have been a lot of dejected fishraiders around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooterglock Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 I dont know that the surf would cause dead fish like that, as they were all small eels and leatherjackets, I do believe that they were trawler by-catch. Anyone else have any idea what else would cause that many dead small fish floating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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