lukeric Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 (edited) Hi, we fished kiama fad this morning in 24.2 deg water. After floating some pillies and landing about 10 undersized dollies decieded to pull a decent sized slimie around fad. Second pass it gets nailed and a 90cm fish is landed. Left the fad and headed wide looking for marlin. Got 2 striped tuna which we pulled foe a couple of hours for zeros. Decided to pull lures for the rest of the day for zeros. Headed back to fad on the way back home and rigged up two more slimies. First pass the 15kg outfit gets nailed and line is screaming off the reel. Lisa was on the rod and doing a top job. This fish was not stopping for anybody, pulling off about 400mtrs of line in first 2 runs.Lifted the the drag up a tad over strike but it didnt make much difference. So we started chacing the fish down and finally getting some line back before another thumping run pulled the line around the fad and busted us off. So he lives to fight another day. All in all a good day with a feed of fish tonight. Cheers Luke Edited February 3, 2008 by lukeric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 thats a ripper fish there, its a real shame about the bruiser that got away but thats what keeps you out there isnt it the thought of landing that one some day. well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_steve Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Great work there thats a great looking dollie cheers steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benb Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Nice dollie, shame about the one that got away but thats fishing i guess Better luck next time Cheers Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GoFish Pete Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Nice Dollie Shame about the one that got away...I sure no that feeling. Seems like there is some warmer water down south as it was only 23.3 degrees out at the Botany wide FAD one the 25th , or do we all need to calibrate our sounders as Netic discussed a while ago. Did you have the Fad to yourself ? cheers GoFish Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mako1 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Good sized dollie. Unlucky about the big one that got away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Well done, very nice dollies......shame about the lost fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeric Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Nice Dollie Shame about the one that got away...I sure no that feeling. Seems like there is some warmer water down south as it was only 23.3 degrees out at the Botany wide FAD one the 25th , or do we all need to calibrate our sounders as Netic discussed a while ago. Did you have the Fad to yourself ? cheers GoFish Pete Dont know about the calibration thing, but i run two sounders and they both said the same. There was one other boat at the fad in the morning using plastics, but they werent having much luck, we left to go wide when 4 other boats rocked up, and there was one other boat near the fad on our way back in, when we hooked the big one, which was very annoying as they seen us hook up and thought they'd come over for a look however this fish was taking heaps of line and they were almost on top of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 That is a lovely fish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 well done, would have loved to have seen what busted you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiphias_gladius Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Well done and hard luck... There has been a few bigger Dollies around, a mate of mine has been getting 'em up to 15kgs on livies. XG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeric Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 "Hi, we fished kiama fad this morning in 24.2 deg water. After floating some pillies and landing about 10 undersized dollies decieded to pull a decent sized slimie around fad. Second pass it gets nailed and a 90cm fish is landed." Real nice fish there mate, i've never fished for them but am keen to learn. Can i ask what gear you use for these, eg. rods, reels, line class, lures etc. any tips appreciated. Mate, when floating pillies i just use my snapper outfit, makes for great fun when you do hook up even to undersized fish, couple of weeks back i fished the wave recorder and first cast of ploating pillie got nailed by a fish around the one meter mark but hook pulled at boat, real challenge on snapper gear. If pullling livies i usually use 15kg gear as you never know what might grab a livie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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