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Harbour 15/4


Josh88

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Hit the harbour today for first time since january due to hsc and school and was expecting more than we got. Conditions looked good, picked up a couple of mates and we went off in search of squid, first spot normally produces but saw sporadic bust ups from kings which were too quick too allow you a shot at them and to me said that squid won't come out into the open while they're around. Moved on and picked up a tiny one, probably didn't choose the best areas to squid particularly with dirty water and a morning low tide but it effectively ruined our day.

After nearly 3 hours of squidding and only 1 baby in the tank we thought bugger it we'll use the frozen ones, no luck at the first spot, only pickers then moved to the next and there was action from the get go boats around us were dropping in fresh squid and hooking up on solid kings every cast, we kept on getting hit but just could not hook up.

Not having that much bait i used it a bit sparingly compared to the big bits the other boat was using and there seemed to be gentle nudges rather than big hits like they got and they always managed to get the bait off without us even realising.

We did manage another good squid and tried again for the same thing, hits but no hook ups.

Anybody have any suggestions? I was mainly using snelled 2 hook rigs 6/0 size in both suicide and hoodlum live bait pattern, have always worked in the past but just no hook ups today??? The bigger baits seemed to entice stronger hits but still no hook ups, very frustrating day but still good to be out there with mates.

Cheers

Josh

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Sometimes the kings will take the bait shyly. I have had this before and you need to strike at the slight pull, then if it's a king you'll hook it. There have been lots of Jackets around too and perhaps your baits were lower down and in their zone??

Might also be that the frozen bait was causing them to hesitate.

Dave

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Sometimes the kings will take the bait shyly. I have had this before and you need to strike at the slight pull, then if it's a king you'll hook it. There have been lots of Jackets around too and perhaps your baits were lower down and in their zone??

Might also be that the frozen bait was causing them to hesitate.

Dave

I am quite sure that the hits were from kings, definitely the frozen bait i think was the issue and why we had trouble hooking up. Hopefully can land quite a few big squid so we can use big fresh baits as i think that is the key at the moment.

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