gibodfisho Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 After reading reports of Striped tuna from PeterS and Ross Hunter of tuna dragged myself out of a warm bed and headed out into uncharted waters with a very loose game plan of trolling until something jumped on. Decided on coming through the "bay" in case the conditions did not suit the Bass Boss, and I would have a fall back plan to fish some flats for a bream or two. It was cold but the travelling was good. Popped the lures in just inside the heads and started heading south. No action until a small washy area. 5 reasonable bonnies on a mixture of deep divers and metal slugs was enough for a family feed. Ross had mentioned Bate Bay so left the bonnies and headed further south. It was still cold and with no clue I headed towards Osbourne Shoals which was showing on the GPS. Did a quick lap of a bait fisho sitting on the deeper outside ledge. Next thing I noticed was a contour line and so headed wider. Saw some birds travelling and headed in there direction, when the rod loads up and I am thinking another bonnie. The fish comes towards the boat and into view quite quicklyand I get a quick look at what is obviously my first stripie. A bit dissapointed at the fight, I loosen the drag in case it makes a sudden run and then it takes off. This is more what I was expecting and after a couple of good hard runs I remeber that the gaff is still hanging up in the shed. No problem I will net it. Bad move the fish throws the lure after hitting the outside of the net . Thought I had blown my chance but got another hook up and this fight was way different with braid evaporating from the reel on a sustained initial run. This tuna took a pre-rigged lure with probably 80-100pnd or more trace so it was hoiked aboard easily. Happy I had achieved the goal and landed a new species I trolled for a little longer but heade back into the bay soon afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james7 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 G'day gibodfisho. Good to hear that you at least got one stripey. I reckon the bigger stripies go as hard as any fish of similar size and are certainly fun on my old Shimano Charter Special. We trolled for hours yesterday south of Cronulla down to Garie, but only caught tailor. Cheers Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrj031 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Congrats mate... i am yet to get one We went out on sat morning, spurred on by PeterS reports of stripey's and other good catches... Trolled up a bonny near the heads and a tailor on bringing the lure in after a troll... tried a bottom bash around osbornes only to be plauged by the jackets.... Feels good to get and a add a new species to the list! Congrats again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewgaffer Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 G'day gibodfisho. Good to hear that you at least got one stripey. I reckon the bigger stripies go as hard as any fish of similar size and are certainly fun on my old Shimano Charter Special. We trolled for hours yesterday south of Cronulla down to Garie, but only caught tailor. Cheers Peter Hi Peter and gibodfisho.... My Greek mate Cungee George and his mates fished in close around the cliffs on the Hacking side of Stanwell Park last week and got onto a lot of stripies down deep. George said he has caught them in the same place before without anything at all to show that they were there. George told me that he uses weighted octopus skirts, which are a weighted popper type lure with holes in the front and said they work better than bait.....They also caught other fish on the same lures including morwong when they let the lures sink. George said the stripies were mostly all around the same size and told me they caught over forty between them. Might be worthwhile having a session down there, George said there are still heaps of stripies and lots of other fish coming in close as well. That's George on the right of the photo Peter, I think I introduced George to Pick-A-Box Syd and yourself when George and Larry called in to see me at the bay social a couple of years back... Cheers jewgaffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hambly99 Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 sounds like you had a good day on the water gibodfisho, what lures did the damage? keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibodfisho Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 sounds like you had a good day on the water gibodfisho, what lures did the damage? keep it up. The bonito were taking a Halco laser pro 120 and a metal slice bargain bin model. The first striped tuna hit the same laser pro and the second was on a small skirt/chrismas tree that I had bought less than 24hrs prior, Black magic brand, size ???. Will have to go thank the guy at the tackle store me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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