Striped Tuna Galore

[Ross Hunter]

We fished yesterday on Broadbill with the crew that caught 21 marlin in a day at Pt Stephens 2005 They were keen for a good day and it started OK with afew kings around Botany Bay There were heaps of them schooled with white gulls and terns on them. Good Start I thought We then headed out wider and ran into acres of striped tuna,double hook ups were common. We will fillet and salt these as snapper baits I thought to myself ( which The Emu dillegently did on the way home) We headed to the shelf to cube for a tuna or a shark but the current against the wind made for a nasty time at rest even on Broady (which is the most stable boat around in these conditions). A couple of the guys got sick, so we headed off without raising a scale.

We caught more stripeys and bonito at the Heads. We trolled the stripeys on small black and purple squid.

We caught 51 stripeys and let 20 go. They were all filleted and kept for baits for later on.

Billfisher had a reef day at our favourite spot "Hunter's Hill" and whilst he caught a small 40 kg mako which was released he reprted that the reef side of things was a bit tough and worked hard for all fish caught , mind you they only fished a four hour afternoon session. The am tide would have been better.. Sorry no photos.. No fishing Saturday due to weather or probably Sunday (due to football Go Parra)

Ross Hunter

[nemu]

We fished yesterday on Broadbill with the crew that caught 21 marlin in a day at Pt Stephens 2005 They were keen for a good day and it started OK with afew kings around Botany Bay There were heaps of them schooled with white gulls and terns on them. Good Start I thought We then headed out wider and ran into acres of striped tuna,double hook ups were common. We will fillet and salt these as snapper baits I thought to myself ( which The Emu dillegently did on the way home) We headed to the shelf to cube for a tuna or a shark but the current against the wind made for a nasty time at rest even on Broady (which is the most stable boat around in these conditions). A couple of the guys got sick, so we headed off without raising a scale.

We caught more stripeys and bonito at the Heads. We trolled the stripeys on small black and purple squid.

We caught 51 stripeys and let 20 go. They were all filleted and kept for baits for later on.

Billfisher had a reef day at our favourite spot "Hunter's Hill" and whilst he caught a small 40 kg mako which was released he reprted that the reef side of things was a bit tough and worked hard for all fish caught , mind you they only fished a four hour afternoon session. The am tide would have been better.. Sorry no photos.. No fishing Saturday due to weather or probably Sunday (due to football Go Parra)

Ross Hunter

I can't remember ever catching stripys like that all the way and back to inside the shelf wer've had days that we got numbers of them but that was stripy mayhem we got 5:1on the purple to the pink feather that I thought was strange due to it been overcast pink normally is a better colour with cloud cover but there you go you know what thought did don't you?? stripe tuna frenzy great with wasabi personally wierd to some it may seem I prefere stripy raw over any other tuna and raw is the only way I'll eat striped tuna but I'd rather be feeding them to the marlin than people.Hate this crappy weather but atleast its washed the dust away make for an interesting final this arvo go the EELs...

[humkyle]

have stripeys been common apart from this day?

ive been waiting to get amongst them but havent heard many reports.

cheers

[Ross Hunter]

have stripeys been common apart from this day?

ive been waiting to get amongst them but havent heard many reports.

cheers

You can never predict stripey tuna but one thing for sure they were thick on Friday

Ross

[pjbink]

They were thick in close about 3 or 4 months ago. I came across a big school about 3 or 4 nm out. I stopped the boat and had a look over the side. Right in front of me was a huge thresher shark gorging itself on the densly packed pilchards the stripeys had pushed to the surface!

PS: The next week I was drifting for flathead just off Kurnell when I hooked something which was fighting like no flathead. To my surprise it was a striped tuna which wasn't hooked at all but lasooed around the tail.