kriso79 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 G'day Raiders, Got on the water about 4am. Dropped in at the spit to have a look for some squid but to no avail, water was quite dirty. Ventured out to all the usual squid spots to get a dozen or so southerns most of them very small. At one stage i was at Obelisk Beach just spotting a few squid having a look at my jig when all of a sudden up from the sand a slow swimming dusky swims up to have a look at the jig, he didn't bite though and glided back to the sand to come and rest right under the boat. I let the jig sink again almost on top of him and gave a couple of quick prawn like flicks to see what he would do and sure enough he snapped around and engulfed it, with pressure on and some fine net skills by my brother I had my first flatty on a squid jig. After that excitement we decided to have a quick look at a few markers on the way out to the heads and the second marker we came across had large arch's all over it, so we cast a couple of sluggos and poppers without so much as a look, Next plan was to use some live squid on the downrigger and weight a yakker and troll past and sure as clockwork the arch's came up on the sounder and then bang the rigger goes off, as i am bringing the king up my brother jerks he's yakker back to the surface and he get's slammed just before the surface. He's was a rat but I came up trumps with 70cm+ model from the rigger.Decided to just do a couple of drifts with weighted squid over over the mark to end up landing about 6 kings and 1 samson lost a few as well. We lost a few squid to pickers which was a pain but all in all a good morning. Cheers Kriso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver1 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 awesome stuff man, great catch!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 What an eventful morning and a good feed there too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerly Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Very nice samson there and congrats on the flattie on a squid jig, I have hooked about 15 on squid jigs but only ever landed one, it hooked in the side of the jaw that jig was never going to come out. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray R Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 to FR mate, great first report, some top pics of a few nice fish.. Congrats on your outing and hope to see more reports from you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 hey kris, congrats awsome catch and what a more interesting way to do it. i was down at pier 2 this morning and a fisherman caught a 70cm flatty and boy was it a hassle getting onto the wharf. good luck fishing and nice nick name !!!!! cheers kris (kristopher) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now