DGF Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Hey guys had 3-4 weeks off work and pretty much utilized them as much as i could to go fishn. First trip 23rd december - Charter - with own gear i arranged a fishing charter with a whole bunch of friends etc.. went with a charter mob from captain cook bridge departing @ 6am, refusing to use rail mounted reels i brought my own rods and tackle Got out the heads of botany bay and off shore from coogee about 1-2km within 2 minutes of me dropping my line down i was hooked onto some rats i hadnt even got near the bottom yet the water was in coloured yellow / green from the amount of kings out there, through out the day i was hooking up these kings one after the other with the occasional double hook ups on one line ! awesome fun unfortunatly not one was a keeper all measured about 60-64cm one being 64.5 with the skipper chucking it back in ( 5 mil off dang ) anyway we also hooked up about 10-20 mowong which i did not like so i kept playing with the rats as i was having a ball landing all those kings. all in all got back to shore with a mixed bag of mowang 1 king that was 68cm and 2 rock cod and all the sgt bakers were thrown back in the water. 2nd trip 26th december, Botany Bay First we took my mates boat out having troubles with that boat and being stuck on the water for a few hours from morning i said screw it lets go home and grab mine, i think i may have reported on this but the we got out about 5pm again with my boat went over to the HWO caught few trevvors and about 30-40 yakkas all went in the live well and with that the bigger ones were taken out and put into the esky for eating and the smaller were going for live bait. went over to the runway as i had that feeling it was gonna be a jewfish night, anyway set up all the rods long story cut short i still have not caught a jew but the guy i brought on the boat hooked the jew through its tail and we landed it. 1 WEEK BREAK - FRIENDS FROM NZ CAME FOR NEW YEARS (they got me my new Olympus Tough digital camera waterproof etc.. now i got a proper camera for my fishing trips) Tuesday 5th Jan - Botany again finally fixed mates boat and was working perfect so we went for a fish to botany bay this days target was Flathead, had live prawns ready as well headed out at first light drifted from brighton all the way to captain cook bridge. 1st catch went to my mate landed a small 25* cm flathead whcih went back in and i turned and said "ok you got the first fish im gonna have the first keeper" i opted to use soft plastics this whole day as i had not caught anything with them before and i was really keen on getting some fish on them within 20 minutes i hooked onto a 62cm Flathead !!! WHOPPER! i freaked out my mate wasnt ready with the net so stupid me grabs the braided line slicing through my fingers to bring the fish aboard, landed it and cheered for my first fish on plastics with blood dripping down my hands lol washed my hands in the water and casted out again slowly drifting along we were at about ramsgate and the water was getting pretty shallow, so i started reeling in and was mucking aout watching my plastic bait in the water when a flathead swam by done a u turn and attacked the plastic in front of my eyes i was amazed at this lol this didnt take long to bring aboard and was 40cm on the rule i thought yes another keeper dinner tonight is set, we went back up for a 2nd drift and my mate needed to take a toilet break lol so i put the boat up on the beach let him off to go to the bathroom and reversed back out to wait for him while waiting ithought i might give it anohter flick sure enough withing seconds of it hitting the water i was hooked onto another 58cm flathead! Gutted and cleaned the each flathead was 62cm - 1.8kg gutted, 58cm flathead gutted 1.4kg (with to my amazment had a 15cm flathead in its belly as well as a 10cm leather jacket) and the 40cm gutted was a mear 0.85kg all made a great meal with the bigger one not as nice as the medium sized one 2 days later take out my other lil boat to give it a run as its been sitting for a bit went to georges river to muck around with plastics as my mate was kinda freaked out that i outfished him with no "real" bait so he purchased a whole heap of plastics and jig heads etc.. even bought the same rod as me mucked around for a bit catching few lil whiting and tailor nothing major. PICS ARE ALL ON MY CAMERA STILL WILL UPLOAD TONIGHT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooker435 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 DGF, Now thats a Holiday if I know one... more fishing than most people do In the whole year well not me but I know some people that only fish during the christmas period once or twice and that's it.... Mate what I would really like to know is what a double Kingy hookup would be like as 1 is a handfull Look forward to seeing your pics... Regards, Nathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorms Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 DGF, Now thats a Holiday if I know one... more fishing than most people do In the whole year well not me but I know some people that only fish during the christmas period once or twice and that's it.... Mate what I would really like to know is what a double Kingy hookup would be like as 1 is a handfull Look forward to seeing your pics... Regards, Nathan i agree. On a double hook up on a 2 hook pano rig, you would hate for the kings to each want to swim in a different direction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Great report DGF and I also check the stomach contents of fish that I catch to see what was on the menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGF Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 yeh the double hookup was insane had that one 40lb mono on a 15kg rod i never thought my rod could bend that far haha was insane it happened at least 4 times that day only only 3 being landed i landed one double and on my 2nd double i lost the fish on the bottom hook took it clean off at the boat 2 others landed the other double hookups. as for the stomach contents i was curious as to why its stomach was so massive and solid and yeh was odd to see another flathead of 15cm in its belly as well as a leatherjacket lol i guess it explained why it was so solid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHARK Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 DGF SOUND LIKE YOU HAD A PERFECT HOLIDAY MATE !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGF Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 yeh sure did if only i didnt have to go back to work haha oh well going out this weekend again for kingies so ill keep you guys posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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