Penguin Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Hi everyone, With my usual fishing buddies unnable to come out with me for a fish today, I grabbed one of my employees and mate Peg, and took him out on the harbour for a downrigging sesh. Pegs never seen a downrigger before and was sitting there scratching his head when he saw both of mine and wandered how they work to catch fish. He looked even more puzzled later on when I clipped the 1st 7lb bomb on the downrigger, "OH MY GOD, IS THAT THE SINKER", he says. I fell over laughing at him We started off at Balmoral in search of yakkas, but they were scarce only managed one. There were garfish in good numbers though but they were very hard to catch, did manage to put 6 in the livey tank after trying various methods. I also had 10 squid that I had caught recently and frozen them. To cut a long day short heres a quick run down, we downrigged the tripod, yellow marker, wedding cakes and the drum at Chowder bay. We had hook ups everywhere except the cakes. Peg being inexperience lost more fish than he landed, the tripod had him rubbed up and busted off a few times. All fish landed were rats 62-63cm(close but no cigar) A trio of bigger fish were hooked and fought during our day but only one stuck. A King of 84cm. Kingy topped with a lemon butter sauce for lunch tomorrow Heres a few pics Peg holding our only legal capture Edited February 5, 2011 by penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmaniac Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Nice fish mate It was a great day to be on the water. We fished wide for dollies without any luck and finished off the day with some inshore kings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Nice work penguin, I love the look on peoples faces the first time they get onto a king and realize how hard they can pull!!! Priceless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typhoon Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I love Pegs upside down hold em up pose Good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 top read penguin,wish i was there to see peg fish, woulda been a crack up.seemed like a fun days fishing, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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