fat57 Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 Went for a fish the other night after all the rain hoping to get a jew or 2, Had fresh caught squid and a couple of bonito...... Caught a nice size tailor around the 63cm mark so I thought to myself im gona strip it up and use it as bait, first slab went on and within a minute my thunnus starts to bite then zzzzzzzzzzzz waited for the run to slow down and set the hooks, fish pulled hard but no headshakes so I knew it wasnt a jew..fish comes up to the surface and starts splashing away, was a 6-7kg Hammerhead wich put up a good fight. We hooked onto quite a few sharks hammerheads/greynurse/1 baby mako and when there around you know your going to be in for a long night with no jews.... The tide now was on turning on to the runout tought ill try a slab of bonito on one rod and squid on the others.. Squid rods start to bite and both go off at the same time..bang double hook up on school jews around the 2-3kg mark. Having fun catching the schoolies on squid they cant resist it but I was after a big puppy hence using the bonito/tailor baits, meanwhile the sharks seemed to piss off thank God and the water starts running out, rod with the bonito slab starts getting tugged at I know what kind of bites these are.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ rod starts screaming, I never ever strike a running fish so I just grab the rod and wait until it stops, once it slowed down tightned my drag abit and set the hooks....zzzzzzzzzzzz goes for a decent run again and guess what HEADSHAKES!!!!! feels every bit of a jew and a decent size aswell, after a short fight get it boat side and in the dark gloomy water theres a Fat silver gleam, mate gets the gaff ready to strike......misses, fish goes nuts and dives straight down for another run, I give it time and then bring it back to the surface this time I tell my mate get the net and have it ready in the water he does so and I guide it straight into the net! Yes.......once boated weighed it and was a healthy 11Kg fish!!!! Love fishing the hawkesbury plenty of jews there atm, go on get out there! (Got photos of the jew but dont know how 2 upload them, I can sms them to someone if they wish to pm me the mob number and they can upload them if they like)
inked Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 (edited) hey good report, sounds like it was a good trip. I'm heading down to camp out of Patonga and hopefully smash a few jewies too fished off juno last week and landed one just under 4kg on the run out, plenty of bonito around and got busted off a couple of times by something bigger than the jew we caught, most probably a shark. we fished with some live yakkas, fresh squid and some bonnito strips too where did you get your squid? Edited March 26, 2011 by inked
humesy Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 Great effort and nice fish. Must have been skinny. I would have thought a 1.2m fish would go a bit more than 11kgs. Looking forward to pics
Pongrass18ft Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 Went for a fish the other night after all the rain hoping to get a jew or 2, Had fresh caught squid and a couple of bonito...... Caught a nice size tailor around the 63cm mark so I thought to myself im gona strip it up and use it as bait, first slab went on and within a minute my thunnus starts to bite then zzzzzzzzzzzz waited for the run to slow down and set the hooks, fish pulled hard but no headshakes so I knew it wasnt a jew..fish comes up to the surface and starts splashing away, was a 6-7kg Hammerhead wich put up a good fight. We hooked onto quite a few sharks hammerheads/greynurse/1 baby mako and when there around you know your going to be in for a long night with no jews.... The tide now was on turning on to the runout tought ill try a slab of bonito on one rod and squid on the others.. Squid rods start to bite and both go off at the same time..bang double hook up on school jews around the 2-3kg mark. Having fun catching the schoolies on squid they cant resist it but I was after a big puppy hence using the bonito/tailor baits, meanwhile the sharks seemed to piss off thank God and the water starts running out, rod with the bonito slab starts getting tugged at I know what kind of bites these are.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ rod starts screaming, I never ever strike a running fish so I just grab the rod and wait until it stops, once it slowed down tightned my drag abit and set the hooks....zzzzzzzzzzzz goes for a decent run again and guess what HEADSHAKES!!!!! feels every bit of a jew and a decent size aswell, after a short fight get it boat side and in the dark gloomy water theres a Fat silver gleam, mate gets the gaff ready to strike......misses, fish goes nuts and dives straight down for another run, I give it time and then bring it back to the surface this time I tell my mate get the net and have it ready in the water he does so and I guide it straight into the net! Yes.......once boated weighed it and was a healthy 11Kg fish!!!! Love fishing the hawkesbury plenty of jews there atm, go on get out there! (Got photos of the jew but dont know how 2 upload them, I can sms them to someone if they wish to pm me the mob number and they can upload them if they like) Good to see plenty of ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz awsome stuff Must be a skinny fish though should be around 14kg at 1.2m
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