Day's Fishin Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 (edited) We decide to take the day off and hit Long Reef as the weather and sea conditions were perfect for our small 5m boat to go outside. A bad start was the 2 batteries failed to turn over the motor so it was pull the boat off the ramp and swap the one out of the hilux. Still no go. After a little bit of colourful langauge we found the terminals were the fault even though they were both clean. ( I am now going to replace them with brass ones) Heading out from Parsley Bay ramp we hit a solid wall of fog coming from Cowan creek, I had heard that Cowan was having zero visability lately but I never thought it was like that! The run out was as good as you could hope for as even the head swell was small enough to allow us to keep the boat on the plain without the slightest bump. We tried drifting ,but came up short! We then sounded some good broken ground ln 20m of water so dropped the pick. The first hit was a 36cm trev, with a few more smaller ones taken quickly after. It was time to burly as we decided that the area looked promising and would give it a pounding. Within 10minutes off putting the burly over the morwong came on the bite the best being a nice rubber lip weighing 2.1kg. Next species was a nice blue spot flathead 43cm. Heaths rod then decided to try and turn itself insideout. Snagged a rock snapper I said smirking. Heath then informed me that if it was then he was bringing the bottom up to say hi! We both called it for a wobbi as it just hung there most of the time with only giving a downward thrust every now and then. It took about 20-minutes to see what had decided to play tug o war. It was a Port Jackson around the 4ft mark and about 30kg's. Not bad on a bass rod loaded with 6lb braid. After tail grabbing him we hauled him onboard for a couple of pic' and then put him back. We then changed over to pillchards. A cast out from the boat the pili hit the water and couldn't have gone down more than a meter or two when the line peeled of the reel at the rate of knots. A 5minute fight saw a nice but very angry blue shark beside the boat, a quick decision was made to keep her for the bbq on Sunday. She was about 1.2 meters long and very,very angry as the teeth marks on the side of my boat can testify to! After repeated attemps to tail her and nearly losing a hand on numerious occasions, I sank the gaff which gave Heath the chance to grab her tail and bring her aboard. Thats the last time I bring a blue shark on board a small boat while it is still in the land of the living. Our tally for 4hrs on the water was 1 Blue shark, 1 Port Jackson shark, 3 morwong, numerious trevs, 1 blue spot flathead @ 43cm and a lot of parrot fish. To add to the day we seen 2 whales one of which breeched within about 50meters of our boat. For a bad start to the trip it ended pretty good. Regards Jeff I have a couple of pic's which I took on my phone and now trying to upload them. I will add them as soon as I can. Edited August 1, 2011 by Day's Fishin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Great report mate. It was an awesome haul. So how you going to cook the shark on the barbie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil D Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Great effort as its tough going atm, Not many species around. the Blue shark should taste great on the bbq or beer batter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce the Postie Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Have'nt seen the pics,but i think you might find that that small angry blue shark is a Mako. They can get very cranky indeed,but they are the best eating of any shark i have tried. Cheers, Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Hi Bruce, Blue shark/Mako shark same beast. Re the pic's, it wont let me upload from my email as that is the only way we could get them onto the computer. I moved them from email to my pictures but fishraider won't upload. I'm waiting for one of my offspring to come to my aid and show me how. Regards Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce the Postie Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Nah,different beasties mate, Hooking a Blue shark is like hooking an underwater log,and hooking a Mako is like being attatched to a pshyco icbm.Not trying to be a smartarse Jeff,just letting you know that they arn't the same,catching a Mako is a far more challenging experience.Good onya Jeff,hope you enjoy the feed!. Cheers, Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Hi Bruce, a Mako shark is also refered to as a blue pointer shark. I just call them a blue shark. When the pic's come up you will see we had a mako. Regards Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leatherjacket Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Well done on the haul! How do you cook Mako Shark? Fish & Chips or pan fry in butter with salt and pepper? Cheers, Andrew Edited July 31, 2011 by leatherjacket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce the Postie Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 (edited) Hi Bruce, a Mako shark is also refered to as a blue pointer shark. I just call them a blue shark. When the pic's come up you will see we had a mako. Regards Jeff No worries,each to their own. As a matter of fact,we had a bit of a play with one today,took a mate out and i tied a couple of last weeks Mac tuna frames to a short rope out the back.Sure enough a small Mako comes in for a bit of a look and begins to have a nibble on the frames,the sea anchors,the prop,the rope and anything else it could get it's crockery around.But the fun part was when he got serious about the tuna frames and my mate was pulling the rope around with that little Mako going big monkey poo on the end of it.It looked to me like they were both having a ball. Grabbed a couple of pics,but im not sure how they look yet,but if they are any good i'll bung 'em up. Cheers, Bruce Edited July 31, 2011 by Bananaphobic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) Hi Bruce I would sure like to see your pics if they turned out alright. Do you eat your mako's? The one we had yesterday was pertty ordinary on the pallet! I finally loaded my pic's. My youngest daughter had her first baby last friday and I had to wait to get her to adjust the pic's so I could upload them on fishraider. I will take my camera from now on as it is plug in and it does what ever I want. Regards Jeff Edited August 1, 2011 by Day's Fishin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Thanks for your input Stewy. A blue shark is definately not as agressive as that bitch. She ran and jumped like you wouldn't believe, so much punch in a smaller shark. Regards Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolex Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 great report mate well done :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little marlin Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Nice mako there. W ell done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pongrass18ft Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 We decide to take the day off and hit Long Reef as the weather and sea conditions were perfect for our small 5m boat to go outside. A bad start was the 2 batteries failed to turn over the motor so it was pull the boat off the ramp and swap the one out of the hilux. Still no go. After a little bit of colourful langauge we found the terminals were the fault even though they were both clean. ( I am now going to replace them with brass ones) Heading out from Parsley Bay ramp we hit a solid wall of fog coming from Cowan creek, I had heard that Cowan was having zero visability lately but I never thought it was like that! The run out was as good as you could hope for as even the head swell was small enough to allow us to keep the boat on the plain without the slightest bump. We tried drifting ,but came up short! We then sounded some good broken ground ln 20m of water so dropped the pick. The first hit was a 36cm trev, with a few more smaller ones taken quickly after. It was time to burly as we decided that the area looked promising and would give it a pounding. Within 10minutes off putting the burly over the morwong came on the bite the best being a nice rubber lip weighing 2.1kg. Next species was a nice blue spot flathead 43cm. Heaths rod then decided to try and turn itself insideout. Snagged a rock snapper I said smirking. Heath then informed me that if it was then he was bringing the bottom up to say hi! We both called it for a wobbi as it just hung there most of the time with only giving a downward thrust every now and then. It took about 20-minutes to see what had decided to play tug o war. It was a Port Jackson around the 4ft mark and about 30kg's. Not bad on a bass rod loaded with 6lb braid. After tail grabbing him we hauled him onboard for a couple of pic' and then put him back. We then changed over to pillchards. A cast out from the boat the pili hit the water and couldn't have gone down more than a meter or two when the line peeled of the reel at the rate of knots. A 5minute fight saw a nice but very angry blue shark beside the boat, a quick decision was made to keep her for the bbq on Sunday. She was about 1.2 meters long and very,very angry as the teeth marks on the side of my boat can testify to! After repeated attemps to tail her and nearly losing a hand on numerious occasions, I sank the gaff which gave Heath the chance to grab her tail and bring her aboard. Thats the last time I bring a blue shark on board a small boat while it is still in the land of the living. Our tally for 4hrs on the water was 1 Blue shark, 1 Port Jackson shark, 3 morwong, numerious trevs, 1 blue spot flathead @ 43cm and a lot of parrot fish. To add to the day we seen 2 whales one of which breeched within about 50meters of our boat. For a bad start to the trip it ended pretty good. Regards Jeff I have a couple of pic's which I took on my phone and now trying to upload them. I will add them as soon as I can. Great trip , those mako make for superb eating especially if handled correctly from capture. They sure give you a good fight and put on a terrific aerial show don,t they. BBQ mako chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 You had an interesting day. How big are the boneheads? When a shark gets air you know it's a mako. Great show. We saw three guys drifting near us a while back off Terrigal and this huge Mako leapt full body lengths out of the water right in front of them before they even knew they'd hooked it. Then the line went tight. After the show as we laughed these poor blokes packed up and went straight home. There are stories of them jumping aboard and going nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray67 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 hi all was down there sunday aswell left from parsley bay smooth seas no t much wind did ok heaps of trevally and some kings biggest 64cm lost a heap on the reef due to light line had the kings in the burley trail but wouldnt play on the heavier gear left there about 11 am and found a masive school of salmon off palm beach landed about 20 kept a couple released the rest left them on the bite cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil D Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 ohhhhhhhhhhh yum, marko, now your talking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce the Postie Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Hi Bruce I would sure like to see your pics if they turned out alright. Do you eat your mako's? The one we had yesterday was pertty ordinary on the pallet! I finally loaded my pic's. My youngest daughter had her first baby last friday and I had to wait to get her to adjust the pic's so I could upload them on fishraider. I will take my camera from now on as it is plug in and it does what ever I want. Regards Jeff G'day Jeff, Sorry about the piss poor pics,but one of the kids had buggered around with my camera settings and i didn't notice until it was to late. But heres a couple that you can make out the subject matter in. Cheers, Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwood1980 Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Can you catch anything from land? at long reef that is....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRED-ATOR Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 We decide to take the day off and hit Long Reef as the weather and sea conditions were perfect for our small 5m boat to go outside. A bad start was the 2 batteries failed to turn over the motor so it was pull the boat off the ramp and swap the one out of the hilux. Still no go. After a little bit of colourful langauge we found the terminals were the fault even though they were both clean. ( I am now going to replace them with brass ones) Heading out from Parsley Bay ramp we hit a solid wall of fog coming from Cowan creek, I had heard that Cowan was having zero visability lately but I never thought it was like that! The run out was as good as you could hope for as even the head swell was small enough to allow us to keep the boat on the plain without the slightest bump. We tried drifting ,but came up short! We then sounded some good broken ground ln 20m of water so dropped the pick. The first hit was a 36cm trev, with a few more smaller ones taken quickly after. It was time to burly as we decided that the area looked promising and would give it a pounding. Within 10minutes off putting the burly over the morwong came on the bite the best being a nice rubber lip weighing 2.1kg. Next species was a nice blue spot flathead 43cm. Heaths rod then decided to try and turn itself insideout. Snagged a rock snapper I said smirking. Heath then informed me that if it was then he was bringing the bottom up to say hi! We both called it for a wobbi as it just hung there most of the time with only giving a downward thrust every now and then. It took about 20-minutes to see what had decided to play tug o war. It was a Port Jackson around the 4ft mark and about 30kg's. Not bad on a bass rod loaded with 6lb braid. After tail grabbing him we hauled him onboard for a couple of pic' and then put him back. We then changed over to pillchards. A cast out from the boat the pili hit the water and couldn't have gone down more than a meter or two when the line peeled of the reel at the rate of knots. A 5minute fight saw a nice but very angry blue shark beside the boat, a quick decision was made to keep her for the bbq on Sunday. She was about 1.2 meters long and very,very angry as the teeth marks on the side of my boat can testify to! After repeated attemps to tail her and nearly losing a hand on numerious occasions, I sank the gaff which gave Heath the chance to grab her tail and bring her aboard. Thats the last time I bring a blue shark on board a small boat while it is still in the land of the living. Our tally for 4hrs on the water was 1 Blue shark, 1 Port Jackson shark, 3 morwong, numerious trevs, 1 blue spot flathead @ 43cm and a lot of parrot fish. To add to the day we seen 2 whales one of which breeched within about 50meters of our boat. For a bad start to the trip it ended pretty good. Regards Jeff I have a couple of pic's which I took on my phone and now trying to upload them. I will add them as soon as I can. Great report and great pics mate, we gotta go for a fish mate would be epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omg_the_funky_shit@hotmail.com Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 hey mate not a bad days fishing...how long roughly does it take to get to long reef from parsley bay...i got a 90hp yammy...in say a med swell ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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