dhype Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 (edited) Hey Raiders Just a quick Botany Bay report from a few days back Hit the water and loaded up with live squid and downrigged around Mollinuex Point where I bumped into another raider in a blue formosa.. hope you did well there as I found nothing but undersized kings around the 60cm mark. Did not want to waste anymore squid so we moved on. Popped over to the flats with plastics and found plenty of flatties including some in the 60 - 70cm mark! All the bigger ones released to fight another day as per usual.. Waited to dusk and tried for jewies for the first time and to our surprise we managed 3 x nice fish on our first attempt This is one of the smaller ones we got... not bad for a 1st timer targeting jews. Will give it another go this weekend hopefully for a 10kg unit! Ended up with a nice feed and a great day out! See ya all on the water Cheers Trung Edited October 24, 2011 by dhype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex52 Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 (edited) On ya Trung, nothing like a plan coming together, especially the first time around:thumbup: Edited October 24, 2011 by Dangler7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puregeek Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Hey trung It was me that saw you that day at Mollinuex Point. I recognised your boat from your boat building post - boat looks good btw. We were hoping for some kings that day, but ended up with about 8 trevallys instead. Nothing touched our dead squid baits, not even a single rat. This was probably because we didnt have any live bait. We went to yarra bay for some yakkas and squid and got nothing. How do you seem to find the squid everytime? must be a squid whisperer or something! Was nice to sorta meet you anyways. BTW i wished i owned a formsa, its actually a blue allycraft. Yee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosan Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 was looking for your report and thought you probably didn't go fishing. Silly me.. Congrats you always do well. I been going to the peak and found no kings and end up with flatties on the way back. Stop by Molly and anchor but no takes. Did you get all the kings while downrigging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRED-ATOR Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Well done on the fish trung, Looking forward to seeing these 10kg units : ) Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keflapod Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey Trung, So you had an all-day trip? Squid gear, kingie gear, flattie gear, jewie gear - mate you had it all. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on the boat ? What about the toilet? Are you sure you don't have a 50ft mother ship anchored nearby ? It has been a long time since I can afford to do all-dayers like that. My mind can do it but the body says "you're gonna have a sore back and sunburnt face tonight"... But isn't it amazing the diversity of species we can catch in the bay. To rig up your boat and gear in such a way as to make it easy to convert from one target species to another is quite a challenge. The boat, gear and strategy you use needs to be clearly thought out beforehand and carefully prepared such that it works on the water. The results are clearly there - a decent catch of squid - able to downrig them and catch kingies (albeit undersized ones), then successfully catch flatties on sp's, to be followed up by using the squid from the morning to catch jewies that night. Well done Trung - you set the benchmark amongst bay fishermen for species, techniques and logistics. I take my hat off to you - but I won't take anything else off. By the way - plenty of big whiting around last weekend if you want to add that to your repetoire. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey trung It was me that saw you that day at Mollinuex Point. I recognised your boat from your boat building post - boat looks good btw. We were hoping for some kings that day, but ended up with about 8 trevallys instead. Nothing touched our dead squid baits, not even a single rat. This was probably because we didnt have any live bait. We went to yarra bay for some yakkas and squid and got nothing. How do you seem to find the squid everytime? must be a squid whisperer or something! Was nice to sorta meet you anyways. BTW i wished i owned a formsa, its actually a blue allycraft. Yee Hi Yee - Great to hear you found a few travs.. they are great sashimi! The kings are there but you need the right bait and it looks like dead squid was not the right one last week. I pray to the squid gods before every outting.. for this they reward us with a tank full of squid. You should try it! was looking for your report and thought you probably didn't go fishing. Silly me.. Congrats you always do well. I been going to the peak and found no kings and end up with flatties on the way back. Stop by Molly and anchor but no takes. Did you get all the kings while downrigging? hahaha - i would never go a week without a fish! All my kings these days are picked up on the downrigger.. best way to locate them! Well done on the fish trung, Looking forward to seeing these 10kg units : ) Stan I'm looking forward to seeing a 10kg jew myself! It might not happen overnight.. but it WILL happen! Hey Trung, So you had an all-day trip? Squid gear, kingie gear, flattie gear, jewie gear - mate you had it all. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on the boat ? What about the toilet? Are you sure you don't have a 50ft mother ship anchored nearby ? It has been a long time since I can afford to do all-dayers like that. My mind can do it but the body says "you're gonna have a sore back and sunburnt face tonight"... But isn't it amazing the diversity of species we can catch in the bay. To rig up your boat and gear in such a way as to make it easy to convert from one target species to another is quite a challenge. The boat, gear and strategy you use needs to be clearly thought out beforehand and carefully prepared such that it works on the water. The results are clearly there - a decent catch of squid - able to downrig them and catch kingies (albeit undersized ones), then successfully catch flatties on sp's, to be followed up by using the squid from the morning to catch jewies that night. Well done Trung - you set the benchmark amongst bay fishermen for species, techniques and logistics. I take my hat off to you - but I won't take anything else off. By the way - plenty of big whiting around last weekend if you want to add that to your repetoire. Tony Hi Tony Thanks for your kind words... Yes, this was all day outing and the first we have ever done... the body gets a bit war-torn afterwards thats for sure! You are not wrong with the diversity of the bay.. within a few square kilometers you can activitly target kings, flatties , jews, bream, whiting, crabs, squid etc etc.. great stuff. I have been fishing the botany now for 2 years and every few months we will pickup a new technique.. latest being the jews! Next on the target list is snapper and kings from the inshore reefs with jigs/plastics - this will be a challenge as i have ZERO inshore experience! You hear people comment about no fish in Botany Bay but i beg to differ on this - if you target a species you get a much better chance of landing a few... Lastly, you speak about massive whiting in the bay last week? I pumped a tank full of nippers with the intention of catching a few but did not get the chance to use them. Might have to get a few pointers from you Tony as you seem to smash the bream and whiting everytime. Give me a yell if you would like to head out for a fish one day.. we can trade botany secrets! Cheers Trung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 as yet again, well done Trung! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey trung It was me that saw you that day at Mollinuex Point. I recognised your boat from your boat building post - boat looks good btw. We were hoping for some kings that day, but ended up with about 8 trevallys instead. Nothing touched our dead squid baits, not even a single rat. This was probably because we didnt have any live bait. We went to yarra bay for some yakkas and squid and got nothing. How do you seem to find the squid everytime? must be a squid whisperer or something! Was nice to sorta meet you anyways. BTW i wished i owned a formsa, its actually a blue allycraft. Yee Hey Yee, the problem is if you get there after 7am, Trung would have cleaned up the squid already by then, he is usually out there by 5, so get there early!!! I've learnt my lesson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey Yee, the problem is if you get there after 7am, Trung would have cleaned up the squid already by then, he is usually out there by 5, so get there early!!! I've learnt my lesson hahahaha - funny but true! If you see a white polycraft leaving the squids ground dont bother trying... they are already in my bait tank! Trung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamari Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Well done what plastics are u using for flatties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcpayne Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Hey Trung, As a Bay fisherman, your commitment to fishing and the expertise and success you report on your posts is inspiational. You're the man. It keeps me motivated and trying!! Cheers Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little marlin Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Nice hat trung and congrats on the fish u caught very well done mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leatherjacket Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I believe the Hype! 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