Wide Of Jervis Bay

[Secho]

Just got back to Sydney from JB. We had been headed for Bermi but weren't happy with the forecasts so JB looked the better chance of getting out.

On Wed we left the ramp very early and headed wide, local reports were indicating that the fin are patchy and that small lures in red or purple seemed to be working better than cubing.

We found a big temp break just off the shelf where water rose from 16.5 to 18.9 degrees and trolled around it for hours. There were lots of birds about but not much showing on the sounder at all.

After a few hours we left the break and headed wider - ended up trolling to the 2100 fathom kink east of JB - here we picked up three albies and a striped tuna along the way but no fin.

Some friends of ours were further south of us, wide of Batemans and had an ordinary day too - trolled sunrise to sunset for little result.

Had another crack at it yesterday... got hit hard by a gale before lunch then after an hour or two in it the winds calmed down.. during the lull we decided to head wider again and by the time we got into a couple of thousand fathoms the wind punched back up and reminded us who was in charge - wasn't pretty.

Got back in last night to hear reports of Blue Fin being caught in big numbers further south of JB yesterday - wishing now we had stuck to our first plan!

All in all we trolled about 350km in 2 days for a few Albies.. towed home today with our tails between our legs.

That's fishing hey!

Cheers

Marty

[scaffsta]

Thats a shame mate for all your hard work hope you have a great run on your next trip & a much better result.

Cheers Steve.

[Secho]

Hey Marty,

Over what distance did the temperature break occur?1 NM/2NM?

Thanks

greg

It was pretty sharp - less than half a mile.

Where the two currents met the water stood up white capping in a long line along it - heaps of weed pushing along the middle of it, birds everywhere - bugger all to be found on it though.

Strange two days down there - I had pretty high hopes... we went looking for the break again the next day but it was nowhere to be found for miles around where it was the day before.

Lets hope Sydney turns it on soon - can't be too far way!

Cheers

[Lineclass]

we took 4 from a 5 way hook up yesterday off Ulladulla. Same story, lots of birds, none working. Beer and music until we noticed a tuna bird ducking his head 100m away as opposed to all the other cruising. A sharp turn to port and 20 seconds later mayhem!

All low 30's to low 40's, absolutely terrible trip home when the westerly picked up a bit earlier than the forecast I'd read.

Good day!

Dan