sydney outside 16/9/12

fisholb · September 18, 2012

Sorry for the late report. I would like to thank my mate mick (hot bite) and dennis for taking me fishing on dennis' Riviera boat. Its a dream come true. Beautiful boat, excellent skipper and the best crew I ever come across...

Anyway, we left the marina around 6am. Got to the 1st marker around 7am. Caught a couple of morwong and a couple of Sargent's... move to another marker and caught a couple of flatties...move to another marker and same story...a couple of flatties...move to another spot and thats when we all had some fun with the flatties and jackets...triple hookups on tge flatties, double hookups on the jackets...we ended up with 15 flat ties up to the 60cm...9 jackets up to

45cm..2 morwong up to 50cm...the swell went up to around the 2m...winds to 20kph...we were back at the Marina around 2pm...all up it was the best fishing trip I had in 20yrs...btw...most flatties were caught on squid strip...the jackets on squid strip...Pilchard pieces and yakkas...prawns...the rig used was paternoster with 20lb trace and 8oz snapper sinker...lost around 100m 50lb braid...half a dozen sinkers...

davegroves68 · September 19, 2012

Sounds like a great day out. Well done.

Were the Leather Jackets out there in big numbers again? I don't mind catching a few as they are pretty good eating, but they do my head in with the amount of gear you lose.

Dave

fisholb · September 19, 2012

Yes mate...the jackets were plenty...were getting double hookups but most were biting us off on the way up...big ones too...

hotbite · September 20, 2012

Great to finally get you out Fisholb We had talked it up for awhile. No Snapper but as you say we got some cracker Flathead & some Jackets & a few Mowies. You are welcome anytime mate & hopefully we will break your Marlin duck this summer