craigbutcher Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 (edited) HI Raiders, I had the opportunity to fish the whole weekend (no work, UNI or kids), so I decided to fish early Saturday morning, Saturday arvo and Sunday morning all offshore with the great weather! One issue, water was down from 24degrees the prior week, to 20.5 - 21! Bad sign! Spent a lot of time getting primo squid baits, up to 2 hours each session just chasing bait before fishing. After the live squid were in the bait tank, we shot out around the heads into some of the local KING HAUNTS. Ended up cracking a 12kg king, a heap around 10kg, some big Jews and a lone GROPER which slammed a squid bait in 30m of water!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good times! Butch HI Raiders, Edited March 25, 2013 by THE BUTCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdanger Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Weekend well spent. Top stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puppydawg Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 WHAT A TRIFECTA!!!!!!! WELL DONE MATE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 The return you get from your fishing is amazing! Those kings are awesome, so to that jewy!! Could you please leave some for the rest of us novices to catch! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbdshroom Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Quality fish! You get big fish everytime! I still remember your last post of that red you got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasskl Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great Haul you got there.And a cracker of a weekend for it too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djbazzab Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great haul of fish. Cant wait to hit the harbour now! Cheers, Baz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great catch there, very impressive. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nautica Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Nice Kings, I bet there would be some people zooming in on your gps in the background Looks like the water was like glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasksta Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 (edited) Mate your a gun! Wont ask where you were, but what method and depth did you get the kings? Few around lately but im only getting rats, lots and lots of rats. Cheers Edited March 25, 2013 by tasksta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw9635 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Great kingies! Excellent feed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonfishing Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Hi Butch; Well done mate, what a weekend you had! A sort of weekend that most of us could only dream of. You sure are know your onions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 What an amazing weekend! We're you fishing the same honey hole wash sesh? They are some cracking fish!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigbutcher Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Mate your a gun! Wont ask where you were, but what method and depth did you get the kings? Few around lately but im only getting rats, lots and lots of rats. Cheers HI Mate, Not very deep bud, around the 30m to 40m mark, hard reef. Yeh I feel your pain, we have plenty of those RAT session and they can be painful! Got no advice for your mate but to just stick at it till that RED LETTER DAY shows up! Butch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigbutcher Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 What an amazing weekend! We're you fishing the same honey hole wash sesh? They are some cracking fish!! G'day Rob, This was another spot mate. As the current was a south current Saturday we fished the south reefs which fire better on a south current. On sunday the current was trickling north, so we fished a spot in close which like the north current. It's all about the current for us as where we fish. Lots of spot fish really well on the south current but are dead on the north and vice versus! How's fishing mate? Butch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 G'day Rob, This was another spot mate. As the current was a south current Saturday we fished the south reefs which fire better on a south current. On sunday the current was trickling north, so we fished a spot in close which like the north current. It's all about the current for us as where we fish. Lots of spot fish really well on the south current but are dead on the north and vice versus! How's fishing mate? Butch Very interesting theory Butch! I've got a mate that says the same thing. I put it down to how much nutrients and food flows up or down depending on the location. Make sense as bait schools would follow, and so will the big boys. And an awesome haul of fish there!!! assume you got the kings on the down rigger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasksta Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 HI Mate, Not very deep bud, around the 30m to 40m mark, hard reef. Yeh I feel your pain, we have plenty of those RAT session and they can be painful! Got no advice for your mate but to just stick at it till that RED LETTER DAY shows up! Butch Cheers Butch. I will never complian catching rats but sure is nice to actually take some home. You want to see the look on my old mans face when i told him we had to keep throwing them back! Very very nice hoodies mate, keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigbutcher Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Very interesting theory Butch! I've got a mate that says the same thing. I put it down to how much nutrients and food flows up or down depending on the location. Make sense as bait schools would follow, and so will the big boys. And an awesome haul of fish there!!! assume you got the kings on the down rigger? Yeh it's very interesting bud, I never considered the effect of offshore current on fishing spots, but it does seem to have a profound effect! See you out there bra! Butch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Good fish there, and a good feed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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