Friday bluefin

[Grant 1874]

Hello raiders.

With the weather looking excellent for the weekend and having Friday off packed the boat and prepared to run wide of heatons. With reports of bluefin around we added my younger sister to the crew to see if we could get her onto her first sbt. We blasted out to about 800fathoms and set the spread and headed to heatons. Water looked good and was marking a fair bit of bait. We managed to pick up a couple of albies around the hill. Then we pushed out a bit wider to see if we could find anything but no luck. Then there was chatter on the radio of fish being caught around heatons, so turned to boat and began trolling towards it again. We could just see some boats on the horizon when we marked the bluefin on the sounder and sure enough the long rigger and shot gun went off.

We managed to land both fish one was 45kg and the other was around 35. Let the smaller fish go and kept one for the family.

The younger sister manage to landed one as well and she was stoked.

Bite wasn't until late in the afternoon though.

Fish Saturday as well and what a changed, covered plenty of ground and burnt a lot of fuel for nothing. Not even an albie. Weather for the weekend coming is looking crap so looks like we will have to wait before we can get out again.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers Grant

[boattart]

Nice work Grant. We managed one around the same size from a double Friday but you have to cover lots of miles. We covered over 160 miles

Edited July 15, 2013 by boattart

[mr.e.p.d]

Good work grant when I get the word off JB I will give you a call and well go out in convoy. We will probably look at getting a plane up if they come in closer, have to wait and see. The more the people we get in the better chance well have.. Happy b day for yesterday, a mega jumbo would have been a great present but maybe next time ...... Cheers Evan

[FFM]

Nice work, hopefully the weather improves,,

[Overdraft]

Well done great result !!

I'd be keen to get involved in the convoy off jb if the fish turn up!!

[paul fishfeeder]

Well done Grant,u guys seem to put in and reep the rewards.

[tswiggs]

That is a very very nice fish! I am truely jealous.

[duckegg]

Grant well done good to see you got amonst em. I should have taken a spoon full and gone east with Hammer n tongs on Thursday.

Johno

[plankton]

You did well mate. We did miles and miles plus a few more last Friday for only one. Few and far between so lucky result for you!

[Dangas]

Well done mate. I was out there with you at Heatons on Friday too but decided to head back in to browns as it was getting late and missed out on the bite. Spewing when we started hearing boats hooked up on the radio.

[Scratchie]

Magic! Well done grant! Hope the sis caught the smaller one! Lol.

Cheers scratchie!!!

[erroll]

Excellent result Grant. Sounds like we missed the action by a day. That's fishing!

[roosterman]

very nice well done

[Fish-On]

Very nice fish; still itching to get my first BFT!