First trolling session 2014

[Scent Blazer Lures]

1st trolling session of 2014, Kingies, Dollies, Marlin Strike – Sydney Offshore

Hey Raiders, Happy New Year.

First game fishing session of 2014, 3-1-2014 and we're off to good start. We arrived at Sydney Heads around 3pm and as you might have guessed by now we don't get up early, we sleep in and fish afternoons.

Water was a little choppy and only a small swell. Nice blue water around 22 degrees was only about half a mile out, so we put our lures in. Our spread consisted of four 6 inch Scent Blazer Nano Lure chains and one larger 10 inch purple lure for a marlin or something that’s interested in a bigger lure. The lures chains have been working really well, they look like small bait fish schools and get the fish biting, so why change.

We trolled north east towards the Whale FAD, when we got there, there were 2 boats casting lures around it so we kept a wide berth and just kept trolling NE.

About 30 minutes later about half a mile from Manly Hydraulics we hooked up on nice Kingie, which went around 15-18lb. Kept trolling around the area and kept picking up kingies, all different sizes, 6lb, 4lb, 2lb and one small Dolphin Fish as well.

It went quiet for a little while before a sprinkler (Stripped Marlin) showed up behind of the one lure chains, we hooked up and it peeled about 200 metres of line off before settling down. Only 2 of us on-board so I left the rod in the holder and I cleared the gear to get ready to back down on it, by the time gear was cleared unfortunately it had thrown the hook, still its bloody exciting.

Just a tip, even if you are trying to target big fish I would always run a small lure somewhere in your spread. In the last few weeks every fish we kept had its stomach full of pilchards and small slimey mackerel, I am guessing the Marlin would be feeding on those baits at times as well. Quite often Marlin will take the smallest lure in the spread. Think about it, if you are hungry you going eat a big meal if you are not you will have a snack. You don’t know what each fish out there has just eaten, it could be full or famished.

We kept trolling a little while longer around the area then started trolling back towards Sydney Heads, we got 2 small dolphin fish on the way back. One was hooked only about 1 mile from Sydney Heads.

Have a successful 2014 of fishing and if you would like to try Scent Blazer Lures for yourself you can get a 5 lure rigged pack which is ideal for Dolphin Fish and Small Marlin for only $99.99.

Happy hook ups for 2014 Raiders!

Peter

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Leaving Sydney Harbour for afternoon trolling session.

Trolling lures we used. We’ve been running Scent Blazer trolling lure chains with great success.

They look like a small school of bait fish and the pelagic fish have been striking them like crazy.

Put pilchards inside the stinger lure of the trolling lure chain to make the stinger the most appetising of the 3 lures in the chain.

Nice Yellowtail kingfish for the first fish of the day.

Another nice kingie.

Kingie caught on Scent Blazer trolling lure chain.

Even the really small kingies couldn’t resist our Scent Blazer lures.

Caught a couple of Dolphin Fish during our trolling session as well,

only small but still fun to hook.

Edited January 5, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Scratchie]

Great report peter. I'm sure you've inspired a few people to get out there and have a go!

Cheers scratchie!!!

[tasksta]

Nice!

Dollies are thick at the moment. Did you pick up anything on the troll to manly FAD? How far past the FAD did you start hooking up?

Manly FAD is about my limit at the moment, found a heap of dollies in the area the other day but all were under. So keen to get my first legal they are an amazing fish.

Cheers

Paul

[Scent Blazer Lures]

Hey Paul, on our last 3 or 4 trolling sessions, the blue water has started about half mile from Sydney Heads so we put the lures in as soon as we hit that blue water. We have been catching dollies trolling anywhere along the way to the fads as well as around the fads. Generally we hook the bigger dollies near the fads but not directly on them, up to mile around them.

Most of the larger dollies we have caught over the years have not been near any fads. The biggest dolliie we got which went over 50lb we caught only a few miles east of Sydney Heads which wasn't near any fads and surprise, surprise it took the smallest lure in our spread.

Basically as soon as you hit the clear warm blue water, put your lures in and start trolling your way to the fads, that way you are covering all the water along the way. We have caught some nice dollies and even marlin on the way to the fads.

Actually the largest marlin we hooked off Sydney was almost exactly half way between the whale fad and the manly fad, it would have gone over 600-700lb.

Peter

Edited January 14, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Moonshine]

Can you post a link as to where to get one of those lure chains as I would like to give one a go.

Thanks Rick

[tasksta]

Awesome, thanks for sharing the info. Lets hope tomorrow is THE day.

[Scent Blazer Lures]

Can you post a link as to where to get one of those lure chains as I would like to give one a go.

Thanks Rick

Hi Rick,

We r selling the lure chains on our website www.scentblazer.com

Use this link:

http://www.scentblazer.com/ProductStore/tabid/292/CatID/196/RtID/1020/Default.aspx

We have been running 2-4 chains at any one time, we even got a marlin strike on one of them.

Good luck, let us know how you go.

peter

Edited January 29, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures