Sydney Offshore – Micro Sized Dolphin Fish and one free jumper

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Hey all, we went off shore last week for a quick afternoon trolling session. Did our usual route Whale Fad, Manly Hydraulics then we headed North East. We couldn’t find Manly Hydraulics again, it must drift a fair way off its mark at times.

Water was really blue and warm just 200 metres off North Head, so we put the lures straight out, the fish could be anywhere in that water. Ran a couple of our Scent Blazer trolling lure chains, a couple of bigger trolling lures and one small pink prototype lure which we are currently calling an “Atom”, it’s only about 3 inches long. We put pilchards and skipjack tuna in the bait chambers of the lures’, we got a skipjack on our last outing that we kept for bait.

We were sounding schools of bait the entire trip. Hooked a few a Dolphin fish, between the Whale and Manly Hydraulics on the lures chains, but they kept coming off, so we changed down to smaller trolling lures to try and get a better hook up.

I even cut the skirt off one of the lures to make it look smaller and I put a few mismatching beads inside and called it “The Franken Lure”, a weird looking thing. We finally ended up catching some Dolphin Fish, they were really small, 1lb or less.

We got around 6 hook-ups in the entire session and landed 3 small Dolphin Fish. 2 of them were caught on The Franken Lure. We also got another hook-up on the lure down rigged on the Troll Pro but it couldn’t break the rubber band off. That Dolphin Fish looked a little bit bigger. We got to use weaker rubber bands when we down rig on the camera J. We got excited when we saw a free jumper about 3 miles directly North from Manly Hydraulics around Long Reef Wide, it was about 500 metres in the front of boat. We trolled towards it but no hook-up, the Marlin in the area might have been full of small Dolphin Fish

One notable thing we found when we looked at our underwater camera footage this time. Only single Dolphin Fish were coming up on the spread. In the last month or so, there where big schools of Dolphin Fish showing up behind the spread. We also go some underwater footage of a massive school of what looks like some sort of small trigger fish (leatherjacket) while the boat was stopped to reel in a small Dollie. Some of Dolphin fish we have been catching in the last month are sometimes full of small trigger fish, maybe we should use leather jackets fillets inside the lures to match the hatch.

Does anyone know what kind of fish they are?

Anyway, if you want to try our lures go to www.scentblazer.com

Peter – SB Lures

Edited February 20, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

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Edited February 20, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

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Yeah m8 they are leather jackets.