finin Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Gday all, lovely day to be out on the water until the nor easter set in later in the morning. Not many boats at the ramp this morning. Anyway clear skies and the harbour had a light nor wester on it Looked up to the rocks at north head and noticed a few waves breaking but new outside would be fine. Headed out again to our spot again driving around for a while exploring a bit. Set up to begin and current was screaming at 1.5kn downhill. Water colour was green and cold at 17.8-18.3. Great we thought. Fished with pillies and prawns on the runout and in 5 min onto first fish. Now I dont know what I have but its putting up a fight. Colour is sighted in the green misery and its silver and bloody long, im thinking that is the most anorexic jewie I have ever seen. As it gets closer to the boat it aint a jewie but a bloody 1.2M long hairtail! Stunned at catching it, especially at the depth and location. The day was slow but rewarding, drift was quick and just made short drops to compensate. Plenty of good mowies again, snapper came on later in the day and found them on the sand with some flatties both tiger and bluespot. Called it a day around 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Wow a hairtail No way that's awesome Great little bag of fish mate I really want to try bottom bashing What kg rods and lb line do you use Cheers thefisherman6784 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydneyfisher12 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Great work on the hairtail mate that's a unusual catch for outside What depth do you fish I had a try at bottom bashing in the weekend and got none I think it was too shallow Cheers sydneyfisher12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Well done mate good result . Are the hair tail any good for eating ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Good work there finin, just goes to show that any fish is possible in any location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finin Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Depth was around 90m. The gear I use is a shimano tekota 500 loaded with 15kg braid onto 15-20kg mono leader. Use a 2 hook twisted dropper rig. Rod custom built 1.2m long 10-15kg snapper rod. What are they like to eat, IMHO dog gets them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paikea Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Nice Mowie, much better eating than the hairtail in my experience. This is the time of year for North Easters to come up around lunch time. Down at Ulladulla almost every boat is back in the Harbour around 11AM. No fun punching back into a strong wind. Cheers and thanks for sharing. Paikea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linc Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 90m? You were a fair way out then, I tried bashing the bottom in 40-50m on Saturday and could only find undersize flatties and snapper, might have to venture further out next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Hairtail off shore. That's a new one... seems we are getting more surprising catches lately. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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