Sydney Offshore 15-12-2014

[Scent Blazer Lures]

We managed to get out there on Monday.

Charts showed a warm break north east about 40 miles out from Sydney, so we fanged it to the Bait Station and went NE from there. Water was green and full of small jelly blubbers. Around 15 miles NE of Bait Station we found water high as 27, but it was really green and still full of small jelly fish. There were large patches of red algae or red blooms along the surface. Not sure what the red blooms were, but they smelt pretty bad. Smelt like washed up rotting seaweed and it looked like tomato soup.

We saw a couple of basking Marlin near the red blooms along with heaps of bait schools rippling along the surface everywhere. The bait fish looked to be casually feeding on the surface and didn’t seem to be harassed by any predators. We spotted a few whales and dolphins out there as well, it was pretty lively but we didn’t manage to get any fish. Nor could we find any blue water, all we found was green all day.

At 5.30pm we fanged it back in and put the lures in about 5 miles out for a final shot at something. We managed to come across some kingies as a consolation prize. We got a hook-up on the lure on behind the camera which was a bonus. We also saw a couple of micro dollies around 12 inches long jumping around the Whale Fad, so it’s all good.

Good luck to anyone lucky enough to be heading out this weekend! There is some good temp breaks out there and I'm sure the water clarity will get better by the weekend.

Peter

Edited December 18, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

[chocolate]

Good on you thanks for the report Peter.

[bluerib]

Great report Peter.

I was at Long reef yesterday.

Huge amount of activity and lots of rat Kings still.

We got one good one at 50M mark drifting with lightly weight yakkas.

Most people slow trolling but despite all the fish on the sounder the bite was very light.

Definitely worth a shot on the weekend

[Scent Blazer Lures]

Great report Peter.

I was at Long reef yesterday.

Huge amount of activity and lots of rat Kings still.

We got one good one at 50M mark drifting with lightly weight yakkas.

Most people slow trolling but despite all the fish on the sounder the bite was very light.

Definitely worth a shot on the weekend

that's fishing they are not always on the bite, but at least you got one

hey I got call from a mate a little while ago, he got 2 marlin hook-ups around 2pm a little east of the Whale Fad. Both were hooked up and dancing on the line but unfortunately they threw the hook, they're out there and in close

Edited December 21, 2014 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Paddy454]

Hi Peter,

Just happy to say I caught my first Marlin (see post above "my first marlin") and it was on a medium Scent Blazer lure.

Regards,

Paddy.

[Scent Blazer Lures]

Hi Peter,

Just happy to say I caught my first Marlin (see post above "my first marlin") and it was on a medium Scent Blazer lure.

Regards,

Paddy.

Congratulations, excellent job hooking and landing it. Hey, if that fish measured 9ft I think that fish might be close to 150kg or more which is a damn good fish off Sydney

I also got an email from a customer in Newcastle yesterday who got his first marlin on one of our lures as well, so I am pretty pleased at the moment.

Great work!