Marlin Hook-ups and small Dollies on Tuesday

[Scent Blazer Lures]

We got to 12 Mile around midday and blew an engine almost straight away, but conditions were great, so driving around at 8 knots on one engine was no big deal, less noise, less wash and a cheaper fuel bill J

We trolled between the 12 Mile and east of Browns, good water everywhere. On the radio boats were calling in Marlin strikes galore all afternoon, mainly around the Peak.

We managed to hook 2 marlin about 2NM east of Browns, there was sudsy current line out there that we trolled along. Unfortunately we couldn’t get either one to stick, got a bit of GoPro footage of the first hook-up.

Other than that we got small Dollie hook-ups all arvo. Only one Dollie was legal, a little over 60cm. The rest we’re really small all around a foot and plenty of them, there were times when it looked like a whole school was chasing the boat with hundreds of them leaping behind the spread. Got one small Dollie late in the arvo on a 12 inch lure and I swear the lure was bigger.

All in all a great day out and congrats to anyone who landed a Beakie J

http://youtu.be/2KEyJHz2jh0

Peter

Edited January 9, 2015 by Scent Blazer Lures

[MV Sunray]

Shame about your motor. Cheers for the report!

[Paikea]

Great possie for the Go-Pro, top pics of the hookup.

Cheers

Paikea

[Number1fisher]

We had pretty similar days!!! We also blew a motor but didnt have another unfortunately. But we caught abou 50 undersize dollies!!! We saw them following the bait up so we started curbing with some pillies then used unweighted bait. All fish caught were between 50-65cm