fisho.sid Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Hi All A solo mission, i launched the boat at apple tree bay by 4pm. First stop was to find some bait, found a nice quiet spot and saw a bunch of garfish, quite finicky to catch but ended up with about 1/2 a dozen in the live well. Tried to find squid amongst them but no avail. I never actually used gars for bait but heard it was great. Hearing of the large swells, i didnt want to head out too far so sussed out Flint and steel and sent out 3 gars and an old squid. Nothing touched the gars, but the squid brought up 3 small port jacksons and 1 small bream. By about 7pm i headed back to pick up a mate for night sesh. Went for squid again and this time pulled in about a dozen lollipop size arrows around cowan creek and thought i'll downrigg one for a bit.. unfortunately no touch. So arrived at Juno point shortly after and now its around 9pm with the tide moving out so i know conditions for jewfish according to theories is not quite right. So there were about 4 boats around so it seemed like a good sign, and i send 4 live squid down. What happened really disgusted me! I went to check on one live squid and it was covered in sea lice ?? (these maggot looking things which grossed me out), was wriggling and eating the poor squid. I didnt take a photo as i was more interested in getting rid of it then take photos....As soon as i lifted out of the water they all seemed to disappear in the crevice of the squid or just dropped into the water. I just cut the line off, i cant deal with that. And another squid which i suspected got devoured by the same king of things, just left me with the cartilage. So these are quite hungry little things! The other 2 squid were normal but untouched. No jews, no bites, no woot woot from the other boats either which only means they didnt catch too...... Will try next time but can someone tell me what these white maggot things are??
Jamestown Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 You missed the tide change I would have left my mate at the ramp Jewfish are about timing not time on the water
fisho.sid Posted February 2, 2015 Author Posted February 2, 2015 Yeah i realised it wasnt an optimal period. My readings have indicated best times is at the change of tide from high?
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