Yowie Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) Pumped some nippers yesterday so I could have an early fish. Drifted the sand flats in Gunnamatta bay at first light on the horizon, for the 3 bream and 1 whiting. Once there was just enough light to see, the fish stopped biting, so I packed up and headed to Maianbar flats and further towards South West Arm, for no bites other than little whiting. Near the mouth of South West Arm, in shallow water, the trevally grabbed a nipper, no mucking about, it just took off. When the line did not stop, I started the motor and followed the fish through the channel and back over the flats again. Eventually into the net, the hook fell out, a quick photo and back into the drink to terrorise some other whiting fisherman. Trevally do like feeding in the shallow water at times. 6 pound mono on a light rod and reel. (don't know what happened with the photo, it won't sit the right way up for me) I saw a couple of tailor kicking about in the South West Arm, so tried out a lure for a while and managed one, then they started kicking about. The fish popped up in different places, so it was a matter of following the schools about. Then some frigates turned up, they followed the lure many times for no hits, so I downsized to a 7 gram metal slice. Eventually hooked one, then a tailor bit off the lure a few casts later. I headed up the middle of the Arm to where some fish were kicking about, then a school of baitfish were under attack just out from the boat, and it was on. Dozens of frigates into the attack, plus tailor and one good salmon that I hooked but it jumped and spat out the lure. Caught a few tailor there, rat kingies were following the hooked tailor, tailor spitting out the lure as well, another frigate on the lure then that small lure chewed off again. The frigates were tearing up the schools of anchovies, and as they hit an anchovie, the scales fell off and other frigates were attacking the sinking scales right beside the boat. Most frigates were of the size that I landed, not big, but a couple of bigger ones there as well. Gear was a whippy rod with 9 pound mono and small pilchard like lures. The fish slowed down, it was hot with no breeze, so I headed home. Kept the fish as I have a few friends that wanted a feed, plus a few feeds for the family and me. The tailor were chunky, the heaviest one weighing 2 pound, and they fought hard. Edited February 18, 2015 by yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtBundy Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Sounds like an awesome way to spend a weekday morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveflies Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 What a great morning! Lovely bag of fish there and lots of good eating. I was down at Wally's Wharf having a go for luderick and only managed a couple of undersize models. Weather was great to be out fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchie18092 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Sounds like a top morning on the water. Very solid trev - pull like freight trains at that size! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaClH2OK9 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Another full bag. Nice work Yowie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDory Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Nice catch Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab1 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Fantastic effort mate!Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Yowie, does your wife ever get sick of eating fish? You've got a 3 course meal there mate. Nice work yet again cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busy-livin Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 You Always clean up mate, I saw plenty of rat kings on the weekend but didn't bother chasing as the boat traffic wasn't helping any fishos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krispy ! Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Welldone yowie the frigates have turned up I caught over 20 today in the harbour on metals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toboggi Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 ooh nice size trevally - so jealous...havent been fishing for awhile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) Yowie, does your wife ever get sick of eating fish? You've got a 3 course meal there mate. Nice work yet again cheers scratchie!!! YES. She's lucky I only fish once a week Shared the fish around to 5 lots of family and friends, so nothing wasted. The frigates were salted for bait. Edited February 18, 2015 by yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) Welldone yowie the frigates have turned up I caught over 20 today in the harbour on metals Good work Krispy. The frigates have just turned up in the Port as well. They followed up my larger lure many times, but when I changed to a small one, which gave me a hook up, the tailor were straight on to it and chewed them off. Too many tailor in the feeding frenzy, some of the anchovies were jumping 2 feet out of the water trying to escape being eaten. It was a feeding frenzy just out from the boat, lasted non-stop for 10 minutes or more. Frigates, tailor, salmon, rat sized kingies. A couple of fishos in kayaks pulled out a few as well, and one of them yelled out that a BIG kingie was swimming under his kayak. Edited February 18, 2015 by yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rigga Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 well down yowie, i was in the hacking yesterday aswell, just went squidding instead of fishing ended up with 12 biggest hood was 28cm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Squidy Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Great work Yowie, always fantastic days when the fish are busting up like that. R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbdshroom Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Well done Yowie. Nice bag of fresh fish and a stonker trev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Well done Yowie. Nice bag of fresh fish and a stonker trev. Thankyou, the trev took off like a rocket. The reel just kept buzzing, he was not stopping so I motored after him. The line picked up lumps of weed along the way so I had to steer the boat (elbow on the tiller) while holding the rod and removing the lumps of weed from the line as well. Not easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I think its time the swordfisherman had a re-visit of the Hacking with results like that...well done and I am in need of some nice bait for a few jewfish runs off the beach The frigates would make a good bait off the beaches. The kayak fisho said he saw a big kingie under his kayak. A live frigate dropped underneath the thrashing fish might produce one of those big kingies. Good luck if you give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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