Scent Blazer Lures Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Got out there late, which is normal for us, arrived at Sydney Heads around midday. Water was great in close 23.5 and really blue so we put the lures straight in figuring the Marlin could be anywhere. Sounded bait everywhere in close and saw big schools of Slimies between 4 -6 miles out. The plan was to troll about 5 miles east of Browns where the current was running at around 2-3 knots and troll along the edge of the current.Trolled pass the Fads on the way out, didn’t pick up anything on them at first with single lures, so we put a trusty lure chain out and did another pass, then we started to pick up fish on the chain. Got around 3 Dollies around The Peak Fad (which is currently about 1 mile south of where it should be). We kept the lure chain out and picked up another 2 small dollies on it on the way to Browns. Got 5 in total, none very big, 2 went just legal.About 2 miles east of Browns in 24.5, we got a hit on the shot gun, I was driving at the time and I didn’t see anything breach but figured it was a marlin, so I free spooled the lure for about 3 seconds, when I pushed the drag back it, it was hooked, a decent Blue. I took the boat up to 12 knots to set the hook and we were on.Took about an hour to land and release. He was decent, I couldn’t hold the rod at times, I was so tired, we kept having the put rod in the holder and I just wound it in low gear while backing up on it, I was so spent on that fish. Not sure how big it was but easily over 150kg.I inspected the other lures after we released it. 3 lures got hit, 2 other lures were scratched and the trace was billed on them. Not sure if it was same fish that billed all the lures or another fish in the spread that we didn’t see. We got the marlin on a Medium Sardine Slant Head, packed the lure with pilchards and yellowtail:http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/988/CatID/130/Sardine__Medium_Slant_Head.aspxThe Dollies were all caught on our Ballyhoo lure chain with pilchards inside the stinger lure:http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/1255/CatID/196/Lure_Chain_Ballyhoo__Bullet_Head.aspxGreat day out, conditions were great as well. Quite a few boats out there, heard on the radio a few other boats hooking up out there as well, mainly along the shelf or just east of it. A few boats parked on each of the Fads as well.Good luck to anyone heading out over the weekend.Peter Edited March 28, 2015 by Scent Blazer Lures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaffsta Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Nice one. Id say if theres blues about might be some fin about to in the current. Might have to go for a run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindenn94 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Awesome report amazing fish!! Congrats!! [emoji1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Good work Pete, I Will defiantly getting one of those Lure chains of you and can't wait to try up at South West Rocks and the fads, You seem to always come with the goods with those chains. Local lures for local conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reese Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 news report just said there is alot of cold water working its way round and head up nsw coast - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simda Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Thats so good, congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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