Offshore last week – plenty of Dollies still about

[Scent Blazer Lures]

We got out last week for an arvo fish. Absolutely bucketing down around noon as we rounded the heads, eventually it started to clear up and we even got some sunshine later in the day, 4 seasons in day.

Went to The Peak and Plonk Hole fads first and got nothing there, coldest water there for a while 21.5 and it seemed really dead there, we didn’t see any jumping dollies.

Trolled NE towards 12 Mile then NE along the shelf and beyond, water temp rising along the way to as high as 23.5, a little east of 12 Mile in 22.5 we started picking up dollies. We got them here and there all the way to the outside of the shelf, then nothing beyond the shelf, we started picking them up again as we came back into the shelf.

Around 15 hook-ups in total, some really small, we dropped about as many as we landed, a few nice fish going around 5lb. Also a strike on a sinking lure, we were pulling in a Dollie, then I noticed the rod in the corner starting to slowly buckle over, I wound the reel and but it wouldn’t budge, it didn’t run fast but peeled off some line slowly for about 2-3 seconds before it became unstuck, not sure what it was but had some weight to it, it was on 37kg gear with the drag set really hard.

These lures did the trick for us; lure chains got most of our fish as per normal:

http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/1255/CatID/196/Lure_Chain_Ballyhoo__Bullet_Head.aspx

http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/1016/CatID/121/Pink_Mackerel__Mini_Pusher_Head.aspx

http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/ProdID/1154/CatID/126/Red__Black_Squid__Small_Smoker_Head.aspx

Good luck to anyone heading out over Easter, Monday looks good.

Peter

Edited April 5, 2015 by Scent Blazer Lures

[chocolate]

Good to see the fish are still out there Pete, Your reports are highly respected in my books Pete, Yeh i like that colour on that 2nd lure photo, Lost a lure in colour up at the South West Rocks a few years ago, Very good colour in my books. Anyway have a good Easter.

Pete, You don't give Easter eggs out with Lures inside do you, I still waiting LOL. Scent Blazer Lure [ kinda surprise ].