thefisherman6784 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 G'day raiders Headed out on Saturday with Seamus on the harbour but unfortunately, not much to report about... Anyway, early start up at 5:30, gathered the gear and off we went Got out there straight to south head for squid, went outside to a spot that looked very squiddy but got none there, so quickly stopped at a close by reef for a quick jig with very good marks showing on the sounder and heaps of bait, I hooked up once on a 200g knife jig but didn't stick, decided to troll back in because of seeing the amount of bait with fish busting up and birds diving but nothing, so decided to go to the regular spots in the harbour for squid, well, before catching a squid, Seamus hooks a salmon! But doesn't land it Moved to another spot and after about 1 hour, I finally landed one, then another, things were looking good but for the next hour didn't get any, got a message from mike telling us to come over to a regular spot of his and we were marking good but both mike and us couldn't get them to take our baits/lures so again we moved back for squid, for the next 2hours landing 1 squid so 4 hours of squidding resulted in 3 squid Went to a marker and began downrigging and, in about 5mins, lost 4 hours of work!! We lost both of our small squid so dropped down a frozen squid and bring straight back up a tailor, so waisted our squid on tailor Then moved to one of our mates spot and was marking well so we set the downrigger with the big squid and while downrigging, I was using a jig and hooked up but lost them then the downrigger pops and we bring up the whole squid, set again, pops out and the head is gone Stripped it up and set a big strip on the downrigger and after 10mins it's pops out and the rod buckles, I jump on the rod and after a great fight, bring up a nice fat 66cm king Long story short, that was it for the rest of the day, but when we gutted this fish, we found the whole head of the big squid that got taken plus another whole head!! Cheers Gianni Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydneyfisher12 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 hard work but good to finally get a king inside the harbour it least we know where they're holding. hopefully next time we get some more cheers sydneyfisher12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Well done Gianni, It can be a real bummer when you lose the hard earned squid to the pickers... The jackets seem to be in plague proportions around some of the markers at the moment. Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryder Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Tough going. But persistance paid off. Well done guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike2153 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 You guys are better and getting green eyes than me haha. Keep trying that spot I showed you they turn up there and generally you have the spot to yourself. Just drive around and try and sound them up for 5 minutes or so if they are there you will see them pretty quickly. Keep it to yourselves but. Good work you guys are consistently getting legals now, I got a legal after I saw you guys inside middle harbour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike2153 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Here is what I was sounding up when you guys showed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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