26 May 2015

[duckegg]

Dear All

As promised went for a look yesterday. Got out to Browns yesterday by 7.30 am conditions were worse than forecast and it was quite choppy with wind of about 12-13 knots. Managed to get bottom albeit not straight up and down lost one lot of baits with no hookup. After that the only thing we hooked up was the bottom. All in all seemed pretty quiet out there and none of the other boats seemed to be getting much either.

Pulled stumps at 10.30am and set out our spread of mainly tuna lures and headed south, then east and then back towards Browns and over the shelf. Picked up 2 legal dollies and a nice stripey but other than that nada, The Peak was pretty quiet as well.

Johno out

[Scent Blazer Lures]

bummer about the bottom fish, its long way to go down to pull up an empty hook, we tried this last year and worked for us. We put a bait chamber in front of the hook which we filled with pillies, squid and a glow stick so even if small fish eat the bait off the hook the chamber acts like a baited, lit up lure which can still catch fish. We got blue eye and gemmies on those rigs last year even without putting bait on the hook, just having bait and a glow stick in the chamber. It's basically insurance.

you got a few dollies and tuna, its still ok I'd be happy with that

Edited May 27, 2015 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Paikea]

Like the look of those lures. I bet the Flathead would jump all over them.

Where do you get them?

Cheers

Paikea

[Scent Blazer Lures]

Like the look of those lures. I bet the Flathead would jump all over them.

Where do you get them?

Cheers

Paikea

yeah they work, we put a sinker, bait (pillies), a glow stick inside the chamber and tie a treble on bottom with dropper rig above it, we have caught flatties, bream, yellowtail all sorts of stuff on it

we also tested the chamber by itself against some of the most popular trolling lures, we just rig the chamber with a hook, no skirt and put pillies inside, then run them side by side a few metres apart. The bait chamber with pillies inside won every time by a lot. Usually the skirted lures would catch nothing and the chamber rig with pillies catches 3 - 4 dollies.and a few stripies. That suggests to me the trigger for the fish to bite is more driven by the bait rather the lure itself because the skirted lures definitely looked more like a fish and swam better than the bait chamber rig.

We caught the tailor on lures with pillies inside when we were anchored up in harbour, the lure wasn't even moving and it still got taken.

the flattie we in the photo we caught at night with pillies and a glow stick in the chamber

you can get them here if want to try them, I'd use the minis they are smallest

http://www.scentblazer.com/Products/tabid/292/CatID/143/RtID/449/Default.aspx#BuyNow

Edited May 27, 2015 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Paikea]

Priced in $USD?

Where are you guys located?

Cheers

Paikea