Belligero Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Hi All,With a good tide and moon Saturday night me and my mate couldn't resist launching the boat and trying our luck or the 50,000th time for a jewie.We launched at 4PM and headed straight over to box head for some livies. We did this last Saturday however with a swell of over 2m we could barely anchor let alone get live bait. This time is was slight different..SLIGHTLY. The swell was extremely low however the livies certainly were still playing hard to get.After much effort, cursing and praying I managed to catch two horse yakkas. Generally we can catch 20+ in 30 minutes!The decision was made due to the lack of bait to try our luck for bream as we didn't have enough livies to throw down. After some discussion we decided to try a spot that we have found to produce good size bream. After dodging all the fools anchored with no lights we got to our spot and were setup with and hour or so before the high tide.Around 30 minutes into our session my mates overhead combo start to scream. This is nothing unusual with this spot as you can get a lot of rubbish fish ie shovel nose, eels etc. As the fight continued with a couple of powerful headshakes and some positive and negative comments on what it could be we finally saw that very sort after colour...Silver!Once we found out what we was it was a mad rush to replace the net with the gaff. The fish was totally knackered by the time he hit the surface so the landing went smooth and quick.After this catch and after all the yaawhooing we tried for another hour and moved to a few spots before calling it a night.We didn't measure the fish however it was weighed in at 10.55kg gutted.Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishing steez Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Beautiful jewie mate what a great catch. Very envious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Very nice. will make some good fillets or cutlets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Oh yeah! What a great jew. Seems to be plenty about in the bays, rivers and estuaries ATM. Might have to go out and have a go myself! Well done fellas Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Squidy Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Haha, funny the way it works out. You spend thousands of hours chasing that damn big jew then the night you decide to target bream instead along she comes!!! Well done though guys, top top fish. Cheers, R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camo1808 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Wow what a solid effort and to obviously catch it on what i assume bream gear would of been in use. Solid effort and very jealous from a fellow coastie trying to bag one ; ( haha well done fellas. One to remember!!! Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisho.sid Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 If you dont mind me asking, what bait did the damage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonywardle Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Great looking fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 4myson Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Awesome job !!! It only took 50,000 trips to nail it ?? Just kidding , well done "A Fish of A Lifetime ".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belligero Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 If you dont mind me asking, what bait did the damage? Yakka strip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregh1 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Nice to see a good sized catch in BW. Ladders usually has plenty of yakkas. Great catch boys!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtBundy Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Nice fish. Well done Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayoox Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Awesome Jew. Well done guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfisherman Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 A very proud moment, well done. Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock&Beach Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Awesome fish guys well done Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flickin82 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Nice work! Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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