njsconst Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) Went out with high hopes from Port Botany today. With a forecast of light winds and virtually no swell conditions looked perfect. For once the BOM/Windwilly/Seabreeze got it right conditions were better than good! It seemed the wider we went the calmer it got, at times it glassed out. Ran out to the two FADS off Botany Bay but there was no signs of any dollies. Didn't waste anytime and pushed on out to the shelf.Put the lures in and trolled NE past Browns for about 3hrs without a touch. Turned and pointed the bow south and trolled back to the Southern Canyons again without a touch. Checked out the Port Hacking FAD which was sitting dead upright, not even a hint of current running. As they say "No run No fun". The FAD was lifeless. Headed back to the ramp about 2:30pm with my tail between my legs. Not often I go duck eggs and not even turn a reel. On the upside the water was a beautiful blue and water varied between 22.9 - 23.5'C.Only heard two other boats off Sydney tag fish. Edited January 2, 2016 by njsconst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Unlucky mate. They must be all up here in PS! It's been going off the past few days! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scent Blazer Lures Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 couldn't agree more, no current and the fishing is usually slow and unproductive. We were out the other day off Sydney and there was absolutely no current and all we got was the one hit all dayconditions looked great in your photos though, it always worth a shot with conditions like that current is wide off Sydney ATM, hopefully it will start pushing in closer soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 We were down, in close off Wattamolla today and you should have seen the current racing from the north. It was screaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njsconst Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thankfully I'm on long service leave until mid February so I'll be putting in plenty of hours Marlin hunting ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thankfully I'm on long service leave until mid February so I'll be putting in plenty of hours Marlin hunting ? Well, you need to come up this way as they are on fire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyne_r Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 There was a very hot bite off Kiama, many boats dropping multiple fish, a few boats had double and triple hookups, a few good fish tagged and captured. We dropped a nice striped, but was a great day, never seen so much bait in one area, it was insane, bait balls everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishin4life Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 are they going off at PS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTROJAN Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) G'day We were one of the boats that got a stripe and also hooked a blue that jumped and threw the hooks after half an hour. Got the stripe around 9am in 100fth east of the 12 mile and the blue an hour or so later in 130fth west of browns. Edited January 4, 2016 by DTROJAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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