New Year's Day

[australianslug]

Sometimes things just line up and for us New Year's Day was one of those days. Good weather, a good crew with slight hang overs and a leave pass to boot. Left Pittwater and headed to Bait Station. Conditions were awesome and at 9am all mayhem broke loose. First rod went off, then the second, then the third. I figured we had run over a school of small tuna until I realised that tuna don't jump three feet in the air, have big sword like thingies on their nose and are 50kg plus! Quickly got the teasers in and started to wind the four lure in......and another fish smacked that 15ft from the boat! Hectic. I'm still not sure how it all went down, though with three of us on board we had a chance of getting one or two to the boat. The one that hit the lure being wound in quickly 'spat' the hook, another got busted off when another fish jumped over the line, then that fish had the hook pull. We had one fish on that was now 200m from the boat and screaming off 24kg. Gave the rod to a mate who was yet to catch one and we had a fish that did everything in our favour. Had it to the boat in about 20-25minutes and on deck for a few photos before being released. We were all stoked and have got some good phone footage as well. Pretty sure it was the first fish landed for 2016 for sydney which put a cherry on top as well!

Continued to fish until just after lunch (due to other commitments) and saw a few free jumpers, a sun fish and some pilot whales....but no more fish in the spread. An awesome day on the water and if you heard some over happy dudes on 21 that day, that was us!

Edited January 2, 2016 by australianslug

[fishin4life]

good work guys

how many fathoms were u in when u hooked up???

[Scent Blazer Lures]

nice one, hey what type of boat do you guys have?

Edited January 3, 2016 by Scent Blazer Lures

[australianslug]

Hey guys, we were in 78 fathoms when we got the bite and the temp 22.6 degrees. Within an hour the temp rose to 23.5 in the same area as the warm current pushed in. The boat is a 25ft Bertram (runabout version) - it's a rare boat but was easy to justify to the mrs (aka the boss) as a family day boat! Here is a photo of her on a recent family day trip.

[Scent Blazer Lures]

nice boat, yeah they are good all rounders

Edited January 3, 2016 by Scent Blazer Lures

[Mike2103]

Nice one slugoes