fisholb Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Hi all spoke to my bff late sat night and decided to hit the bay to test his new daiwa saltiga rod and my new Saragossa 8000sw the forecast was not good at all for Sunday 3m swell with over 30kph winds plus 40% showers got to the ramp around 8am and the car park was empty only half a dozen trailers not looking good at all had a quick look and the water was choppy and the wind was blowing around 20kph cant see any other boat in the water at all anyway still decided to have a look and see if we can handle the conditions plan a was to catch some livebait and try the kingy spot got to the bait spot and was surprise to see a 3m tinny with two blokes so we anchored near the other boat and started to burley got around half a dozen yakkas and half a dozen bream just around the 20cm mark that went back to grow more with 6 yakkas in the tank decided to check the kingy spot and see if it’s fishable passed mollipoint and there was not a single boat in sight got to the kingy spot and the swell is more than 2m took a while to anchor and setout two livebait Saw around a dozen surfers nearby and a lone rocks fisho with his wife and son after about half hour the anchor came off so decided to move back to safer grounds which was plan b put two yakkas on float and started to burley It didn’t take long until we got a kingy on board the boat The kingy took the chicken fillet on a 10lb trace with size 4 circle hook the kingy measured 50cm so back it went to grew more the live yakkas went off and after about 5mins we got a very fat salmon on the boat my bff finally christened his daiwa rod hoping for a hoody but the salmon fought hard and did a couple of jumps and a couple of runs which was awesome to see but no match for the rod for the next couple of hours we landed 4 salmon 5 kingys up to 60cm a dozen slimys and half dozen yakkas wind started to blow harder so decided to pack up around 3pm it was a bit rough heading back to the ramp with plenty of potholes all the way it was a good day even though the conditions were not so ideal hoping the kingys will be all legal by the end of next month thanks for reading 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Some fine fish well done top report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Thanks for the report. Did you get the salmon inside our outside the bay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 10 hours ago, kingie chaser said: Thanks for the report. Did you get the salmon inside our outside the bay? Inside the bay mate off mollipt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 11 hours ago, masterfisho7 said: Some fine fish well done top report Thanks mate planning to hit your local spot during Easter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 A few nice fish, better than nothing at all. Wind and swell dropping so can only get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Yowie said: A few nice fish, better than nothing at all. Wind and swell dropping so can only get better. Thanks mate hoping to hit the bay this coming weekend again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 5 hours ago, fisholb said: Inside the bay mate off mollipt Sweet, Im after a salmon for my next so called 'poor mans fish' cooking/eating challenge. Got one in the same area a few years ago & it was a nice fish, though it was a nice king the way it pulled. I'll have to find the picture, recon it wat around 3kg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 6 hours ago, kingie chaser said: Sweet, Im after a salmon for my next so called 'poor mans fish' cooking/eating challenge. Got one in the same area a few years ago & it was a nice fish, though it was a nice king the way it pulled. I'll have to find the picture, recon it wat around 3kg? We’ve been catching salmon lately on livebait around molli pt salmon is an excellent sports fish they go really hard like the kingys and you can keep them all the time for a feed caught one on my daiwa 2000 combo and took awhile to bring it in on 10lb size 4 circle hook I need to use at least 20lb trace next time we go fishing to decrease the bust offs the salmon we caught were around the 2-3kg the kids love eating salmon fillets just pan fried 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 (edited) This is the one I caught a long time ago, if I had of been able to measure it properly is probably close to 60cm at the fork which on the calculator comes in at approx. 3.5kg. Went back so might me 6kg by now 😀 Date stamp on the pic is 9/5/2012, boy time flies 😅 On my next outing im definitely going to be getting some livies so hopefully this will get me into one of these or a King Edited February 26, 2019 by kingie chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisholb Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 2 hours ago, kingie chaser said: This is the one I caught a long time ago, if I had of been able to measure it properly is probably close to 60cm at the fork which on the calculator comes in at approx. 3.5kg. Went back so might me 6kg by now 😀 Date stamp on the pic is 9/5/2012, boy time flies 😅 On my next outing im definitely going to be getting some livies so hopefully this will get me into one of these or a King Good luck mate always better if you can catch livebait we always make sure we got livebait just in case we get lucky with a hoody one day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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