wcurrall Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Fished Sat and Sun on the long weekend in and around port Stephens, launching from good old tea gardens. Started early sat by getting some live slimies and searching for bait balls inshore, along with 3000 others, with the slow trolled Slimies finally paying off around 11am with a solid hookup on a bait ball about 3km south of Broughton in 40m above a reef holding bait A quick but intense fight saw a female mahi mahi (could not find the bull😢) at 120cm and around 10-12 kg on board. Have caught mahi mahi else where this size but beat our port Stephens best by about 80cm haha, was definitely a surprise this close to Broughton Sunday the wind picked up, no game fish, but still managed a decent bag of blue spot Flatties, 11 between 45 and 60cm in close around 45m on cut baits. Very satisfying to get a decent feed this time of year with all the traffic. Bring on the marlin the next few weeks 🤞🤞🤞 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berleyguts Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Great stuff! I’ve been reading lots of reports of mahi-mahi and marlin in close. No need to go to the FAD! Looking good for my rec leave in a couple of weeks! What was the water temp! Good to see you found the flathead, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcurrall Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 8 hours ago, Berleyguts said: Great stuff! I’ve been reading lots of reports of mahi-mahi and marlin in close. No need to go to the FAD! Looking good for my rec leave in a couple of weeks! What was the water temp! Good to see you found the flathead, too! Water temp just above 23. Didn’t even bother trying the fad as apparently there were 40 odd boats there Saturday 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Good stuff fella's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankS Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 You done well and thanks for sharing. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Awesome! There’s seem to be plenty of fish to choose from at the moment. Good to see you got amongst them! cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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