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Giant garfish - JB 22/2/20


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Made a day trip to Culburra to chase oversize garfish on saturday as the bite has been pretty hot down that way.

 

Left home at 4am and headed coastal. Had the boat in the water just after 6 at Crookhaven heads and headed straight for the mud to try and jig bait. Bait was a little bit patchy and when we would find it we couldn't get them to climb onto the jigs. The decision was made to stick a couple of smaller lures out in the hope of finding a little stripey or bonito to send back out while we made our way to the shallows to look for thicker bait. 

We managed two kings at 64cm trolling before losing another larger fish by pulling the hook.

Once at the shallows we were marking plenty of kings but they weren't the target for the day and the bait there also wouldn't play the game.

We set a spread of bigger lures and pushed towards the block and fad. Just south west of the fad we had a patch of sauries take flight and moments later pulled a 5.5kg stripey. He was a little bit large for what we wanted even though he had evidence of being hit near the tail by a marlin beak was we were bringing him to the boat.

We continued on our merry way not managing to find anything near the fad we pushed south to the drum canyon along the 60 fathom line. We marked very little bait until we got to the drum canyon. Once there we spent about an hour trying to get bait while boats hooked up around us left right and centre. When we finally did manage baits we sent them back out while walking around looking for patches of bait to pull up on.

We did managed one bite for the day. Unfortunately it appears as though the hook was caught by the very tip of the barb in the beak resulting in a straightened hook as soon as the fish started jumping.  

Unfortunately this was the only bite for us for the day and we rolled back into the yard at 10:30 saturday night....

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