Terry Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 My mate Nick and I went out on Sunday morning. Jigged up half a dozen squid in middle harbour and then head out to North Head for a troll round to Manly. Not a sign of life, nothing marked on the sounder, nothing on the lures out the back. Saw Dean Hayes heading back inside which is a good (bad?) indicator. Persisted right round to Manly, wind swung to the North so fair bit of chop. Pulled the pin and headed back just inside North Head and put down the pick. Only had about 1.5 hours before we had to head in so got a burley trail going and got a couple of squid down, together with floating some pilchard back down the trail. Lots of little pickers for some time then my baitcaster gets hit hard whilst floating a piece of pilchard. Smooth drag (8kg main /20lb lead) getting a real work out, got some colour and size of the beast made us think we had a samson, turned out to be a huge blackback salmon, definately the biggest I had ever seen by a large margin. Got him to the boat and released to fight another day, fanstastic fight! About 10 minutes later Nick's Trinindad 30 goes bloody nuts and he has a fight on, this ones a kingie who didn't like the look of us when he popped up, he had us all round the boat. Landed and despatched him for dinner, he was a good 75cm. Time was up, released remaining two squid and went home. Good morning! Cheers, Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outnumbered Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 top stuff terry, glad to see someone got a keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest madsmc Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Sounds like a few good fish towards the end of the day there Terry. That sambo sounds like a fairly large fish, what would you say it was length wise? They seem to be pretty prolific up here in Newcastle at the moment. Hoping to get into a few this weekend. Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 Sounds like a few good fish towards the end of the day there Terry. That sambo sounds like a fairly large fish, what would you say it was length wise? They seem to be pretty prolific up here in Newcastle at the moment. Hoping to get into a few this weekend. Shane Hi Shane, I don't think he was longer than the kingie so maybe 60-70cm but you could tell he was an older fish, very broad across the shoulder and deep in the gill plate. Was a loner, didn't see or hook any others. We were fishing for kings so didn't really think about it at the time. Of course, no camera or ice, that's why we caught something!!! Cheers TD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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