jackson4300
29-01-2007, 02:15 PM
Thursday arvo the call was made to head down the coast further then we generally do to tweed, on Friday.
Had to plan trip a bit differently as the hour difference from going into NSW, but all worked out well got our licenses and were off.
First sign the day was looking good, couldn't park the car and trailer within a 10 minute walk of the ramp.
Headed over the bar, bar what bar, the bar was flatter then outside :o
Got out and started a toll with 1 skirt as we had to rig up some others that had just been purchased.
Trolled out to wards Fido reef which the out riggers on, 4 lines in the water and the teaser in hope of some nice hoo or a marlin. Trolled all the way out to 9 mile and got a nice little yellow fin and then a couple of Mach tuna(still a bit iffy if they were, my thought they were blue fin, no pics of them but had brilliant blue on the top and their coloring wasn't the same as a normal mac.)
Decided to have a drift, current was horrendous, if u got to the bottom was like a trampoline, your rig would bounce straight back up and would be lucky to get the bottom again on that drop :-[
After half an hour of that trolling was the call, trolled over the top of the 9 mile and around it to get a nice 12-14kg yellow fin and 4 Mach tuna (had a double hook-up) and a little dogtooth (first one). Only had 2 rods out trolling as well :)
And that was all for the day apart from a little squire (38 cm) which was picked up on a drift over Fido reef. Saw schools of dollies as well, didn't want anything to do with us or any of our lures or bait though :-/
Used bubble trails when we trolled, only 2 lures got hit all day, a pink colored skirt with a rubber head and the other one was a rainbow colored skirt with a lot of sparkles on it, also rubber head.
Little yellow fin went 6kg, big yellow fin 12-14kg and all the Machs were between 4 -7kg no pics of them though, in the second photo inside the black box is a bloody big hoo carcass, a few good carcasses at the ramp, and a few stupid kids swimming with their dog.....
Had to plan trip a bit differently as the hour difference from going into NSW, but all worked out well got our licenses and were off.
First sign the day was looking good, couldn't park the car and trailer within a 10 minute walk of the ramp.
Headed over the bar, bar what bar, the bar was flatter then outside :o
Got out and started a toll with 1 skirt as we had to rig up some others that had just been purchased.
Trolled out to wards Fido reef which the out riggers on, 4 lines in the water and the teaser in hope of some nice hoo or a marlin. Trolled all the way out to 9 mile and got a nice little yellow fin and then a couple of Mach tuna(still a bit iffy if they were, my thought they were blue fin, no pics of them but had brilliant blue on the top and their coloring wasn't the same as a normal mac.)
Decided to have a drift, current was horrendous, if u got to the bottom was like a trampoline, your rig would bounce straight back up and would be lucky to get the bottom again on that drop :-[
After half an hour of that trolling was the call, trolled over the top of the 9 mile and around it to get a nice 12-14kg yellow fin and 4 Mach tuna (had a double hook-up) and a little dogtooth (first one). Only had 2 rods out trolling as well :)
And that was all for the day apart from a little squire (38 cm) which was picked up on a drift over Fido reef. Saw schools of dollies as well, didn't want anything to do with us or any of our lures or bait though :-/
Used bubble trails when we trolled, only 2 lures got hit all day, a pink colored skirt with a rubber head and the other one was a rainbow colored skirt with a lot of sparkles on it, also rubber head.
Little yellow fin went 6kg, big yellow fin 12-14kg and all the Machs were between 4 -7kg no pics of them though, in the second photo inside the black box is a bloody big hoo carcass, a few good carcasses at the ramp, and a few stupid kids swimming with their dog.....