Midnight
01-04-2010, 10:41 PM
Gday,
Report with photos to follow tomorrow.
My Berty was found to be unservicable on Wednesday prior to the planned trip up to the Mooloolaba grounds for Thursday to try and get involved in the hot Sailfish bite that had been on since about Monday or Tuesday.
I was bummed to say the least!
One of my crew Dan, has a 4.5m Bluefin with a 60 Mercury tiller steer, asked was the weather suitable and was I keen to take his tinnie in place of my Bertram. I said hell yeah! Lets go get em!
So, we headed out from Mooloolaba to the 8 mile and jigged up some yakkas and then headed out to the pilchard school where the Sailies had been.
We decided to have a lure troll first up to see what was around and check out the bait on the sounder. We got a Black Marlin around 30kg on in the first 5 minutes of being there, right in the middle of the live baiters. The liitle bloke went off with a great run of jumps throught the middle of the fleet ( thanks fellas for moving out of the way!) and after a good show we got him to the boat and Dan made perfect tag shot to make him count. First Billfish for the year for me, as I normally do the wheel work while others crank em in. Also the first Black Marlin for Dan's boat the "Grim Reefer"
We set off again for a troll and got a double of good mac tuna.
We then thought we would get on the live baiting scene and within 5 mins of the first bait going down, Dan was onto a nice Sailfish. He put on a good show and was smoking line off at sunset drag. We got him tagged after good set of runs and released him in excellent condition.
The livies went down again, and just as we were getting a bit bored and talking about going for another troll, we got a great run and I locked him up to strike to have a great Sailfish going mad right at the back of the boat! I thought he was going to end up in the boat shortly after we got him on, with the first few jumps coming straight at us!
He was a good lively one, and my first ever Sailfish, and put on a great show!
We got him tagged and measured at 2170mm short length. A nice one in my opinion, and certainly a good performer. Anyway I was over the moon with him as my first Sailie!
Thanks for an awesome day on the "Grim Reefer" Dan, it sure beat sitting at home, moping around about my boat woes! hahaha
Thanks to all the boats on the bait school too for a good day. Everyone worked well together through the hook ups throught the middle of the fleet that I saw.
Good stuff!;D
Cheers,
Myles
Report with photos to follow tomorrow.
My Berty was found to be unservicable on Wednesday prior to the planned trip up to the Mooloolaba grounds for Thursday to try and get involved in the hot Sailfish bite that had been on since about Monday or Tuesday.
I was bummed to say the least!
One of my crew Dan, has a 4.5m Bluefin with a 60 Mercury tiller steer, asked was the weather suitable and was I keen to take his tinnie in place of my Bertram. I said hell yeah! Lets go get em!
So, we headed out from Mooloolaba to the 8 mile and jigged up some yakkas and then headed out to the pilchard school where the Sailies had been.
We decided to have a lure troll first up to see what was around and check out the bait on the sounder. We got a Black Marlin around 30kg on in the first 5 minutes of being there, right in the middle of the live baiters. The liitle bloke went off with a great run of jumps throught the middle of the fleet ( thanks fellas for moving out of the way!) and after a good show we got him to the boat and Dan made perfect tag shot to make him count. First Billfish for the year for me, as I normally do the wheel work while others crank em in. Also the first Black Marlin for Dan's boat the "Grim Reefer"
We set off again for a troll and got a double of good mac tuna.
We then thought we would get on the live baiting scene and within 5 mins of the first bait going down, Dan was onto a nice Sailfish. He put on a good show and was smoking line off at sunset drag. We got him tagged after good set of runs and released him in excellent condition.
The livies went down again, and just as we were getting a bit bored and talking about going for another troll, we got a great run and I locked him up to strike to have a great Sailfish going mad right at the back of the boat! I thought he was going to end up in the boat shortly after we got him on, with the first few jumps coming straight at us!
He was a good lively one, and my first ever Sailfish, and put on a great show!
We got him tagged and measured at 2170mm short length. A nice one in my opinion, and certainly a good performer. Anyway I was over the moon with him as my first Sailie!
Thanks for an awesome day on the "Grim Reefer" Dan, it sure beat sitting at home, moping around about my boat woes! hahaha
Thanks to all the boats on the bait school too for a good day. Everyone worked well together through the hook ups throught the middle of the fleet that I saw.
Good stuff!;D
Cheers,
Myles