awsome day off the goldie 15/8/11

[rosco1974]

had a day off today and couldn't find a deckie for my boat and with the forcast for today i booked a half day charter with fish the deep late yesterday arvo.i took my ususal bottom bouncing rod being a 10-15kg t curve matched to a 6500h saltist and a new floatline rod i picked up yesterday arvo an abu veritas 5-9kg matched with a stradic 5000 with 9kg whiplash line on it.i got on the boat and had a chat to the skip matt and deckie aj on what the plans where for the day,was told straight to the 42's for a hot trag bite them sort it from there,we departed and once outside the seaway we where greeted by 10-15knt winds a bit different to the 5-10 we where expecting . on the way ouit i said to matt i want to blood the new rod in a big way he said the 2nd spot i would get onto something to blood it with.when we got out to the 42's and it was an awsome hot bit with the trag with the boat bagging out in 40 minutes good size trag as well most 45cm or bigger.60 in total.i managed to pull my 5 plus help a few of the others fill there bag.think i got 12 all up;D,next stop was the 36's i still used my bottom rod for 10 minutes for bugger all then the skip puts a livie on my new rod and said float this down with a big grin on his face.so i did and 3/4 the way to the bottom and she loaded up,clear the lines was the call from the deckie to give me a crack at it.fort the fish for 10 minutes and got it to the boat was a mac tuna around the 6 kilo mark was stoked on the fish and the new rod.after this we tried a few spots for flatties and a lone tuskie for the box.we headed into a spot where the cobs have been got a few touches but no hookups.i got the 2nd last live on my new rod again and same story 3/4 the way to the bottom i hooked up again to another tuna this 1 going 7kg+ .i highly recommend this charter mob been with them 3 times 70451now for a feed every trip.pics are what i bought home for a feed taken at home.no pics of the tuna as didn't have a camera on board.
cheers rosco70450

[charlie09]

Well done Rosco. Bloody unbelievable tho. We went out yesterday and covered 92 km's for one legal bream (which was thrown back). We were using pillies, prawns, mullet flesh and squid and a few different rigs. All fresh baits. The prawns were the ones you buy from coles for human consumption. Couldnt loose a bait :'(

We tried fishing around some charter boats (sometimes within casting distance, oopps sorry guys) thinking that they know where the fish should be. To be fair to these guys they weren't catching much either :(

Had a real shocker!!:-?

[rosco1974]

yeah mate we where around 13 nm out or 20k so not that far out.another spot we tried we had 1 drop and loaded up with trag what were released then we moved.must of been the day for them to chew there heads off.all caught on pillies and whole squid
cheers rosco

[Platitudinus]

Hey Rosco;
Well done mate and I'm glad you got that new floater rod christened. Nice to hear the Trag are still there despite the bashing I give them regularly. Matt also has a secret Sampson fish mark not far from where you were but on a catch and release basis from now on for his regulars. Let me know when you are going out next and we can see whose arms stretch the most on the Sambos!
Cheers
Plato

[Bull]

Well done Rosco its always fun to be out there catching fish and you gave the new rod a solid workout.

Cheers Bull

[blaaahkey]

well done mate!!

We headed out on saturday morning out the seaway, terrible conditions but we managed to land a mac tuna around the 6kg mark. Released him to to see another day.
Headed back in after landing that fish to fish the canals. not much fun out there in the tinny when its like that lol

Blake

[rosco1974]

yeah plato was a good trip.will prob do a trip sometime on the september school holidays again with kieren.will let u know soon.the holidays start sat the 17th so it will be sometime that week.
bull1 yeah i give it a good workout alright but was good knowing it can handle solid fish