Scalem
17-08-2011, 05:43 PM
It seems that the only way to escape the repeated badweather on weekends is to take a day off in the middle of the week. Since Dayoo has been helping me make my own powder coated jighead creations with glow in the dark colours, I have theorized that there must be a less expensive way to enjoy chasing king fish and amberjack with expensive knife jigs. Make no mistake, Knife jigs work well, I enjoy using them, but this desk jockey needed a lighter, less strenuous way of getting Kingfish to play ball. I can only pump knife jigs for 30mins at a time before taking a break. So my own Jigheads in 3 and 4oz bullet heads, ripped up the same way as knife jigs worked extreemly well!:o
So our sunshine state lined up a midweek public holiday with perfect weather. How good is that? Out through the south passage bar with Tim D as deckie and out to explore 80 meters of water by 7.15am when we arrived . It took a lot of searching what looked like a desert, and I had all but given up and was getting lazy with starting the boat again and again to check different areas that might hold fish. A few speckles on the sounder, then zoomed into the bottom and things got a little exciting with what appeared to be a school of fish. Tim gets slammed 1st,then Double hook-ups confirmed we were onto rat Kingies. Small by Kingie standards, but legal fish, we bagged out in around 90 mins.
Tims' best Kingy
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/TimsKing.jpg
My best for the day
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/RatKing.jpg
The only disappointment was being sharked on the only ambo that came to play, but that’s fishing!
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/sharked.jpg
I lost 1 Jighead to a snag, used only one Zman plastic and a white Zoom 7”. That’s more like the type of trip I enjoy when costs of tackle are next to nothing!
Nice day out
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/Kingyweather.jpg
Close up of the 4oz Tim was playing with. You certainly blooded the new Egrel mate!
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/Flurojig.jpg
The wind started to blow as predicted, so we bugged out for home around 1.30pm. What a top day!
Scalem
So our sunshine state lined up a midweek public holiday with perfect weather. How good is that? Out through the south passage bar with Tim D as deckie and out to explore 80 meters of water by 7.15am when we arrived . It took a lot of searching what looked like a desert, and I had all but given up and was getting lazy with starting the boat again and again to check different areas that might hold fish. A few speckles on the sounder, then zoomed into the bottom and things got a little exciting with what appeared to be a school of fish. Tim gets slammed 1st,then Double hook-ups confirmed we were onto rat Kingies. Small by Kingie standards, but legal fish, we bagged out in around 90 mins.
Tims' best Kingy
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/TimsKing.jpg
My best for the day
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/RatKing.jpg
The only disappointment was being sharked on the only ambo that came to play, but that’s fishing!
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/sharked.jpg
I lost 1 Jighead to a snag, used only one Zman plastic and a white Zoom 7”. That’s more like the type of trip I enjoy when costs of tackle are next to nothing!
Nice day out
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/Kingyweather.jpg
Close up of the 4oz Tim was playing with. You certainly blooded the new Egrel mate!
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp223/Scalem/Flurojig.jpg
The wind started to blow as predicted, so we bugged out for home around 1.30pm. What a top day!
Scalem