PB Dollie

[marto78]

Caught Sunday about 90km off 1770 on a Tyrnos 8 with 20 pound braid on a camo coloured plastic thingy with a 3/8 jig head and 4/0 hook.

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18kg, 150 long and a lot tastier then I thought it would be.

Cheers,

Marto

[cobiaman]

Well done mate, terrible conditions...

[outwide1]

Nice fish Marto,they go hard too.Did he come cruising past the boat?
We have had them come up to the boat and caught them with a pre rigged plastic on light gear a couple of times last year off DI.
Awesome colours when there all lit up.
How did you go with the reef fish?
Mick.

[nigelr]

Fanastic fish and great conditions! Looks like a very good time on the water!

[TREVELLY]

Conditions that good and great fish on the chew - the stars aligned - thanks for sharing

[marto78]

Nice fish Marto,they go hard too.Did he come cruising past the boat?
We have had them come up to the boat and caught them with a pre rigged plastic on light gear a couple of times last year off DI.
Awesome colours when there all lit up.
How did you go with the reef fish?
Mick.

We got a few trout, lippers and job fish but spent most of the weekends 350km's searching in the 60-90m region east of Boult and upto Sykes. We did find a few likely red spots but they were either just under or not on the chew and would quite often disappear after one or two drifts.

[vertico]

looks like some good conditions :P

[Horse]

That would have been fun on the light outfit. Its a nice part of the world

[FisHard]

Class fish- well done!
You'd want a few rewards for that much hunting around!
Here's hoping this SE blow coming through, stirs up a few fish.

[marto78]

Cheers for all the replies.

[FisHard]

heres a question for all you red hunters- whilst you are searching all over the ocean for those little isolated bumps holding those tasty treats, do you ever troll a lure or 2? if you travel 100s of ks at 4-6 kts, glued to the sounder, theres got to be a golden opportunity to pickup fish on the troll like this cracker dolly. does anyone do it?
cheers

[marto78]

heres a question for all you red hunters- whilst you are searching all over the ocean for those little isolated bumps holding those tasty treats, do you ever troll a lure or 2? if you travel 100s of ks at 4-6 kts, glued to the sounder, theres got to be a golden opportunity to pickup fish on the troll like this cracker dolly. does anyone do it?
cheers

When we search we usually pick a spot on the gps or try and take a bit of a different route to a mark we already have but usually sit on 15 or 16 knots and have a beer while watching the sounder and listening to the stereo. Trolling a skirt or something at that speed is probably not out of the question but I could not be bothered to tell you the truth.

[vertico]

i search for reds at around 25-35km/hr way too fast for trolling unless you wanna spend some time towing hexheads or something

[FisHard]

Ah, I thought you would be sounding around a lot slower. Yeah it would be a pain trying to make lures handle that sort of speed. There we go- my question answered :)