Celebrating our Wedding Anniversary in the Trench!

[liberty]

Our first Black on board and my wife's first bill! #You got to be happy when she wants to spend our Wedding Anniversary offshore!

We dropped another black earlier - but that was my mistake.

[liberty]

A better shot of the fish ...

[liberty]

An earlier that day ... Ooglie74 and the Sea Dog crew off the Trench.

[ooglie74]

Cheers for that pic Nige.What time did you get the black we had a black have a shot at each flat line and missed then both hooks where razor sharp oh well thats fishing.
Also got a 10kg wahoo at hutchies bout 1ish at hutchies.Will post the pics of you tommorrow when a get my mates camera.

[liberty]

What time did you get the black

3:59:30pm - exactly 30 seconds before our second fallback this-can't-get-moved-again deadline ... ;D


we had a black have a shot at each flat line and missed then both hooks where razor sharp oh well thats fishing. Also got a 10kg wahoo at hutchies bout 1ish at hutchies.

Tough luck on the blacks. I have changed my hooks to teflons. They're sharper, thinner and teflon coated and seem to penetrate easier. They're also easier to extract and damage the fish less. You can't resharpen them, but I seem to lose them before that's an issue ...

Well done on the Hoo! I didnt see any sign of Hoo for the whole day.

[Smailesy]

happy anniversary nice billy

[jack_attacks]

Congrats on the black Liberty. Great way to spend the wedding aniversary...as they say, a family that plays together stays together. ;)

If you don't mind me asking, did you get him along the trench wall, or over toward hutchies?

Matt
Playtime

[Big_Ren]

Not a bad anniversary present ;D That sets a precedent for every year now.

Cheers
Paul

[ooglie74]

We where trolling a mixture of line classes on friday.
I have sl12s gamakatsus on my smaller pakulas and have mustard on my larger ones.
When the black came up on the flat seemed like he bill whacked it then went to the other did the same.
He sat on top for a sec them cruised off,didnt seem to aggressive.
Thats fishing.
Im going to order some of the katanas off wayne in the near future.
Are you runing a single hook or double hook rig?
Hope you didnt get to hammered out there yesterday.

Cheers Troy

[liberty]

Nah yesterday (Sat) was ok weatherwise, but really quiet fishing. #We only got a YFT and no sight of bills ....

And I'm running mostly double teflons - changing over from singles and stainless hooks. I have had less drop rate on the teflons.

[liberty]

Congrats on the black Liberty. #Great way to spend the wedding aniversary...as they say, a family that plays together stays together. ;)

If you don't mind me asking, did you get him along the trench wall, or over toward hutchies?

Matt
Playtime

Both hits on Friday (one successful, one dropped) were on the wall but I spent many hours on the wall yesterday and got nothing ...

[snapperm8]

nice 1 there mate


cheers dave

[JASE1]

nice fish there
nice boat
500hp bet she moves

[gcbfc]

Nice photos there Nigel if I havent said so before... :)

Nigels boat for those who have not seen it. is...ummmm.. errrrrrrrrr.

DROOLWORTHY !

Please post that sunset Piccie Nigel so everyone can have the same warm fuzzy feeling I did when I first saw it !

Cheers and congrats again

Wayne - His Lure Bloke :)

[liberty]

Nice photos there Nigel if I havent said so before... :)

Please post that sunset Piccie Nigel so everyone can have the same warm fuzzy feeling I did when I first saw it !



Wayne, you're embarrassing me. Knock it off!

:-)

[liberty]

Oh and we had a mixed day yesterday. Picked up a nice Sail in the Trench first up but the Winder dropped it. Got another good hit by a Dollie north of Hutchies mid-morning but it snapped the 15kg braid - note to self - stop using jigging gear on Shotgun lures ... Finished up with a small YF back in the Trench on the way home.

We spend a few hours outside of Hutchies down to East of the Cape and there were certainly Blacks getting caught, but there were a lot of boats out there to divide them up ...

Anyone know what happened to the Hoo? Everyone was complaining about *lack* of "bycatch" ...

And the swell yesterday was huge - depending on where you were some of those were over 4m from trough to crest. You could stand on the gunwhales and the wave height was still another metre about you. We came home surfing down the waves and doing cutouts at the bottom - on a 26' boat ...

Anyway here's a shot of the Sail...

[Smailesy]

dont like the sound of that swell top pic mate

[ooglie74]

Here are some pictures of Liberty in the trench on Nigels anniversary.
Also a picture of the wahoo that we caught

[ooglie74]

pictures are here

[ooglie74]

pictures are here

[ooglie74]

another

[ooglie74]

another

[ooglie74]

wahoo pic

[ooglie74]

Daryl and his wahoo

[liberty]

Solid Hoo!

And thanks for the pics. I got them by email as well. Excellent quality. Next time I'll smile and wave when someone's taking some shots ...

;D ;D ;D

[hungry6]

Oh, I think I saw that lovely boat coming back western side of moreton a few week ago? very nice colour and looks to be motoring along also. We were in a white NC about 500m SB of you heading south.

[Frank_Oostenbroek]

Hi Liberty,

That is a great looking boat you have.

You and I are often side by side around hutchies.

Frank OO

[liberty]

Hi Liberty,

That is a great looking boat you have.

You and I are often side by side around hutchies.

Frank OO

Hi Frank OO,

What's your boat name? Give us a yell on VHF21 - call sign Liberty. We're out tomorrow if you're around.

Nigel