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| Bonnies love small metals |
The schools further up towards the bridge seem to be full of choppers to about 2 kilo, salmon to a few kilo, the usual bonnies and on/off there are schools of fussy rats - fly guys surely have had a ball.
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| Nice choppers about |
Shooting off towards the heads saw schools of big salmon to about 4 kilo (biggest we measured was 70cm) hanging under the surface, but not busting. We've found them to be taking anything thrown at them, but as we all well know, salmon can change any day and also be quite fussy..
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| Big arse sambos |
It's worth having a look around the main harbour especially if you're a wand waver. The surface rats have also been inconsistently taking squid strips and are a lot of fun on light gear if you're limited to spin tackle, like me.
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| Pip-squeak |
Just recently, on a trip with member 'fishlexic' we managed to find a group of proper kings holding deep off some structure. Sending down our last live squid worked well, with Craig boating the first legal for his new vessel.
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| Nice king! |
A desperate dash to restock on squid proved successful and we were back to the kings in no time.
I put down a large one on his f*k off-heavy combo, only to be smoked when driving it out. The drag was set quite heavy, but it did what kings do best I guess. I got bitch slapped somethin' hard.
Final squid produced an okay amberjack, which I might add tasted great.
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| Anticipating the hit |
It's funny how the fish can change mood day-to-day, as you can see in this short account of our next outing.
All of the surface schools were flighty and also quite scarce, perhaps because it was sunny. The usual two big schools of surface rats were about still, but just so fussy.
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| Nice bend in the rod.... |
We shot off for some squidding and had a few in no time. Back to a kingy haunt where I made two live sacrifices to rats, bummer! We stripped up the final one into the tiniest of strips and landed many fish off it. Good fun, I made the boys drive all my fish out from structure cos I hate losing fish, am a pussy etc etc.... hahaha
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| Hooked up on a rat |
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| One of the downsides to using treble stingers... |
The rats were pretty ravenous once fired up and we caught some on prawns also, aswel as one I got on a squid eye.. hungry f**kers
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| 1cm safe... let the rats go! |
Thanks to Craig, Nathaniel and Michael for the outings, good times were had.
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