Young Gun

Very nice marlin mate, what a fight it would have been on that light gear. Hopefully on sunday were back out again. weather permitting haha. will report back here. have a good weekend fishing everyone, tight lines YG

thanks guys for that advice. will definatly give those tactics a go. has anyone else had any luck with the dollies off broken bay? cheers yg

Hi all, Sorry for the late report but i have been very busy with uni during the week.. finally 4 days off and im going to try and make the most of it fishing wise. Me and 2 mates headed out off broken bay on sunday morning. Left at 5am and heading straight out about 10ks and then had a troll up the coast towards terrigal and scored a few nice size striped tuna, biggest around 3kgs. We then decided to head out to the fad to see if anything was happening out there. We were fishing out of my mates haines hunter 2100so so it didnt take us long to get out there and the conditions were great. around 20km off we came across a few boats working a few traps i think, but couldnt see them having any luck so we kept going. We got to the fad at around 9am, a little late i know but o well. There were a few boats there, had abit of a chat and they said they were only catching small dollies. We worked the fad for around an hour and got 2 small dollies which were around about 50-55cm. then the pesky birds showed up.. smashing out pillies and making it very hard to fish the fad.. Dissapointed and still wanting to make the most of the day we kept trolling around near the fad, heading about 10km north, and then returning 10km south. But nothing.. At about 2pm we decided to head back to the fad to have one last shot at scoring out first legal dolly every. The birds were still there so we decided to switch to 5inch plactics. I had a solid hit and finally i though i was going to land my first dolly.. it put on a great show, jumping around and then spat the plastic. i was so dissapointed but o well. theres always next time. We kept working it buy the dollies wernt hungry. Hopefully we will be back out this sunday and head up to terrigal traps to see whats happening out there. Has anyone else had any luck on the dollies latly? Are they out further or are they all just small at the moment? Any info or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks Guys, YG

Hi all, Im thinking about heading out on saturday morning with a mate and trying to find some decent fish trolling off broken bay. We would most likly be heading straight out off west head and trying to find some traps or driftwood and hopefully a few dolphin fish.. Has anyone had any luck latly off broken bay?? Any advice on where to troll or tactics we could try would be really helpful and much appreciated. Thanks YG

Hey raiders, Just wondering if anyone has any news or reports on how the fads off sydney are going. I was out there a few weeks ago and there were heaps of small kings just under legal, however we couldnt find any dollies. Has anyone had any luck out there in the past week or so? Thanks, YG

I agree, in pittwater i fish 30-50lb.. wouldnt bother with anything over 60lb to be honest YG

Hey raiders, Just saw this on youtube and thought it was a classic. :biggrin2: Cheers YG

Nah mate, i got the relos over. Lemme know how you go, there out there. Yg

Yess mate well done. Best of luck tomorrow haha YG

Study, Study, Study...

Great to have you back Donna, Hope you are feeling better and great to see that you are on the speedy recovery. Take it easy, YG

"Whats the point of antifouling" or "forget the swell report, whats the mid air turbulence report?"

S.O.L.I.D Fish mate, well done on the great day out on the water. YG

I headed down to the weigh in as well with squidkingcombo, and i was shocked at the amount of quality fish captured. What a great effort by all the boats that entered and i will hopefully be on a boat next year. Some massive tiger sharks, many tipping the scales at over 300kg and one that weighed in at a whopping 575kg! which was a 49 year record. The stripes that were weighed in were all from low 70's to high 120's i think. Good job to all, especially your god father. Cheers YG