onthego

Went for the first run of the season out to the Bondi Fad yesterday. Nice morning with heaps of bird activity and breeze wasnt to bad. Lots of little dollies everywhere left to swim another day, water from 22.9 to 23.7 and blue around but started blowing and become choppy around lunch. Headed back in and picked up a few Bonitos around south head before calling it a day. Lets hope the bait sticks around for the next few months and we see a few fish, cheers

just like to say thanks to a our new barcrusher friend this morning, how good is it when a boat pulls up to the ramp and sees a fellow fisho in trouble and his first reaction is to wind down the window, prior even to lining up and ask if all ok. ended up over heating before the spit and limped back to tunks. hope you had a great day and thanks for the offer to help us out, great example to his son and all others. cheers

Headed out yesterday to chase some of those big kings out at the peak i have been reading about, loaded up with livies, got out to fad and peak about 9 with us and one other boat out, love fishing weekdays. nothing showing on sounder and drifted from one to the other, clear skys, flat seas, no fish, had quick chat with other boat who had already landed one beakie in area and decided to head up to 12 mile to see what was around, ran a spread with a couple of lures for dollies and a couple of christmas tree on riggers to pick up a few bonnies for fun, oops, on about our 5th bonnie half way there we got sprung, a big stripee jumps on bonnie and we are on, mind you should have had something bigger out than the old penn 330 with 8 on it and would have been great if we had had a harness. stripee comes up and its the biggest i have seen in a long time, guessing close to 120kg, spent the next hour and a half running rings around it trying to get line, everytime we got it within 20feet of the boat off it would go. Getting close to 2hrs and he dives deep again this time he is not coming back, decided to try locking him up so thumb on the reel and bang, hes gone. There was only two of us on board, missed some great shots on the camera while trying to round him up but if anyone finds him with the 16cm christmas tree stuck on his beak let me know, love to get it back.

anything out the canyons way or are they all in close? cheers