tom_125
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Hey mate yer bit of a slow start this morning squid hard to come by and nothing touching the downrigger, We decided to head to Almark which was dead as well with a couple of boats on the mark, so we set the spread and started heading south along the shelf about and after about half hour 10kms south of Almark we hooked up, an hour and a half later on 15kg we had a tag in him and next to the boat.
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We are on a 580 Formosa Tomohawk centre cabin, callsign "The Whitehouse". cheers
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Cheers scratchie, Yer it is a bit of a run 25 nm, Might downrig some squid and livies around broughton early Saturday morning before finding that temp break and making my way to the shelf, happy to share intel if your heading out i will be on 21. cheers,
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Hi Raides, Going up to Port Stephens for the long weekend, anyone heard of anything happening up there at the moment? Interesting water off the coast at the moment, good to know if anything is in it early season Marlin or some Yellowfin, any reports of Kings at Allmark reef? Cheers in Advance
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Great video mate and good catch
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This app is awesome i use it instead of my GPS as the detail on the Sonar charts view is unreal,
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That is one big kingy, and definetly a fish of a lifetime
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Thanks for that huett yes I do have wing nuts on the batteries and also a good thing to point out is that the engine cut out while running, but very helpful information
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Can anyone give me some advice? I have been having some battery problems lately with running out of battery I have a 2009 mercury 60hp, I tested the battery after fully charged and it read 12.7 volts and also while running it read 12.7 volts I believe I have an issue with my alternator, does anyone agree and could anyone give me a price range I should be expecting for a new one to be installed?
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Cheers Deanfish yer downrigging is definetly a great technique, yer i have realised that alot of anglers change from wire to braid but just interesting to know the reasons
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Great video! unlucky about the downrigger Bomb had you replaced the wire with braid and if so was this to save the downrigger incase you had got snagged, because im wondering what kind of pressure the downrigger would be under with my wire trace when my bomb gets snagged up!!
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Marlin from Yak at Coffs Harbour - they are 'on' just now!
tom_125 replied to arpie's topic in Kayaks and Paddling
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I down rig one yakka in the bottom third of the water column and have another one with two bean sinkers sitting roughly I believe about 15ft under the water surface, and slow troll them both.
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Yer we collected about 20 yakkas each and we ran out after about an hour and a half. That's good to know about the squid we weren't the only ones having trouble, we tried collecting them for half an hour but only ended up with one, and unfortunately my mate dropped it overboard pretty disappointing after all that work. But it was a pretty good day catching them small kingy's hopefully the bigger ones move in soon.
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great catch on light leader
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Great Video I noticed the same thing headed out Saturday with another boat landed about 24 rats between us, all about 55cm - 63cm caught on yakkas and soft plastics. I got blown away by one but my mistake for bringing out the lighter rods for a bit of fun after getting a bit cocky with the smaller ones.
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Great catch mate. was the Jew caught on a live bait? I have to agree the ramp is extremely slippery at low tide I seen an older land cruiser get into a bit of trouble on Saturday at low tide, the back wheels became submerged after the driver didn't lock there front wheels into 4x4.
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that is a big yakka!!
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I use Willy weather and Seabreeze.
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Great read and nice Jew!!
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Yer it was off south head of Botany bay
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Cheers goes alright for an older hull. Yer the downrigger pretty easy to use, just as "Gazza" said if you find an area you like check the depths so you know how deep to put your downrigger before starting.
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These Salmon are great Fun. What lure or blade are you using? I followed a couple of schools of them the other day but they where a bit picky and did not want to come to the party, I was throwing blades, plastic and stick poppers for only one hook up.
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There was a bit of surface action around so had the downrigger set at about 25 - 35 ft in 60 ft of water. I used the ramp on foreshore, I have an old 4.5 metre Quintrex Lazeabout that has been restored, with a 60hp Mecury Engine.
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So after seeing some reports of people recently catching some kingfish in middle harbour and some warmer water coming in close, I thought I would give the recently bought downrigger a spin out botany bay heads on Sunday. We left botany boat ramp about 6:30am with the wind blowing a bit more then I had hoped we made it to the bait grounds and with a bit of difficulty after our third try we finally anchored up, 45 mins later we only had 5 yakkas in the live tank and the wind had started to die down and the tide change was coming up we decided to make our way to the heads. After rigging up a couple of yakkas we started to slow troll and on our first pass we had two hits and no hook up, but on our second pass we had a hook up and I was on with the reel screaming we headed away from the cliffs so he couldn't bust me off and after a short fight we landed a nice fish for my first kingfish that went 70cm which made great sashimi. we did not get any more hits after that.
