dnove01

You're the reason we were so sure of a Marlin bite today. Same water temp same area, but no birds working or signs of bait. There's always next time!!

After reading the weather forecasts for today yesterday Swordie, Des, and I all had the same plan for today - Go wide for a big blue. I was just about to text him to see if he wanted to go and he was already calling me to go with him. Off we go this morning Tiagras and Internationals all ready to go. We skipped grabbing live baits for dollies on the way out of Botany since we hit the inevitable M5 traffic and to the first fad we go( or so we thought)! Trolled for 20 minutes and browsed countless websites to find coordinates but we just couldn't manage. Trolled 4 rods to the peak, 12 mile, botany wide fad, to the shelf for a bit and went back in the reverse order for absolutely nothing. Great water colour, temp, not much life out there for us today. Not even another boat!! So we decide to troll around looking for this mysterious fad. After a half hour of everyone giving opinions of where it should be Swordie's eagle eye spots it in the distance. Before anyone else can get their rigs he's already into very nice sized dollies and now mayhem ensues. 50 wides get tossed into the rocket launchers, Marlin lures are still on the floor and there's pillies getting tossed frantically for burley. For the next 2 hours we fished the close fad and had fish no smaller than probably 55cm with the biggest going maybe 85-90cm? ( also weighed 3+ kg and biggest of the day ?) Caught nearly 40 between the 3 of us keeping 20 in the esky. If was insane fishing combined with flat seas and no wind, but the best part was we were only 10 minutes from the heads. many funny moments throughout the last 2 hours and will probably be rememered for years to come. 3 or 4 triple hookups and lots of blood on the deck, gunnels, and I don't know how but on the roof of the cabin as well?!?!? Worst move of the day goes to Dez for not controlling his fish and letting flail all over the boat. It doesn't sound that bad but since I'm the one who got love tapped between the legs while putting my fish in the esky he gets my vote. Thanks for a great day out Dez and Stewy, can't wait to bloody up my boat as well hopefully sooner than later!!

Looking great Sean! being the first boat I had no idea how they push/pull but now I know why the Jeep's brakes are completely burnt up. Can't wait to hook it up and see how she goes down the road. I'm sure it'll be much more stable and easier to pull. Lights look good on the back as well( Heaps better than the light board that came with the boat)