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  1. Learning the hard way and never a truer word to be said and when it comes to Game fishing minimizing mistakes and in anything thing that potentially can go wrong,,,,,,,,will ultimatly determine the outcome of the fight I would love a dollar for the amount of marlin we have caught on one strand of the double having let go for what ever reason incidently it is quite surprising in how many times the snap swivel can mysteriously open itself mid fight and then in the fish having to been gingerly led to the boat nervously on an open snap,,,,,,,,part reason as to why we like to apply the snap swivel ,,,,,,,,,open and close rule of 20 times and then discard as fatigue is commonally enduced when the snap is closed around the lanyard ring on the back of the Tiagra for example and thus why you quite often see a lot of experianced game crews applying a cable tie neatly in place on the lanyard hole for this very reason Cheers Warnie
  2. Hi Briso Here are the full results and just for interest there where 171 sharks tagged overall, all mainly from the one area strongly suggesting I feel that Browns would not be the best of places at present to be jumping overboard and going for a casual swim . :1yikes: Cheers Warnie Heaviest Shark -Avalon 190.8kg Mako Shark Most Sharks Tagged -Ambition 15 Sharks tagged Boat scoring highest T&R points Tuna -Smartbill 1150pts Champion Junior Angler Capture -Riley Page 4422pts onboard Rampage Champion Junior Tag & Release -Rebecca Holmes 13800pts onboard Obsession Champion Small Fry Tag & Release -Jack Purkis 2300pts onboard Tanacious
  3. Hi Marty Never again will I ever run a cable connected to a witch doctor!!!!!!!!!!! A few years back running up the 150 fathom line inside browns, with a spread out aimed for Y/Fin. When I hear a shout “what the” from the guy sitting alongside me in the passenger seat I spin around to see a hole in the water at the back of the boat the size you could comfortably fit a V Duv into and the cable abruptly snaps tight, So violently it throws me out of the helm chair onto the back deck that lurch experienced was the result of the boat literally being stopped dead in its tracks and then catapulting forward and I am talking 2.5 tonnes of boat......the cable however still remained intact and what happened next still haunts me to this day. A brute of a mako......... with head and shoulders and piercing eyes the size of dinner plates complete with blue cable exiting out his mouth surfaced out of the water no more than ten foot behind the boat. He then exploded turning the ocean into foam from head shaking (much similar to how you see a bull terrier play with a cuddly toy except he wasn’t playing) He was intent on ravaging and tearing apart anything he was going to come in contact with...Fortunately for us at this moment the cable snapped and all that was left then was to comptemplate in what could of been ......And I readily admit in it being a scary experience.....still wear the scars today of a bent cleat that was designed in lifting the boat out the water and a promise to myself only to use cord in connecting witchdoctors in the future......To only lose another one the very next trip out to something else that took a liking to it ....so yes I suppose it can get a bit expensive but I do feel a lot more comfortable all the same......... I certainly would not wish that experience on anybody else. Cheers Warnie
  4. Hi Dan I don’t use wind on leader these days, there was a period when we gave wind on leaders a go for two Game seasons coming down to the decision in the end that it did just not benefit our style of fishing. • In particular when slow trolling baits the wind on I feel would apply an added resistance on the bait and restrict its overall effectiveness • The same with regards to pulling lures I felt the lures just didn’t seem to want to pop and fizz enticingly like there should off • Skip Baits however the complete opposite no doubt due in the wind on leader being virtually totally pulled out of the water by the rigger. But the one particular thing that I felt a wind on leader helps in contributing to is this following scenario which happened to me back then more times than I wish to remember. Upon coming across a good fish generally in this instance a blue........ in the early stage and being the first initial run the decks have just been cleared and the fish is tearing across the ocean heading for the horizon in a big arcing run the type where the angler is pointing the rod in the direction of the exiting line but the fish however is jumping behind his back. As the angler is frantically trying to recover the belly in the line the fish then suddenly changes direction and starts to grey hound back on its self heading straight back at the boat. I am sure there are those out there with the mathematical prowess to be able to calculate the forces involved but put simply with no more line coming off the reel and in status quo the added drag pressure being created then by the belly in the line as it is pulled through the water is enormous...... they say line will give at its weakest point and in most cases for me this generally applied at the connection to the wind on The above is just my experience learnt the hard way mainly by loosing fish I realise not everyone will agree with the above rational as I said just my personal opinion hope it helps Cheers Warnie
  5. Hi DAN WHAT......Blue Marlin with Mid to Jumbo size YellowFin Tuna thrown in the mix WHERE.....Browns Area and beyond.....Ideally around 500 fathoms Area WHEN......April...Generaly peaking around the favourable moon phase PROVEN LURE SKIRT CHOICE.......Blue Angel and Lumo........ to name but two SIGNS......Look for bait in form of Frigites and match the hatch...(A rod buckled over with line peeling off is also a good indication) Cheers Warnie
  6. Hi Stan Put simply Marlin when fishing for them on Lures and in particular with regards to the Striped Marlin are a very lazy feeder (along with being a bad shot) and tend to slash at the lure with its bill more times than it will actually grab the lure.....of course there at times when there are exceptions to this however even when you consider the antics of the mighty Blue Marlin arguably the most explosive and aggressive of lure takers they also have a tendency to slash away and quite often the resulting hook up actually amounts in the leader half hitching it’s self around the marlins bill as directly opposed to the hooks hitting home. In answer to your question then the slower the lure is presented the easier it will be for the fish to eat it cleanly in the first instance this however needs to be balanced in firstly getting the lure’s action right in gaining the marlins initial interest and to be zoned in.......another reason then as to why the deployment of an aggressive actioned lure can be considered to be both a good and bad ploy depending on how you want to look at it Cheers Warnie
  7. Question For cubing we used a 24kg rig with a plaited double, Sampo style snap swivel, 1.5m 80lb leader and 8/0 J hook. The rig seemed to sink a lot faster than the cubes - anyone have any thoughts on the keeping a rig like this in the cube trail? SG What you have described above can best be summed up as being a typical set up......However to those that fish for Y/Fin on a regular basis a noticeable difference would be in that person’s ability to quickly read the conditions and then to accordingly adjust and change over to suit. IE.....Firstly by removing the double (which for y/fin is not really necessary) Then in downsizing your swivel to as light as a lineclass as possible with a preference given to black over chrome. Substitute the 8/0 J over to say an 8/0 Eagle claw el2004 Circle hook in helping to effect a more positive hook up and in cases for example where the fish are hanging back in the trail and acting timidly a common tactic is to tie the hook direct to your 24kg mainline and then strip it back. This also helps in answering your question as to how you can keep your bait up in the trail as well as taking care in stripping your bait back at the same rate as your trail is drifting another tactic is to add variety to the trail by laying down say 3rds, Halves, pieces, and throwing in 2 or 3 full ones every now and then which helps to stagger the trail (depth wise) over a greater distance. Off course there can be days when regardless as to what tackle or bait you use it gets eaten however these days seem to be getting fewer and farther apart ..... I hope that helps you a little. Cheers Warnie
  8. Hi Henry May i suggest in just spooling it up with good qaulity 15kg mono.......At the end of the day that reel will adequately handle just about anything that you will come across in Sydney Cheers Warnie
  9. Hi Marty Does this help you to clarify Cheers Warnie
  10. Hi Guys Whilst awaiting in Ahi's pics to come through I hope you don't mind...... in me mentioning that today one of our club boat's laying down a burly trail just wide of Brown's had Y/Fin Tuna swimming around the boat And weighed fish early tonight back at the club at 50 odd kgs and lost an est 80 kg fish at the side of the boat complete with a new gaff attached so it does sound promising to get out.........That be if the weather is obliging Cheers Warnie
  11. Silvo I will head down that way on thursday arvo........Was looking at maybe getting a pre fish in on the friday weather permitting of course and speaking of such...... the synoptics look to me in it being not to bad once the blow goes through.....so here's hoping that indeed be the case Catch you down there Cheers Warnie
  12. Hi Silvo Good to hear your going down for the Tournie..........will have to catch up down there may that be on the water at the Pub for a beer... either way is good Who you fishing with??? Cheers Warnie
  13. Hi Guy’s In adding to what has already been said.......With yes that Blue weighing in at a hefty 288.7 kg fell shy by 300 grams of beating the club record. Of an interest to any of the trailerboat boys who may be thinking of heading out wide this weekend is that the above report of a blue Marlin has not been an isolated case with other boats also reporting interesting times. Midweek a Trailerboat pulling a 4” lure past some traps inside the shelf in the hopes of raising the interest a feed of dolphin fish got more than they bargained for after it was engulfed by a blue Marlin estimated at around 150kg mark not an easy task when faced with the prospects of it being hooked on an 8 kg outfit. After 74 Y/Fin Tuna where T&R at the Tournie run out of Sydney the weekend just gone hopes have been high for that bite continuing the main body of warmer water pushing from the north has advanced closer to the mountain with reports coming to hand during the week suggesting that the better results were obtained from working the edges of the cooler 22.9 water and with current SST’s showing the leading edge down around the Southern Canyons working the areas of intermixing water and visual eddies south of Brown’s this weekend could very well pay dividends.. Cheers Warnie
  14. Just a slight clarification inregards to bridling your bait useing a band with a circle hook Firstly attach your band to the gape of your hook and pull the loop of the band onto the eye of a short open bait needle you will find it can and will dangle comfortably in place without easily falling off the eye of the needle Then as it has allready been mentioned push your bait needle right through and out the other side of the leading edge of the eye socket and then here lies the subtle difference with the band still attached to the needle stretch the band and drop it over the point of the hook using the needle then quickly discard the needle twist the band 2 or 3 times via the circle (depending on size of bait) then lock the band in place as you would normaly no need to adjust or locate the hook, band, in any sort of set place as everything finds it's own happy balance in readiness to do it's job. Cheers Warnie
  15. This matter is set to explode very shortly as more and more people comprahend the seriousness of the impact it will cause once again affecting those livelehoods who depend on the money injected by the Tourism Dollar etc..... that the industry generates which now is be put all at risk.... For what!!!!!!!!!! because of blatant bad management and drastic overfishing in certain area's in the northern Hemisphere they think that by listing Mako shark on the Appendix 11 of the CMS putting a no take no catch enforcement in place here will ever have any beneficial effect's on the stock in lets say the Mediteranean.......There kidding aren't they for a start the Mako in question are one of a differant stock and to add injury to the insult the commercial fleet will be unaffected by such listing it seems at this time our best hope lies in us gaining an exemption from the minister as which follows “The Minister may specify that any or all prohibitions in Part 13 do not apply to a person in relation to an action to which an exemption relates. However, the Minister may only grant an exemption under s303A if satisfied that it is in the national interest to do so.” I for one see it as a national interest as pretty soon they will start to put all migratory species on the listing which I now hear to be the SBT in Mid 2010 ..As they say....NOT HAPPY JAN Cheers Warnie
  16. Jeez Another year been and gone......Frightingly fast may I add Thank's boy's for all the well wishes..........talk to you more soon Cheers Warnie
  17. Form a double in your mainline and in my case i preffer to use a Plait but a Bimini is fine. Attach the wind on to your double by means Loop to Loop with a cat's Paw (I go through three times) pull it all down on the Dacron loop nice and snugly and away you go... Cheers Warnie
  18. If you are to cast your mind back to around Easter in particular we where experiancing one hellva of a blue Marlin run of Sydney over the back of the mountain and up to the north east of the mountain and at around approx 2 mile over the back of the mountain you would of come across a distinct change of water with a prominent current line and the water temp jumped up to around 25.7 c if i remember correctly and the boats working that edge where encountering Y/Fin Tuna up to 70 odd kg on the warmer side along as well as good size dollies with the Blue Marlin content in patrolling the inside edge inamongst the colder of the two bodies of water if running small lures in the area you could pick up Rat Fin and if then employing these as live bait in and around the area it generally ended up in only one result.......This scenario repeated it's self consistently for a period of around 3 weeks........so in this regard it goes along the lines of what you are reffering to in your post. what has me stumped is in the fact of it being such a poor Y/Fin season over winter I can only presume they where out there but most likely outwide and out of reach to all but for the real big boy's. I hope that helps to unstump you a little bit and to be assured that yes rat Y/Fin are high up there on the Blue Marlin yummie list, Cheers Warnie
  19. I think that one way of improving trailer parking at the ramp For a start would be to better enforce the non parking of cars in those allocated spots for trailer parking it was quite frustrating all through last season in seeing trailer spots taken mostly by other fisho's turning up to jump on a boat launching from there and in the process tying up another 3 spots with a car's meant for trailers. .......or arriving 9 am ish to find the diet brigade have jumped in a spot to go for a run around the area with there muts in tow on a leash ......anyways that would be my advice in helping going towards the limited parking aspect. Cheers Warnie
  20. Hi All Whilst fishing the Wollongong Tournie over the weekend and for some reason unknown to me the boat became an object of fascination to a passing group of whales in particular with the calf of the group which casually swam right up to the back of the boat to raise its head as if looking and be wondering in what was going on aboard ship.....we could of literally jumped on its back if we so desired it was that close however more of a concern to me was the fact in the mother deliberately situating herself directly under and around the boat as if to be keeping guard where upon losing patience she proceeded to dive and fully breach not more than 100 mtrs off our starboard side upon this happening the calf proceeded on in joining its mother......I know whale watchers pay big bucks in seeing this kind of display and we were treated to a free showing of nature but admit in it being quite unnerving all the same to see this kind of display happening so close to the boat here are some pics showing the calf whilst milling around the back however none were taken when the calf was at her closest due to us been distracted with the fasination of it all happening we did get one of the mother's tail as she dove down however the breach took us by surprise happening so quickly. I hope the pic's give a perspective on the veiw although not giving it justice all the same Cheers Warnie This is around the third pass before surfacing at the back of the boat The calf at her furthest distance before swinging back in The mother's tail as she dove down before breaching vertically less than 100 mtrs away from the boat
  21. Hi Billfisher I hear you in regards to running braid as backing which in your case is fine....But in this situation used in the hands of an unexperianced person learning the ropes the potential there to do more harm than good all round is to big a risk to take.. I cringe in hearing on stories in braid getting ripped off the reel and through the water like it does and that person not totally understanding the damage it can inflict to body parts if something where to goes amiss and they are to come in contact with the braid.....nothing is more disconcerning i feel than watching someone inexperianced for excample trying for whatever the reason in flicking a bail arm over on a Y/Fin in full flight with braid whistling off the spool or even just tighting the drag up on the reel will subject the wrist area to slapping from the braid.......I guess what i am trying to say is that braid i feel in the hands of someone inexperianced can result in being to nasty of a combination to start off with. Cheers Warnie
  22. Jewiehaven To add to what has already been said we all have to start somewhere and if that opportunity is to arise for you in going out fishing to have a go at catching the bigger fish as you call it and let’s say a Marlin by pulling Pukula’s around the shelf I dare say as sure as night follows day you will most likely get your wish. So when that time does eventually arrive in it all coming together in helping to make it a memorable one for you for all the right and not the wrong reasons then putting together a nicely balanced outfit the best with what you can afford should be your first step...correction that would be your second step your first step is to discard that broomstick for all that will help to achieve in doing will be to subject you to a whole world of pain to areas of your body that you never even knew existed. I fully agree to what has already been said in only spooling your TLD 25 with 15kg mono which you should get around 600mtrs of line on to. And then matched to a 15kg rod resulting in a nicely balanced outfit. I am sure others on here can better help in recommending a suitable15kg rod for you. As you may have previously read in other posts at varying times and if you are unsure in how to do so yourself then get someone who does know how to do it in getting them to show you how to set the strike drag on your TLD at 5kg and idealy set through the rod that you have decided on matching it to.... next is to create what is termed a double in your line and I would advise in you doing a Game fish Plait again if unsure in how to do one then get someone who does so....to do one for you the next thing then is to connect a wind on leader via a cat’s paw to your double and ending with a 15kg rated snap swivel which is crimped to the end of the wind on leader by doing this process this will hopefully give you the best advantage possible in doing what i said at the beginning in that your encounter with a big fish ending in being a memorable one for you along with heaps of photo’s as bragging rights for you to show around . Cheers Warnie
  23. Gaffi Sorry re late reply as i am away out of Town.......The 7.2 Broadie just love's to get up on top of the water and boogie by getting plenty of air under her but at times it comes at a price for me..In that being that she will quite gladly do it in sea conditions that i don't feel comfortable travelling back in at ......by pulling back on the throttles slightly and cruising home say in a following sea having it on your stern quarter slightly more so than in directly behind you..... this will enable it to walk by allowing one sponson to enter the water just before the other creating it to do a so called cat walk eliminating the air brake effect i refered to earlier........I guess someone who has never driven or been in a Cat before will not understand the Cat walk i make mention to but i am sure you will know what i am on about..I hope i have explained well enough....It would be so much easier on my part to just show you... Cheers Warnie
  24. Hiya there Poddy Thought i would throw this pic up showing you and others in some of the boats that stayed over on the Saturday night Cheers Warnie
  25. Jas We use an outfit (pic attached) which consistently fishes as good or as to even outfish our other methods these been both a deckwinch and electric.... I put this down to the fact that we run 80lb braid on the reel and the lightest sinker achievable in getting your bait down and settling invitingly near the bottom and on that particular day that being a snapper lead get yourself a rod with a bit of a backbone and a reel with a big spool capacity with out it costing you an arm and a leg.........and you will be in buisness...... The way it is at the moment though i doubt you will get through the Gemmies. Good luck.... Cheers Warnie
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