The Rev Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hi fellow Raiders, After a day on the water, here is a quick report. I often plan to write one but so often get caught up with other issues, but today I thought I must get it done!! Today, I took out the husband of one of my staff members, along with his neighbour who he fishes with on his neighbours boat in Sydney Harbour, but they never catch anything 😕 The two wives keep waiting for dinner to come home and after many trips had almost given up hope! So with the holidays here, I promised to take them out and show them a few things. On a tip off from a friend, i decided we would try and get our first MahiMahi for the season. We caught live bait - small yakkas and a few larger ones for cuts baits, and managed tp get a jumbo sized Slimey Mackerel amongst them that would be have been about 30cm+. With the bait tank full, seas smooth and not much wind we headed out through the heads at about 7:15am hopeful of a good day. In short, we managed the following. After arriving at our FAD, the first drift produced nothing, so I though go big or go home and quick lay rigged up the big slimey mackerel on my big Kingfish rod and reel (Shimano Talica 12) and dropped her in with the 2 small yakkas that we were drifting. 5-10 minutes later and the Slimey gets an inspection. After missing on the first strike I left the bait in the water and sure enough the Dolly couldn’t help itself and within 30 second took it again. This time I let it take the bait down for about 25 seconds before striking. I loaded up the rod and we were on. With 65lb braid it was a good but fight but not too long. The most difficult part was boating the fish with 2 guys who hadn’t even caught a decent bream! In the end I decided to handle both the rod and the gaff myself and had the fish in the boat after a few minutes. It went 110cm. You will see on the picture that it had 2 weird bite marks. Not sure if it was a cookie cuttter fish/shark, but definitely something had a go at it. When I cleaned the fish that afternoon, I cut those sections completely out. From there I took them to a flathead drift and we got 4 nice blue spots. We then headed in to Long Reef and sat not far off the Wall and burleyed up in 14 meters of water, resulting in 4 Sampson fish and one 67cm fat kingfish. It was now 11:45am and time to head in. Needless to say, my two companions, Mike and Frank, were both stoked and can’t wait to get out again in their boat. Tight Lines The Rev 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Miketheadventurer Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Mate great result! Good to see you taking out fellas who are new to fishing. Top work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Top effort The Rev. Good onya for providing the inspiration for your friends, to want to go ahead with their own venture. I hope they put what they have learned into good practice and finally get some runs on their own board. You ended up with a good haul and hopefully everyone gets a few meals out of the day's catch. Cheers, bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Nice bag of fish. A bit hard to tell if the bites are from a cookie cutter, but something liked having a chew on the dollie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) Great haul Rev, some tasty meals to come for a while Personally I recon those are Amberjack, I know they are in the same family as Kingfish & Samson fish but tend to have more patched of brown all over them & Amberjack more commonly have a long yellow stripe head to tail. I could be wrong, not that it really matters just an obsevation. I almost went to WA a while ago to fish for big Sambo's west of Rottnest where they get up to 60kg. Still would like to do that one day. Edited January 11, 2021 by kingie chaser 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Top job @The Rev both in bagging a nice feed and in embodying the Raider spirit by passing some of your skills to your crew. I always felt a good fishing trip starts with a plan .... and then executing and fine tuning as you go. Cheers Zoran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlvbw Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 What a great day out mate. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Love the photos well done some top fish there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Mate that is an impressive haul of fish !!!! Well done and a cracking mahi too. Good on you for taking out two blokes for some fun and fish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Great day out. Well done. Super photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Well done Bruce - brilliant effort God was indeed good (did you have any bananas today) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizza Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Your boat must be blessed,as mine was!!I had transom built at23 inches an extra 3,which suits long shaft Mercury.Thats a great Sydney catch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBM Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 16 hours ago, kingie chaser said: Great haul Rev, some tasty meals to come for a while Personally I recon those are Amberjack, I know they are in the same family as Kingfish & Samson fish but tend to have more patched of brown all over them & Amberjack more commonly have a long yellow stripe head to tail. I could be wrong, not that it really matters just an obsevation. I almost went to WA a while ago to fish for big Sambo's west of Rottnest where they get up to 60kg. Still would like to do that one day. Do it. They go really hard. Top fishing generally off the back of Rotto - there’s a long and super deep trench - all kinds of pelagics skirt the dropoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBM Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 More to the point - that is one healthy kingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonywardle Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 great job ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 mate awesome effort. If you ever feel you need to show someone else the ropes, let me know :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishyMcFishFace Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Nice haul! Mahi mahi is on the bucket list, hopefully soon i capture one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/12/2021 at 4:02 AM, big Neil said: Top effort The Rev. Good onya for providing the inspiration for your friends, to want to go ahead with their own venture. I hope they put what they have learned into good practice and finally get some runs on their own board. You ended up with a good haul and hopefully everyone gets a few meals out of the day's catch. Cheers, bn Thanks Big Neil - I believe my mates are heading out Saturday to see if they can catch something by themselves! Hopefully they do well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/12/2021 at 6:56 AM, Yowie said: Nice bag of fish. A bit hard to tell if the bites are from a cookie cutter, but something liked having a chew on the dollie. Hi Yowie - I realised later that night after I wrote the report what I think the marks were. My mate told me that when he caught his dolly 24hrs earlier, spearfisherman were spearing there and in hindsight the wounds look exactly what a spear wound would look like that either came out close the dorsal fin line which was one of the wounds... OR only partially penetrated the fish which is what the second wound felt like when I inspected it. Cheers, the rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/12/2021 at 7:23 AM, zmk1962 said: Top job @The Rev both in bagging a nice feed and in embodying the Raider spirit by passing some of your skills to your crew. I always felt a good fishing trip starts with a plan .... and then executing and fine tuning as you go. Cheers Zoran Thanks Zoran! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/12/2021 at 7:32 AM, dlvbw said: What a great day out mate. Well done. Thanks Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 23 hours ago, FishyMcFishFace said: Nice haul! Mahi mahi is on the bucket list, hopefully soon i capture one! The Dolly season is just starting so now is the time to get out there 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/13/2021 at 4:48 PM, Stash said: mate awesome effort. If you ever feel you need to show someone else the ropes, let me know 🙂 Hi Stash - PM sent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Great stuff Rev. Always nice when a plan comes together. Everyone gets a feed and you get another pass to take the lads out again! Well done 👍 cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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