Faulkner Family adventure
With Sunday (yesterday) looking pretty good weather wise, I was stoked to get an invite to head out of Point Peron with the Faulkner Family.
With an easterly blowing we headed out in pretty flat seas to the 90's to try some of Russ and Sandy' spots and it was looking real good when Nathan hooked into a nice little pinky within minutes. The bite went a bit quiet after that the wind and te currents were mucking around with the drift, but Russ managed a very nice Queenie.
Sandy and I had the prime spots on the boat but were struggling to get a bite until the tip of my xzoga rod finally started bouncing. Unbelievably it turned out to be a Skippy. It was a nice size, but I tell you those things follow me everywhere.
We decided to head out deeper to the Derwent and arrived to find Bluejuice with a jigging charter on board and and another smaller boat in the area.
A few drifts saw Sandy score a very nice pinky and then Russ and I were onto a double header. There was a little bit of weight to these fish, but not much fight. 200 metres of winding later and the result was a pair of gummy sharks.
After few more bites and being buzzed by the Bluejuice a few times we decided to head in a bit closer to try some KG ground.
We had seen quite a few birds working during tyhe day, but the fish had been a bit shy under them.
I spotted a bigger flock working on the way to the KG grounds and we decided to investigate after seeing some big splashes underneath them. It turned out to be a sizeable school of dolphins wroking to round up a school of fish and we spent a memorable half an hour watching something you would normally see on a nature show.
Sandy and Russ got some great shots with their camera, particularly when the doplhins decided to see what we were up to and come right up to the boat. Russ even manaded to get some great underwater bvideo action of some of the dolphins. It was fantastic.
After that amazing event, we dediced to continue to the KG grounds, but were soon chasing another flock of working birds that Sandy had spotted. This time it was tuna and a big school and we were soon into the action. We had some exciting trolling action with the Southern Blue Fins hitting the lures hard.
After catching out fill and having a "Bloody" great time we moved on to the KG grounds for a short visit before deciding it was time to head home. Interestingly we had a visit from the Water Police who came alonsgide to check to see if we had all the safety gear, skippers tickets and rego. They were friendly enough and we were soon back at the Point Peron ramp.
Russ, Sandy and Nathan, thanks for a fantastic day. The weather was good, the fishing was great, the company was even better and we saw some amazing things. What more could you ask for.
PS Sandy and Russ will probably post up some pics when they get a chance.
All the best, Colin Hay
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sounds like a great trip,
sounds like a great trip, and finally some tuna reports filtering, how big were they russ?
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Col, that's the great thing
Col, that's the great thing about getting out on the water...you just never know what you are going to see!
Sounds like an awesome trip!
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So true Eddie
Matt, they weren't that big. A couple of kilos I would guess. But there were hundreds of them. We had part of the school under the boat for awhile and I just wish I had had my soft plastic rod set-up. Thet would have been a lot of fun.
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Excellent day
Colin 1, love going out in the boat, as you say never know what you'll see out there, Bob gets a bit peeved off with me especially if we aren't catching fish, but I love the nature lessons out there, just watch whats in seaweed drifting past, amazing what you'll find in or under a clump of seaweed, you all sounded like you had a ball. Magical day, can't wait to see the photos. We had a family outing, doesn't social functions always seem to happen on a good day for fishing.
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Thanks Roberta
Lol I know what you mean about the social functions and the weather.
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Glad you enjoyed the day it
Glad you enjoyed the day
it was verry nice out there pitty not many fish wanted to play (apart from the tuna)
thoroughly enjoyable day
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TUNA
What depth were the tuna in?
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in the 40s and heaps of
in the 40s and heaps of them
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