The Faulkner Family & Colins Hays Day Out 14/12
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Submitted by Colin Hay on Mon, 2008-12-15 07:23. (Hijacked colins story as he writes so well *LOL* hope you did not mind)
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. But russ was not ready to leave as he hooked up mmmmm is it australianus-coralus or is it a big fish you make up your mind *LOL*
ping gone or let go either way minus 200mtrs plus of braid later LOL
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.
Pic taken from underwater video
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.
Under water pic of Tuna under boat
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.
All the best, Colin Hay
Colin you are welcome anytime it was a pleasure to have you on board shame about the fish but yeah a great day on the water.
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awesome underwater shots
awesome underwater shots
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great report russ, and some
great report russ, and some top pics above and below the water,looks like colin had a great day and good on ya colin for getting ya first tuna mate
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it was actually Colins story
it was actually Colins story Sandy just hijacked it for the pics and doctored it a bit
must tell everyone it isnt me that puts up pics and storys it is Sandy lol
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Great shots to go with the
Great shots to go with the story.
Love the dolphins mosaic.
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Looks like a Great Day Out!
Decent hook up there Russ, Terra Australis perhaps lol!!
Great underwater pics too, sensational!
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Great pics Russ and Sandy
Love the underwater pics.
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your smile says it all hey
your smile says it all hey colin, ear to ear in every pic hahaha.
looks like you had a good day and those underwater shots are awesome
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Yeah Blake. It was a fun day. That skippy put up a good fight
on the Saltiga and the Xzoga (Lol).
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pics!
I like the underwater tuna pic in particular...awesome. Sounds like a good day had by all onboard. The SB fin are a great fighter especially on lighter gear just blood spiters !
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I love Russ' action sequence too
The Blue Juice guys were just hanging around and around to see what he had on. Don't know if had bottom or he was reefed by a fish, but the 50 lb braid he had on just wouldn't give in - until Russ went flying backwards - which Sandy thought was hilarious(Lol).
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tuna?
How far out are teh tuna? :)
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They were all over the place Synthos
We saw quite a lot of bird action on the way out to the Derwent and even more on the way back. The last school wasn't that far offshore.
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thanks
I think next time i Head out I will take the binoculars :)
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Lures
What lures did ya get the tuna on? Halco Pro Max?
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Russ & Sandy will have to answer that one
The rods were all rigged up and raring to go - all I had to do was toss the lure out and wait for a tuna to hit - which was normally only a few seconds that day.
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1 was the x rap shallow
1 was the x rap shallow diver ,the other was not too sure but you can see it in colins pic, they worked a treat .the amount that were there you could have used a straw lol
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NICE BOTTOM CATCH RUSS
Mate laughed me ass off when i saw you on the deck i personally have done that thought something had grabbed me line then find out its mother nature.
Great story and awesome Pics
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cracking
Love the underwater dolphin pics as a top off to the others, well done guys. Magic.
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thanks Adam ,hoping to get a
thanks Adam ,hoping to get a bit more experience with the u/water pics before exxy, going to try our hand at more snorkling during the summer, its a whole new world down below
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Great Report and Pics
Well done Sandy/Russ and #1 - congrats on your first Tuna.
Yeah the underwater shots are awesome!
Yeah - definately BOTTOM Russ LOL
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