METRO GOLD PART II - IN SEARCH OF HOTDOGS FOOLS GOLD
Well, me and Daz had another Metro troll session......trying to top the previous METRO GOLD session of maccies and YFT......Hotdogs bailed, some feeble excuse of being a sensible husband and father or something............
We all know how something like this ends.........................trolled for nearly 4 hours with a good spread of 4, over all our previously successful ground, and not a single touch....................I thought it was only fair to put up a post of the hard luck day to even out some of the previous posts we have put up where it all seemed peaches and cream..........it sure aint like that every session, thats for sure........ 
Fair bit of weed around and a distinct lack of bait balls compared with every other session we did last week......something has changed.
Is that the end of the Metro pelagics phenomenon.....I doubt it, but they sure weren't there this arvo.Anyone else have a go? We only saw two other boats out having a troll....in failry poor conditions.
Off to cook up some more chilli a dgarlic crusted yellowfin tuna on the BBQ.........it aint all bad.
John
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DazSamFishing
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no bait, marginally cooler
no bait, marginally cooler water & heaps of weed = not many fish around.
We shall have a go again but try the shelf next time.
stilly
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temp
hey mate just curious if u took note of temp at all? trolling mindarie? might try wednesday weather permitting
DazSamFishing
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the water is really stirred
the water is really stirred up. Sea weed has been churned up, so later in the week may be better. The water doesn't cool overnight.
chrisp
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Bad Luck.
Bad luck boys.I must admit that deep down im happy i didn't miss out on anything this time. After your little yellowfin episode last week i was dreading a phonecall from you two bragging about bagging a pigeon pair of 25kg Hoo..
DazSamFishing
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you would have been in your
you would have been in your element this arvo mate. Mr patience
chrisp
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Ha Ha..
Would have driven me nuts using the same spread of lures for 4 hours..
Just1morecast
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Bad luck guys, the feed on
Bad luck guys, the feed on the barby doesn't seem all that bad at all though. Thanks for the invite too, still would of rather a troll for nothing than a dinner with the mother in law haha
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silly
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went saturday morning...
went saturday morning... weed, 23 deg water temp and no bait = no fish, Did see someone bring one in the ramp tho so still around.
SHizz
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Asta la vista mackeral?
Asta la vista mackeral? Sounds like it. Hola salmon!
Ben Derecki
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There are loads of baitballs
There are loads of baitballs down south at the moment. We trolled around the Eagle Bay stretch on Saturday and they were everywhere, massive sizes too.
Water temp was 22.7 degrees. Not sure how that compares with temps around here?
JohnF
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Did loads of baitballs =
Did loads of baitballs = loads of mackerel at Eagle Bay Ben?
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Ben Derecki
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Plenty of tuna for the guys
Plenty of tuna for the guys using small skirts / christmas trees but unfortunately we only had divers so the fish were sparse.
Don't know about the mackies, didn't see any boated but we didn't spend too long in the area, just passing through after a bottom bouncing session a bit further around the corner.
dkonig82
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We went out for a bash on
We went out for a bash on Saturday morning off Mindarie.
Trolled from around 545 through till 10am. Spent as much time clearing weed on a spread of 4 lures as we did fishing, and didnt get a touch.
Ended up bailing as it was getting a bit bumpy, had one green wave break over the windshield of the boat soaking us both on the way back home!
Hoping I haven't left my run too late to get that metro makkie this year! Oh well, 13 days till Exxy :-)
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