What a day

Man, wot a great day it turned out to be, this morning however was another story. The westerly was still pumping when we got to the grounds, around 20 to 25 knots. It was made Phil and his mates( virgin jiggers) work extra hard, we started with 300 gram Diawas and Turkey Sliders, just to get down. Around 9 30 the wind started to drop so i ran to some of my rarely fished rocks to the North, there we found a massive school of kings that were only to willing to bite.

The first fish went to one of the Samoan guys, 7kg or so. The fish went into a frenzy with double and triple hookups. Mantis, the quite achiever, slugged it out with a nice one that ate his jig close to the bottom, it was a PB for him. Unfortunately he had eaten a dodgy servo pie for breakfast and once we got his fish in the net, he decided to share it with us. This set off a chain reaction, with the Samoan Bros and yours truly over the side. This is Mantis and his spew covered King.



The day got better and we were back to t-shirts by 11. One of the Samoans landed a monster, well over a meter, after a brutal fight with another one that ate the jig close to the reef. By 1pm the boys were rooted, they couldn't high 5 each other, there arms were so tired, so we called it a day. We kept 18 and let a heap go. Gales tomorrow, on the lounge watching Foxtell.

Fishing Sunday 27 July

Finally got out after 6 days of foul weather. It started pretty slow and I did
the rounds to all my favourite spots and couldn't catch one. The tide changed at
around 8.30 am, with the high being at 3pm. I guess they might have had a sleep in as we ran into a hot bite from around 10.30 onwards....
I will post pic that I took of the sounder showing a solid patch of quality Kings.

We started getting Triple Hook Ups every time I motored back to the spot. Not
monsters but averaging around 3 to 5 kgs. The stand out Jigs were the Sacrifice Sticks - Pink and Blue , the Turkey Slider in Pink and also the new Diawa Grande Speed Jig in the (pike) Black Gold Colour. I lost my favourite Black Knife Jig on a snag. This is another collectors item !
I dropped the Pink Turkey Slider, trying to catch dinner and hooked up a beauty
but got the Shark treatment and lost the lot jig and all.

The boys out of Port Stephens had a mad yellow fin bite. Heaps of fish up to
20 Kg , on the shelf , down to the Norah Canyon where the water drops from 21 to 18 Degrees.
Looks like yet another few days off, the wave bouy is peaking at 8 metres as I type this....Can't wait to get out there again when it backs off !

Jigging Video Action

Hi Guys

The weather has kept me home all this week. Hoping to get back out there on Saturday.

Here is some video action from over the past 12 months or so.



Scotty

More recent pics

Hi Guys

Just some more pics that didn't get on the last post.











Scotty

My First Blog !!

Hi guys, For the most part the Kingys have been going off ! Thats why its taken me this long to get this post together. Talk about highs and lows of fishing....We have had some great days of over 40 big ones, releasing most of course. Then one or two days where we have only managed to catch a dozen or so average ones. The spectacualar days there were multiple hook ups, triple and quadruple hook ups causing me to reach for the ciggies !!

Jack and the boys from Freddy's Fishing World at Auburn had a blinder with the average fish going around 7 kilo's. A couple of the brave dropped 30 pound tackle on Diawa Certate Reels and Saltiga Coastals. You can check the pics, they really landed some nice fish. Nathan and his crew from Fishing Out of Water continued this trend, smashing some beauties.

A couple of days of bad weather allowed the fish to re-group and we set forth on another frontal attack. Most of the time Jig type and colour wasn't a problem but stand outs were the Daiwa Sacrifice in Pink and Silver and Blue and Pink ( these lures are no longer being made so if you happen to come across any old stock - grab them !! )

On Sat July 12, I took a bunch of Snapper Fisho's and put in a big day and just managed to catch a feed. 1/2 Dozen or so nice ones and a few mowies. The other charters boat reported the same but its good to see the jackets have finally disappeared.

My mate, Wy from Global Tackle organised a trip but at the last minute couldn't make it. But his customers did and they jumped on the boat loaded with the usual array of top quality jigging gear and cleaned up !!!! Bad Luck Wy, maybe next time. I am sure he will have some good stories from his fishing trip in NZ.
Last Thursday, We had some friendly competition on board as Tak and his Japanese mates
( the Yamato old jiggers ) went up against Team OZ for pretty much draw. Talk about quality tackle and exotic Jigs. These guys have the works and a completely different Jigging style that certainly work on fish that normally wouldn't bite. We took some livies along and pulled out a couple if nice ones from one of my rearly fished secret spots. We pulled out some bottom fishing gear and we introduced the guys to Perch Fishing. Tak called me last night and said they are "the best eating fish he had ever had" and next time can we do some more perch fishing. You can also check out Taks' website www. deepwaterjigging.com.au

These Perch are the Splendid Perch or Long Finned Perch Species. They are a beautiful deep water fish that in habit the reef where we jig. We usually have a couple of drops on them and put together a great feed. I' ll post some pic's.
Sharks have been showing up now and then and one day saw us getting smashed a couple of times, mainly whalers with the occasional Mako. We were fighting a nice Kinghy when I noticed a mark on the sounder and said to Deano and the guys that there was either a massive shark or marlin just below the boat and 30 secs later a nice Kinghy around 8 kgs got the short back and sides. All we got back was the head and the jig ( lucky)
The Sakana on-line Jigging Shop should be up and running in the next few weeks, they have some great tackle coming. Jigs /Rods/Split Rings etc, specially designed for big fish. We have had a fair bit of input into the proto types. All the sample jigs they gave me are now living
in the reef , we have been blown away by massive fish. Can't wait to get some more!

Some crap weather for the next few days, so not sure when I will be getting out there next. Sorry about that you guys who have booked months ago and will miss out on the hot bite. Not much I can do about the weather though !!
Scotty

Welcome

Hi to all.
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