6kg Gummy
Headed out on Saturday with my eldest for a fish in the club comp. Conditions were pretty ordinary early with the easterly blowing 20-25kn so headed close to shore and had a good look around Trigg Island (definitely going to go back and fish the area on dawn or dusk). Just “rubbish fish” so when the wind dropped a bit we headed out a mile or so to find some whiting.
Anchored up in 10m, burley out and within 2 minutes John hooked a nice gummy on a small 40g Vexed Bottom Meat with mullet fillet. He wasn’t that friendly when we got him on the boat but we eventually subdued it into the esky.
The bite was slow all day and we had to work pretty hard for fairly low numbers. The classic was later in the arvo when we burlied up a bommie north of Hillarys and could see schools of skippy and herring around the boat but it was very hard to get them to take anything (multiple baits and multiple rigs tried). We did get a few, but it took a lot of effort. As is usually the case when the bite is slow, there were plenty of low quality fish and we got sick of taking them off and throwing them back. John did manage 6 species on the list for the day (gummy, flathead, sand whiting, skippy, herring and snook), that tied for the most, in what was generally a pretty slow day all round.
The gummy weighed in at just over 6kg and around 1.1m in length. Thanks to Kev for showing us the right way to fillet it, and the flesh was as good as any fish when we cooked it up. Might have to target them from now on!
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Work to Fish
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Nice catch. Those gummy’s are
Nice catch. Those gummy’s are delicious!!
Faulkner Family
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Sounds like you had a great
Sounds like you had a great day despite the slow bite. We all have days like that but it's nice he get a feed. Certainly wouldn't knock a nice gummy
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wifecallsmegrumpy
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Nothing like a bit of
Nothing like a bit of flake ! also rubbish fish is better than not getting a bite at all !!
meglodon
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Battle of the bulge
Hell it looks like the gummy put up a fight equal to the battle of the bulge.
TorquenFish
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We struggled to get the
We struggled to get the herring to take on Sunday too. Big schools but very finicky. The old 3.5g and 5g metal slices ended up being the most effective.
Daniel Westerduin
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Good work on the Gummy
Good work on the Gummy Shark, there's been a few around at the moment and they're what I target during the demersal ban.