which fad did you fish last time out went too two they where no where too be seen
cheers daz

thanks for that it sound like you had a good day
did you get any bottom fishing done?
cheers daz

Na the current was really pushing through out deep, we did try in closer later in the day but no success, Mind you we didnt try very hard.

Enjoy a good hard ...... Fish

Think I saw you out there. We went to the first fad (forget the name) and there were no fish there, couldnt find the next two, so went to the hillarys one. as far as I remember theres 2 others missing as well, so that would mean theres only 2 fads out! The current was pretty strong, so perhaps the other two just had the float dragged underwater?

Unfortunatley I didnt pick up any fish for the day, but I saw Alfred/Kaitan pick up a few, pgreens boat on a coupl, and ryan on the fly (he makes it look so easy). That flyrod had some really nice curves in it, you could tell it cost a lot and I dont know anything about fly fishing :p

On our boat, only one was landed (member till) at about 7kg. Another hooked but the line broke on afreds motor.

The only hit I got was when I was untangling a birds nest (damn cheap baitcaster). Instant 'ping!' :'(  Nothing after that except for a bump on a storm SP. Chucked every thing I had at them and it seemed they'd only take mulies (and not mine when I had a clear line).

The drift was pretty bad though, too fast. Current drift too so sea anchor was useless. Funny to have boats drift through, then head back around and repeat. Its like getting on a ride or something.

There was also a dollie with a hook in its mouth attached to a line attached to the FAD which kept leaping high out of the water. Amazing how high those dollies can jump. Very acrobatic.

Oh, and the fish till caught had someones busted off line on it. Get this, braid to a swivel clip to another swivel clip direct to a hook (and the hook point was broken off). Some people have no clue :p

Hopefully the FAD's will be in long enough for another fish, otherwise it looks like the dollies have evaded me and I wont get another crack til next year 

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Hi Paul

Was good to see you out there. Who were you filming for? Would much appreciate the footage! The largest we landed was also 130cm, don't know the weight though as I don't have scales. The big one that busted off, now that was a good fish. Theses critters grow fast, just a couple of weeks ago they were only 110cm.

Must say that I didn't expect to get into any fish today, with 6-7 boats buzzing the FADs, but we got Kiatan on to his first mahi right away and it was a decent fish for a first! He was smiles all the way after that!

Ozlobster, Good to meet you!

So far this is the largest lot that I have seen this year. They have nothing on the last batch last year though.

Now how do we rig it so that the boat that hauls in the FADs has engine trouble and has to be laid up for a month or so?

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i was thinking more like 2 months alfred, good to see you got into some nice ones finally, im going to try my luck sunday out there then troll for marlin between the 2 of them

I forget the name, but it did also have penguin in the name (and so did another boat making 3 there). It was the ally center console. John McLaren (ozlobster) was the skipper, and pointed your boat out.

I'm a little confused though, alfred said you were filming, but then I think hes getting your boat and Steves boat confused. Steves boat was filming (could hear him explaining something about rods at one point too), had a diver as well. 

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*WAVES ALL* I was the chump hanging of the prow of John's boat, with Matt.

Yeah there was Penguin with the diver, and then Penguin something or other that offered us some live bait towards the end there, yellow colour?

You were on the one with the diver?

Did you guys notice the tangled dolly, we were going to catch you to send your diver down for th  e line =)

Cya,

till 

Well done Paul sounds like a great day, must have a go with my underwater camera did you see any salmon.
I was heading home just on dark, passed trig ,there was two boats both on salmon as you could see the water was choped up . there were about 100 metres from shore i could see about five areas which had fish activaty. should be a few around tomorrow with the calm seas.

Sounds like you had another great day out there with some more great dollies.

ehhe it was about 6 kg alfred i weight it when i got home.....
lol wwent to friends place to have sashimi
lol beautiful!! yummy!!!
lol opps i forgoten to take the hook off b4 i threw the fish ...it was brand new hooks lol
nice seeing u guys out there both matt.... mako hlokk paul, and ryan i think....opps might be wrong
NO PAIN NO GAIN!!!

Exactly which FADs are missing as I get back on Monday and weather permitting

Iwant to do try the livies out and the trusty Rob Allen!!

The yellow boat was the one with the lady on board that showed the guys how to catch one!  Well done!

Pgreen1's boat had the film crew. 

It was odd that the live bait didn't get much action this time round. 

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Yes I had the film crew, the diver and everything else on board. We did get some good footage of several dollies with lures still in their mouths and a couple with wounds from missed gaff shots haha as far as I know Hillarys and club marine are the only two out there at the moment. Why we were filming well time will tell.

Enjoy a good hard ...... Fish

They seemed to be getting good attention on the livies, what were they?

With more boats & pressure Alfred the live baits dont work anywhere near as good sometimes!

Yes they get fish but you can see a change........we'll i did when i used to use live herring etc!

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I wasn't sure if they weren't little mullet, but we never really got close enough to spot em.