Jigging the Rig
Yesterday, Honshu and I had the opportunity to head out with Simon C to take advantage of our winning bids in the Fishwrecked auction for the trip to the Key Biscayne. While the wind didn't match up to the forecasts, it was still a great day with plenty of sambo action, topped off with a nice final session on a large school of pinkys. I managed to load up my new Xzoga rod on a few nice sambo and it handled really well. I managed to jig up five sambos at the Key Biscayne, two reasonable sized and a few smallies. Lost one bigger fish when my split ring gave out. Simon and his buddy Justin let Honshu have most of the action and Honshu pulled in a real nice Sambo. Simon and Justin landed a few Sambos and a couple of hard fighting "rat" Yellow Tail Kingfish. There was certainly plenty of fish out there, it was just hard to get past the Sambos. There were also a heap of whales, a couple of which came in close enough to give us some great sites. After having our fill of jigging the rig we then headed off looking for some bottom fish. With a stronger than expected seabreeze it was difficult to get a good drift going. However, Simon skillfully put us onto a big school of pinkys and we were able to catch close to our quota. Honshu also managed a nice Baldchin, while Justin, apart from catching some great pinkys, landed a great Blackarse. Simon picked up a nice solid little Dhuie and I caught a pretty decent sized flathead. All in all, it was a great day. The wind wasn't on its best behaviour, but the fishing was pretty awesome and the company was great. Simon is a great skipper and his new boat is very nice indeed. Simon has most of the pics so he will post them up later. I have posted a pic of Honshu with his Baldie and one of the whales. I have a lot of pics of blue water showing where the whale was, but I won;t post those. All the best, Colin Hay
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It was a lot of fun. I had
It was a lot of fun. I had never jigged for sambos before, so ii was a great learning experience watching Simon, Justin and Honshu in action and managing to land a few myself. You should have seen the "bling" on that boat. It was a floating tackle store.
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I bet!
Yes, I bet there was n o shortage of bling! How's your back? Those Sambos can be hard work. What was the biggest landed?
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Actually my back and shoulders have come up pretty well
I warmed up by wrestling the bosses bull terrier for a few weeks. Greatfully the Xzoga rod i Had worked really well considering it was only one the lighter jig rods and it and the reel did all of the hard work.
I think Honshu's Sambo came it about 34 kg.
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LOL!
A very dogmatic approach!
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Good on ya Col, great to
Good on ya Col, great to here you had a good day and you got a few while you were out.
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Thanks Dave
It was something new for me and Simon and Justin were great hosts and went out of their way to make sure we got onto some fish.
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Great job Colin, good to
Great job Colin, good to hear you guys managed a few good fish, pity on the weather, i looked at the forecast in the morning and it certainly was windier than they predicted, and great news to hear the new rod preformed well, just have to get some pics up now of it
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Thanks Matt
Simon took a few pics of the rod loaded up. Happily he didn't get a shot of when a big sambo decided to head back to the rig and took a straight route back under the boat. The rod went okay at that stage - but I can't say the same for myself.
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Good stuff colin, looks like
Good stuff colin, looks like you had a great day out on the water.
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Thanks Dave
The Xzoga rod and the leader performed well. I gave the rod a pretty serious test and it loaded up beautifully and did all they I could have asked of it. Didn't hook onto anything with serious enough teeth to test the leader, but it gave me good confidence knowing it was there.
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Glad you liked what you were
Glad you liked what you were using. Just out of curiosity which of the Xzoga did you get?? don't tell me you went crazy and decided to use the PE3 to chase the sambos. Although that would have been allot of fun LOL...
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good report mate, yeah i'm
good report mate, yeah i'm intersted to know which xzoga you got aswell and the reel you matched it up to
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Colins not online so i will
Colins not online so i will answer it for you guys, he got the PE4 one from us david, but blake im not sure what reel he was using on it sorry
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I went overboard and matched it with a Saltiga GT
Boy was that rod bending. But it didn't miss a beat.
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was the pe4 the blue one
was the pe4 the blue one that everyone liked??
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It is blue Blake.
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ahh, thats the one that i
ahh, thats the one that i wanted to get, very nice rod mate, lucky bugga
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great report
cant wait to see some more pics.
glad you guys had a fantastic day on those missiles(sambos) and most of all had fun
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Yeh was a good day on the
Yeh was a good day on the way. Many thanks to Simon and his side kick to the day on his awesome new boat...apart from the ride back...definately recommend Stabicrafts for ppl into tough and strongly built ally boats. Really stable boat at rest.
Colin....next time we'll get you to use the big guns and see how you handle and yeh definately buy BIGGER split rings!! lol.
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Honshu -some of those big sambos would have really given my
old back a bit of a work out. Had baked whole snapper tonight. It went down very nice. Flathead tomorrow. It was great to see how you worked your various gear and I learned a lot from it.
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Ahhhhh
so now I can put some names to faces
there was some big sambos amongst the rats wasnt there.....
pulling good fish from 30-40m is way harder work than 110......that second big run is a killer
rough going back eh....
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Thanks all
I always enjoy taking people out and learning from them or getting them onto some new fish. I was actually pretty disappointed for the lads as the really big Sambos that were around a month ago seemed to have dispersed a bit. There was still a few unstoppables but nowhere near as dense as in early Sept.
I thought the bottom fishing gods were frowning at me all afternoon until we hit a big flareup coming back in. A bit of a play with the drift and it was on, with a nice triple hookup for me, col and justin. Honsu would have made it 4 but the nice fishy thought he would decorate his cave with some of Honsu's BLing. He swears he backed the drag off, but I think that was his excuse for getting smoked using a baitcaster in a hot Dhuie and Pinky bite. Learn't a very valuable lesson that I am sure The GUN fisherman hear do, and that is Nail your drift. We caught SFA if we didn't get the drift just right, and it was bloody hard in a 15knot southerly ***ING weatherman W!*nker.(3-5knots my arse)
To be fair to the boat, shoulder on for two hours into a 15knot sea breeze would have loosened the fillings on any trailerboat. Those of you that have fished north of Two Rocks and come in late know what I am talking about. Problem was this red hot bite happened about 23nm north west of the boat ramp. Most unpleasant trip home I think I have ever had. ABout 2 meters between waves and all sharp 1-2m high in the dark = very slow and not nice at all.
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Where you in the BC
Salmo, which one were you? Yes the trip back was RS, at least you did it a bit earlier and in daylight.
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Yep in the Bone crusher Simon
I ate 6 glucosamine tablets when I got home.....still got sore knee joints
I think the big hippos were early risers.....certainly a few big cows when we first got there.....40 mins before you guys pulled up....
glad you also got a couple for the icebox later
cheers
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True
Last time we were there we did have a good run in tide which would have congregated the bait a lot more than Wednesday's tide.
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30m
Only in 30m out on the bank, but remember we headed to the Biscayne and then went west. I was in deep shit if you are talking about the ride home though and getting back in that late put me in the shit with the missus. That was the distance that the GPS put me as back to the ramp from where we started.
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Dog box
Yep I was already in the pooh for going in the first place so hence why we left early to get back to the ramp by 1800....2hrs 20min it took us
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Good stuff
Sounds like a good day out fishing wise, bit of a shame about the weather. Look foward to seeing the sambo pics, well done guys and good onya for donating the trip Simon.
Cheers,
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