Skippy Magnet
Dear Fishwreckees,
I think I have become the Skippy magnet. Everywhere I go the skippy seem to follow.
For example, I went to North Mole early last Thursday and as soon as my first cast hit the bottom I was onto a skippy. Not a big fish though and it went straight back. I proceeded to catch another six skippy, none of them big,and two herring. No snapper unfortunately.
I had been there for about five hours and I had a problem with one of my reels so I decided to head home, switch reels, have some lunch and head down to Hillarys to try a spot where I thought I might have a chance for a snapper.
Ran into Troy (Kaitan) and his mate Andrew and we decided to try a spot on the main wall near "Boy in a Boat" reef.
Sure enough, I soon had a mini skippy on my first cast with my small set-up.
I also had a big rod out with a whole California squid on hoping that a Pinkie might come along. It was out for some time and I was thinking about changing my bait when the big rod went off. Dropped my smaller rod, set the hook on the big rod and watched the line peel off. It soon became apparant that this was no snapper. The critter took off south parallel with the wall and with Troy, Andrew and myself in hot pursuit running like mountain goats across the rocks, we managed to catch up after about 80 metres where I managed to stop it in its tracks.
It soon surfaced and showed itself to be what I thought it was - a stingray. A fair sized Eagle Ray. With some help from Andrew I managed to land it and retreive most of my gear before setting it free.
That was the big excitement for the wall that afternoon (apart from some poor guy up the wall from us who managed to snag two seagulls) and a few more small skippy and a couple of herring.
Not that I don't enjoy catching skippy. I am pretty happy that I am catching fish - but I don't understand how I seem to be catching them on my big rod baited with whole squid and on my small rod - on pilcards, on squid or on soft plastics. And it doesn't seem to matter where I fish.
Have I become the SKIPPY MAGNET.
All the best, Colin Hay
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Rodrat
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HA HA
Hey at least your not going home without cathching nothing!
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Resolve
Hey Rod, give me 30 minutes to 'resolve' all those double negatives LOL.
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Auslobster
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Could be
Could be worse
You could be a blowie magnet!
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Lol Auslobster
I think I have called myself a blowie magnet a few times. Don't get me wrong, I like catching skippy. The funny thing is that I hardly ever used to catch any - then all of a sudden - I can't stop catching them - no matter what I use for bait, or use as a rig.
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Onya SKIP!!!
Nice one SKIP LOL. Shame about no snapper. That eagle ray would have given you at least some work - though dissapointing result for sure.
And I'm NOT changing the name of 'the club' LOL
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As far as nicknames go
I was waiting for someone to suggest Sonny Hammond.
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Your nick name is "Sonny
Your nick name is "Sonny Hammond"
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Great stuff with the skippy.
Cheers lads,
Elora.D
Shortly
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We were out there at the
We were out there at the same time Colin.
I have to be honest and say I did have a bloody good laugh at the blokes running up the wall after the fish. Then mumbled," if he has a bloody pink snapper, i'll kill him".
So my partner walked up to have a sticky beak, came back with the good news (for me) that it was a ray. lol
Good one with the Skippy to, we were catching Tarwhine up where we were, quite a big size as well, 1 measured in at 30cm.
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Hi Shortly
Yeah, it was a bit of fun dashing along the rocks and trying to fight the stingreay at the same time. The bugger decided to go parallel to the wall so the only choice I had was to chase it. I was pretty sure it was a stingray as soon as it took off, but you always hope you are wrong.
Kaitan caught a decent Tarwhine as well. Wish we had known you were there we would have said hello.
Next time you see a stumpy looking guy running up and down the south wall, say hello, it might be me.
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rainbow
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OK its me ( dumbarse) still in the East asking
Whats the proper name for skippy???
Just 5 months to go, Yippee!
I`d rather be fishin`!!!
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Silver Trevally
Cheers
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rainbow
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Thanks Andy Mac
We get them in the east also. Never caught one that didnt have a big sea louse under its tongue. Suppose its the same in WA?
I`d rather be fishin`!!!
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Sea louse
Phew rainbow, the mention of those brings back memories. I rmember fishing from the Fremantle harbour (remember 'number 2 berth folks?) for skippy with a crude pananosta rig )basically a burley sinker topped with dropper loops. Most skippy pulled up had those cream coloured sea louse in their gobs.
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ody
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Hi Ya, As kids, we caught
Hi Ya,
As kids, we caught plenty of tailor with sea louse as well.
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I have heard that they make ok bait
We used to occassionally find them in luderick and drummer in the east. Bloody horrible parasites.
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rainbow
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Yeah supposed to be good bait,
but who wants to touch the bloody things? All the fish I caught with them in seemed OK so maybe its more of mutual arrangement rather than parasitic. Like "Ill clean your teeth for you & nauseate fishos into throwing us back if you protect me in your gob!!
I`d rather be fishin`!!!