Younguns on the hezzas
So after Friday's efforts, my young bloke wanted to get into some of the tuna.com action (from the Wicked Tuna tv show). This morning's weather conned me into thinking it would be reasonable out there so we made a late call to head for Hillarys and throw the boat in. All the reports said rain but the sky said blue so we went. My daughter decided she didn't want to get left out of the action and she jumped in too.
We got to Hillarys around 10:30 and pushed out into a bit of a sloppy nor'easter. The plan was to stay close and fish for herring in case the weather went south with the forecasts. Within minutes of burleying up the herring were thick as anything and in a hungry mood! James (aka Dave from tuna.com) was into it first and demanded a photo for his new website he is going to make about fishing (where do they come up with this stuff?).
After we swung about 10 aboard and let them go (when I told him he couldn't sell them for thousands then he didn't want to kill them for nothing!!) the wind picked up enough to make Charlotte (aka TJ from Hot Tuna) decide it was time to head in due to the ocean being too wibbly.
It turned out to be a great call as we had just sat down to lunch when the rain hit hard!
On the way home the boat got a fresh water high pressure wash from the heavens and all I had to do was flush the engine! Good stuff.
meglodon
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First photo
The first photo is gold.
Mick C
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Date Joined: 26/12/13
Nice
Nice one Mate. That technique we used on Friday will get the kids into the hezzas every time. There are also quite a few other species that the kids can get as well with a few different rigs.
I'll have to show you a few other techniques for the near shore tailor as I am sure "Dave" would love to get on to one of those, as they go quite hard on light gear.
The fish from Friday were definitely tarwine. The difference between them and yellowfin bream (not sure you get them here?) is the colour of the gut lining. YF bream is silver/white and tarwine is black - the couple I kept to give to Nana had black gut lining.
Cheers again for a great day out.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it - LH.
z00m
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Yeah thanks for the tips
Yeah thanks for the tips Mick, as you can see it paid off immediately. We were too wide on Friday compared to where we went today so some feedback there for ya next time you're looking for bait.
I'm sure Dave would love a crack at the Tailor.
When I filleted the fish we caught and saw the black gut lining I remembered what you said about how to tell the two apart and it was spot on.
carnarvonite
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Easy to pick
The silver bream/tarwine has 6 rows of scales above the lateral line compared to 4 on blacks and yellowfin