West Side Festivus
Submitted by Lucky Tim on Fri, 2011-06-24 20:49
Headed over to the west side today to help Deepwater fill the empty void that is his freezer. Seeing as it is a festivus mood we had our "Feats of Strength" and only used conventional reels (no electrics). 4 drifts later we'd had enough of rubies and cod (greyband and comet cod) so we hit up another spot in the 100's. It was Red Throat central but we managed a goldband and a nice coronation trout. The highlight however was a lit up little marlin chase the goldband up so I left it in the water while I rigged a big Mcarthy soft plastic (10"???) which the marlin hit and swam off with. Unfortunately I was using light gear and couldn't set the hook so my "cast billfish soft plastic cherry" remains intact.
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Lamby
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sweet haul fella's, unlucky
sweet haul fella's, unlucky on the Marlin aye Tim!!
danno
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Nice haul guys some nice
Nice haul guys some nice looking and probably better tasting fish.
till
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Sorry to hear about the
Sorry to hear about the Marlin, but you gotta have something to do up there the next few months.
Those rubies and cod ill be tasty either way mate!
till
MattMiller
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Nice one
I think you may have out done Adam today.
I'd take those fish over crabs any day
buxcey
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nice haul there boys
and im sure there will be many more in the future
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Pete D
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Oooh, that would have been a
Oooh, that would have been a nice cherry to pop! Be prepared next time LT!
Nice selection of bottom fish.
Cheers Pete
deepwater
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Thanks Lucky Tim
Thank you very much there Lucky,we got alought of great fish mate and i all so popped my cherry with my first of many Rubby snapper
thangs again mate
jeff
Seaquest
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Nice work guys. Bad luck
Nice work guys. Bad luck with the marlin. Maybe switch baiting with large SPs could be worth a go.
Whats the fish at the top of the page?
Lucky Tim
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your guess is as good as
your guess is as good as ours. It had features of a fusilier, buff bream, and something else and was caught on bait in 115m. I've got a better pics, I'll do some research
southcity104
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quality bag!
i thought the rear fish could have been a trevalla. im gonna do a 500m plus drop on sunday after one, hopefully a ruby to. i think i need to head more north though.
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Lucky Tim
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I'm 99% sure it was from the
I'm 99% sure it was from the fusilier family. I'll chuck up another pic seperately
soupster51
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Nice
Very nice Tim. You guys have the life up there. Unlucky with the marlin, that would have been a story and a half.
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