another recent report from yesterday..
Got Lil Red sorted with a new sounder and an electric (which we ghetto fitted for a trial run) and headed down blackrock for a days fishing .
No sooner had we launched and headed out to see whats happening than my cousin yelled out , do you see what im seeing,, birds were working up a frenzy not far from the ramp and a few boats are already in the middle of them..
so we do what any keen fisho would have done, head straight for them, about 50m or so before getting to the school I stopped the motor and told my cousin lets try the electric, so we deploy the electric and sneak into the school...
This time im thanking my luck stars that I took the wicked weasel instead of the itchy twitchy, cause what followed was utter chaos. I rig up a squidgy flick bait in the white pearl on a 1/8th 5lb leader and send it out straight into the school, :hitit: :hitit: :hitit: a quick burn back to the boat seen the luvias screaminggggggg..
while playing the fish I see others almost breaking the water surface and flying past the boat, these fish were BIG. ive never seen anything like it before, there were multiple schools around the boat, left right and centre fish were smashing the water surface...
eventually I land the fish.
my cousin in the meantime is using pillies, and gets slammed as well. but he drops the fish, I tell him to try a plastic and he reluctantly agrees, on goes a gulp minnow. casts out and let it sink, told him to use the same retrieve, but before he could even start his retrieve line is peeling off, he gets to exercise his arms a bit but somehow the salmon he caught looked a bit different from mine.
the whole keeping distance between boats went out the door, boats were almost too close for comfort at some stages, and just a half hearted lob would go past the closest boat. luckily the schools kept moving so that made the boats scatter and regroup again at another point, but since there were several schools it made fishing a bit easier..
somewhere in the middle of all this mayhem, I hook into a seriously solid fish (im consoling myself it was a king and I was happy to hook into one) the luvias 2506 was crying, and the fish had some seriously long runs, and then about a minute into the fight the inevitable happened, slack like Bangg Bangg
whats worse that was the only white coloured plastic I had on hand, so I had to use gulp minnows from then. still caught them, but it was hard work
my cousin on the other hand isn't having much luck either, so he switches back to bait but not much there either, the fish were in a frenzy, and all they were interested in was the bait fish.. ( I forgot to glance at the sounder when all this was happening, it would have been chockers for sure, I could see bait fish everywhere)
I must say though, a lot of casts were involved for one fish as the fish weren't interested in what anyone was offering, all the boats were having the same issues, people were yelling out to each other wethere they were getting any, I replied to a few of them to use smaller plastics.. but even with that I was struggling.....
we ended up with 4 salmon all of which were released, (fish ranged between 50-55cm and were built like tanks, nice solid shoulders) these fish were seriously good fighters and def stretched my tiny palms and forearms. the frenzy moved away from us further and further, so we decided we would try for some pinkies instead, so we started to put the new sounder to the test..
we motored around for about an hour or so randomly stopping at small promising patches until this happened.
4 boats got in on the action..
ended the day with more than 20 fish caught per person with only the legals taken.
