out the front of Flinders 4/02/18

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Post by rb85 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:17 am

Mattblack wrote:
rb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?
Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good though
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I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.

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Post by 4liters » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:32 am

rb85 wrote:
Mattblack wrote:
rb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?
Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good though
Gurn.jpg
I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.
They’re fine on the boat, they don’t tend to flick around as violently as little flathead so if you drop one on the floor or the bait board you can easily brain spike it without any risk to yourself. They taste better bled out but you don’t get much meat off them
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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18

Post by Mattblack » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:29 pm

4liters wrote:
rb85 wrote:
Mattblack wrote:
rb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?
Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good though
Gurn.jpg
I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.
They’re fine on the boat, they don’t tend to flick around as violently as little flathead so if you drop one on the floor or the bait board you can easily brain spike it without any risk to yourself. They taste better bled out but you don’t get much meat off them
:thumbsup: cheers....(didn't know you were meant to bleed them) Don't usually keep them, but we thought it would be a good addition to the seafood basket for dinner. Ive heard these things are really nasty if they jab you...like the flu x 10

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Post by purple5ive » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:45 pm

Good report steveo.
would have loved to see all those kings hanging around the boat

and gurnards yeah nahhhhh

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Post by smile0784 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:30 pm

purple5ive wrote:Good report steveo.
would have loved to see all those kings hanging around the boat

and gurnards yeah nahhhhh
Arent they your favourite steve?

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Post by gregmaka » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:19 pm

very good report you must have had fun kayaks are good fun to

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Post by dazz999 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:45 pm

great read what were the micro jigs you were using

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Post by cheaterparts » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:59 am

dazz999 wrote:great read what were the micro jigs you were using
I use a few different jigs - a 40 gram Koika in a yellow type colour picked up squid a cuttlefish as well as wrasse
some other 40 gram jig pink and glow stripes also picked up wrasse
both set up with assist hooks at the top and a bottom hook split ringed on

used a pretty simple system most of the time - just drop the jig to the bottom and jigged it slow and some times fast not a lot of winding to keep it in the reef zone
while the kings were there I worked the top section of the water column

I'm still fairly new to M/Jigging and still learning
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm


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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18

Post by dazz999 » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:26 pm

cheaterparts wrote:
dazz999 wrote:great read what were the micro jigs you were using
I use a few different jigs - a 40 gram Koika in a yellow type colour picked up squid a cuttlefish as well as wrasse
some other 40 gram jig pink and glow stripes also picked up wrasse
both set up with assist hooks at the top and a bottom hook split ringed on

used a pretty simple system most of the time - just drop the jig to the bottom and jigged it slow and some times fast not a lot of winding to keep it in the reef zone
while the kings were there I worked the top section of the water column

I'm still fairly new to M/Jigging and still learning
thank,s

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