bermagui final report

[Nude up]

Thursday was our last day on the water and what a day low wind bright and sunny after early rain. We headed out to the top of the 12 mile reef to find loads of bait with marlin working them we quickly load up with slimies and put 2 baits out, we troll around the bait nothing we devide to drift and send a bait really deep. As I was winding the down rigger up some thing broke the pin in the rod holder sheared off so the rod kept swiveling around can't use that one now.
We drift bait deep nothing. We see birds working in the distance up baits steam over there bait boiling on the surface livies deployed and we get sealed. By know its 1pm and we have tried everything but no takers. We have 3.5 hours of our trip left we decide to pull lures cover lots of water. We get the lures out and head for the bottom of the 12 mile after 30 mins we get a hit on the short rigger but it doesn't stick 1 hour later a mako comes up in the spread and nails the witchdoctor

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At 430 pm we call it quits and head back to wash the boat pack up and go to the pub.

It has been a great trip we raised 9 marlin hooked 8 and tagged 5 our best score yet we learnt a few things not only check your rods and reels

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check your harness this is an aftco back harness that the left reel strap snapped when gav was fighting a big black marlin luckily he grabbed the rod and we got my black magic harness on him.

Nude up needs a 1kw transducer for his boat check out these sounder images 1 of them was a marlin coming up and nailed one of our baits

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The haines 680 patriot is a great blue water boat

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The first 2 days were really rough but it handled the conditions great.
And you have to have good mates with you to get you through the boring times waitng for a
hit

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We have already picked the dates for next year and we may have to take 2 boats in 2018 due to pressure from other guys at work.

[Delirium]

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Awesome trip!! VERY jealous. 5 tagged fish is a great effort. Well done

[Lightningx]

Top effort mate! Good stuff :thumbsup:

[davek]

Good trip nude up, with top results, beats working, cheers davo :thumbsup:

[scott__henning]

Gee you weren't kidding when you said your witch doctor got hit eh, that's been mangled!

[purple5ive]

nice report mate, love skippy making an appearance def good to mix it up a bit and have some fun while fishing.
cheers