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On Friday packed the boat and the car for the long trip to Portland, thinking that most people would have left, sadly this wasn't true and the trudge from the city to Geelong became a painfully slow trip. Once past Geelong the travelling became much easier with fewer cars.
On the Saturday morning we missed the alarm and eventually launched at about 0530 and we still able to get a park close to the boat ramp. Asking around it was a choice between lady percy or the cape. We chose the cape and after about 2 .5 hours of trolling we boat our first blue fin tuna on a Pakula Bug.
The next 5 hours saw no sign of any birds diving, the sounder was bare, with no bait schools showing, let alone fish arches. We headed to Cape Bridgewater, went in shallow. There was a bit of chatter on the radio about being in 96 metres and there were about 5 boats working this area.
Eventually we decided to head back thinking One fish was all we were going to score, when suddenly I saw a tuna jump out of the water right next to the boat, and we were on, not one, fish, not two fish, but a three way hook up. My deckie regretted the decision to run a eggbeater with braid, as the tuna stripped about 50 metres of braid off the line, and made life a little difficult for him to wind it back in.
He thought a eggbeater/spinning reel would be easier to use.
Not only did we have a three way hook up, but we managed to land all three fish, so with our bag that was it.
We got back to the ramp and were inspected by fisheries. Our heaviest fish weighed a bit over 14 kilos.
The killer lures were the Pakula bug and Ricther Jelly Babes.
On the Saturday morning we missed the alarm and eventually launched at about 0530 and we still able to get a park close to the boat ramp. Asking around it was a choice between lady percy or the cape. We chose the cape and after about 2 .5 hours of trolling we boat our first blue fin tuna on a Pakula Bug.
The next 5 hours saw no sign of any birds diving, the sounder was bare, with no bait schools showing, let alone fish arches. We headed to Cape Bridgewater, went in shallow. There was a bit of chatter on the radio about being in 96 metres and there were about 5 boats working this area.
Eventually we decided to head back thinking One fish was all we were going to score, when suddenly I saw a tuna jump out of the water right next to the boat, and we were on, not one, fish, not two fish, but a three way hook up. My deckie regretted the decision to run a eggbeater with braid, as the tuna stripped about 50 metres of braid off the line, and made life a little difficult for him to wind it back in.
He thought a eggbeater/spinning reel would be easier to use.
Not only did we have a three way hook up, but we managed to land all three fish, so with our bag that was it.
We got back to the ramp and were inspected by fisheries. Our heaviest fish weighed a bit over 14 kilos.
The killer lures were the Pakula bug and Ricther Jelly Babes.
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