Fishing Report 17th January, 2012

Last Saturday, Reef fishing charter.  The day started out pretty cool for this time of the year, but we still had a great morning. The boys caught a good box of fish, mowies, snapper, pigfish and flathead.

Sunday,we were out Marlin fishing with a mixed charter, a couple from Wales and three guys from Canberra.  We left the marina early and were in 70 fathoms by 7.30am.  We spotted some bait on the sounder and there were reports of a few Marlin in the area, caught and lost.  At about 10.30 am we had a Marlin following our teaser and Foxy the deckie fed out a live slimie (Mackrel) and the marlin took the bait.  Jason the Welshman fought the Marlin for about 20 min before we tagged and released it.

Happy New year to all my readers.  

Looks like the marlin season has started, with some sighting of marlin as well as some being caught on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  They were all over the place, Friday they were spotted south of Batemans Bay, Saturday North and Sunday South again. Spotted a few bait balls with plenty of Marlin showing up on Saturday as well as some Dolphin fish.  

Looking forward to some great Marlin fishing this season.

Reef fishing was average. Not many  boats were out early on New Years day, could be due to a few hangovers.  But we started our day at 6 am, looking for a good start to the new year, very foggy morning crossing the bar, but beautiful clear sky once near Snapper Island, saw a few whales, dolphins, seals and had a few marlin up,  had a nibble but no tags.

Then late in the afternoon we caught five nice Kingfish, on our way in, when we spotted a few birds. Weighing from 5 to 7 Kilos, between 700-900mm in length,  much fun was had bringing them in.

Another great day fishing

Started off a little overcast at 7am, when we crossed the bar.  Light North West breeze and a pretty flat ocean.  We  ventured out to about 35 fathoms and started our day fishing.  Spotted some whales heading south on our way out and when we came home.
The catch of the day was not as good a yesterday but we still caught a good box of fish, not allot of orther fish were caught thaat day.

Reef fishing

Forecast for today was average, and the weather man got it right again (sure did not).  The boys had a great day out, catching around 35 fish.  A mixed bag, 24 Mowie biggest around 2.5 kg, 3 Snapper   biggest around 1.5-2kg, Flathead at about 45-60cm long, nanygi, sgt baker, pigfish, piuke and red rockie.
The boys were pretty happy with that and  will certainly come back to have another go.

Saturday 26th Feb, charter Port Stephens

As predicted a good day again for the fishing, what a beautiful area to fish in. We caught another marlin today, this time a 80kg striped marlin.  Lost a marlin and had one checking out the lures.  Then a whaler shark of about 100kg was caught as well.  We spotted a large number of dolphins as well as some whales, certainly the place to be right now.

Port Stephens NSW 25th Feb 2011

 Friday morning charter. What a great day, we caught    3 black marlin weighing between 80kg and 120kg.  One each, couldn't ask for more then that. As predicted thefishing is hotting up in Port Stephens. With the tournaments running for the next 2 weekends, should make for an interesting couple of weeks.  Good luck to all who is competing.

Port Stephens February 2011

A week long trip to Port Stephens with the boat, stopped at some nice places on the way and I had to spend a few days, due to bad weather, in Broken Bay.
Once there, the weather fined up a little and the Marlin were putting on a good show, and plenty were caught inside the shelf in the past week.
I took out a charter on the weekend and we caught ourselves three yellow fin tuna weighing between 60-70kg.  Lots of bait around and more coming in and there are a good few marlin out there to be caught. Looking good for the fishing for the next few weeks at Port Stephens.

Cheers
Jeff