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

January 2011

The fishing is hotting up, with lots of marlin seen and caught.  The water temp is anywhere between 22-24 degrees.  There has been some nice mahi mahi caught, over 15 kg. The reef fishing has improved also, with nice snapper, morwongs and pigfish to be got.

February I will be off to Port Stephens with my boat, where I have charters booked, both for competitive fishing and pleasure fishing.  Lots of marlin has been seen and I will expect that there will be lots more to be caught. I will be available for bookings.

Sunday 9th Jan, 2011

One week before the Tolgate tournament.  What a miserable day to go out, pouring rain and sloppy sea conditions, not a good start.
Got out to 70 fathoms and we put ourt baits in the water, there were the seals and a few birds.  A short time late the rigger pulled out of the peg and Marg was hooked up to her very first marlin.  After 20 minutes of hard work Foxy  was able to grab the leader, while Jeff placed a tag in the 80kilos striped marlin's shoulder.

We worked the area for the rest of the day, but the bait that had been there in the previous days had moved on. That was all the excitement for the day. Better luck next weekend.

Friday 7th Jan 2010 gamefishing in Batemans Bay

Finally the water is getting up to scratch,  22 degrees Celsius.  Nice bit of bait around.  A few marlin have been tagged and lost.  A good start to the Marlin season in the Bay.  Just in time for the Tollgate Tournament on next weekend.  Can't wait.

Game fishing charter with Dennis, Sally and Eyal, Tuesday 5th

                                                                                          

What a day, we left the marina at around 7, it was overcast and about 1.5 metre south east seas.  Started fishing in 70 fathoms, trolled out over the shelf towards Tuross, NSW. 

Fishing was a little slow with not much bait around, then a little after lunch we had a Hammerhead shark checking out our teasers, Foxy threw in a live stripey and the Hammerhead pounced on it.  After 40 minutes on 24 kilo Dennis had the shark to the boat, where Foxy released the three metre shark boat side. Then a short time later we were jigging bait on a bait school and a 2.5 meter Mako shark followed the bait jig up and tried to attack everything else that was still in the water including the teasers. We pitched a live stripey to the Mako who immediately ate it and we were hooked up.  At the end of the day a good time was had by all.