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.