Must say our morale was down concerning the fishing as we were in an area with incredible structure and drop offs but the game fish were missing with only couta a few snoek and one Wahoo being taken. We had found some showings on 2 of the shallower reefs were we just could not get bites we would try for live bait and the live bait would get bitten off, we would jig and loose jigs on the way down but no interest on the way up. Man we were absolutely finished and confused with no answer and we took a few days off just chilling with the family by the pool side partaking in some R&R and 2M.
Peterblace managed to get a few great dives in and on one of his dives they had gone to the one reef were we had found very good showings. He came back super excited saying that the fish are there as we had seen on the sonar from, many species of kingies with some big Geets in the mix, baracuda, couta and potato bass.
So we put some thought into this and we started rigging again and that afternoon we headed out at about 4pm with the sea on its head and some rain but hell we were now excited about fishing again and nothing was going to stop us, we put the clears up and off we went with only the jigging gear.
We got to spot X and the showing was thick, we went down and nothing 15min in we decided to change to 100g jigs, straight away we start getting bites but we can't hook up, 5-6 bites in and not one hook-up, frustration and confusion setting in. I lock my drag and on the next bite I hit the fish hard on every pump of the rod and I eventually land a small Geet.
So I tell the rest of the guys to hit the fish hard and we eventually start landing some fish, green job fish and tomato rockods and a rainbow runners as a new species. In between the mayhem we getting bitten off and reefed and there fish swimming all around the boat absolute pandemonium with some proper viskoors. We put the medium 50lb set ups away and we pull out the big gun stella's and Gorilla 20 but we cannot buy a bite for the love of money with these setups...............aargh more confusuion
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We put the heavy stuff away and immediately we hooking up on the 50lb tackle but again reefed/RENAMO'ed and humble by these beasts on every half decent fish we hook. 6.30pm we had back to the beach with big grins on our faces although we never landed any big fish, none of us had ever experienced a session like that, it was UNBELIEVABLE.
We had lost 7-10 jigs and spoons in a session of less than 2 hours, this is the fishing I enjoy, it would just be great to land some of the bigger fish in between the mayhem.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO LAND THESE BIGGER FISH?????????????????????????????
That evening we spent a lot of time preparing jigs and spoons, spoons with wire, drop shot with wire, jigs with wire bite traces as we prepared to do another afternoon session the next day.
The next afternoon the sea was even bigger with 3-3.5 meter swells but it was not stopping us, we wanted to get back to that action. We got there and the action again was fast and fierce and again we did not manage to land any big fish as they would not take on our heavy tackle and we got properly beat up again on the 50lb stuff.
My question to you seasoned jiggers. Why were we unable to get bites on the 80 and 100lb setups even when using the exact same jigs and spoons???
Is it the heavier rods that cannot produce the same action as the lighter gear???
Is the diameter of the line too visible???
The water was very clean and we were fishing shallow between 22m-27m
Please help we want to go back for revenge better prepared
In the video Peterblace posted is the action of just the one 2 hour session.......... simply insane stuff and with all the bust ups we loved it
