Author Topic: KZN Offshore - Whatzup (Read 881956 times)

FFF · « **Reply #980 on:** April 13, 2015, 08:56:57 AM »

Good to see couple of the guys yesterday.

Also launched yesterday and tried for couta again. Managed to hook a really nice queenfish and brought it to the boat. only to have my crew misgaff 3 times and eventually gaffed the hook out. Also got 2 hammers to the boat and released them.

Turned out to be a very nice day on the sea, had good showings the area I was fishing but struggled to get the bite.

Hammer · « **Reply #981 on:** April 13, 2015, 09:21:57 AM »

Mmmm........so which area was that buddy???????????????????

FFF · « **Reply #982 on:** April 13, 2015, 09:48:12 AM »

Quote from: Hammer on April 13, 2015, 09:21:57 AM

Mmmm........so which area was that buddy???????????????????

Mmmmm now that all depends how good the beer tastes on Friday evening

Hammer · « **Reply #983 on:** April 13, 2015, 09:51:30 AM »

It's going to taste fantastic, I'll even throw in a shot of Tipo Tinto or 2

SAfish · « **Reply #984 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:16:07 AM »

Well done on the good sized Tuna and sorry to hear about the Saily.

Umpa Lumpa · « **Reply #985 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:28:11 AM »

Niice reports Chaps

Nice Tuna Scott, seems your mojo for sailies on the new boat is good.

For the record, i would like to state "I was not FFF crew who misgaffed" i was home nursing a hangover thanks to mates who are here vsiting from UK.

Prego · « **Reply #986 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:32:37 AM »

The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying

Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?

maganything · « **Reply #987 on:** April 13, 2015, 11:26:12 AM »

Quote from: Prego on April 13, 2015, 10:32:37 AM

The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying

Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?

i dont know what they were, just looked like a scad, but they were fantasic bait... the swam along the surface and where shinny shinny shinny! it was only a matter of time until something picked them up...

Pity we only had 4 baits. 1, died, 1 saily ppick up, 1 missed pick up and 1 yellowfin....

CLS · « **Reply #988 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:12:22 PM »

Well I am sure if I made the right call to have a lie in ??

Shaun17 · « **Reply #989 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:45:44 PM »

Quote from: maganything on April 13, 2015, 11:26:12 AM

Quote from: Prego on April 13, 2015, 10:32:37 AM
The missed gaff on the queen fish is a good thing in my opinion just saying

Nice YFT Scott, was it torpedo scads you were using as bait?

i dont know what they were, just looked like a scad, but they were fantasic bait... the swam along the surface and where shinny shinny shinny! it was only a matter of time until something picked them up...

Pity we only had 4 baits. 1, died, 1 saily ppick up, 1 missed pick up and 1 yellowfin....

We got some razor bellies yesterday, maybe not those?

Chigger · « **Reply #990 on:** April 13, 2015, 08:59:22 PM »

Quote from: Umpa Lumpa on April 13, 2015, 10:28:11 AM

Niice reports Chaps

Nice Tuna Scott, seems your mojo for sailies on the new boat is good

Some good mojo on that boat, well done guys

Bwana · « **Reply #991 on:** April 14, 2015, 12:25:12 PM »

Some nice fish there gents, well done

@Scott - good to hear the sailies like your boat

We sent two of our up and coming Shelly Beach juniors to fish the Rod and Reel Interclub and they did very well, coming out on top after two days! Bevan got a sailie on a live mack as well as a 13kg wahoo on halco. Megan did very well and bagged a 31,7kg Yellowfin, rmember all these fish caught on 10kg mono! Very lekker to see the lighties doing well.

Shaun17 · « **Reply #992 on:** April 18, 2015, 06:19:45 AM »

Missed that post Mark, some cracking catches by the Juniors!!

Anyone fishing tomorrow, we'll be out tomorrow, Monday and maybe Tuesday if the weather plays ball.

Scott, will have that package for you...

maganything · « **Reply #993 on:** April 20, 2015, 07:34:06 AM »

we fished Durbs yesterday.
Was a beaut of a day with a fairly decent swell running, but the sea was flat...
Headed out to target tuna and found bait very easily!!
Our first pull of the morning resulted in us getting bitten off, the speed that the reel was screaming meant one thing...

. We changed to steel traces and went away about 30mins later with another wahoo. The speed of this fish was insane. i havent witnessed a fish move like that!!! this fish also ended up breaking us off...
We then set the baits again and about an hour later had another pick up... This time is was on the one mono trace we were fishing, and this was a tuna... Fish went deep and spat the hook!!!

we ended the day with 3 lost fish!! not good , but thats fishing!!

We always fish circle hooks and have not missed a fish with them before. We have recently changed from using a gama's circle to the mustad and have been missing fish. Do you think this could be and issue? Has anyone else experienced this???

Chigger · « **Reply #994 on:** April 20, 2015, 08:14:00 AM »

Thanks for the update Mag, three misses must be quite frustrating,...but still better than a complete blank.

dugong · « **Reply #995 on:** April 20, 2015, 08:18:48 AM »

Quote from: maganything on April 20, 2015, 07:34:06 AM

we fished Durbs yesterday.
Was a beaut of a day with a fairly decent swell running, but the sea was flat...
Headed out to target tuna and found bait very easily!!
Our first pull of the morning resulted in us getting bitten off, the speed that the reel was screaming meant one thing... . We changed to steel traces and went away about 30mins later with another wahoo. The speed of this fish was insane. i havent witnessed a fish move like that!!! this fish also ended up breaking us off...
We then set the baits again and about an hour later had another pick up... This time is was on the one mono trace we were fishing, and this was a tuna... Fish went deep and spat the hook!!!

we ended the day with 3 lost fish!! not good , but thats fishing!!

We always fish circle hooks and have not missed a fish with them before. We have recently changed from using a gama's circle to the mustad and have been missing fish. Do you think this could be and issue? Has anyone else experienced this???

Unlucky Scott, as you said - thats fishing!!
If you are targeting couta or wahoo specifically then there is little benefit in using circles IMO, rather use normal J hooks.

Bwana · « **Reply #996 on:** April 20, 2015, 08:19:15 AM »

Nice report Scott, pity about the lost fish - hard luck

I fish circles exclusively and have been through many different brands. In my opinion your best bet with best hookup ratio on tuna are 1) VMC Sport Circle 6/0 (offset heavy gauge) and 2) Eagle Claw 7/0 Tournament (inline circle) very sharp and excellent hookup. Ironically my worst results on tuna have been on the Gama 6/0 and Mustad Demon Circle 8/0's. If you want a no fail solution I would recommend the VMC sport circle 6/0.

Umpa Lumpa · « **Reply #997 on:** April 20, 2015, 08:41:27 AM »

Unlucky there Scott.

Well our motors seem to finally be sorted, put boat on water at about 10h00 to test run them, purred properly, so well out there got some bait, headed shallow to try for a Couta but nadda, heard plenty guys battled for fish yesterday. Sea was to perfect yesterday.

maganything · « **Reply #998 on:** April 20, 2015, 10:54:15 AM »

Shot Mark,

Will try the VMC's moving forward!!

Shaun17 · « **Reply #999 on:** April 20, 2015, 12:13:50 PM »

We fished yesterday with the intent of trying for a couta but had the boys nagging us to join us and with flat seas and almost no wind predicted it was impossible to say no so we changed plans and decided to try for a dorrie or wahoo instead...

Saw Scott up North (boat is looking smart bud) and heard he'd dropped a couple so knew the fish were there and just avoiding us

We found some walla walla and decided to boat a couple for the comp next week which ended up being good fun for the kids. After no luck and seeing another boat land a good size wahoo we headed further North and let the boys fish bottoms where they got some nice kings, rockcod & reds which were all released.

On the way back we put out a few rappies and managed a tuna of 17kg.