docklands last week
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docklands last week
been a member of this forum for a while and haven't contributed much :oops:
went to docklands last week and stayed for around 4 hours, it was a good session with 8 fish landed ( 2 trevally, 3 bream, 2 pinkies, 1 small mackeral i guess? ), noticed the breams are getting really fat now...
only took the larger pinkie home for dinner
went to docklands last week and stayed for around 4 hours, it was a good session with 8 fish landed ( 2 trevally, 3 bream, 2 pinkies, 1 small mackeral i guess? ), noticed the breams are getting really fat now...
only took the larger pinkie home for dinner
Re: docklands last week
Great catches!
... what I wouldn't give to catch a yellowtail in that area ... and then "throw it back" ...
... what I wouldn't give to catch a yellowtail in that area ... and then "throw it back" ...
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Re: docklands last week
Yeah good work, well done, :a_goodjob: cheers davo
By the way, :welcome: :thumbsup:
By the way, :welcome: :thumbsup:
It's an exhilarating feeling catching a fish
But it's an even better feeling releasing them
But it's an even better feeling releasing them
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Re: docklands last week
[quote="bilby"]Great catches!
... what I wouldn't give to catch a yellowtail in that area ... and then "throw it back" ...[/quote
you never know, one time i had a bite in docklands and as soon as I lift up my rod i felt a pretty powerful fish on the hook. It was taking my lines even the drag was set to around 7kg,,,,so i tightned up my drag to max 9kg in order to avoid him snag me.....eventually l lost the fish,,,the hook came out after a couple of mins battle and my 5kg rod was bending like never before .....i can hardly handle the rod by just one hand....oh, well....wouldn't be able to land it anyway..... :water:
... what I wouldn't give to catch a yellowtail in that area ... and then "throw it back" ...[/quote
you never know, one time i had a bite in docklands and as soon as I lift up my rod i felt a pretty powerful fish on the hook. It was taking my lines even the drag was set to around 7kg,,,,so i tightned up my drag to max 9kg in order to avoid him snag me.....eventually l lost the fish,,,the hook came out after a couple of mins battle and my 5kg rod was bending like never before .....i can hardly handle the rod by just one hand....oh, well....wouldn't be able to land it anyway..... :water:
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Re: docklands last week
spinning outfit with paternosters rigLINwAd wrote:Awesome! what rid and set up were you running?
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Re: docklands last week
there's a few things at the docks that'll do that to you.Yi1978 wrote:bilby wrote:Great catches!
... what I wouldn't give to catch a yellowtail in that area ... and then "throw it back" ...[/quote
you never know, one time i had a bite in docklands and as soon as I lift up my rod i felt a pretty powerful fish on the hook. It was taking my lines even the drag was set to around 7kg,,,,so i tightned up my drag to max 9kg in order to avoid him snag me.....eventually l lost the fish,,,the hook came out after a couple of mins battle and my 5kg rod was bending like never before .....i can hardly handle the rod by just one hand....oh, well....wouldn't be able to land it anyway..... :water:
Re: docklands last week
One of the oddest experiences I ever had down at the docks was throwing out a sliver of pilchard for bream and pinkies -getting a bite and hooking the fish, which felt like any of the other 28 cm pinkies I had caught on the day. Then half way in, the rod buckled over and I started losing drag for a moment or two - then as quickly as it had happened, the fight returned to normal. When I finally landed the fish, it was indeed a 28cm pinky ... with a bleeding, half moon of a bite with fine teeth marks right across the fish. I was fishing with size 6 hooks at the time, so no chance of hooking the beast that attacked my pinky, but it was definitely surprising!