I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.Mattblack wrote:Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good thoughrb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?
out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
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They’re fine on the boat, they don’t tend to flick around as violently as little flathead so if you drop one on the floor or the bait board you can easily brain spike it without any risk to yourself. They taste better bled out but you don’t get much meat off themrb85 wrote:I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.Mattblack wrote:Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good thoughrb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?
2015/16 Species comp total: 289cm
Brown Trout: 37cm
Flathead: 51cm; Squid: 36cm; Australian Salmon: 51cm; Snapper 46cm; Silver Trevally 23cm; KGW: 45cm
Brown Trout: 37cm
Flathead: 51cm; Squid: 36cm; Australian Salmon: 51cm; Snapper 46cm; Silver Trevally 23cm; KGW: 45cm
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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
4liters wrote:They’re fine on the boat, they don’t tend to flick around as violently as little flathead so if you drop one on the floor or the bait board you can easily brain spike it without any risk to yourself. They taste better bled out but you don’t get much meat off themrb85 wrote:I never let them in the boat although I should few stories of the spinkes tend to scare me off.Mattblack wrote:Certainly is...I handle them very carefully with a pair of long handled pliers...they taste good thoughrb85 wrote:Great day out.
Is that a gurnard Matt how do you like handling them?

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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
Good report steveo.
would have loved to see all those kings hanging around the boat
and gurnards yeah nahhhhh
would have loved to see all those kings hanging around the boat
and gurnards yeah nahhhhh
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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
Arent they your favourite steve?purple5ive wrote:Good report steveo.
would have loved to see all those kings hanging around the boat
and gurnards yeah nahhhhh
Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
very good report you must have had fun kayaks are good fun to
Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
great read what were the micro jigs you were using
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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
I use a few different jigs - a 40 gram Koika in a yellow type colour picked up squid a cuttlefish as well as wrassedazz999 wrote:great read what were the micro jigs you were using
some other 40 gram jig pink and glow stripes also picked up wrasse
both set up with assist hooks at the top and a bottom hook split ringed on
used a pretty simple system most of the time - just drop the jig to the bottom and jigged it slow and some times fast not a lot of winding to keep it in the reef zone
while the kings were there I worked the top section of the water column
I'm still fairly new to M/Jigging and still learning
My kayak PBs
Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Fin Pike 41.5 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 40 Cm hood
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Fin Pike 41.5 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 40 Cm hood
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Re: out the front of Flinders 4/02/18
thank,scheaterparts wrote:I use a few different jigs - a 40 gram Koika in a yellow type colour picked up squid a cuttlefish as well as wrassedazz999 wrote:great read what were the micro jigs you were using
some other 40 gram jig pink and glow stripes also picked up wrasse
both set up with assist hooks at the top and a bottom hook split ringed on
used a pretty simple system most of the time - just drop the jig to the bottom and jigged it slow and some times fast not a lot of winding to keep it in the reef zone
while the kings were there I worked the top section of the water column
I'm still fairly new to M/Jigging and still learning