After the new year, we've been anxiously waiting for news of good weather from the east coast opening up for some light tackle action. Not only were we told that the season opened, there were rumours of some groups hitting the mother lode of landing over 30 diamond trevallies in a day, some say 40s too.
A few days later, we're by the river jetty gazing over boats bobbing about, eagerly awaiting our boatman's arrival. Tackles ablaze, with a few acknowledging nods with the boatman, we load the boat up and head straight out with hopes held quietly high.
An hour or so later, we were dropping jigs at our first spot and struck the mother lode.
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| A nice size diamond on Evergreen's Caprice Kid jig taken on the fluttering drop, took quite a bit of crank in before being confirmed a solid hook up. |
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| Firm steady hook up around the kisser. |
Within the first 2 hours, fish finder were marking schools under and around the boat with multiple hook ups. Feeding frenzy ensues with various sizes being hooked up.
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| Nice sized diamonds on a double hook up next to each other. Even if there were misses, dropping the jig in again immediately invited other takers! |
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| Double trouble all thanks to IMA's notoriously effective Gunpeki! |
Occasionally, the school disappears and prompted us to search about nearby as the boatman suggests that they seldom wander far. Sometimes we find them, but sometimes we find other gangsters of the seabed.
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| 1 Gun 2 fish. Greedy groupers with mouths barely big enough for the jig! |
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| Multiple hook ups all throughout when we hit the sweet spot! |
The frenzied excitement stirred up quite a bit of itch out of the deckie and asked me to loan him my idling light tackle as well as some Gunpekies to try out. He was casting off lighter jigs away from where we were jigging covering more grounds and busting up diamonds after diamonds! The only consolation I get out of seeing a deckie setting lines on fire is the knowledge that some of my new Gunpekies will be properly christened!
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| A decent sized fish with a Gun on a medium light boat bass MojorCraft Skyroad rod! |
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| Candy coloured Gunpekis were firing too! |
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| Occasional slowdown prompted the trial of lumos. This one goes to a Shout! |
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| Oddly, candy colour Gunpekies was out firing other colours! |
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| Sweet toothed diamond trevallies? Never heard of em? This candy coloured Gunpeki will show you otherwise. |
The intense action lasted only for the first half of the day racking up about 10 jewels while the tally adds up to around mid 20s by day's end as the deckie out fished all 5 others combined as we enviously looks on with absolute disbelief!
It was a fun day out all in all and we'll surely be back for some revenge. Here are some of the actions caught on video for the trip, enjoy!
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