Mahi

[Dog Catcher]

Went out for a fish yesterday not had a good run trying to catch myself a YFT this season must be getting old :banghead:

One run which I assumed was a YFT reeled back a baitless hook

My nephew did however get a small Mahi on a pilly bait

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2395/madz9.jpg

[xtosea]

Well done JG, one of the first for the season! Like i said yesterday, the colours really come up trumps on this one!!! Beautiful sexy fish! Great quick camera work. Hope its the first of many more to come, dont wory about the YFT, some people say this month is going to be hopefully good?
Kamil

[Dog Catcher]

Yeah it seems the young guy attracts the Mahi's

He boated one last season around this time which would've been up around the 25 kg mark.

His old man stuffed up @ the gaff ripped straight through the fish's shoulder & swam away.

No pics of that one but do have it on video somewhere may pull out the video & take one of the frames& turn it into a jpeg

[storms72]

Good fish there DC, seems all the fellas chasing fin this year have been doing it tough.....At least you didn't come home empty handed!

[TomMc]

nie mahi DC

hope you get a YFT next time you go out!

[sclark3]

Good looking fish:1yikes: 10 second fight on that gear:Death_To_Above: what was the water temp?

[Dog Catcher]

Yeah I told the nephew it was his dead live bait swiming back to the boat :violent1:

Water temp was 19 . 9

[sclark3]

Getting warmer, giddy up:beerchug:

[Dog Catcher]

Well it looks like the warmer water may have disipated from wednesday till today

this was wednesday when the 19 deg water finished all the way to the 100 fathom line

http://www.cmar.csiro.au/remotesensing/oceancurrents/Syd-Hob/2007091904.html

And this it today not as warm might see the return of the fin for the weekend

http://www.cmar.csiro.au/remotesensing/oceancurrents/Syd-Hob/2007092017.html

[imnotafish]

""And this it today not as warm might see the return of the fin for the weekend""

hope so im heading out again thurs
keep you posted...

BTW bloody nice to find an early dolly there
especially on the cube!



also have been trying the new CSIRO bluelink SSt graphs, http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/forecasts/idyoc14.shtml?region=14&forecast=1

has anyone used them yet??
they look pretty good with salinity graphs as well as temps and currents

[Dog Catcher]

Yeah well it's pee'ing me right off this season 8 trips now with zero results on the fin.

Snuck out to the Canyons after lunch yesterday & although the water temp was good @ 19.3 deg the water was still green not filthy green but green none the less.

Cubed for just over 4 hrs & it didn't even feel like we were going to get a fish, no current out there @ all cubes going straight down.

All that can change over night I'll prob sneak out again during the week if weather stays like today

ps] Just about all the graphs come from the same gov dept

[imnotafish]

Yeah i know how you feel about the fin this year mate, its just pain. :violent1:

Guess we have to accept this year Sydney just aint gonna fire on the 'fin front.