Mission Continues:(In Need of a Bill!)

[xtosea]

After driving especially to Port to get my lures on Friday night, we made plans to go out today into the deep blue, weather was way ordinary in morning with rain and sea not at its friendliest, but is soon subsided to a sea we could deal with, we headed straight for the shelf, as the westerlies and southerlies had pushed the good water outwider, at least thats the thinking behind our plan. About 6miles from the shelf, i put the spread out, loving it, i had MY lures, as we neared Browns, "Zanzabar" about 300m to our port side, hooked up to a Blue of around 80kg, they fought it for 30min at least while we trolled around them and the birds working the area, nothing, anyway continued to Browns, the Short Corner gets a short run, thats all, get to Browns, do u-turn back to the birds only 2miles away, do laps nothing! Stuff lets go East, we had travelled for about 1mile when the Short Corner gets smashed, but dropped again, i run to it and give it a workout trying to entice whaever hit it!. No sooner than 3 blinks of eye, the Short Rigger goes off for the second week in a row! After a spirited 10min fight again, this time on 24kg, we boated this little beauty below!
We trolled for another 30min before heading towards land, passing the Botany Bay Wide Fad on the way in, first pass get a double hook up on Dollys, pull the hooks on one on 24kg, and got the second one, did another loop, hooked up again really close to the fad, we get a strike but the fish just went straight for the fad and i lost my beloved Hornet!
With rain caining down from Sydney, we pulled the rods in and headed for home in pouring patches of rain! Second time out off Sydney this season and a great day again!
All the best everyone.

Kamil

[imnotafish]

hey Kamil, FYI on what fish that was you got yesterday....
some differences between blue M and shortbill speary...
obviously - shorter bill length in speary,
but also - length of pec fin in relation to body length (speary is shorter)
height of dorsal fin - speary has dorsal which is nearly half as high over the whole length as it is at the front tip.
body - slender body is diagnostic of speary
and also slender head is diagnostic of speary.
so all in all tho cant see all the indicators from your photos - think your little beauty could well be a shortbill spearfish (small pec fin and short bill both showing).
quote from sea fishes of southern australia "rarely seen in coastal waters, preferring oceanic conditions. Several have been found washed ashore in nsw and southern W.A."
they also say -max length 2m ------ and aust record in Kilo's - 30.5kg
and from the pic that fish looks pretty close to that.......
What do you reckon?????? could be near an oz record speary if it is one !!!!..... :coool:

[xtosea]

Yeah Stef, its definitely a short billed spearfish, i was confused for a while there yesterday, thinking it was the most underfed blue ever! which was missing its bill!!! Its Dorsal fin was in tatters, all torn and ripped, therefore was hard to tell, the fish going by mates of mine, reckon its about 25kg, i have the photo now of Pakula's Oz record fish and it is a little bigger! Still a bloody good fish and im stoked its another type of Billfish to my boats name! Just need to get a Blue,a Sword and Sail now! Bring on summer!
All the best everyone out there for the summer.
Kamil

[imnotafish]

C'mon "OnaMission"
Lets see More fish..............
get into em!!!!!
btw the "5kg dolly" was bloody superb!
had it with soy and mirren and lemon juice
on the bbq with salad
awesome
:coool:

[TomMc]

great fish again felas, nice pics you took as well cant wait till i can go fishin again but me dads been workin so much lately

[imnotafish]

Hey Kamil,
heres a thumbnail pic 4 u

haha
bloody nice catch that one still cant get over it.

btw can you post pakulas record fish pic???
.............

[mr antenna]

The way we are going ,Our mission this summer will never end]HOPE TO GOD]