imnotafish
02-03-07, 10:17 PM
Went out off Sydney once more on wednesday to find some nice flat seas, no wind and finally finally some warm blue water. Strangely enough cos of that massive eddy working the waters off sydney, the current bringing the hot stuff was coming up from the south. There were three distinct licks of water with massive temp breaks. (22 at the heads - then 23 about 3 miles out - up to 24.9 about 5 miles out, then back to 22.5 at the wave rider and as you got further out it went back to 23.5 and apparently toward the shelf it got closer to 25.5). Step one get dollies finally paid off, as the wave rider produced like a storm cloud in the wet season. 10 small to mid sized new season dollies took our little yakkas (we only had two small enough), then our pillies, and finally even a small rogers popper. After an hour tho it was shut down time, and the time was at hand to search for greener pastures. Trolling a few lures out to about the 12 mile mark found water only one degree warmer than the 22.5 at the wave rider, less than was expected thats for sure, and the concensus was that the warmest water seemed to be the 24 stuff closer to shore. Another five miles back in we had proof, with 24.2 then 24.7 then 24.9 beautiful blue waters shimmering with promise. Suddenly, a fin, and not a shark either but a sizeable black marlin just tailing around on the surface in front of us. One of the smallest dollies we caught had been kept live in the tank for just such an occurance, and after a hectic 30 seconds of "where the is the f****** livey rig", and "get that lure in" etc, we had the bait in the water. Twas all to no avail tho, we were too slow and the fish was too uninterested. Anyway it was enough to get us well gee'd up for the next day. Drifted in the arvo for a marble flatty and a decent mowie before the big storms blew u;p and time to head home.
Thursday was much rougher. sometimes the forecast just aint up to the mark. must have been cos of the storms. What was meant to be 1m swell on 1m seas was at least double that with a fair bit of wind chop on top. Still after the day before it wasnt gonna stop us (now in two boats with two more accomplices!). But what a difference a day makes. the water was pretty similar temp wise, but the current had almost stopped, and the no run no fun rule was in full effect at the wave rider. Two dollies between both boats, and smaller than the day before too. At least we got Shlaterz got on to his first dolly ever. Not huge by any means but still bought a smile to his face! :cool-smiley: Went back in to the fisheries FAD trolling xmas trees and hooked a little fish on the way by it. We stopped and thew some unweighted pillies down at it, for much better results. An hour and a half of pretty tasty, and just generally pretty dollies (tho pretty small) kept us happy before twas time to head home leaving em biting. Kept shlaterz happy for the day anyway.:hot tail:
Also when we cleaned the fish we found these strange fish in their stomaches. I was struck by how they looked like they had bands like a coral snake (but less colourful) on their bodies. And that their heads were much bigger than their bodies.
We found 5 of them all up in the stomaches of the dollies we got off the wave rider, but none in the other dollies of the fisheries FAD.
Does anyone know what they might be??
The arent frost fish - thought maybe they r a sea snake or something except the had sort of whiskery fins running the length of the body top and bottom??
Ideas please!!!:3d hi:
Stef
Thursday was much rougher. sometimes the forecast just aint up to the mark. must have been cos of the storms. What was meant to be 1m swell on 1m seas was at least double that with a fair bit of wind chop on top. Still after the day before it wasnt gonna stop us (now in two boats with two more accomplices!). But what a difference a day makes. the water was pretty similar temp wise, but the current had almost stopped, and the no run no fun rule was in full effect at the wave rider. Two dollies between both boats, and smaller than the day before too. At least we got Shlaterz got on to his first dolly ever. Not huge by any means but still bought a smile to his face! :cool-smiley: Went back in to the fisheries FAD trolling xmas trees and hooked a little fish on the way by it. We stopped and thew some unweighted pillies down at it, for much better results. An hour and a half of pretty tasty, and just generally pretty dollies (tho pretty small) kept us happy before twas time to head home leaving em biting. Kept shlaterz happy for the day anyway.:hot tail:
Also when we cleaned the fish we found these strange fish in their stomaches. I was struck by how they looked like they had bands like a coral snake (but less colourful) on their bodies. And that their heads were much bigger than their bodies.
We found 5 of them all up in the stomaches of the dollies we got off the wave rider, but none in the other dollies of the fisheries FAD.
Does anyone know what they might be??
The arent frost fish - thought maybe they r a sea snake or something except the had sort of whiskery fins running the length of the body top and bottom??
Ideas please!!!:3d hi:
Stef