What a day it was today Sunday 28th January… a really nice sport fishing event with Mandy as the team leader. Yes, the conditions were unexpectedly tough with sea running at 1.5 to 2.5 meters at 5 to 6 seconds between peaks. But how about this…first dolly for the season …
…and it was a good one with a very nice crew with Yong Pan’s COSCO team and Jenna the team leader. We landed a nice catch, not big in numbers but mixed reef fish and pelagics like bonito and kingfish. The most exciting hookup was a mako shark on our floating blue …
It’s a Parrot Fish visiting from the coral or subtropical ocean up north. What brought him to a reef north east of Bate Bay off Cronulla, you wonder? So nice work Luke J and it will be a nice dinner. They are great eating with lovely, soft white flesh and considered a delic …
Largehead Hairtail are normally found in estuaries during early winter. Often up in Hawkesbury at places like Coal and Candle Creek. So we don’t know what brought this guy to Cronulla. It is a good quality food fish and at 1.2 meters will feed a family.
After Friday and Saturday with cancellations due to a gale warning followed by massive seas, we had a very good day on Sunday 28th February. 15NM east of Cronulla at Fisheries FAD we found good size fish. In summary: 11 dollies at 65 to 85 centimeters plus a skipjack tuna. …
It was an exciting day at sea last Saturday 9th January. At Middle Ground we found massive schools of mackerel on the surface, chased by predators below. And our big live mackerel work well with Adam hooking up a 70 kilo marlin. Unfortunately lost after a 15 minute battle. An …
… by bringing in the fish of the day! It was a quite nice day despite a little choppy sea. Here is the scorecard: snappers, sergeant baker, wrasse, silver trevally, sweep and striped sea pike.
The weather forecast was good with light wind and sea around one meter. But reality was different with offshore washing machine sea conditions. So plan B: Our strategy to fish Port Hacking river paid off. Marty had a huge run with a big fish and lost it. Ross caught the fis …
…because we had a great team of doctors and nurses from St Vincent Private Hospital onboard. They are all working at ICU – an Intensive Care Unit. I’m sure that can be stressful at times! We had very nice sea condition and clear skies. The team did well with a nice …
