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Girl power this is…

April 6, 2012 All At Sea 0

Jana has been onboard with us a couple of times and again showed her fishing skills. We had a good day with kind sea conditions. Strange how it is, we fished the reefs for more than an hour, fish on the sounder and no takers. Other than a small sergant baker! So we switched t …

It is the journey that matters, not the destination

April 1, 2012 All At Sea 0

We had another great day today with wonderful sea conditions and being out to the NSW Fisheries FAD, also a fish trap float and then the continental shelf. Unfortunately we didn’t catch the big ones, the guys throw back perhaps a half dozen dolpin fish under 60 cm. On t …

Another day in paradise

April 1, 2012 All At Sea 6

Well, perhaps it is an overstatement after our three days of summer and a shocking seasion with rain, rain and more rain. And the dams overflowing!! But today was good, we had very nice sea conditions and a lot of fun with mac tunas and bonnies, i.e. bonito which is in the tu …

Fish of the day: a 53 cm snapper

March 23, 2012 All At Sea 0

It’s been a very difficult season and the summer has been rained out. But we had an opening last Friday for Nick’s team from Mudgee, which is about four hours drive from Sydney. The fishing was good with a box of mixed reef and pelagic species. Other than good siz …

Off shore Tuna fishing with Michael’s team

March 22, 2012 All At Sea 0

We were concerned about the weather forecast and sea conditions but decided to at lease try to make it a day. After early choppy and wet conditions, the sky cleared and the sea settled down. The guys did well with a box of trevally, sweep, mackerel and lots of bonito.

All @ Sea’s Thai Fish Cocktails

March 18, 2012 All At Sea 2

Get your blender going and whip up following:  Coarsely chopped ½ large red capsicum  1 cm piece of chopped ginger  2 garlic cloves  3 table spoons of Sweet Chilli Sauce  Optional: a piece of Thai Palm sugar Throw in 500 g of any firm fish fillets. It can be Y …

Fishing with Westpac

March 12, 2012 All At Sea 0

It’s been a very strange and difficult season with lots of rain, wind and gale warnings. We haven’t had a summer, other than three days! After last weeks’ very heavy rain, we had 126 mm in less than 12 hours, with the dams are still overflowing. Fishing has been unpredi …

A Sunday fish bonanza

March 11, 2012 All At Sea 0

Hey, we had a very nice day today. Calm sea, blue and sunny sky and great fishing. Despite recent heavy rain and murky water, our catch rate was surprisingly good. And a nice mixed catch of bonito, tailor, mackerel, flathead, yellowtail, sweep and a 62 cm kingfish (undersize) …

Alastair’s striped tuna session

March 9, 2012 All At Sea 0

We had a very nice day out near the the FADs and floats off Port Hacking and on the continental shelf. Unfortunately the water tempraure had dropped with a the current from the south. Wew picked up a few mahi mahi but no keepers. But we came across a couple of schools of stri …

Bonito, bonito… and Mac tuna

March 5, 2012 All At Sea 0

Aaron’s team were very lucky with perfect sea conditions, clear sky and warm sun. Inshore trolling was very good with bonito all along the coast. We headed out to our nearest FAD but found only green cold water, about 20.1 C and no dolphinh fish. But bonito and mac tuna …