…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 was a very nice Queen’s Birthday long weekend with mixed catch of fish and different every day. We also had great sightings of humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins and seals. Fish of the day is difficult to call but Ruby’s snapper is a strong candidate. It is also wort …
The depth range of skipjack tuna can be from surface waters to 260m during the day, but at night it is much shallower. As the guys onboard now knows, striped tuna or stripies are a schooling fish having a general tendency to school by size. We had a multiple hook-up of four s …
The Sergeant Baker fish is probably named after Governor Phillip’s orderly sergeant, William Baker. As you can see, they can be recognised by its long tapering body, blotched coloration and its behavior of sitting on top of rocks looking out for passing prey, as divers …
… 14 Year old Daniel hooked up a kingfish on a handline, couldn’t hold it and dropped the reel. Well we turned around and spotted the reel, still with a fish on. On recovery the line broke and fish gone! But a little later the crew noticed a line and a fish behind it, tan …
As you can see, pigfish is pinkish-red fish with a number of darker stripes running the full length of the body. It has a moderately large mouth and thick lips. Earle caught this one on a green prawn at one of our spots near the cliffs of Kurnell on a reef in about 25 metres. …
Yes, it was a nice day with kind sea conditions. We were targeting offshore sport fish like king fish, salmon and tuna. Yes, we found lots of small kingfish off the bommie at the Royal National Park and our secret offshore FAD. Unfortunately the fish were all under the 65 cm …
Welcome back to Australia, Valentin. It was nice to see you onboard today and you didn’t miss the opportunity to catch the fish of the day. It is a Gummy Shark and this one is 1.15 metre and came in at about 4.2 kilo. Gummy shark is a high quality fish suitable for all kind …
We had Dave, Mel from South Australia, Jonathan, Craig and Ken with us for half day offshore reef fishing. The sea conditions were good with less than a metre swell and light wind. The best fish on the day were half a dozen flathead but also a dozen mackerel. We like mackerel …
You see, Nigel is a movie producer and this blue morwong followed the script! It’s a nice two kilo fish, perfect for baking whole, we like them scaled and the cavity filled with your favourite herbs and spices, three cuts along the body of the fish to even the cooking time. …
