…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 …
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.
And that is what we call them. They are named Dolphin fish is Australia, perhaps not the best name. In the US they are called Mahi Mahi and in Spain and South America they are known as Dorado. Either way, they are a great fish to catch. Did you know that they are the fastest …
After strong wind previous days the sea settled down last Sunday to calm conditions, a slow rolling swell and a nice sunny and warm day. Unfortunately we didn’t hook up the tuna or kingfish that we were offshore trolling for. But fishing was good, as you can see, with a mix …
We could see the birds chasing bait fish in the middle of Bate Bay but unfortunately no pelagics today for us. Reef fishing was a little slow, probably because of the barometer dropping with strong wind coming in followed by a southerly gale force early next. But the guys end …
Happy birthday Bernie and thank you for spending the day with us. You have a great team and the nice sea conditions made it a very good day. You caught a mixed box of reef fish, i.e. snapper, wrasses, a goatfish, nannygai, pike and cowanyoung. Sorry, we couldn’t hook up the …
Yes, after many cancelled events, Frank is probably holding the record of being rescheduled multiple times. Yesterday was his fifth scheduled trip and the waiting paid off, we had a very pleasant down south near The Hump. With nice sea conditions, early spring sun, a great …
Cook Islands is a little paradise in the South Pacific and we really enjoyed a break from the Sydney winter weather. Just for your information, the 15 islands of the Cooks lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii in the South Pacific across 2.2 million square kilometres of …
