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[gofishin]

Sunday is looking great!  Anyone planning to head out, or will there be too many sore heads??? (and/or cleaning-up  ) Early Trophy night for me, taking the boys from work out for a fish on Sunday.
Brendon

[Reel Flash]

will have a sore head

[John_R]

I did suggest to Katie she might like to go whale watching, but she didn't appear all that keen.

[fisha]

I will be on the bay launching from Manly around dawn.
Wayne

[salty]

I Had a sore head and did the cleaning up with Paul, Darryl and Sally.
I hope all had a good night As usual forgot to thank someone. Thanks Johny for doing the newsletter and for your work on this site, I must write these things down for next time .
Cheers Rob
PS I hope you all caught Sargent Bakers and under sized Pearlies, hope you all had a great day on the water.

[Moonlighter]

Bobby (yes, the one who caught a jew fish...) was well enough to do a "gentleman's hours" trip with me yesterday.

Left home at about 10am and went to the 29's.

On about the 4th drift I latched onto this Cobia. Bobby hit him with the gaff and when we weighed him he went just a tad over 24kg.

Cheers

Grant

[Reel Flash]

thanks grant for letting me gaf the cobia for you
will say i was quite impressed with the little tinny it went quite nicely

[gofishin]

Bloody nice Cobe Grant.  After failing to score any live bait we tried the pearly spot then ended up about the mid of the 35's.  Planned on heading to DT but didn't make it.  Plenty of squire around legal or just under which went back in with instructions, but their mums/dads were not listening   Ended up with one about 3.5-4kg and 3 around 1.5.  Took out 3 guys from work who were happy (I was skipper & decky, but scored a rod when one started feeling crook - the 4th rod had rotten braid as we found out when we lost a good fish), but would have been nice with some better fish. Saw heaps of whales.  Ended up fishing to nearly 4pm as the fish came on the chew late.  Beautiful trip home at 60k's plus, some at WOT through the Rous to test 'another' prop!

Top night Rob, thanks for your efforts over the year (and for cleaning up & letting us go out for a fish ).

Noname - Rob, called you on the way in but you must have gone by then?  How did you go.
Brendon

[Moonlighter]

Hi Brendon

Thanks re the Cobe - it is a new PB so very happy with that. Going up in 7 kg increments on them at the moment - not looking fwd to pulling in the next one at over 30kg - sounds like too much hard work.....

I'm now thinking about one of those "fish bags" because fish that long are pretty well impossible to fit into even big eskies - anyone know where you can get them from for a decent price?? 

Re the suspected rotten braid - just check the guides on the rod very carefully for cracks - can often be the cause of such issues.

Cheers

Grant.

[gofishin]

Checked the guides first up Grant, all OK.  That was a reel that I have not used in many many years, but the boys I took out had no gear so wacked it on a spare rod.  Gave the drag washers & reel a service on Sat & actually removed about 60m of 'dulled' braid, but couldn't snap the remainder by hand - until we lost another 30m of it. Thought shark at first. 30lb! was more like 10lb.  my fault, old braid & should have replaced it.

If you find those bags let me know, I wouldn't mind one as well.
cheers
Brendon