Popular Post GPSguru Posted November 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2021 (edited) Sunday was supposed to be a day fishing with Kyle, but he picked up the stomach bug that has been doing the rounds, so I decided to try a solo trip to the inshore (9Nm) wrecks. The sea was not as forecast, it was supposed to be 0.3m @ 10 Secs, however, once I was half a mile out the sea was more like 0.75m @3 secs, so an apt description would be on the rough side of lumpy. A steady 18 - 22knts soon had me over the wreck. I decided to go with SPJ as this is a snaggy wreck and slow jigs seem to snag less often. I didn’t take me long to work out that there were shoals of Bass about 100ft from the wreck on the downtide side. I had a steady run of Bass, with the biggest going about 3.5lb, and also the odd jumbo pout from time to time. Just before I was about to leave, I noticed 2 very large fish on the Panoptix, swimming about 50ft (midwater) above the wreck. Zooming in the panoptix showed some fantastic detail of the fish swimming and I was able to determine their length at about 10 - 12ft. My guess is that it was a couple of big Porbeagles, probably in the 400lb class. Unfortunately I couldn’t take a screen shot as I had forgotten to put the SD card in the plotter ! I had decided it would just be a morning trip and headed back in at 12 midday. The total for the session was 5 Bass and probably the same number of Pout. I kept a couple of Bass and the rest swam away to fight another day. Monday (today) was also forecast as a decent sea, so I decided to give the same wreck another SPJ session. Launched at 8:00am and again the forecast of 0.2m @ 17secs was way out, the sea was more like 0.5m @ 6 secs, so considerably flatter than Sunday. Once on the wreck, the first drop got hit instantly by a 5lb Bass, which put up a good show on the SPJ rod. A few drifts on different part of the wreck, produced the odd bite or two, but no hookups, so I decided to go back to the up tide part of the wreck where I caught the first fish. The next drop got hit on the drop, mainly because I paused the jig near the bottom to give it a fluttering motion. This was a 6lb 7oz Bass that put up a very spirited fight. Sorry for the blurred pics, there is salt spray on the lens 🙄 Fish on ! 6.5lb Bass 5lb Bass Small(ish) 3lb Pollock Next fish was a 3lb Pollock, then a couple of jumbo pout, and this was followed by a Bass a drift for the next 5 drifts. These were all decent fish, around the 4lb mark, and they all went back to fight another day. There were 2 other boats on the wreck fishing the standard tube boom rig (flying collar) and all I saw them catching were small Pout, so it was definitely SPJ that was producing the goods. The jigs I used were HTO Osoi slow jigs and I have changed the hooks for Trokar size 5/0 double assist. These are mega sharp and seem to produce more solid hookups than traditional hooks. I made my way back in at 12 midday and had quite a quick run back (30knts) with a following sea. The total for the morning was, 7 Bass to 6.5lb, 1 Pollock, and 4 jumbo pout. 2 good trips, 47Nm, 12 Bass, one Pollock, and numerous Pout ……… Edited November 16, 2021 by GPSguru mick, jonnyswamp, suzook12 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Quality report of two great sessions Ian. Some lovely fat bass there. 👍 Interesting to hear that SPJ's did the business over flying collars. Glad you're feeling well enough to get out there too. GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 Here you go, another pic of the 2 largest bass on the boat 'sofa' Geoff, Dicky and Andy135 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Nice fishing. Interesting the way the skin has gone a little red in the fish. There was a bit of a debate on a Facebook group a while back where someone accused someone else of buying the fish or something, because the colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, JonC said: Nice fishing. Interesting the way the skin has gone a little red in the fish. There was a bit of a debate on a Facebook group a while back where someone accused someone else of buying the fish or something, because the colour. The skin is red because I cut the gills on keepers to bleed them. This keeps the meat very white. Both had been in the 'red' water of the fish box, I should have washed the fish better before I took the pic 🙄 JonC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Well done Ian, good to see you back out there mate! GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captin slows old outlaw Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 well done , what a good report.the fish look good. im so jealous GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 looks like a craking couple of mornings afloat - and you must be so happy to be out again - let alone into fish like that! GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 12 hours ago, GPSguru said: Here you go, another pic of the 2 largest bass on the boat 'sofa' Nice thick fish there 🙂 well dangled 🙂 GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 17 hours ago, JonC said: Nice fishing. Interesting the way the skin has gone a little red in the fish. There was a bit of a debate on a Facebook group a while back where someone accused someone else of buying the fish or something, because the colour. 16 hours ago, GPSguru said: The skin is red because I cut the gills on keepers to bleed them. This keeps the meat very white. Both had been in the 'red' water of the fish box, I should have washed the fish better before I took the pic 🙄 Stick that in your pipe and smoke it JC. Geoff. JonC, GPSguru, Andy135 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 Excellent couple of trips, glad that you're back out and catching 👍 I WILL get to use my spj gear on a wreck...... GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Nice couple of trips, don't know if we will get down south again before the spring but if we do it would be nice to find a few silvers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted November 17, 2021 Author Share Posted November 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, Dicky said: Nice couple of trips, don't know if we will get down south again before the spring but if we do it would be nice to find a few silvers Let me know Dicky, and I can give you some numbers 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 On 11/17/2021 at 10:17 PM, GPSguru said: Let me know Dicky, and I can give you some numbers 👍 Thanks that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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