JDP Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 (edited) Plan was to head out on my own in search of a yellowfin to smoke and make some cream cheese dip pate ready for Xmas (freeze them). My daughter is normally to busy with charters to fish with me very often but to my surprise she was keen on a morning trip as she only had a midday charter today. Headed out to the continental shelf and started pulling a few hardbody diver lures. It's a huge ocean so finding tuna can be a very hit or miss challenge when searching offshore without structure or something to hold the fish to an area. Took us about 1hr to get to where we decided to start and close to 2hrs before we hooked the first striped tuna (skipjack). One of these was jumbo sized stripey and gave a hell of fight for what's really a small tuna. We were in about 400m of water and the stripies were now at 4 for the cooler. My favourite lure, the Samaki pacemaker was the one I'd picked to get a yellowfin if we were lucky enough to find any. Sure enough this little yellowfin took the samaki on the spin gear and was on the deck of the boat within 5 mins. My daughter was extremely happy, so we spiked, bled and got the fish onto an ice slurry and headed home. To top the trip off I dropped her in on small rock on the way home to search for a lobster and sure enough she popped to the surface with these three. Top morning, spending it with my eldest girl and back home by midday. Just over 100km trip for 43lt of fuel, which can't be to bad. Edited November 25, 2024 by JDP Dicky, Josh and mick 3 Quote
JDP Posted November 25, 2024 Author Posted November 25, 2024 The yellowfin. Dicky, mick, daio web and 1 other 4 Quote
daio web Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 not a bad mornings work amazing 👍 JDP 1 Quote
Saintly Fish Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Pretty good going Jon! I spent the weekend hiding from the wind and rain! JDP 1 Quote
JDP Posted November 25, 2024 Author Posted November 25, 2024 21 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said: Pretty good going Jon! I spent the weekend hiding from the wind and rain! We've had plenty of wind but no rain for quite some time, so many river and creek systems dried up again. Quote
Saintly Fish Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 29 minutes ago, JDP said: We've had plenty of wind but no rain for quite some time, so many river and creek systems dried up again. All your rain is on holiday over here!! JDP 1 Quote
mike farrants Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 nice! not bad for a mornings work! JDP 1 Quote
Odyssey Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Awesome stuff…. Bad flooding down my way… cold and wet, time to hibernate JDP 1 Quote
willyhookit Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 awesome trip good fuel burn figures Quote
JDP Posted November 26, 2024 Author Posted November 26, 2024 Both trebles got bent!!!!!!....need to upgrade my oaks or get my daughter to use less drag. Quote
JDP Posted December 5, 2024 Author Posted December 5, 2024 31 minutes ago, Josh said: Lovely trip there @JDP Just heading out looking for another, that ones been eaten now!!! Josh 1 Quote
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