Fishing Club?

[peterpalmieri]

Thanks Ray would love to go but have rehearsal tomorrow. I wish I could shut down the music stuff for the spring and fall run.

Fished shinnecock on Friday, saw some bass in the flats but only caught blues. The bay by me was dead on Saturday morning nothing to be found. And now days of rain.

 

[RayG]

OK I will take copious notes for both of us then

I have a bad ground from batteries to my panel. Was able to diagnose it last Sunday and hope to run new set of wires on Saturday before we can head out.

BTW I caught that bass on my 7'6" spinning pole. Was a great 20 minute ride.

Regards------------

 

[Fishheadjoe]

Heading to Lake Nipissing Friday morning for the Walleye opener. Three days of fishin and three days out of the city... can't wait!
We've had, like many on or near the eastern seaboard and extremely wet and cool spring. It's my understanding that the black flies and mosquitoes and in full bloom and that any small child let unattended will be carried away, never to be seen again!
Luckily, I'll be on an island that has little to no bugs, but as soon as I set foot on shore, things are going to get dicey!
I'll post osme pics, should I be fortunate enough to catch anything...
Fishheadjoe

 

[jordy_on_bass]

Can't believe we are still catching Marlin and other summer season gamefish here just north of Sydney, for christ sake it is almost winter!!!

A mate of mine had just bought a 34 foot Riviera and wanted to do a days gamefishing, even though I suggested that the gamefish are starting to disappear. Christened his boat with a 30lb Mahi Mahi and a 600lb Blue Marlin, both fish caught on 30lb tackle. Awesome day fishing!!

Interesting to see the change in water colour in the 2 pictures, the Mahi was caught in 75.6 degree water and the Blue Marlin was caught in water 72.1 degree water. The water is totally different colours in the pictures.

I caught my first marlin in 5 years on the 23 of march this year and since then, I have caught about another 15. That first fish took 3 trips, and I have caught fish on every trip since bar one trip. Talk about getting over the initial 'hump'.

Cheers,
Jordan

 

[baba]

Jordan, you keep posting pics at this rate and I'm going to have to book a flight to Australia!

 

[burk48237]

Well I feel kind a like an amatur here posting pics of puny freshwater fish. But I've been banging big Smallies with the Fly Rod the last few days. This was a nice one, I released one bigger yesterday.

 

[jordy_on_bass]

baba,

If you want to come and have the opportunity at catching gamefish in Australia, we finally built our own custom fitted out trailerboat. 22 foot, 250hp 2 stroke motor for plenty of speed (38 knots on it's trial, and only ran on 4 of it's 6 cylinders), 100 gallon capacity and totally fitted out for big gamefishing, we use 30 and 50lb test so you won't get too sore. Just let me know when you are here and I am sure I could get you a spot. If we can't fish on that, there is always my mates 36 foot Rivera

Like I said previously, the gamefishing this season has been absolutely unbelievable. A crewmate is jumping onboard a large flybridge boat in a few days to run the decks for a 2 week fishing expidition 1000 miles north of here, and he is getting paid for it. He is expecting to see 500lb+ Blues, smaller 100-150lb Blacks and plenty of Mahi Mahi. All whilst fishing during winter for these typically 'summer' species. It's got alot to do with the East Australian Current running very hard this season and keeping the warm water further south.

I believe that Australia is THE best gamefishing destination in the world, especially in regards to Marlin. Hawaii is known for being a giant blue marlin spot, but I don't think it is as good as Cairns is for the Giant Black Marlin season from August-November. Boats frequently report catching Black Marlin over 800lb as well as numerous reports every week of boats tagging and releasing 1000lb+ giants. And then there is the ret of the east coast, which generally enjoys catching Marlin in the 150-700lb range.

Anywhoo, here is a picture of that trailerboat I mentioned waaay back in my first paragraph. It is setup to catch plenty of big fish!!

Cheers,
Jordan

 

[baba]

baba,

If you want to come and have the opportunity at catching gamefish in Australia, we finally built our own custom fitted out trailerboat. 22 foot, 250hp 2 stroke motor for plenty of speed (38 knots on it's trial, and only ran on 4 of it's 6 cylinders), 100 gallon capacity and totally fitted out for big gamefishing, we use 30 and 50lb test so you won't get too sore. Just let me know when you are here and I am sure I could get you a spot. If we can't fish on that, there is always my mates 36 foot Rivera

Like I said previously, the gamefishing this season has been absolutely unbelievable. A crewmate is jumping onboard a large flybridge boat in a few days to run the decks for a 2 week fishing expidition 1000 miles north of here, and he is getting paid for it. He is expecting to see 500lb+ Blues, smaller 100-150lb Blacks and plenty of Mahi Mahi. All whilst fishing during winter for these typically 'summer' species. It's got alot to do with the East Australian Current running very hard this season and keeping the warm water further south.

I believe that Australia is THE best gamefishing destination in the world, especially in regards to Marlin. Hawaii is known for being a giant blue marlin spot, but I don't think it is as good as Cairns is for the Giant Black Marlin season from August-November. Boats frequently report catching Black Marlin over 800lb as well as numerous reports every week of boats tagging and releasing 1000lb+ giants. And then there is the ret of the east coast, which generally enjoys catching Marlin in the 150-700lb range.

Anywhoo, here is a picture of that trailerboat I mentioned waaay back in my first paragraph. It is setup to catch plenty of big fish!!

Cheers,
Jordan

Thanks Jordan! That's quite a haul for me, but you never know.... Love the 22 footer. My friend has a similar 25 and it's a great boat - big enough, but not too big to crush the wallet on fuel costs.

 

[SallyGrowler]

Stripers are in!

this was an average size fish that I caught on Monday.

 

[Dr. rockzo]

Last fish i caught today

 

[fhm555]

Angling is the only thing ever to give music any serious competition for my time outside of earning a living...until I got messed up in 1999 and couldn't slip around in the woods sneaking up on closed lakes or scrambling over the gunwale of my jon after launching it into a little pond just after sunrise, and dropping tube ants around stumps for red ear and the occasional bucket mouth...yeah I know it's rough fish and it's on fly and I know I'm going to hell for such blasphemy...but ***...it's fun...so sue me.

I never discriminated either, when I was not in someone's drinking water looking for fun, I was in the salty stuff, all the way from back bay slews to open water and every place in between. Nothing like lucking up on a big school of jack crevalle in the back bay when all you have handy is your 5wt and some smallish deceivers. While technically not rough fish, it's still not one of the noble species and I'm taking them on (gasp) fly tackle, and they are not even good to eat, but when you have a 3~5 lb jack melting your drag washers...all's right with the world.

It could be high summer bluegill on a flea rig or spring cobia on a feather jig, it never mattered to me so much what I was after, being on the water was better for recharging my spiritual batteries than any church I've ever set foot in.

These days since I can't scramble around the water so much any more, I turned a long time hobby into a small little side business. It's not quite as much fun as a tight line or a screaming drag, but it keeps me close to that which I love.

I know it's not pics of fish, but it's something I do to keep me close to the water now that I can't fish so much.

 

[fhm555]

Here's one of my fave sticks for tossing big jigs to big bass hanging at the bottom of riprap piles and dam faces. That's a 1 oz jig head in the pic.

I did the schoolie hunt, tournament style bass stuff for a number of years and was pretty good at it, but after being spoiled by fish big enough to rip an arm out of socket when I lived on the gulf for a while, when I moved back inland I concentrated on the big solitary hogs who had lived long enough to graduate from school and spent their days ambushing bullfrogs, snakes, and the occasional furry mammal unlucky enough to find itself in the wrong stretch of water at dinner time. Biggest largemouth I ever took was tricked by a live shell cracker and came out of just enough water to cover it's back.

 

[hbarcat]

Just got back from my second trip to the fishing hole (Deep Lake in Oxford Wisconsin) and the fish were very aggressive. It's kind of a small lake so the fish that are larger than the legal limit are relatively few. We were catching tons of largemouth bass in the 12-16" range and northern pike in the 16-24" range all day.


My brother caught this 28"er.

On northern pike we always catch and release. We make up for it by keeping the dozens of bluegills and other panfish 5" and up and frying them up in the evening. Tough to beat the taste of fresh fish cooked in beer and it's ridiculously easy to catch boatloads of panfish

 

[jordy_on_bass]

Kinda late report this one...

After all the gamefishing mayhem that has been happening off the east coast here in Australia, I decided it was time to scale things back a little bit and try my hand at a bit of soft plastics fishing last Friday. It is alot cheaper than gamefishing and not as time consuming since it is only a 2 minute walk to my spot. I had been fishing for a few hours without getting any hits on the plastics when I finally got a solid hook up. After a torrid 20 minute fight I landed a 7lb Australian Salmon (also known as Kahawai to New Zealanders) on my stupid light 4 lb tackle.

5 minutes later I was hooked up again and after another 15 minute battle, I landed a fish of the same size. Very bizarre to find them so far up stream (about 10 miles) as they are typically found around surf and wash near headlands, especially when they get bigger. I could have understood catching smaller fish but these were decent fish.

Looks like I am heading out this weekend to go chasing some Mako Sharks and Yellowfin Tuna on my mate's 36 foot riviera. They caught 2 sharks a couple weeks ago, both around 250lb on 12lb tackle and watched Yellowfin Tuna in the 150-180lb range swim around their boat, refusing to take a bait. Talk about frustrating!!

Here is a pic of the fish, enjoy!

Cheers,
Jordan

 

[elgecko]

The last couple of days, I've been using my lunch break to do some fishing at a small lake 10 minutes from my office. I've been catching small bluegill...nothing epic or even pic worthy but I'm much more relaxed the second half of the day!

 

[RayG]

Nice job Jordy. Nothing like hooking a real player on light tackle.

Had my boat out this afternoon in search of fluke until we saw there was bluefish all over Jones Inlet crushing the peanut bunker. It was just wave after wave for almost two hours with most fish in the 8-10 lb range. Only lost one lure during the mayhem. No pics but man it was a bloody mess.

Kept a few for bait. We have a 300 boat shark tourney this weekend.

Regards-----------

 

[jp58]

I'm going fishing next week with my grandpa. Hopefully I'll nab a bass or two, but I'm banking on a handful of tiny bluegill.

 

[jordy_on_bass]

RayG,

I mentioned previously we have Bluefish here in Australia (we call them Tailor here). But they don't grow to that size, most fish are around 8-12 inches long. Some areas of Australia do hold populations of large Tailor/Bluefish but the closest hotspot to me is about a 12 hour drive from here, the only other hotspot I know of is on the other side of the country. Would love it if they grew that big close to where I am, guess I will have to put up with the tip-top gamefishing instead

Cheers,
Jordan

 

[baba]

Fishing is finally picking up a bit in the Chesapeake Bay. Caught some keeper rockfish, croaker, and endless perch. Damn skate almost spooled my little lightweight rod, but managed to wrestle him close enough to save most of my line before cutting him loose.

 

[RayG]

Got a few miles offshore yesterday for Father's Day. We were in my friend's 31' Tiara for fluke and managed 4 keepers. Largest one was 7.6 lbs and tasted quite good.

Striped bass has slowed down a bit, unless you want to chase bunker pods all along the south shore of Long Island.

Last weekend shark tourney results (waves were 5-7 offshore and 4-5 seconds so a lot of boats dropped out):

"Freeport Hudson Anglers Shark Tournament drew 135 boats that weighed in about 50 sharks, while 55 tags were also turned in for release awards. As has been the case in recent years, threshers dominated. The winner was a 398-pounder on Reel Games that was worth $131,071. A 322-pounder took second, and the third place mako of 292 pounds won only $9,901. Threshers of 273 and 267 pounds took the last two spots."

Jordy - Here is a great video of east coast bluefish/tailor/yellow eyed devils at play. Watch this one in full screen. Kind of wish they would have killed the tunes so you could hear the reels screaming.

Topwater Fishing for Gator Bluefish (with super slow-motion


Regards--------------