I went charter fishing yesterday about 6km behind Rottnest Island (WESTERN AUSTRALIA). On a 9m cat.



It was good fun. I caught some skippy and pink snapper. We were in about 105m of water, wish means its a mission to reel in your line from the bottom. We were using squid for bait.



After we did the bottom fishing, we went chasing Sambo's (Samson fish). THey are fucken cool. They only chase lures, apparently we'd been going through them all day with the bait to catch the snapper on the bottom, but they don't go for the squid.



ANyway, with the sambo's, you drop your line out till it hits the bottom, then (we were using eggbeaters for the sambos), flick your bale arm over and and wind and jerk like crazy. After about 3 or 4 jerks, you get hit and the rod justs bends like 180 degrees and that fucker takes off. Takes about 20-30mins to get it in, cos they keep taking off and spooling more line.



ANyway, I've got pics!

This is me and my snapper.

so which one are you? hahaha..



Congrats man.. Nice catch.

SAMBO!

I'm just over 6" tall, this thing is about 110cm long. The legal size is no smaller than 60cm. LOL

My Sambo was 45pounds, this is Matt's, 55 pounds and about 125cm long.

your only 6" tall?



kevin.

Damn nice catch, what tackle were ya runnin?

Gaff that bitch!

meanwhile back in nj its so cold our oceans are icing over.



kevin.

I'm not sure the size of the line, it was braided line, cos the nylon just has too much stretch.



These are the rigs we were using to catch the snapper. Thats Corey in the background, he was the deckie.

I think we were using 30lbs line on the Alvey reels to catch teh snapper. We had 2 hooks and a big arse sinkers to get it to the bottom. A couple of teh guys got double headers (2 snapper at once) that wsa cool, made it a bitch to reel in! Most of the snapper were a bit small though, I caught the biggest one.



I also caught a small blue-eyed shark. Threw it back though.



THis is some of the other catches of snapper, skippy and a cod.

Snapper is DAMN good eats.





Damn I wish the weather were like that here!

yeah, it was an awsome day. I got sunburnt. I've got sunglasses tan like you wouldn't believe! LOL



It wasn't windy at all, which was good and the swell was about 2.5m. I got sick going out, but the skipper gave me a tomato and I was perfect after that. Something to do with the acid in the tomato settling your stomach. Worked like a charm.

FEESHES!

****, when I saw that you had posted I was expecting FIESTA! LOL

You better answer JT-import's tread...

who has fishes



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BTW... nice fishies

I have that run for the shirt you are wearing sitting on my counter, my neighbor brought it back from AUS, that is some funny shizo.

Damn, those are some big fish. </captain obvious>

question... how long does it take you to reel in one of those big fishes? Do they fight or they're more of a dead weight?

DARN TOOTIN'.

Nice catches!



I would have hacked that **** up on the boat and whipped out the soy and wasabi!

Dead weight? Hell no!

They fight like crazy. It takes about 20-30mins to bring them in.



And because the water is deep, theres so much line out, its takes forever to reel it in. When the sambo hits, it takes about another 30m of line out when it runs. You think your making some headway on it when you reel in like a metre of line, then the bastard takes off again and takes another 30m of line. They eventually get tired though and you can get them in.

THis is the first one that we caught. 50lbs.