Offshore Forster Report

[Phoenixx]

Well, I managed to convince the old man to take his new boat out today for a test run.

Was on the water by 7am and with glassy conditions really opened up the 150 e-tec to give it a good run. We headed straight to the FAD to see what was around. Within 30 secs of the first bait hitting the water we had a first hook up with a monster kingfish taking the pilchard on the surface.:woohoo: It ran for about a minute then snapped the 30 pound braid I was using. A quick re rig and back in the water. Pulled in 2 undersize kingies within the first 5 mins of being there.

The kingfish went off the bite and the Dolphin fish came around. within an Hour we had 6 in the boat with two of them being legal (85cm and 75cm) including my first dolphin fish on plastic when one of them smashed a 4" nuclear chicken jerk shad. There were plenty of BIG Dollies hanging around the boat but with no livies on board we could not tempt any of them to bite. Also managed to pick up my first cottonmouth Trevally. The little fella took a 4" nuclear chicken jerk shad directly under the FAD. We decided to move on when the leather jackets kept picking off our baits so we headed to another reef closer to shore.

Only stayed at the reef for an hour but it was long enough for us to catch a tiny nannygai and two legal Teralgin. I'd never seen these before and was stoked when I pulled the first one in as I was convinced it was a jewfish. The old man set me straight though.

Back in the harbour by midday. Fed the pelicans the fish frames at the cleaning tables and home for a sleep. Now trying to convince the old man to take the boat out again on Saturday

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[Phoenixx]

[yoyo]

Good report mate, sounds like a fun session !

forget sunday, go tomorrow ! and friday.............. and saturday...............

[kreel]

Nice report Phoenixx. Dolphin Fish is on my must have list atm, good to hear you got a few.

[Phoenixx]

Hahaha yoyo. am taking the yak out on the lakes friday to chase some big bream. need to spend at least one day with the family also. would hate for them to think I only came down for the fishing :whistle:

[Guest]

Well Done great post, I would love to catch a dolphin fish 1 day.

[Rapunzel]

Good to see the Dollies are still about! need another deckie?

[zan0_15]

nice.........those maui maui are a great looking fish!!! well done!

[crazywalrus]

great report Duane. I have never fished Forster but always wanted to. One really beautiful part of the world.

[fishing_teen]

nice report mate, well done

cheers

nathan

[dansike]

Well done mate. Dollies are great fun! Jeez they can pull hard though. Plus the amazing colours. They go NUTS when you get em in the boat. Awesome fish, one of my fav's!

[eg_vtec]

nice trip and great report. well done mate

[Manni79]

Nice report, would love to get on to a Dolphin Fish!! i hear the put up an epic fight