Southern islands - 12 Apr nite

[NightAngler]

Set off around 7pm & headed to main current channel to drift for live squid till abt 10pm.

Weights used for the nite ranges from 300 - 1300g (on power pro #50). Didn't take shelter from current since heavy tackles were used & 1.3 Kg sinker weight is still bearable for experienced southern islands anglers. More importantly , the strong take started only when 1Kg sinker were needed to keep bait near seabed.
Fishing ground - rocky/snaggy seabed ard 60M depth
Bait used - netted live squid
One of those unique night trips whereby fishes prefer squid strip more than whole live squid or squid head. Moreover, a very strong pull doesn't mean a hook up till "striking crazily" approach is adopted to ensure positive hook up.
Lost 2 strong take(pre-dawn hrs) when hook up were not positive.
Bite rate was sporadic for the whole night from abt 11pm onwards (every half hr or so) & lasted till day break
Biggest snapper was landed just after day break.
Majority of the snappers(biggest 6.5 lbs on boga) were landed with netted arrow squid strip.

As in most cases, pics wrap the final story

Should the pics interest you to do heavy sinkers weighlifting to become prospective "fishing arno" at southern islands, more info/details available at "chartered trips" section of this forum

Enjoy

Yew Seng

[stickbom!]

1.3kg Sinkers Sounds like a job for the super heavy duty Jigging Master blanks! :P

[edylie]

HI YS,

Good catches you got there. How i wish i could have this sort of fun.

PS. I have resized the pics to 640x480 for easier viewing.

Thanks.
Cheers,
Edy

[MarkR]

Hi YS,

Very nice catch. Should have booked night trip man instead of day

Still fishing the shipping channel during the slack flow?

Stopped targetting kuraus?

tight lines,

mark

[NightAngler]

Originally Posted by edylie

HI YS,

Good catches you got there. How i wish i could have this sort of fun.

PS. I have resized the pics to 640x480 for easier viewing.

Thanks.
Cheers,
Edy

Hi Edy,

Thanks for resizing the pics. Pls continue to do so for any future pics that I'm posting should the sizes need to be corrected. Will try to learn how to resize pics to be within size specs. Currently using Photoshop & only know how to shrink down the file size.

Best regards
Yew Seng

[NightAngler]

Originally Posted by MarkR

Hi YS,

Very nice catch. Should have booked night trip man instead of day

Still fishing the shipping channel during the slack flow?

Stopped targetting kuraus?

tight lines,

mark

Hi Mark,

Option now available for you to change your 30 Apr day trip to 23 Apr night trip since 24 Apr day trip is considered cancelled.

23 Apr night current is pretty good. Bright moonlight though & if still manage to net some live squid, I'm expecting some good action either around midnight or pre-dawn hrs. Pls let me know ASAP on your final date reservation.

Fishing the shipping lane during slack flow window period is one of the option but there's quite many other places besides shipping lane with depth >50M. For the night trip on 12 Apr, spot is not within shipping lane & ended up staying at only one spot throughtout the whole night. Somewhat lucky as squid can be netted at the same time while fishing & also sporadic bite rate every 15-30 mins. If only the fish take for that night is more aggressive, total no. of fishes landed probably can be 20 pcs !!!

Give me a call or drop me a PM when kurau fishing is concerned as I won't post details in a public forum

Btw, among the 12 fishes landed, 11 of them were landed with fluorocarbon leader(Seaguar). there may be a re-match between normal mono & fluoro leader tomorrow nite.

Best regards
Yew Seng

[jason]

Nice catches !!!!!!!!
Its getting hard to produce such good catches locally nowadays.....


Cheers
jason

[land_cruiser]

Nice Catch.

I believed Southern Island still have surprises once in a while. On and off I heard of ppl having gd catch. But it is getting rare now.

Cheers,