Ambition report 5th.January'20
January 09, 2020
Sydney
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Trip Summary
Trip Summary
First of all a belated Happy New Year to all, hoping for as well as anything else a great year's fishing.
This year has already started with a bang. A good run of Striped Marlin having showed up off Sydney. Peter Pakula had rung me a few weeks ago telling me we should expect a good run of small Striped Marlin in coming weeks. And so it happened, however among the small Marlin, around the 30 to 40 kilo's, are some good sized ones. One that we weighed at the SGFC for Steve Baker of 'Fly by Night' went 82.5 kilo's. Others have reported fish around the 100 kgs. which are really good sized Stripies even if they didn't pass the lie detector test.
Though the Stripes are in reasonable numbers you still have to find them as well as put in the time until they to turn on. They have been found out as far as 300 fathoms but they are most likely to be in the 60 to 110 fathoms where most of the bait is holding. I have found them to be on the cooler side of temperature breaks.
Once found you still have to cope with the difficulty of hooking them. While searching and looking for bait, using lures you take your chances on the hook up but if you're watching and the crew is awake you can tease them and you'll increase you chance of staying attached. If you have found the bait it is wiser to either skip bait or troll livies. Both are visually exciting ways to chase Stripes and you'll get a much better hook up.
Now with the warmer water closer in shore and the bait holding on some of the inshore reefs is Black Marlin time. There have been only a few sightings and I don't know of any caught yet but they can't be far away. However having said that there haven't been any numbers of them on the North Coast yet.
Further offshore there is some 25 C water coming all the way down from North of Coffs where there was a good Blue Marlin bite.
The water off Port Stephens is looking good at present with the water pushing into the shelf around the 'Car Park' which is always a good sign. The best is that I'll be up there soon and available for charter from 20th.January, see you there...
Tight Lines,
Ivan