Ambition Report 28th.August’22
August 28, 2022
Sydney
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Trip Summary
Trip Summary
We went out on Sunday in ideal conditions. And after hearing of the results of those who fished on Saturday there was an degree of optimism.
Boats out on Saturday caught Yellowfin from way wide of Heatons, Northeast of Browns and down on the Southern Canyons. The fish were wide spread but you still had to put in the hard yards to find them.
So, we went out optimistic in knowing there were fish to be found. I put the lures out just inside the shelf where there was quite a bit of bait though it was quite deep. There is always the chance of an early season Striped Marlin.
Travelling out there were reports of Yellowfin around Heatons and wide of the Bait Station. I continued on moving wider. The fishing was slow and since I had seen a few schools of Striped Tuna put out a small lure to give the clients a taste of what I hoped would come. We caught a few Stripies when in about five hundred fathoms old Brad went off. It was a Yellowfin but not quite as big as was wanted, just a jellybean about 7 kilo’s.
Continuing on we saw a couple of whales and caught a few more Stripies. By then it was time to head for home. As we crossed over the one hundred fathom line the Stripie lure went off. It took a good run but since it was only a 15kg. outfit thought it was a bigger Stripie or maybe an Albacore. But then it stuck its head out and we saw it was unmistakenly a Short Billed Spearfish. It took about 20 minutes but we landed the fish to the jubilation of the Sunni and his friends.
What used to be a rare capture off Sydney and considered to be a tropical fish only found in the warmest water, water where you were likely to run into a Blue Marlin and there was one of those taken recently too, the number of Spearfish caught over the last couple of weeks defies explanation especially since they were caught in only nineteen degrees.
One could theorise that since the SST’s only reflect the top two or three millimetres of the surface there might be a much warmer current running a little deeper. Anyway just a speculation…
Tight lines,
Ivan