Me and my mate wazza left scarborough yesterday morning at 4am and were over at Hutchies for just after first light (lets call it second or third light
).
There is a specific bit of reef there I wanted to fish, we located it quickly using the Humminbird side imager and there was a school of sauries rippling on top. We popped it for a good 2 hours with large Fullscales, I cups and Ulua stickbaits. It had a fishy feeling and each cast felt like it might get whacked. When the sun actually started getting into the water we could see a large school of tangs and a large school of batfish. But realistically there was probably too much boat traffic, at one point I counted 39 boats. What an armada! most of these were trolling first up and then fishing deep. I didn't hear or see much action from the fleet there, but in the trench some of the bigger game boats were getting a little action but not as much as those off the sunny coast.
We wrote off the GT's and went and checked a cobia spot. We were unsuccessful there and sped home. Halfway back we stopped for a toilet break and a school of spotties swam under the boat. We got 8 in 45 minutes, made a sporting declaration
and went home too wash the boat. Mental note, in future chase spotties in your mates boat!!
There was blood and spotties scales everywhere!!
Geoff Volter
