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General => General Topwater & Jigging Discussion => Topic started by: Brandon Khoo on March 22, 2007, 08:37:35 PM
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All right guys - who wants to go on a Nomad Charter?!
I don't think in this forum that Nomad need any introduction. I have just booked in well ahead for next year for Marion Reef for May 17 - 23 with a couple of friends from Singapore. If anyone is interested, there are still some places available for that period.
Why have I booked so far ahead? Well, I'm already booked in for a couple more trips with them this year but in trying to organise with friends, especially guys from overseas, we've had to plan well ahead to ensure we can all be free.
This long lead time should give you time to save or to convince the missus or both! ;D I don't have that problem but nearly all the rest of my friends do so I am congnisant of the need to get permission.
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Quick Questions.
1: Where do I find info on the Marion Reef trip, you or Nomad.com?
2: How much do I have to sell my kids for?
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Checked Nomad web site [have done 1000 times before], AWESOME, have to put my thinking cap on.
'Hey Cam' your dream trip, better reno some houses fast.
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Bernie,
How much $$$ are we talking I'm very interested
Cheers
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Hi gtmad,
If I'm not mistaken, the trip starting from Hamilton island will set you back by AUD4950.
Narc
Bernie,
How much $$$ are we talking I'm very interested
Cheers
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yip bun im in if you are and dad lets sort it out.Sounds like fun,cam
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We are in, confirmed booking for four, three Foley Kingie chasers from NZ and myself, SIMPLY AWSOME
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We are in, confirmed booking for four, three Foley Kingie chasers from NZ and myself, SIMPLY AWSOME
awesome...
do they still need more? .... kids I mean
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I wish I had more to sell to pay for a popping rod and poppers. ::)
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great to have you guys on board! It sure has filled up fast ;D
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great to have you guys on board! It sure has filled up fast ;D
I'll check with Claire how many places are left for that period for anyone else who is interested
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Bernie, the Marion promo DVD is a good look even with a lot of jigging, the 'Spanish Fly' episode, filmed on the maiden Marion Reef trip, I saw on ESPN [FOX] last year. An old game fishing mate of mine Randell Bryant hosted Jose for the trip. Damon hadn't met Randell before even though Damon fished the 1990's comps on his boat 'Reel Sport' and Randle and I fished on 'Sea Legend'.
He also hosted [ot of USA] Jose's Northen Territory or WA episodes on a mother ship.
Even though the trip is a year away I'll slowly get some gear together as you will find out on the forum., lots of questions to be asked from a popping novice. ??? ??? ::)
Catch you later
PS: Shell we address you as Bernie or Brandon? ;D
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there is a lot of jigging available out at Marion and that is why the Coral Sea trips are good. You can get a bit of everything and the variety of fish is enormous. The jigging will generally be a lot shallower than what you are used to for seriolas. On popping, no worries - you're certainly in the right place to ask those questions!! ;D
Brandon or Bernie......most of my friends still call me Bernie but I'm not particular :D
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Dont panic Bun ive got the shallow water jigging down pat .CANT WAIT
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We need a fad for you to lose some jigs on.
Can't get the smile off my dial ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bun
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okay - I have checked with Claire and there are two spaces left for this trip - May 17 - 23 in 2008. if anyone else is interested, please let me know.
Also, for anyone who can't wait that long, I am going to be going on a trip to Bugatti Reef with Nomad from 28/7 to 3/8. This is a new location for them and they decided to run a charter here this year after they tested it last year. This is very much a popping trip (not likely to be much jigging). Last year, they caught a lot of GTs and big reef fish like coral trout. Apparently, also a lot of mackeral around the edges of the reef. There are currently two places left for this charter.
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Apparently, the other three people who booked for the timeframe of May 17 - 23 next year have changed weeks so outside of the seven of us who are currently booked for this, there are now five places available. It promises to be a great week so please let me know if you're interested.
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Guys - one spot left for this timeslot so if you've been thinking of it, it would pay to make up your mind fast!
The large majority who have booked in are members here so we should have a great time there next year.
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G'day guys,
Just to let you know that I will also be coming along on the trip to Marion Reef next year.
I have been a bit of a dark horse on the forum so far, but look foward to meeting you all and enjoying my first GT popping advernture with you.
cheers,
Josh
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C you there Josh
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YO Brandon, is that the trip Duncan and the gang are on ? Lead up to the full moon etc..I was going to try to attend that as well but didnt want to crowd the boat..... 8)
Is their still a spot ? i can always bunk in a tender.....
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Pete - I can't remember exactly but Duncan is either the week before or the week after us.
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Guys - there is now one vacancy for Marion 2008 from 17 - 23 May available.
Please feel free to send me a PM if you're interested in more information. The group is primarily made up of our members here so it promises to be great week!
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We are doing the first week at Marion - the week leading up to the full moon. Fully booked out though I'm afraid. Should be a fantastic week, Can't wait to try out some of the new toys on the fish out there.
Cheers
Duncan
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Hmmmmm, lead up to the fulll moon....... no good for us werewolves..... :o
8)
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Just confirmed the last spot for the dates brandon had mentioned ;D ;D
Cant wait to fish with you guys out there, wish it was sooner.
Cheers
Rob
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that's great Rob - it promises to be an excellent week. The tide is great so we only need to pray for nice calm weather and we will have the option of chasing doggies as well. I want someone (as long as it is not me!) to get spooled on a 20000!
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I also hope the weather is great to be able to chase doggies too, but not the spooled part :D
Should be a cracker of a week.
Cheers
Rob
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Has anyone on this site ever been spooled by a doggie or something similar ??? and if so what size reel.....and so on and how did you have the line connected to the spool ???
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I've been done on a number of occasions on different reels but on deep water jigging, twice on a 20000. I've seen it happen to someone popping too. I think it may have been a big yellowfin. Hold on tight!! :D
I've actually gone full circle now on the connection to the spool. I'd rather lose the line than the outfit
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Only seven months to go to the Acc spooling doggies at Marion 2008 ;)
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can only hope, Bun. Doggies are going to need very calm conditions to be able to get out to the sea-mounts. I'd focus the majority of tackle for popping and stickbaiting, both heavy and medium applications. I expect we will see quite a lot of reefies caught on poppers and stickbaits.
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Hey Brandon do they do much jigging from the mother ship? On one of the clips ive got they hook / get smoked by a few doggies pretty close to the reef.
Cheers
Rob
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no Rob, they don't. The mothership is always anchored in a really calm, sheltered area. I think the only time it would happen would be if they were travelling from one area to another and they went over a spot they could not resist. The segment you saw was on their maiden voyage in the Odyssey with a group of Malaysians. That was an amazing session. The fishermen got absolutely destroyed - did not land one fish in that session!
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Only seven months to go to the Acc spooling doggies at Marion 2008 ;)
Say no to Acc spooling vote now
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Ah ha, Dave's fixed the computer!! ;)
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Yip the computer is all go until another drunk hits a power poll and the power goes out and all hell breaks loose.
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Yea them drunks will always do it.
i seen a few in Sydney town. the RUMs were to blame . jokes
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I'm definitely voting "YES' to Accurate spooling, Cam!
I'd like to see you hook onto a 120kg doggie on the side of a seamount or a maybe a yellowfin of equivalent size on the other side of a reef you've cast over (so you can't chase it!). I'll put money on under 60 seconds - and that is only because it will take the doggie fifteen seconds to work out it is hooked!
Only seven months to go to the Acc spooling doggies at Marion 2008 ;)
Say no to Acc spooling vote now
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roughly how big would a doggie have to be to spool someone in kgs ???
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no no no i don't want to be spooled although having a heavy drag ripped off at a great rate would be much fun, will practice hooking my line up to my car why the old boy takes of down the road, probably have as much chance of stopping the car as i would have stopping a big doggie.
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No, I am sure you have more chance against the doggie than the car!! ;D
It always makes me so happy to see someone get spooled although it makes me very unhappy when it happens to me :-[
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No, I am sure you have more chance against the doggie than the car!! :-[
I don't know?? Big Fish, Little Car
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what, does Cam have a Smartcar or something like that? :D
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Not too sure about the need to fish sea mounts for big dogs at Marion. On the two times I've been there the biggest dogs where all in less than 70m, either outside the passes or around the lagoon bommies. Chances of being spooled, almost nil, chances of pulling the fish away from the bommies and sharks, well, just roll the dice and let the fun begin!!
By the way the biggest we saw stunned us all, an educated guess by some seasoned observors was +120kg. Good luck.
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Neil - you've already been to Marion this year, haven't you?
How did you go this time round?
Not too sure about the need to fish sea mounts for big dogs at Marion. On the two times I've been there the biggest dogs where all in less than 70m, either outside the passes or around the lagoon bommies. Chances of being spooled, almost nil, chances of pulling the fish away from the bommies and sharks, well, just roll the dice and let the fun begin!!
By the way the biggest we saw stunned us all, an educated guess by some seasoned observors was +120kg. Good luck.
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The trip was great from a weather perspective but hard work for fishing. Seas were flat calm, no white water on outer reef a lot of the time. In fact we fished on top of the outer reef bommies in 1 or 2 metres trying to get fish to bite.
40 metre visability and millpond calm conditions made the fish hard to find.
Best GT was high 30kg which was ok, best doggie has my craftbait on it's trophy wall. Such is life.
Everything was different to last time, what worked last year didn't this year and vice versa. Last year we lost heaps of surface lures and bugger all jigs, this year took more poppers and sticks and less jigs and you can guess what happened, lost one stick and ran out of jigs!
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oh no - one $100 stickbait gone! :D
Sounds like you had the exact opposite conditions to what some of the guys encountered in July.
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This trip now has 2 vacancies available after unforeseen circumstances [work] forced 2 of Cam and my group to pull out, they are not happy chappies as they had been planning for a long while, the 2 spots will go back to Nomad on Monday unless someone puts a post up pronto or PMs Me, Cam or Brandon, it is prime time to be there May 17th-23rd.
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Hi guys
Forum newbie here.
Rob Ciotucha (one of your already confirmed fisho's for this trip) has pointed me in the direction of this trip, and i gotta say, it looks and sounds oh so inviting. Just waiting for a few more planets and stars to align, and i'm in. I run my own business here in Perth, so i can't just up and leave without making sure the boys will be ok in my absence. I'll find out tomorrow if i can get a relief manager or mechanic to cover for my fat, fisho ass, and i'll be there.
(Just quietly, i'm gettin bloody excited at the prospect of this trip. Although i've fished extensively over here, i've never undertaken an adventure such as this..... Since i spoke to Rob C yesterday, i've basically lived on the Nomad website.... ;D, jeeeeez it looks fun. So, if i can get things in place in my workshop, i'll be the 'gt poppin' newbie for ya all to poke fun at..... ::) :P 8))
Anyhoo, i'll let ya's know tomorrow if the gods are smilin on me.
Dan Baxter
p.s. is there 2 spots still available? If so, i may have another interested party, again, i'll know about him in the next day or so
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hi dan .. welcome to this forum ...
brandon will let you know on the trip that your,re after . he is the gt warrior with nomad .. i have fished with him at shoalwater bay ... he is a great guy ...
hey dan do you mind can you change your name in full as we were told by the boss of this forum ;D ::) ... eg. dan baxter
so enjoy on your find,s in this forum ...
mick .
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Done ;D
Oh, and thanks for the welcome... ;)
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Woohooo...
The gods are smilin'
I'm in!!!
You bloody beauty...
I'll send you a PM Brandon
;D <---- me
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only if I were in Australia ;) ...how much does the Marion reef trip cost?
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Santosh - pretty much an irrelevant question now because Marion is booked out for this year and it is the last year they will be running the lagoon explorer trips for Marion. From next year, they will become ultimate adventures with the gameboats which means wider access, probably less focus in the lagon itself and many more dollars!
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Awwww, oh well... :-[
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That's a shame.
New Caledonia is a year round destination - anyone interested in more info or booking please let me know.
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Santosh - if you want to catch GTs with Nomad, check out Shoalwater in February or Bugatti in April.
Luke's recommendation is a good one. The fishing in New Caledonia can be amazing. The only thing is I'd suggest you find someone to go with otherwise it will be expensive for a single person.
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Thanks Brandon...since I'm in school, I'll have to wait for a couple years until I get the chance to make it out to the Land Down Under in April or May. Who knows, I maybe be able to sneak a trip in during Spring Break :)
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Time to start counting down the days rather than weeks for this trip now ;D, chatted to Duncan [Fish Head] yesterday as they were getting their last minute things together to leave today for this weeks trip to Marion, boy their excitement can be contagious ::) :)Now it's up to the Weather Gods ;)
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I hear ya Greg, RobC & I have been busily gathering our gear, and prepping for a couple of weeks now. We spent a couple of hours together this morning on a local beach with our gear for a 'test & tune', iron out the cobwebs so to speak.
The excitement is gathering, this time in a week we'll be on Hamilton full of expectations (and a few sherbets no doubt).
Again, looking forward to meeting ya's all, and mixing it up with ya's on whatever Marion wants to throw our way.
(did i mention................ I'M EXCITED!!!! ;D 8) :o :D :D)
See ya's in a week. ;)
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Don't get too excited, Dan. We still got a week to go.
Of course, this time next week, you'll be having dinner on the Odyssey after hopefully, already having wet a line ;D
Rob is taking an early holiday doing some sightseeing in Sydney for a couple of days first
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Yes 2 more sleeps before my trip starts dan :P :P sucker... Hopefully the guys sus out whats happening this week ready for when we get there. Cant wait.
Cheers
Rob
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The boys flew out 7.15am this morning from Hamilton. I doubt they would have slept last night for the excitement. They have barely been able to contain themselves this past week.
Duncan finally had to admit defeat and actually left all his fly gear and most of his clothes at home - just ran out of space. (the fact that he had 13kg of camera gear didn't help). Hopefully he won't get too distracted by the fish and actually remembers to use the cameras. Have fun all of you who are off at the end of this week. Say hi to him for me when your paths cross.
Janelle
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Thanks Janelle, good to see someones holding the fort :), 'on Mothers day' :o
Greg
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Hi Greg,
I keep telling him he is lucky to have me ;) I should have done what some of the other guys wives did - They flew over with them and are going to relax for the week on Hamilton Island. The fun part with staying though is that all sorts of new toys will arrive this week while Duncan is away and I get to see everything before him.
PS You and I should stop meeting like this - people will think we do nothing else but sit in front of our computers. You should go and cast practise poppers with Cam.
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Don't get too excited, Dan. We still got a week to go.
Of course, this time next week, you'll be having dinner on the Odyssey after hopefully, already having wet a line ;D
Rob is taking an early holiday doing some sightseeing in Sydney for a couple of days first
Trying to keep a lid on my excitement at this stage, less than a week out, is an exercise in futility Brandon. Today(Monday) is my last day at work, really just here to tidy up a few loose ends, and ensure my staff will have everything they need at hand while i'm away. I'll spend the next couple of days with my wife and kids, then i'm off!!!!!!!!
Like Rob, i seriously can't wait....
I've fished all my life, and had my share of fishing trips, and like all fisho's, have many fishy stories to tell, but i can't recall any trip i've done, giving me this much anticipation.....
See ya's Friday on Hamilton.
(And Rob- stop rubbing it in ya rotten mongrel.... :D)
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Hey guys, how was the trip?
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Yeah, can't wait for the 'Deviants' team report ::) ;D
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Yeah, can't wait for the 'Deviants' team report ::) ;D
Team who...... ::) ;D :o
C'mon Bun- you know ya liked it....
How's ya coffee this morning, any booby birds around..... hehehehe ;D
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It was easier getting a new Coffee than Pkts of Cigs
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;D ;D Nice one Bun
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Pitty i missed out on your mishaps Greg, Would of been a laugh :)
Cheers
Rob
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The 2nd one was classic with the smile on Carl's face when he asked who owned the Shimano bags ;D, he won that round :P [I reckon he aimed the bird] :-\.
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The 2nd one was classic with the smile on Carl's face when he asked who owned the Shimano bags ;D, he won that round :P [I reckon he aimed the bird] :-\.
Aimed the bird, then squeezed.....real hard. I have no doubt that Cam would've eaten those sardines as well... ::) :-X :o