Australia - Fishing from 13th to 15th April 2008
Seven of us went fishing at Adelaide - 3 from Singapore, 1 from Malaysia and 3 from Australia. We are all friends who have fished many times before
Day 1 - arrived in Adelaide
Day 2 - Morning - caught 10 blue fin tunas up to 40 kgs. Lost 9 due to busted line and straightened hooks. This was in 2 hours but it took 2.5 hours to go to the tuna grounds. Fishing was by trolling, jigging and popping
Day 2 - afternoon - caught snappers, nannygais, baracoutas (not baracudas), sargent baker, and other fishes. Fishing was by jigging and bottom fishing. Largest snapper was about 2.5 kgs and nannygai was about 3kgs. Caught about 50 fishes (excluding tunas) and all were released as we were doing catch and release
Day 3 - whole day - caught snappers (largest 5 kgs), nannygais (largest 4kgs), baracoutas, king george (2 kgs), squids (2 kgs) and other fishes. Caught almost 200 fishes but almost all were released as we were doing catch and release, Caught by jigging and bottom fishing
Day 4 - whole day - weather was not good and water was very cold but caught nearly 100 bottom fishes by jigging
Day 5 - could not fish due to bad weather
Day 6 - sightseeing
Day 7 - returned home
Excellent excellent fishing. Almost unbelievable.
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