Australia - Fishing from 13th to 15th April 2008

coral · #1 (**permalink**) 19-04-2008, 21:34

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.

bonito · #2 (**permalink**) 19-04-2008, 22:24

Wow, busted lines and straightened hooks? Awesome.
Nice pics. Thank you for sharing with us.

sixtysix · #3 (**permalink**) 19-04-2008, 22:29

Congratulation Mr,Soong.what a nice trip.thank you for the info baracoutas.I never heard before.

Regards

H.Lee

bonito · #4 (**permalink**) 19-04-2008, 22:46

Oh ya, which one is your pic?
Just curious. Hehe. Thx

coral · #5 (**permalink**) 19-04-2008, 22:47

In equatorial waters like Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, we have baracudas.

In temperate waters like the south seas between Australia and New Zealand, they have baracuotas

They are different fishes but like baracudas, they are carnivorious and they eat other fishes. They fight hard and well when hooked

kenzo · #6 (**permalink**) 20-04-2008, 03:08

@Ding Yew Soong :
COngratz sir, nice trip in there. hum....

viva C`n`R.

bonito · #7 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 00:12

Mr. Ding, actually baracuotas also found around Indonesia, such as Indian Ocean, Makasar and many more.

I caught a baby baracuota at Sea Mount Reef (South West Ujung Kulon) by jigging at 70m depth water.

Fishberg · #8 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 08:06

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately I did not see any of your photo. Must be some great fishing trip.

afif · #9 (**permalink**) 21-04-2008, 08:17

Congrats Mr Ding and team, very very nice trip and pic, i think this is my dreams can trip to New Zealand with member's FishyForum.

Regard,
Afif (Erwin Arsyad)