Nikao Fishing Adventures- Action updates

Nikao wrote:
So with the weather forecast looking good for the weekend I have 3 trips booked!
The one sadly was cancelled due to rain... so I ended up with a back line/Harbour trip and a short 5 hour No 1 trip!
The Back line harbour trip was an interesting one as we had many interesting species of the backline, Small snapper salmon, Small rock cod and by small I mean 15cm to 20cm black tail and then something I have yet to identify!  Anyhow after a couple of hours the guys started to feel a bit green so we headed for the harbour for an hour but unfortunately the harbour was quiet! Not even a nibble! We returned to the doc for about 11:00pm… the next morning I was up and out for a 5:00am launch. As we headed out to No1 we started to set the spread and with only the 3[sup]rd[/sup] line wet we had our first take… a small bonnie.. which on the 30lb tackle was a nice bit of fun for the guys... we continued on we had a nice multiple hook up with 3 lines away. One of the 3 however was screaming away… so we quickly landed another 2 bonnies as Ettienne started to fight what I initially thought to be a large tuna…. After a couple of minutes we could start to see the spool of the reel so I turned around and gave chase to get some line back.. we managed to get most of the line back but this beast of a fish did not want to turn… every time we gave it a chance it just peeled line! There was nothing we could do. I am not even sure the fish knew it was hooked, but after about an hour of following and trying to turn it without any success... we decided it was make or break time so we pushed up the Drag and held on... but this was short lived at the line parted….. I would guess it was a big shark but am not convinced that it was. It would run like a big tuna and had an aggressive head shake... but I guess we will never know what it was now… any way the trip continued and we managed a couple more tuna... 1 yellow fin, 2 skip jacks and 3 bonnies came home with us the rest of the Skip Jacks we managed to release. So in total we had 10 tuna and one large unknown!
Nice report, Bud.
There are some big Black tips around No.1 and they are full of energy. Last week we had one that even launched out of the water smashing a rappie. We saw it jump twice, on another occasion we saw the thing chase a tuna through the air. Like those great whites do. We lost 5 or 6 fish to him in 2 or 3 hours!
 

Nikao

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Hey Bennie

Not sure it was a black tip.. they do normally do breach when hooked.. have hooked my fair share.. but this was a diffrent type of fight!

if it was a shark which i think it may have been i would guess a big Zambie.. have seen a couple of monster ones around 3m around  No1??
 
Nikao wrote:
Hey Bennie

Not sure it was a black tip.. they do normally do breach when hooked.. have hooked my fair share.. but this was a diffrent type of fight!

if it was a shark which i think it may have been i would guess a big Zambie.. have seen a couple of monster ones around 3m around  No1??
Aparently only the male blacktips jump?
 

Nikao

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So After leaving the Harbour and getting some pis of a FAT GIRL on her way to chase some
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..   I headed to the deeper side of No 1 for some small Tuna.. water was   Blue and Clean and ranged between 26 and 28 deg... but with little life   and nothing interested in our lures i decided to go do some bottom   fishing... conditions where great with little or no current we managed   to fish some deep water.. on our first down we found some nice slingers   about the size of dinner plates... second down again and them some   snapper.. 5 th down returned a nice Captain Fine weighed at 16.2kg.. we   where going to release it but as we got her to the boat we could see the   blacktips circling below and she had some baro trauma! so we put her in   the hatch to be enjoyed on the same down the other 3 guys also had some   good hook ups but as hard as we tried non of them made it past the
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so i decided that it would be best to move and try some where else!
  As we arrived at the next set of marks we quickly dropped lines and   found our self onto a nice school of Snapper also nice and big and and   also managed a couple of false englishmen. and a rosy goat fish.. which   we released as they are just to pritty to eat... as my client put it!
 
  all in all a good day off the bottom
 

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Nikao

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Went down to Warner beach yesterday morning early with the Family as the sun was out but the swell was k*K!  chatted to a couple of spero's who had just come back in.. one of them with a 13kg prodical son.. he speared it on the back line in 3m of water!! was todate the bigegst fish he had speared!! wish i had my camera with me... as it was an awesome fish!
 

Nikao

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So the weather this past week has been all over the show! but did manage a night trip on Wednesday Night. went out to see if there are any bek or Daga around.. launched at 6:00pm went out to get some bait.. only managed to find some mozzies no macks or red eye around.... in anycase with the live well loaded we headed out to some of the 80m marks to start our hunt.. current was North to South at about 3km had a couple of good takes but sadly the
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showed up and nailed us so we moved down to some of the shallower reefs.. didn't get any big takers but did manage a couple of Pan sized snapper and slinger before we called it a night...

Yesterday I had a Aussie couple on board for a couple of hours.. launched at 6:00am and went out to the back line for some livies  but was slow so decided to go against the crowd and head south down to the cutting water was not bad was nice and blue and between 20 and 21 deg saw loads of redeye around but no action on the schools.. with nothing on the troll we decided to go do some bottom fishing.. again nothing fantastic happening working the wrecks and reefs off the bluff, had loads of small rock cod and snapper but nothing of any size to write home about.. we did how ever see a couple of young Wales around dolphins and surprisingly a Sun fish.. I did try get a pic of the sun fish but the sun was reflecting off the water but did manage a small vid but you can't see to much in that either.. was the first time I have ever seen one.  any way was not long after that that we called it a day and made our way back to the harbour..
 

Nikao

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So it has been a weekend of fair weather. Sea conditions where good on Saturday for a trip that was booked for some Clients from JHB. we Meet at Warnerdoon ski boat club at 5:30am and by 6:00am we where on the back line.
I had decided that we where going to run Down to Aliwal shoal to try out luck for some Dorries and Some Tuna.. it was not long after setting our Spread that we had 3 lines away.. all 3 Dorado 2 queens about 6 KG and a nice bull which i will guess was about 15kg Sadly though we only managed to boat the 1 queen as we lost the other next to the boat.. As for the Bull he gave us a good run for about 15min on some light tackle before a final jump and coming off not 20m from the boat.. So we reset the spread and worked the shallows to find a couple of small Yellow Fin of about 4 -6kg. this all before we even got to the shoal.. after doing a couple of laps around the pencil bouy the guys decided they wanted to call it a day as they had been out till 2:00am the night before and where all feeling a little
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. in any case we took a slow troll back to the beach for an early day.. however after hitting the beach they decided they needed a couple of reg markers so we had a couple of Frosty
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while we filleted fish..
All in all a great day however short on the water..
 
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