A day out with the girls

On Saturday 19th April at 8am, we left the harbour onboard “Galavant”. Wayne and I were taking the ladies (Elsa, Candice and Tammy) out for a bit of social fishing. We stopped on the pipe and let everyone have a go at catching bait. It did not take long before the livewell was full to capacity and we were off to the ledge.

On arrival, I let out 2 surface lures and 3 halcos. The lures were not in the water long when 2 reels went away. Candice and Tammy both took a rod and quickly had their fish next to the boat. Tammy had a skipjack which was released and Candice had a small yellowfin which pulled hook when I tried to lift it into the boat. Again the lines went out and trolling commenced. We were about half way up the ledge when another reel went away. Elsa was on strike and brought in a small yellowfin which was bled for sushi. With the strong current, I wanted to get a bit further north before so we trolled a bit longer. I went over a good showing that came up to 20m from 47m. before I could say that we should get a pull, three reels went away. Everyone grabbed a rod and joined the fray. When the dust settled, all three yellowfins were safely on board.

By now we were far enough north to start cuda fishing so I rigged up 4 livies and zigzagged the ledge. Things were very quiet and until I trolled over the same showing where we got the yellowfins previously. This time it was the deep livie that went away. Tammy took the strike and fought a fish that did not take much line. It came to the boat pretty easily so when we saw it, we were all surprised to see a fish of that size. Wayne gaffed Tammy’s first cuda and hauled it aboard. Again the lines went in but despite fishing for another hour or so, we had no more pulls so headed back to harbour. The cuda weighed 14,7kg.