07-03-2009, 04:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2009, 04:51 AM by davidbloop.)
All the jigs were Jarvis Walker, I get them purely because I lost my job recently and now my cash flow really only allows $2.95 jigs, unless I skip dinner haha.
Anyway, I ordered some jigs off of ebay, some Kamikaze ones and something else, keen to try them out.
Anywho
06/03/09
Went down around 5am this morning. I had not bought any new jigs but tried to fix my old ones with glue and some spare jags. I managed to fix to what I thought would be good enough, 2 of my jigs. A cheap one and a flashing LED one. Anyway the wind had totally calmed down and I was keen as mustard to get out onto the water. Within about 10 minutes I'd snapped both lines. It seemed like it just wasn't my time for keeping jigs, glad I didn't buy a Yo-Zuri haha.
Anyway, girlfriend got home and she was also keen to head out for some squid so she bought some more jigs for us and even a new reel for me since mine has started to ... well.... suck. We get out onto the jetty at about 6pm. By about 7pm I'd landed a decent size squid. By decent I purely mean for Pt Noarlunga, almost everything I have ever caught there has been tiny. About 20 minutes after that the gf landed one that was almost twice the size of mine. Things were looking good and not a single lost jig.
It all slowed down from there though we kept jigging that one spot until it got to about 9pm. We were starting to get impatient so I decided we'd move spots and fish shallower. This turned out to be a good decision as within 3 casts I was on. As I was pulling my line in, my girlfriend yells to me, she's on too. I quickly land mine, throw my jig back into the water then help her pull hers up. I get the jig out, she throws it back in and I go back to my rod.
Oh no..... I'm snagged. Tried everything I could to free it including the old sinker trick but no luck ended up snapping the line. I quickly started tying another jig on when the girlfriend had hooked another one so I went over to help. As soon as she was back into the water she got another one. I was getting excited and quickly tied my rig and threw it out.
From there on we got nothing. They all stopped as quickly as they came. I'm spewin I snagged during that sweet spot. On inspection of the squid it seems they mustve been using the shallow waters as a spawing ground at the time as we had 3 females full of eggs.
So we went home with 5 really decent size squid, probably about 1 kg each give or take. I know it isnt a huge catch but from the action I've seen down at Pt Noarlunga, I was really happy.
I'll upload a photo I took of me holding the first two squid we caught tomorrow, my phone is dead right now.
EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I saw something on the jetty that I just couldn't believe. One guy caught a Trevally off the jetty that looked to be around 50cm. Really nice fish. Now I was amazed at the fact he caught it off of Pt Noarlunga jetty but where he caught it and how was what made me more suprised. He was using cockles and tiny hooks to try and catch tommies as baitfish. He was also right next to the beach and fishing in about 4ft deep of water, if that. When he hooked it he just got off the jetty, walked onto the beach and dragged it up. I was shocked to say the least.
Anyway, I ordered some jigs off of ebay, some Kamikaze ones and something else, keen to try them out.
Anywho
06/03/09
Went down around 5am this morning. I had not bought any new jigs but tried to fix my old ones with glue and some spare jags. I managed to fix to what I thought would be good enough, 2 of my jigs. A cheap one and a flashing LED one. Anyway the wind had totally calmed down and I was keen as mustard to get out onto the water. Within about 10 minutes I'd snapped both lines. It seemed like it just wasn't my time for keeping jigs, glad I didn't buy a Yo-Zuri haha.
Anyway, girlfriend got home and she was also keen to head out for some squid so she bought some more jigs for us and even a new reel for me since mine has started to ... well.... suck. We get out onto the jetty at about 6pm. By about 7pm I'd landed a decent size squid. By decent I purely mean for Pt Noarlunga, almost everything I have ever caught there has been tiny. About 20 minutes after that the gf landed one that was almost twice the size of mine. Things were looking good and not a single lost jig.
It all slowed down from there though we kept jigging that one spot until it got to about 9pm. We were starting to get impatient so I decided we'd move spots and fish shallower. This turned out to be a good decision as within 3 casts I was on. As I was pulling my line in, my girlfriend yells to me, she's on too. I quickly land mine, throw my jig back into the water then help her pull hers up. I get the jig out, she throws it back in and I go back to my rod.
Oh no..... I'm snagged. Tried everything I could to free it including the old sinker trick but no luck ended up snapping the line. I quickly started tying another jig on when the girlfriend had hooked another one so I went over to help. As soon as she was back into the water she got another one. I was getting excited and quickly tied my rig and threw it out.
From there on we got nothing. They all stopped as quickly as they came. I'm spewin I snagged during that sweet spot. On inspection of the squid it seems they mustve been using the shallow waters as a spawing ground at the time as we had 3 females full of eggs.
So we went home with 5 really decent size squid, probably about 1 kg each give or take. I know it isnt a huge catch but from the action I've seen down at Pt Noarlunga, I was really happy.
I'll upload a photo I took of me holding the first two squid we caught tomorrow, my phone is dead right now.
EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I saw something on the jetty that I just couldn't believe. One guy caught a Trevally off the jetty that looked to be around 50cm. Really nice fish. Now I was amazed at the fact he caught it off of Pt Noarlunga jetty but where he caught it and how was what made me more suprised. He was using cockles and tiny hooks to try and catch tommies as baitfish. He was also right next to the beach and fishing in about 4ft deep of water, if that. When he hooked it he just got off the jetty, walked onto the beach and dragged it up. I was shocked to say the least.