Hi,
Do you bother throwing a line out while coastal sailing, & is anyone having any luck?
Anyone got any tips on what techniques & tackle you need... & any favourite easy recipes for the fish fare would be great!
cheers
Not lately but ,in the past we used a" paravane " which takes the lure down a fathom or there a bouts . Which we had some success with catching salmon ....
Yep if towing a lure it must be within the disturbance of your yachts wake.
That means within 10m!
I think the use of attracters would help as well.
Yes, a two inch length of clear plastic tube over a long shank hook leaves a trail of bubbles and works a treat for the salmon in these waters.
The problem is if and when you catch some thing you need to get it on deck, then the fun starts, blood and guts ever where, and the smell lasts for days
Accidentally found a solution for that Lex. It's a bit cruel but works a treat. Caught a stack of Mahi Mahi on the way over to Fiji on a skirt attached to some 100lb line and a length of parachute cord. Anyone whose ever pulled one on board will know what you are talking about.
Anyhow we hooked one one day and for one reason and another the line didn't get checked for ages only to find when it was that the hooked fish was utterly knackered. From then on in it became standard practice to let them spend their energy whilst still in the water.
Select to expand quoteBlueMoon said..
Hi,
Do you bother throwing a line out while coastal sailing, & is anyone having any luck?
Anyone got any tips on what techniques & tackle you need... & any favourite easy recipes for the fish fare would be great!
cheers
What the hell as luck got to do with it. I actually go fishing a lot. Usually troll a flat line with a chrome Smiths jig, works on just about everything. I also do a fair bit of bottom bouncing for Flathead, snapper and Morwong though I do target Wrasse a fair bit. Bottom bouncing requires the boat to be stopped and this is fairly difficult with a yacht. Light breezes you can trying hoving to. I find with my boat that furling the headsail and leaving the full main out to about the broadreaching position and letting her sail up till the main shivers [full batten main] and setting the windvane to hold her there is the go. The drag on the mainsail and the slop is usually enough to keep her fairly stationary.
Below is another of my videos from a few years back of my old windvane. On the port side stern you can see my flat line and on this day I was catching a few bonito. Small fish like this I just keep sailing, larger fish I have to luff up. The line is two metres of shock cord, about 15 metres of 4 mm cord them 200 lb mono down to 100 lb trace. Swivels fitted inbetween for grip. Use fishing gloves for tuna.
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The problem is if and when you catch some thing you need to get it on deck, then the fun starts, blood and guts ever where, and the smell lasts for days
What my mate does is get the fish just clear of the water and slip a noose over his tail. He then pulls the noose tight and hangs the fish upside down over the water and pours a little metho down his gills. That settles him down instantly.
Then while holding the fish by his tail on the side of the boat he slits his guts and cuts his throat with a short but sharp knife. When most of the blood and guts are gone he brings it onboard to finish the job.
We used to troll with a 300lb Avley reel attached to the stern and fish at anchor with rods up and down Qld coast, pulling in Mackeral, Tuna, Sweetlip, Red Emporer, Coral Trout, Reefies, etc. We'd pour 70% alcohol into their gills once caught, it relaxes them and stops them thrashing about in the cockpit, we'd scale them etc on the stern or sugar scoop and bucket away the mess. Fresh fish is great just coated in flour, salt and pepper, fried in butter and served with aoili or sweet chilli sauce, fresh tuna is good for mornays, because the fish you catch fresh is so much better then what you can buy at the supermarket sometimes the less you do with it the better.
My favorite quick recipie is to carry a few packets of me goreng noodles on board and boil them up throwing in diced fish, calamari, scallops or whatever else is the catch of the day. Also a few thinly sliced vegies go in, eg carrots, broccoli challotts. Timeing is the key so no ingredient is overcooked.
For something a bit more elaborite but still easy, i cook up a Thai coconut milk green curry with curry paste, lemongrass, basil, garlic. Then I throw in the diced fish, etc catch of the day. This really works well if you have a dozen or so mussels as well.
Sold my fishing licenses to a bloke in Sydney who makes and sells aniseed soap. Apparently it cleans fishy smelly hands in salt water. I have never tried it.
Phone number on the packet is 0412731118.
I notice there is aniseed soap on eBay as well and I'm sure markets will have it.
Yes definitely.
We caught a huge (as usual stories go) tuna dragging a line while sailing off the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. Sometime later caught a speed boat prop as he cut across our stern at high speed! Once realizing there seems to be fish there as opposed to off the NSW coast trawled often and caught many.
I would love to know if there are fish to be caught between Sydney and Port Stephens and if so what we should be trying to catch. Havent caught much so far there.
Trolling close to headlands will produce Bonito this time of the year. Out wide there are plenty of large yellowfin which you wont stop. Probably dolphin fish further North out wide, troll near floating stuff.
Out fishing today. Caught plenty of flathead, left them biting. Nice sailing day too but breeze faded on the way home. Some of the best sailing happens this time of the year in between the gales. The breeze dying as the sun sets on light wind days the only handicap.
Thanks for the replies everyone, the simply cooked fish & Thai green curry sounds luvly.
Is anyone else getting the cool fishing rods in the background image? I wonder if its because I mention 'fishing' in the subject title.
cheers
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Thanks for the replies everyone, the simply cooked fish & Thai green curry sounds luvly.
Is anyone else getting the cool fishing rods in the background image? I wonder if its because I mention 'fishing' in the subject title.
cheers
Yes, I have them on my screen. Was wondering about it.
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Five bucks!!!
Oh well......... you can't win em all, but for a propper evaluation , a pic must be posted!
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Five bucks!!!
Oh well......... you can't win em all, but for a propper evaluation , a pic must be posted!
I will post the pictures of the aloominum one that I bought in K-Mart Salem USA. A real quality product but might have been in Japies price bracket.
