Thread: Attn Pig Islanders.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I should be out there now!....forcast is good mornings and passable evenings all week...unfortunatly I have shitloads of work on at the mo and startinng early so thats fishing before work out and if I go after work in my own boat I wont get to bed till midnight at least...........maybe later in the week

Yeah, unfortunately I have these two short people that live in my house that I need to watch/feed/pull out of the pond until their mother gets home, which is about 7 most nights, by then it's too late to get out.

And then it blows its tits off every weekend, well has done so far this summer....

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Yeah, unfortunately I have these two short people that live in my house that I need to watch/feed/pull out of the pond until their mother gets home, which is about 7 most nights, by then it's too late to get out.

And then it blows its tits off every weekend, well has done so far this summer....

You are preaching to the converted mate,its same same in my house.....thats why I get frustrated and do stupid shit like get up at 2 or 3 to go fishing and be in and at work by 7 only plus is I can usually get the wife to pick up chilly bin from work and put fish in fridge and if not I will land it on a mate

Originally Posted by Gibo

But its shit for knot strength

I've never had any issues.
I did a lot of (semi-scientific) testing many years ago and found it pretty good. Always above 85%. That was before I knew anything about the PR of FG knot. I think I like it because it is so versatile and easy to tie.
I use it in conjunction with a Bimini twist in the braid if I have time to tie one.

@sambnz and his lady showed me how to slay gurnard on softies, we sat outside the islands at okiwi at 70 ft, Sambnz first drop hooked up within a min, then for the next half hour they boated a good handful, some excellent fish amoungst them. I managed a single then the snakes turned up and we could not get a rig to the bottom. We kept a snake for hook line bait and enjoyed the power of a few more on light gear, but the weather and loss of gear moved us on. NC and a blue spekled jerk shad doing the damage.

Flicked all manner of soft baits,lures,jigs and slow jigs around for 4 hours solid this morning for zilch while my Dad caught snapper and sharks and my boy caught gurnard, yellow eyed mullet,barracuda.
I had one take in 4 hours I think was a gurnard but didn't hook up.


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Same result, dirty water?? Had good success with cleaner water as posted previously , you had more paitence than me, I snuck a ledger rig on about an hour in and boated some cod. To be honest we struggled all weeeked productive spots were dead , vis was arse! But thanks to VC for some solid advise we snagged a good snapper and gurnard. So may not be the softies fault just hard fishing?

Originally Posted by stingray

Same result, dirty water?? Had good success with cleaner water as posted previously , you had more paitence than me, I snuck a ledger rig on about an hour in and boated some cod. To be honest we struggled all weeeked productive spots were dead , vis was arse! But thanks to VC for some solid advise we snagged a good snapper and gurnard. So may not be the softies fault just hard fishing?

It was definitely much slower fishing this morning than Sat morning but these things are supposed to outfish bait and I haven't seen them do that even once yet.

Agreed , I've gone full circle, bugger the brought bait, bugger the softies , bugger the lures , bugger the flasher rigs....fresh barracotta and ledger rigs and strips of cotta and running sinker.

Originally Posted by stingray

Agreed , I've gone full circle, bugger the brought bait, bugger the softies , bugger the lures , bugger the flasher rigs....fresh barracotta and ledger rigs and strips of cotta and running sinker.

Certainly different baits and different presentation seem to work well at different times.....strayline was deadly pre spawn.....but it hasn't caught a fish of any sort in ages.
Now the flasher ledger rigs are working which has always been my go to.