Morning Pilbara Jig : Pilbara-Kimberley Bluewater

PilbaraBrad · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject: Morning Pilbara Jig

Sean8 and i went out for a fish this morning, the plan was to head out "real wide" to some new ground however the weather gods did not let that happen. We opted for a jig / fish on some familiar ground a lot closer to shore. I used nothing but jigs while sean used bait. Unfortunately the demersals were not playing the game and seans bait remained largley untouched. Alas it was going orfffff on jigs, just one problem, i couldnt land any of the fish i was hooking. There were large numbers of BIG spanyids around resulting in around 10 lost jigs for me, ahhhhhhhhh

all good i did manage to land quite a few mack tuna, gold spots, cod and a snall mackie.

I am afraid i also lost the traveling lure to a large mackie, sorry guys.... I hooked something BIG as well which again i didnt manage to land. Every time i managed to get it up off the bottom a few meters it would bury me again, i am guessing it was a huge cod of some sorts.

Attached a couple of photos of some of the landed species

Jigs sure won the day over baits