Bali jigging, reports 15 March 2010: Its Just Too Much (Fun & Fishes) !!


Written on March 15, 2010 – 9:39 pm | by Bali Fishing

Great Morning Vibe

Went out fishing with Mr. Cooper this morning
We went out for jigging dogtooth tuna dn ruby snappers for the whole day.
Its a day to go to bali NYEPI day or bali silence day, so we will have to return before all the ‘Ogoh Ogoh’ statute to be parade at the road to avoid traffic jam.

While waiting driver pick up from Sentosa Villa arriving at the jetty to aboard mr. Cooper to our Tiger catamaran boat, I was waiting in our office terrace and look at the sea, seems today will be a good fishing day, i saw the small bait fish like few meters from the shore line jumping out of the water chased by a small barracuda, seems like the current isn’t as strong as usual. perhaps like 1-2 knots current.

Arriving at the jetty we then soon aboard the boat, explaining where the emergency device – procedure and where we headed. we cruised to the spots on 26 knots average, a fifty minutes to go.

Arriving at the spot, i was a bit surprised, looking at the tide chart at my watch, but the surface looks so calm and friendly, Ok  seems like we will be getting fish today.

while deckies setting up the fishing gear, i explained how to jig in the depth of 120 meters with 500 grams metal jig. its heavy allright.

All ready and sounder showed 118 meters, its a one third of spool, i mentioned.

we lowered down all jig and start doing slow jigging and get them used to find the jigging rhytim. Then…

First strike.
First bite, line peeled off the spool at the first run, taking almost 50 meters on the 10 kilos drag setting, few minutes later, this beautiful creatures shown on the surface. a Nine kilos ruby snapper, and photo session :D

Second reel has another bite, its a tiny one, yes its a grouper, like half jkilo grouper bite the half kilo metal jig.

Then few attempts later, we got a dogtooth tuna bite, this time reel was screaming !! like unstoppable fish, its on shallow 80 meters water, but after doing all the hard work, line break and lost one jig.

Move to the previous spots, now we have a bite from dogtooth again !! Mr. Cooper determine to finish it this time, almost an hour he was fighting the fish and fish not yet surrender !! last minute, just about 60 meters away, the fish hid into the reef, make it harder to beat, then we decided to hard pull the fish, we did that and then we managed to save the jig but lost the fish, got a big scratch on the metal jig of the bite.

Swimming & Lunch.
It was almost 1 pm, we decided to have a lunch at the secluded beach and swimming, it is a hot sunny day today. i can smell my skin burn like well-done steak !!
Snorkles out, fins outs, googles out, we swim to cooled down. we can see the barracuda chasing the bait fish, and dive to the good coral underneath on the 6 meters crystal clear pristine waters.

Lunch then beers, bintang beers.

The Fish Market
We get back to the spot while the tide is just right, re check all the gear and we’re good to go. This is when everything started.

Triple double strikes!
Lowered down 3 set of jig and then 2 of them got bite !!
First one landed then 2nd one landed, a 12 kilos average both on scale.

Then again, after a short beer break, every time we lowered the jig to the bottom, hit the bottom, not so long we got double bites!! Twice double bite.
This second double bite, one first one landed spitted the hook on the ssurface we tried to get it, but lost it. but the 2nd fish still on!
Second fish landed sweetly a nice 12 kilo ruby snapper/red snapper.

we stop a bit and decided, one more run before we head back to main island.
One more run, starts at 124 meters depth, sounder shown a fish market down there. I grab the Shimano stella 10.000SW with 65lbs Tuffline braid and a flourocarbon 120lbs lkeader line, connecter to a 200lbs swivel, assist jig on Varivas kevlar 600lbs, and #11 Mustad single hook. When the 500 grams jig reach bottom, i did not even had chance to play the lure, the fish bite !! i set the hook twice, set up properly!! then the fish start showing off her power, it runs like hell !! tried to stand up sturdy, it still run the like, i loosen the drag a bit soi it give me a good stand before fight the fish, when the fiosh stop its first run, we moved the rod to the starboard side of boat that the line taken under the hull, from the port side to the starboard side.

Hand over the set, and guest start to fight the fish, when fighting the fish second bite on the other reel, seems like a small one, i was thingking a 2 kilo snapper, but it was reeled in quickly and its a half kilo grouper eating half kilo jig !! Again !!
The ruby was landed and kit was 12.5 kilos in weight. Good catch.

We call it a day and head back to port.

… and we understand that anytime we landed that beautiful creatures, we will not waste live we took of them, we will cherish the gifts …

Total today we have 9 Ruby Snapper and 2 small groupers, and we understand that anytime we landed that beautiful creatures, we will not waste live we took of them, we will use them as our bbq dinner, to accompany tomorrow, the Bali silence day. It is a good day, a fun day, and a record breaking day, the most the guest caught by their own since January 2010. But still, there is none of our clients ever succed to land a dogtooth tuna, well they are just there waiting, so come on get them (landed) :D

But still, there is none of our clients ever succed to land a dogtooth tuna,  well they are just there waiting, so come on get them (landed) :D




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