Bali Jigging Reports, Dogtooth tuna attack !! 20 March 2010
Written on March 20, 2010 – 6:22 pm | by Bali Fishing
this morning we left the port at 8:30 and straight headed for the first fishing spots.
on 26-30 knots cruising speed we reach the area within an hour. The client today is keen fisherman who was fishing with us also last month. He is curiously and addicted to get dogtooth tuna fishing and for sure fishing for bigger ruby snapper.
At the spots,
the current still strong at 3,9 knots average, but minutes lates it dropped to 3 knots, and then 2 knots and average 1 knots to 2 knots.
First bite was dogtooth tuna, the hook up and position of the anglers wasnt benefited to fight fast, then the dogtooth tuna ran into hiding , one jig and line break !!
another 5 more bites resulted in line breaks, lost 6 metal jigs already !
And at the depth of 112 meters, the jig was lowered down, 1 – 2 -3 cranks, and then lstrike, the line was peeled of the shimano stella 10.000SW reel, it gotta be ruby snapper! after several minutes, the fish start surfaced, its a 11 kilos nice good looking ruby snapper landed !
we then cruised to the secluded beach for a short swimmming while freshing up snorkeling. 4 set snorkle was passed and they were snorkling.
then we back to the spots for another more fish, so far we only got one ruby snapper and one small grouper that weight less than the metal jig itself!
4 rods lfishing, at the depth of 135 meters, one rod the jigrex rods, bent down, reel screaming, this is monster fish !! its a monsterous dogtooth tuna seems from the way it run. On the 15 kilos drag, with 65 lbs main line and 120 lbs leader, the line keep spooled off the reel. Its hard just to hold the reel in that five minutes. then it stop running, we managed to crank in about 10 spins, then run again, even the boat is chasing the line too, not long the whole 300 yards line came to the end, and it break at completely spilled 300 yards !!
ok, so we’re lost 8 jigs so far, now we need one more fish before we head back.
its now at 110 meters, lowered down the metal; jig, and 3 cranks, we gota abiote of a ruby snapper, nicely landed and bigger than the first one.
we agreed to call it a day, and head back to port.
Great fight today !
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