It is July already and this year is going fast, the last frontal system that came through dropped our water temperature by almost 3deg.C and so we are definitely heading into winter fishing and should start getting our Geelbek and Kob soon.
After a good run with Yellowfin Tuna, my expectations where set high, but I could not find them and on my last 3 outings we only got baitfish and sharks.
On the one outing I had some guys from England with me on the boat, and the SW was pumping, but they wanted a Shark and so we went out in really bad conditions. The fun and games started when an Albatross dropped his load and I heard a slapping sound behind me, only to turn around and find my guest with the business of the Albatross on his forehead and dripping down his face, I could only laugh and the guest took this as a sign of good luck after he washed the goo from his face.
Sure enough we eventually managed to hook a large Shark, which ended up being a Black Tip of around (140Kg) 300lbs and gave a huge fight made even harder by the adverse conditions, when we eventually got it to the boat a series of events took place ending up with the leader wrapped around my hand and this big shark going wild on the other end causing my hand a very painful injury and a snapped Tiagra rod.
On another trip we also could not find any Gamefish other than one small Eastern Little Tuna, but there where so many smaller Hammerhead Sharks around we ended up sight fishing for them on light tackle without steel leaders which proved to be good sport. We hooked one which weighed in at 12.8 Kg (28lbs) and when I grabbed his tail to pull him on the side of the boat to remove the hook he decided to flick himself over and came on board where he trashed like mad and I ended up have a wrestling match with an very angry Hammerhead Shark, eventually I won and subdued him, but not before he gave a nip on my forearm, which fortunately was not very deep.
Besides wrestling Sharks, we also had some fun and games with an Albatross ho kept on picking up the bait, and he would not let go, I thought once he was hooked, but he was just greedy and holding on playing tug of war. When I reeled the bait in he held on, opened his wings and skied across the water on his feet making for some comical moments.
We also saw a Whale tailing.
