Ambition Fishing

I can only describe yesterday’s Ambition Fishing, for me anyway, as one of the most frustrating days I have ever spent at sea. I won’t go into details but Ambition Fishing was ambitious, it could best be described as a ‘good news, bad news day’.

The good side was that the clients caught some beautiful Mahi Mahi and experienced the excitement of catching a Marlin which put on a great aerial display.

The bad news side the details of which as I have already said I will not go into but suffice to say the current run of Marlin continues unabated. All three species are evident with several Blacks being found on the inshore grounds. Out wider there are both Blue and Striped Marlin and even further out you’ll find Yellowfin tuna. The Yellowfin are moving around and moving quickly so take a bit of finding. However around them there is always the chance of running into a big Blue Marlin.

Surprisingly for the number of pelagics around there is not much bait. I did find patches but I would have expected more. However, I did see something I haven’t seen off Sydney for years. As I was approaching a private FAD I saw Mutton birds working over a small patch of what looked like a pool of blood in the water. It was in fact a bait ball of ‘Red Bait’ with a school of Mahi Mahi rounding them up from below. If you’ve never seen ‘Red Bait’ before I can assure you that you’ll never mistake it for anything else.

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Tight Lines,
Ivan