Thursday 19 July 2012

Report 083 Introducing one of the fishing gurus to Jetskifishing... 9th of July 2012

Jetskifishing’s growth is largely due to education to newbies. This month, our invited guest for the New Zealand Jetskifishing Club was well respected Wavedancer skipper and soft bait guru, Captain Paul Senior. Paul has always shown interest towards Jetskifishing and has been of the belief that jet-skis could be the ultimate in fishing platforms for chasing work-ups! He didn’t need to convince me, Ive been enjoying work-up fishing for years.
With my constant excitement for this cool sport I offered him an opportunity to join me on the water… We didn’t muck around and scheduled for this trip the first opportunity we found some nice weather.
We each had our own strategies on what works for finding the work-ups… Paul’s technique has always intrigued me with his educated patience! He is quite happy to sit back and relax while enjoying some lunch whilst observing the Gannets fly past, showing him the direction. Me, on the other hand, am all about “do the miles, get the smiles”, while finding them out wide.
 After our short stop out in the area of the Ahahaa Rocks we continued our search, which you can study on the Jetskifishing Tracking map. For Paul’s experience we thought it was a good opportunity to get some nice photos of Jetskifishing. We had the company of Bruce from Incredible Images on his own ski and Brent, another seasoned Jetskifisho to try his luck amongst the work-ups.
 This trip was forecasted for light winds, yet out wide it was still brisk, with a gusting southerly building the white caps. It was a 50/50 call whether we could still go wide with the fragile camera equipment, but Bruce was all for it knowing the chance of some nice camera shots. This was no soft introduction to the sport, was a hard slog for Paul the newbie! Fortunately he was dressed appropriately for the conditions, having a first layer of Sharkskin thermals, making for the warmth required for winter Jetskifishing. As we were heading out past Gannet Rock, Paul was as eager as we get and started going off on his own tangent! He followed a few stray Gannets, he was heading further up the Firth of Thames with his jetskifishing confidence growing. Meanwhile our group of three, were heading north in our search of the work ups. As quick as we lost sight of Paul, we located a work-up in full action! No Paul and finally the fishing we had been looking for, a quick text to let him know where we were and it was time for us to drop some soft baits.
 It didn’t take long, it was a Snapper on, the 6” Gulp Grub – Nuclear Chicken taking the first catch. One fish already in the bin and to our relief Paul was next racing over to join us for the action!
There were Dolphins and whales in a feeding frenzy, rounding up the Pilchards amongst the action.
It didn’t take long and Paul too, was hooked up on a nice Snapper.
 String pulling action with Jetskifishing, that’s what we have been talking about!
 It was all on, with all four of us hooked up at one stage.
 One for Bruce the cameraman as well!
 This was a Snapper slaying session with plenty released to swim another day. The average size fish went ten pound and it was great to test the easy hook ups on the slow jig, Jitter Bugs.
 With plenty of fish in the chilly bin I made a call to head back. Heaps of great photos and most likely you will be seeing the unpublished ones in one of the local fishing magazines in months to come.
 A quick stop at Garden Cove for a group photo and then our high speed adrenalin race back to the boat ramp.
 Another top day on the water with Jetskifishing, that’s what we call, living the dream.
If you are ready to get started with Jetskifishing and would like to experience it to the level we do, come see me at the Jetskifishing Store to get you kitted on the right model ski with the best in gear.

FUEL STATS

2012 FX HO Cruiser - 50 litres.
Angler - Andrew Hill
2011 SHO - 61 litres.
Angler - Bruce Clarke
2011 FX HO Cruiser - 46 litres.
Angler - Brent Martin
2011 FX HO - 43 litres.
Angler - Paul Senior

Cheers, Andrew Hill

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