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Sunday 6 November 2016

MISSING PERSON - MOJO - LOCATED AT THE VERNONS.

Over the past few fishing outings, Mojo was lost, hard fishing and not many of them.  But, Mojo, was located the other day at the Vernon Islands.   Left at arse crack early (very dark) with Matty Davis from Leaders Creek.   Weather was perfect, thanks to Odin ......

The sacrifices to Odin worked.....calm seas...no storms.
Have only been to the Vernons once before and it was Matty's first trip.  My last trip was good, but this time it was unbeleiveable.   Fish, and good ones everywhere and Mojo was there too...some of the fish were unstoppable...shreading the leaders on reefs...most we think were trevally..but there where huge barracuda, (for Canadian Pete...they're like Pike Pete)..longtoms well well over a metre that were irridescent green in the water...Queenies...some really big ones, but the smaller ones, around 60-65cm got to the flies first.

Matty's PB Trevally 


On sparse bucktail clousers with blue dna centre.
Similar to these flies.
While we were on the top of the North Vernon we heard what sounded like rushing water and thought that the tide was rushing in, but when we got around the corner, there were schools of metre plus Milkies swimming with their mouths open slurping up anything that was in the wind lanes.  Guess who never had any bloody Milkie flies!!!!! AGAIN

Just on flies, we used mainly sparse bucktail clousers on 2/0 hooks,  it was interesting that the ones with the blue DNA centre had hits all the time, while those with just a silver centre had hits, but not as many, the blue/sea foam centre seemed to attract them a lot more.

Not the plug....just another 'Unstoppable'
Note for next trip.....take Milkie flies, take note of tides so that you don't have to sit, stuck, 150 yards from the boat ramp with a horrible black sky approaching...missed us luckily, and most importantly of all.....don't lose Mojo again.

                     Eugene
Jäger Flies

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