Fishing

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of slimey mackral is a good place to hunt marlin. While my crew of good mates Gerry Fernadez, Keith Cardona and my part time deckie Aleks Matic were working hard jigging baits. It was my job to keep Red Hot on top of the bait schools to give us the best chance of a hook up or two. With 3 live baits out, one in each out rigger, free swimming on the surface, Gerry was working the third bait up and down into the bait schools and as this bait is swimming well it is easy prey for a hungry marlin that has a sharp eye for an easy feed. You can see the marlin on the screen (below right) just before it was bang on the deep bait and the drop back line was taken up in no time and the reels trag slowly put up to strike to allow the 9/0 eagle claw circle hook to roll into the corner of the marlins jaw. A 100kg black marlin jumping towards Red Hot. After a few weeks of marlin fishing at its best it was back to Victoria and straight into the portland tuna fishing season for me and as I write this we are in the middle of another cracking tuna season. Some great days onboard Red Hot have been had with clients having some action with 9 way hook ups on some of the better days, although these tuna are only school size fish 12kg to 30kg it is still awesome to have this sort of action. Some of the hot spots so far this season have been the area known as the hammer in 100 metres of water off Cape Bridgewater 30ks west of portland and the horse shoe 50ks due south of Cape Nelson. The large tuna (Barrels) have not shown up as yet at portland, although a 116kg blufin tuna was taken off Warrnambool so fingers crossed these world class fish show up in big numbers. Portland mako shark fishing is also in full swing, as I write we have just done a day on the sharks, where we released 3 blue sharks and kept a nice eating size mako shark.
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Paul Dalberto and mates show some early season bluefin tuna onboard red hot fishing charters.

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Fishing in Victoria was so good, with snapper fishing in Port Phillip bay almost having no down time with huge amounts of snapper keeping people on holidays on the Mornington Peninsula very happy. Over in Westernport Bay the king George whiting have been going crazy since Christmas as have the gummy sharks that are also a fishermans favourite in Westernport Bay. On the East coast up at Port Stephens the marlin season was one of the best that I have seen in some years with some days producing double figures for some of the lucky people that were lucky enough to have been a part of marlin fishing at its best. Skipper Simon Rinaldi hooked up solid to a rampaging port Stephens black marlin. I was lucky enough to have been one of the people up at port Stephens while all this action was going on. After 15 hours of towing my charter boat Red Hot north we were in the middle of the best marlin action I have seen since 2002. Most boats were fishing the area known as the Car Park some 40ks south east of the entrance at Port Stephens. Once the 40k boat trip was done it was all systems go, with huge bait schools of slimey mackeral around 20 to 140 metres down on the trusty furuno 585 fish finder, all we had to do was use a sabki bait jig and load up on fresh live slimeys, a school

A nice portland caught Mako shark on Red Hot Fishing Charters.

Diesel n Dust 2012, May/July

Awesome is the way to describe the summer of fishing we have just had.

Diesel n Dust 2012, May/July

A 100kg black marlin jumping towards Red Hot

Marlin on the furuno 585 fish finder

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Portland is such a great place when it comes to fishing, one day you can catch tuna the next day use all your left over tuna frames and put them through the berley pot and raise some awesome fighting makos or blue sharks and the odd thresher shark also. Bermagui on the south coast of NSW is one of my favourite places to go fishing. Over the past 3 seasons in late June the southen blue fin tuna turned up big time, with fish from 30kg to 150kg being on offer. With this going on last June, good mates Rob Torelli, Murry Peterson and Aleks Matic joined me aboard Red Hot as I made the trek from portland up to Bermagui and what a trip it was. Rob and Murry are top spear fishermen. Rob a 7 times Australian spearfishing champion and Murry has won his fair share of southern free divers compitions. So the plan was to chase a world record on spear, this is something Rob and I have worked on over the past 4 season. We got Rob a world record on a southen bluefin tuna in victoria in 2009. Then backed this up with Rob also getting an albacore tuna world record in 2011 at Portland, so we knew the task at hand was going to be a hard one to beat. Rob and Murry had all their gear set up on the boat, so once I located the tuna they could slip in to the deep blue (2,000 metres) of water some 75 ks south east of Bermagui at an area know as the Tathra Canyons. I was on the deck with Aleks throwing pilchards in the water as fast as we could go, when Rob had put his head out of the water and yelled Tuna. This is when the excitement kicks in. The divers have to be patient and watch the Tuna with an eagle eye, as there is no use just shooting any tuna, The boys wanted a world record and after 40 minutes I noticed one of the boys riffe floats vertical and being pulled under. I said to Aleks there on and after a great battle Murry had secured a bluefin tuna that later pulled the scales down to 47.2kg. A new world record for a free diver on a southen blue fin tuna, the excitement was so good for Murry as he just claimed his dream and for me a real buzz to have put the boys onto another world record. So in 3 years we have claimed 3 world records on board Red Hot Fishing Charters, As Murry smiles with his record the master Rob has his mind ticking over for this tuna season and what might lay ahead. Rob and I have spoken about how we could lure one of the 100 kg monster blue fin tuna within reach of the spear gun, to give Rob a shot at the title Murry took off him, fun times ahead with these two top spearfishermen going head to head.

Skipper Simon with Murry Peterson and his world record southen blue fin tuna.

Tight lines to you all and safe fishing from Simon Rinaldi. For a fishing charter aboard Red Hot Fishing Charters call skipper Simon direct on 0409188751
Murry Peterson with his world record southen blue fin tuna onboard red hot fishing charters.

Diesel n Dust 2012, May/July

Diesel n Dust 2012, May/July

Murry Peterson holding his breath waiting for a chance of a life time that came true.

A beautiful blue fin tuna boat side before release onboard Red Hot

Rob Torelli holds his breath and his nerve as he waits for a larger blue fin tuna.