Rompin Sailfish

Hi Guys

Just had two days in Rompin flyfishing for Sailfish. It was insane, ill let the pic's and vid do the talking

                               
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Ando

[ 本帖最後由 flyfisher 於 2008-11-14 18:02 編輯 ]

Sorry need to make the pic's smaller but the vid will show all

Ando

the fish is so large

Thanks for your sharing. It's really crazy to catch that many in just two days

Excellent mate....................must have great time out there with all the saillies. Thanks for sharing.............

wow...looks like you had a lot of fun down S.E. Asia. Got to give Rompin a try sometime....keke...
P.S.- can't veiw the video from china.

cheers
trouty

Just got back from Rompin. The fishing was nothing short of spectacular. I fished two days. The plan for me was to nail a Sail on fly. Having never caught a Sail before, I wanted to make sure I caught at least one. So on the first day, we went to a known bait ground to jig for bait. While Dominic (the guide) was jigging for bait, I was casting a popper on a spin rod and got numerous follows from Sails all the way back to the boat. That was just a sign of things to come... 

The baits were pretty hard to come by, but we got half a dozen scad and figured that would be enough to get at least a Sail on conventional. When we got out to the Sailfish grounds (about 30 kms out), we fed out the baits under a balloon one by one -- none of them lasted more than 15 mins, and we finally got a solid hookup on the 3rd bait. 15 mins later, I had my first Sail on conventional. 

From that point on (around 11:30am Saturday), I decided it was going to be fly only for the rest of the trip. We didn't count the number of Sailfish we raised on the first day (but we guesstimate at over 50). I hooked 10 Sails in total on fly on the first day -- 2 busted off on 10kg IGFA tippet, 2 jumped off, 1 hook pulled, and 5 LANDED (2 of which were on 10kg IGFA tippet). 

The bite "cooled" on Sunday, but we still managed to raise 29 (this time we counted), but the fish were cautious and difficult to tease to the back of the boat. Even when we managed to tease them to the back of the boat, the fish either ignored the flies or weren't agitated enough to smash the flies with gusto making hookups difficult. In addition, we were having engine problems due to overheating, so we had to stop every hour or so to let the engine cool. This allowed me to do some more popping on the spinrod and I managed to get numerous follows, and one hookup on the popper right next to the boat -- unfortunately it jumped off on the first jump. When we did manage to get going though, I had one Sail landed on fly from one hookup. 

Not a bad way to end the trip. Total: 7 Sails in 2 days, 6 on fly, 1 on conventional. 

Beautiful fish. Wish I have a chance to fly over there to fish.

Do they offer fly rod rental there? I dont think I wanna have my own 12wt

No, they don't offer fly rod rental at Rompin.  You should be able to land one on a 10 weight though provided you can lob a big popper fly about 40 ft or so which should't be too hard.

Did you guys end up chasing ladyfish on the weekend?

The biggest guy I have is only an 8wt....

No, didnt get any. But got a few strikes thou. Need to get there during the high tide. It was a wrong timing. We went to another spot after an hour. You can see my other thread for the trip that day.