80km Trip Botany Bay to Long Reef fishing for Snapper, Trag & a surprise Samsonfish - Spikes Fishing

The BEST session I have had at Long Reef by far!
I did the 40km trip from Botany to Long Reef. It's a fairly quick and exciting drive in good conditions. Highly recommend. ELKAT Striker Gang hooks never fail.
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[@whatsupshittafabraans1926]

Gotta love the wind hum through taught lines- oh the memories

[@spikesfishing]

Best sound, that and drag 😍

[@chriskalsbeek2252]

nice bag Mel 👍

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you 😊

[@michalesinclair5274]

Excellent mel

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you 😊 still one of my most memorable trips yet

[@user-vc1mf8re4l]

Great Trag Mel, I’m jealous. Blade N Tails 7ft one piece best snapper rods. All my snapper outfits are Blade N Tails. Another great session Mel.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Living the dream. 😊

[@ngocpham8129]

I love fishing 🎣

[@danielthiele2740]

So Stoked For You Catching That Samson! I’ve been targeting them for years off the stones without success, thanks Mel for taking us onboard with you:) epic session!

[@spikesfishing]

You are most welcome! That’s the 3rd Samson I have got in 3 years! They are very rare. Hopefully you get yours soon!

[@briangardiner8088]

Like your thinking Mel👍🏾 allways have plan B.🎣👍🏾

[@spikesfishing]

Agreed 😍

[@sydneyfishingstory]

Nice video very good fishing my friend

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you

[@lochiecromie]

nice little mission. Your Haines is a beast!

[@spikesfishing]

Thanks Lochie it’s an epic boat ♥️

[@fufusabra1]

Amazing job

[@DarkmoonAngler]

Happy Days...

[@kierancorcoran1114]

Congrats on the samsonfish. Those things pull almost everything backwards

[@spikesfishing]

100%

[@dantolo817]

Great video one of your best

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you Dan!

[@tonstasfishing]

awesome session as usual Mel

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you ♥️

[@adzoutnabout8666]

Those Samsons weight for weight can pull a kingy backwards…. And better eating. Massive effort mate, your smashing it 💥

[@spikesfishing]

Got me off guard big time it was epic to see it come in off Sydney 💪🏽🔥

[@adzoutnabout8666]

@@spikesfishing i used to get em off Forster in 40 mtrs mid 90’s. We used homemade stainless or copper jigs. 5kg Samson would pull like a 10kg king, but heaps better on the plate. Keep going mate, get amongst em. 💪

[@adzoutnabout8666]

@@spikesfishing PS: the Squid are on bigtime

[@kseeroo]

Wow, I would love to come and fish with you, we can follow you and fish together. My son adores watching you catch fish

[@spikesfishing]

Always happy for you to follow me out! We can meet at the ramp and take it from there 😊

[@4WLEX]

This, is probably the only channel with long videos, that I watch all the way through. Good on ya mate! Love your content as usual. You're the Queen of the pilly. Last week I've been fishing from the beach, and I tho I can try the "Spikes Half Pilly". Didn't go too good, but just when I was getting my rod off the beach to leave, I caught one of my best flatty. That was yours lol even tho, I was the one eaten it 😂

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you that’s epic to hear you got an awesome flatty on the #halfpilly rig!! I have never used them from land send me pics if you would me to use in my website!

[@4WLEX]

@@spikesfishing the rig was a different one tho. I need to check if I had it on a paternoster single hooked or what.

[@Dave30867]

✔😊 👍🌹 stay safe great job .

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you Dave will do 😍

[@zacronan1127]

I wanna come fishing :((((

[@spikesfishing]

I so want to go back there one day 🔥

[@catco01]

Hey Mel are those elkats 5/0 or 7/0?

[@spikesfishing]

5/0

[@Park-pj8zw]

Awesome.. how did you catch anytime?

[@spikesfishing]

What do you mean

[@Park-pj8zw]

@@spikesfishing how can you always catch fish well?

[@spikesfishing]

@@Park-pj8zw a lot of practice and learning all the time!

[@Peter-wc4kr]

Is this off Long Reef?

[@spikesfishing]

Yeah kind of but like 6-8km from land

[@enterthedragon5979]

Mel can you tell us the difference with a trag fish and a jewie they look the same

[@hamziclub1661]

the tail is pointing in, a jewfish points out

[@danielthiele2740]

The Tail and also a Jewie’s beautiful lateral line is unmistakable.

[@enterthedragon5979]

@@danielthiele2740 are the scales similar

[@spikesfishing]

Yellow mouth and different tail. The Jew are a beautiful silver shine too and trag are duller

[@enterthedragon5979]

@@spikesfishing Mel if you can do a video explaining this you will be the first on KZbin. Please 🙏 do this for us to know