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2006 Season Summary

To start off our 2006 summary we would like to thank everyone who fished with us & helped to make this yet another incredible season. We were fortunate enough to be the most successful billfishing charter at K. Rompin for the second year running with about 211 Sails boated & an impressive 6 juve Black Marlins with a notable 120lb Marlin boated on 20.09.2006 with Jane Meech & family. This group achieved a Rompin Grand Slam boating both Sails & Marlin. They had a rare shot of 2 Sails going airborne on a double hook-up & made significant contributions of Marlin & Sails action shots for our website. We had numerous double-hook-ups throughout the season & even a triple hook-up for Sailers. Some other significant bottom catches for the year were a pair of hefty 15-17kg Cobia boated by Pat Evers & company. For the pelagics, we had our fair share of scoring for Spanish Macks & Dorados. All these results were in a total of 37 weekends of fishing excluding the week days.

There were again also a few hook-ups & landings for the Fly-fishers fraternity for Sails & also a few on popper lure bait casting which continued to be a trendy form of fishing especially for the Japanese expats towards the 2nd half of the season. Notably 16yr old Fred Brown from the UK boated a 37kg Sailer (approx) on a 5wt fly-rod meant for trout-fishing after 50 minutes on 23.10.2006.

Sean Morgan had his first Dorado on a fly on 08.06.2006 & has generously contributed some action shots of Sails for this website. Our record no. of Sails in a single day was 12 for Pat Evers; they had a triple with 2 landed on the 2nd day with a total of 5 hefty cobias for both days. The record for a single weekend was an amazing 15 Sails for Chris Drury & buddy Johnny. Sails boated for the entire season could have been more but some parties opted for quality catch rather than quantity. Also there were some who fished half-days, usually on the 2nd day to allow some time to get back earlier on a Sun evening before the usual ‘rat race’ on Monday. There were also some who were happy with just 2 Sails each- no necessity to put a further strain on themselves & risk damaging or stressing more Sails.

There were ample sightings of bottle-nosed dolphins this season along with some sharks attracted to large concentrations of baitfish in the later part of the season. Usual periodic sightings of sea turtles, sea-snakes, huge jellyfish, leaping eagle rays & Manta-rays. Loads of sea birds, terns & gannets & even sea-cows (dugong) or manatees that were sighted near the channel leading to Rompin jetty.

We had the pleasure of fishing with John Davis from UK, a 84 year old WW2 veteran who is currently our most senior angler onboard with 4 Sails boated in 2 days of fishing, end October.

We also had Stewart who is featured on our cover page, & Justin taking a swim with the Sails for underwater pics.

Bluesails Sportfishing strives to again be the most professionally & efficiently run charter out of Rompin and our usual pre-season recon of locations will be conducted to ensure great fishing action for the new season.

We are looking forward to fishing with all our regular clients & of course anyone new who has yet to experience the true fishing potential of K. Rompin in the new season of 2007! May you all have a great & blessed year ahead in 2007.

Screaming Reels to All!