Amberjack HELP!

toxictuna · June 21, 2009, 18:45:24 CET

Hi all, I am planning to go for some AJs. Never tried before, so i need help. I was going to troll some whole (dead) squid. Any hotspots (in the south), type of bottom i should be looking for, depths, or different lure I should be using.

placebo · June 21, 2009, 21:04:59 CET

squid must be fresh as possible.

possibly try catching some early morning hours or else some sawrella.
depth - on reef edges varying from 20-40 mtrs.

hotspots - hotspot is the name of a small shop selling pastizzi in birzebbuga!

toxictuna · June 22, 2009, 20:43:34 CET

So there it is ... i buy squid from rita in marsaxlokk and pastizzi from bbugia...

Buddhagrass · June 22, 2009, 21:49:36 CET

placebo · June 22, 2009, 21:57:58 CET

le vera toxic!

in fishing it gets to no sense if you know exactly places where to go!
it is more fun if you scout other fisherman and also experiment your own way which will make you feel the most fun of it!

fishing is a wonderful neverending learning experience.

toxictuna · June 23, 2009, 20:42:28 CET

true ... but I wouldn't like to go through the summer without eating my own catch:) so i am planning to catch one than experiment

skip · June 23, 2009, 20:46:08 CET

AJ trolling is usually done with weights to get the bait down to around 20-30m which is the area that AJ like to strike. You need to go dead slow....and all I can say in terms of advice is follow the other boats doing the same thing. You will find them outside freeport and near Filfla.

As I don't do it myself I'm not sure what classifies itself as a good spot, but I imagine ridges and drop offs. In terms of how they rig up, not exactly sure but the Predapro might help for fresh dead bait.

toxictuna · June 23, 2009, 20:58:36 CET

following your advice was looking at nav charts and i think i will try xghajra .. there is a small drop ... it seems that an msella, sicca strip, vopa [live] or a metal lure, are the best from research done till now. next sat i will leave some alongi in the sea hoping to get an aj. so now i need to find some msell! Msell HELP anyone??

Moonwalker · June 23, 2009, 21:04:15 CET

If you have a good fishfinder I believe you can see the AJs although I dont have experience how then look on fishfinder.

SPITEC · June 23, 2009, 21:10:45 CET

Imsell is out of season my friend.

toxictuna · June 23, 2009, 21:36:08 CET

so i though since all posts on the subject are september dated...

msell · June 23, 2009, 23:08:25 CET

spitec that is not exactly correct. I am catching like 3 the most imsell everytime i am going out for toxictuna that will be more than enough even if u can only catch 1 imsella means 1 aj if it is passing by.

MartinB · June 23, 2009, 23:18:54 CET

Plenty of small imsell around

SPITEC · June 24, 2009, 12:41:30 CET

But aren't they toooooooo small to catch,they are smaller then a biro?

The_Gaffer · June 24, 2009, 13:35:03 CET

msell and MartinB: Absolutely correct, there are alot of msell around, especially on the west coast, area uppwards of Fomm ir-Rih!!!. And they're not small, I'd say they are the right size to troll for AJ's