Caloundra 12 Mile 30/3

[Sidewayz]

Left Brisssie at about 2.30am on sunday morning and was at the Mooloolaba ramp by 4am. Got outside the bar to be greeted by glassed out conditions, however half way out ran into about 8 knots of south westerly which made the second half of the trip a bit slower.

Anchored up on a spot that had produced well in the past right on first light. Started pulling up a few undersize reds to start with and things seemed a bit slow. Then half an hour later got nailed by something larger with a snapper just under 5kg coming to the surface to be netted. From then on the fishing was solid for the next couple of hours with a bag out on snapper/squire and a few upgrades thrown in...

Things slowed down and moved to another spot which produced another few squire and a nice spottie that went just under 7kg.

All in all a good day.

Sidewayz

[coucho]

At the risk of sounding like a judgmental nazi I hope when you say upgrades you don't mean throwing fish back that have been in the icebox cause you caught a bigger one. I am sure no one here would do that.

[Sidewayz]

Coucho

Well we didn't do that and would never do that. We were just throwing the smaller ones back in hope of the larger ones seeing as though they were on the chew. Luckily just called it right as the last one in the esky was the last snapper of the morning.

Cheers

Sidewayz

[coucho]

cool sideways good to hear and looks like you had a great day.

[Scott nthQld]

Good work mate, a few top feeds there. I sure miss a feed of fresh snapper and I'm eagerly waiting for the mackies to return to Townsville, hopefully we have a bumper season.

You're a lucky bugger, having to deal with a whole 10knt of wind when I'm copping 15 knts plus, except for Thursday and fridays though, when the wind drops to 5-10's just to get our hopes up for the weekend.

[backlash08]

nice going guys

[Mark-P]

Excellent catch there Sidewayz, im green with envy !

Mark

[Sidewayz]

Scott

Yeah it was tough... Wish the bloody mackies would turn up in a few numbers down here. We're still waiting and it's almost winter...

[fleety77]

mate they all fit in ya freezer???

[lampuki]

Hi.

I might of seen u out there. How man did u have on board ur boat?

[skipalong]

exellent fish mate

[plaztix]

Gotta be happy with that. Bait or plastics?

Thats a nice spottie too.

[Sidewayz]

Fleet77

Was divided up between three of us so was just able to fit in freezer and was able to get me in the good books with the in laws when i dropped some fillets over...

[Sidewayz]

Lampuki

We had three on board, how did you guys go?

[Sidewayz]

Plaztix, yeah was a good morning. Haven't really got into the plastics yet so most of them were caught on bait, although we did throw over a couple of plastics and got nailed by some big fish, also got a couple of squire on them as well. Keen to get into a bit more fishing with palstics...

[wak69]

Top effort guys, its funny how the weather is spot on when your workin,

bring on the s/westers

cheers Sam.........

[SummerTrance]

Wow, well done guys. It seems most people getting offshore at the moment are coming home with a good feed.

[Sidewayz]

Yeah i hope it's a good sign for winter. Hopefully the banks will fire up as well with some big knobbies...