ballsie
06-04-2008, 07:50 PM
G'day folks,
Ive just returned from a week away for a fishing trip up at 1770. three crews were up for the trip, myself and two mates in my 18 ft reef ranger, two aboard a 560 bar crusher and two aboard 550 mako. Arrived at our house on saturday lunch and decided to make the most of flat conditions so we loaded up for an overnighter at fitzroy. this was the first trip for me in the new boat and i was very excited to get it on the water. we ended up putting 20 hrs and 460 klms on the boat over the week.
we fished around fitzroy at first light and reached 22 red throat and twelve trout through the day. While floating down in 30m i did manage a thumb print removing wahoo grabbing my pillie. Just fishing 40 lb shogun without any leader i had to do a bit of work with the boat, landing about a 15kg fish in ten minutes. we then moved outside and fished some 60m ground and scored a nice red going around 11kgs. so getting the red bug started for the trip we travelled inside of the reefs and fished some great red country in about 40m. firstly only pulling three cobia going 8 to 15 kgs. We found some great shows and couldn't get many legals to bite, but i new they were there. i ended up raising another two legals, one about 8kg's and one going 6kgs. fishing big slimies and mullet as the order of the day.
With depleting ice stocks and enough fish it was time to head in and have a bloody hot shower.
After cleaning the fish the weather was pretty windy, so we hung up the rods and got out the boards for a wave at agnes. a few days off the water was good but we were all itching for another trip. oh yes they were looking down on us and thursday opened up flat. We fished inside of boult reef first of all, really i was wanting to have a day chasing a red for my two deckies to boat there first legal reds ever. We drifted over makrs that we found on the firsyt trip and were once again bringing unders to the boat, patience i kept saying... patience. And it wasn't long before greg was hooked up on his first legal red, a nice fish going about 8kgs, i was stoked even more so when he snagged another 20 mins later this one just legal. we persisted looking around and ended up with just four, but hey it its march after all. but while fishing thisd ground we also scored some parrot, and four great trout around 4kgs. also a mixture of maori cod and hussar.
We then fished some deeper water a bump that went from 70- 90m pulling a legal red, a spangled, parrot and cod again. after that session our backs were flogged. we had an early night in the lagoon. with te weather turnig pear shape by ten we fished early around fitzroy to get some trout and red throat. it was all going well until the wind hit us at 7am, yep 20 to 25 Sw winds all the way home from fitzroy. Four hours later and 65ks travelled three fishos pulled in the creek with our tails between our legs. we got home cleaned our fish and went to the pub to celebrate a great trip away. With a few sore heads we headed back to brisbane on saturday all safe and well.
Ballsie
Ive just returned from a week away for a fishing trip up at 1770. three crews were up for the trip, myself and two mates in my 18 ft reef ranger, two aboard a 560 bar crusher and two aboard 550 mako. Arrived at our house on saturday lunch and decided to make the most of flat conditions so we loaded up for an overnighter at fitzroy. this was the first trip for me in the new boat and i was very excited to get it on the water. we ended up putting 20 hrs and 460 klms on the boat over the week.
we fished around fitzroy at first light and reached 22 red throat and twelve trout through the day. While floating down in 30m i did manage a thumb print removing wahoo grabbing my pillie. Just fishing 40 lb shogun without any leader i had to do a bit of work with the boat, landing about a 15kg fish in ten minutes. we then moved outside and fished some 60m ground and scored a nice red going around 11kgs. so getting the red bug started for the trip we travelled inside of the reefs and fished some great red country in about 40m. firstly only pulling three cobia going 8 to 15 kgs. We found some great shows and couldn't get many legals to bite, but i new they were there. i ended up raising another two legals, one about 8kg's and one going 6kgs. fishing big slimies and mullet as the order of the day.
With depleting ice stocks and enough fish it was time to head in and have a bloody hot shower.
After cleaning the fish the weather was pretty windy, so we hung up the rods and got out the boards for a wave at agnes. a few days off the water was good but we were all itching for another trip. oh yes they were looking down on us and thursday opened up flat. We fished inside of boult reef first of all, really i was wanting to have a day chasing a red for my two deckies to boat there first legal reds ever. We drifted over makrs that we found on the firsyt trip and were once again bringing unders to the boat, patience i kept saying... patience. And it wasn't long before greg was hooked up on his first legal red, a nice fish going about 8kgs, i was stoked even more so when he snagged another 20 mins later this one just legal. we persisted looking around and ended up with just four, but hey it its march after all. but while fishing thisd ground we also scored some parrot, and four great trout around 4kgs. also a mixture of maori cod and hussar.
We then fished some deeper water a bump that went from 70- 90m pulling a legal red, a spangled, parrot and cod again. after that session our backs were flogged. we had an early night in the lagoon. with te weather turnig pear shape by ten we fished early around fitzroy to get some trout and red throat. it was all going well until the wind hit us at 7am, yep 20 to 25 Sw winds all the way home from fitzroy. Four hours later and 65ks travelled three fishos pulled in the creek with our tails between our legs. we got home cleaned our fish and went to the pub to celebrate a great trip away. With a few sore heads we headed back to brisbane on saturday all safe and well.
Ballsie