Fisher4life
18-05-2008, 07:58 PM
After keeping a very close eye on the weather for the past week, Friday night Graham (Thump-a) made the decision, and we off on saturday morning to the reef planning for an overnighter, and sneak back in before the change comes on sunday morning.
Hit the ramp around 8 saturday morning, and found out all of townsville also decided to go boating this weekend.
Half way out the GPS tell us it can't find satellites, so we continued our path out (watching the compass) keeping an eye on the sounder for any significant change in depth... We saw a little movement on the surface so we pulled up, and after a quick circle of the area, we decided to fish it.
within no time Graham is onto a good trout. The trout continued steadily coming over the side throughout the day. There were alot of big trout that our locked up drag's couldn't pull from their lairs, and also several that were sharked...
After watching a massive school of small tuna (bonito?) leaping from the water, obviously being chased by something i decided to put a floater out for a spanish. 15min later my TSS4 starts screaming it's sweet sound in dispute of the solid fish that had taken my floating pilly. after about 5 mins of a very long screaming run, the spool was looking bare so i upped the drag a little and the fish began to tire. 5min later a very solid spanish is boatside and soon brought on-board. he went 117cm and 21lb.;D The floater wasn't returned to the water.
As the afternoon went on, the bite slowed, so we made our first move from our new mark, out to the shoals where the nannies usually school up after dark.
We managed to get around 10 small mouth Graham managed the only large mouth. By 9, we had a very good feed in the esky so we decided to leave early, and Graham was able to navigate us back home with out the GPS
In total we ended up with around 13 trout between us, best measuring at 61cm, the nannies, 1 good spaniard, a red throat, a couple cod, plus a stack of throw backs which included tea leaf trevally to around 4kg, hussar, a big shark mackeral, chinamen and the unidentifiable fish, can anyone help??
Pics: scared school small tuna, spanish mack, esky shot at 7pm, biggest trout of the trip, the un-identified fish, my share of the catch
More pics still coming
Cheers
Josh
Hit the ramp around 8 saturday morning, and found out all of townsville also decided to go boating this weekend.
Half way out the GPS tell us it can't find satellites, so we continued our path out (watching the compass) keeping an eye on the sounder for any significant change in depth... We saw a little movement on the surface so we pulled up, and after a quick circle of the area, we decided to fish it.
within no time Graham is onto a good trout. The trout continued steadily coming over the side throughout the day. There were alot of big trout that our locked up drag's couldn't pull from their lairs, and also several that were sharked...
After watching a massive school of small tuna (bonito?) leaping from the water, obviously being chased by something i decided to put a floater out for a spanish. 15min later my TSS4 starts screaming it's sweet sound in dispute of the solid fish that had taken my floating pilly. after about 5 mins of a very long screaming run, the spool was looking bare so i upped the drag a little and the fish began to tire. 5min later a very solid spanish is boatside and soon brought on-board. he went 117cm and 21lb.;D The floater wasn't returned to the water.
As the afternoon went on, the bite slowed, so we made our first move from our new mark, out to the shoals where the nannies usually school up after dark.
We managed to get around 10 small mouth Graham managed the only large mouth. By 9, we had a very good feed in the esky so we decided to leave early, and Graham was able to navigate us back home with out the GPS
In total we ended up with around 13 trout between us, best measuring at 61cm, the nannies, 1 good spaniard, a red throat, a couple cod, plus a stack of throw backs which included tea leaf trevally to around 4kg, hussar, a big shark mackeral, chinamen and the unidentifiable fish, can anyone help??
Pics: scared school small tuna, spanish mack, esky shot at 7pm, biggest trout of the trip, the un-identified fish, my share of the catch
More pics still coming
Cheers
Josh